
Alana Newman
Adjunct Professor, Classics
Interests
Art and archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean, women in antiquity, Ptolemaic Egypt, Classical reception in film
Education
PhD – University of Edinburgh, 2017
MSc – University of Edinburgh, 2012
BA – Ohio University, 2009
Courses Taught
CLAS 120/HIST 120: Archaeology: Great Discoveries
CLAS 130/HIST 130: Egyptian Archaeology
CLAS 195/HIST 195: Archaeology Research Laboratory
CLAS 210/310: Hollywood and the Ancient World
CLAS 201/301 : Cleopatra and Other Queens
CLAS 240/340/HIST 230: Race, Ethnicity, and the Other in Antiquity
Selected Work
2020, ‘Arsinoe II as Synnaos Thea: The Significance of the Display Context of the Deified Queen’s Relief Portraits in the Egyptian Temple Complex’, in C. Cusset (ed.), Féminités Hellenistiques: Voix, Genre, Représentations, 157-176.
2019, ‘Arsinoe II: A Queen for the People’, Ancient History Magazine, vol. 20, 50-53.
2017, ‘Queering the Minoans: Gender Performativity and the Aegean Color Convention in Fresco Painting at Knossos’, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, vol. 30, no. 2, 213-236.