Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver

Carrie Weaver’s area of specialization is the art, architecture, and archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean world, with an emphasis on funerary art and architecture, burial practices, and the analysis of human bone. She has excavated in Pompeii and Sicily, and analyzed human remains from Rome, Sicily, Turkey, and the UK. Her research bridges science and the humanities, drawing upon the methods of these disparate fields to reconstruct past population dynamics and cultural practices. This approach is evident in her first book, The Bioarchaeology of Classical Kamarina: Life and Death in Greek Sicily (University Press of Florida, 2015). Her most recent book, Marginalized Populations in the Ancient Greek World: The Bioarchaeology of the Other (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), draws upon literary, artistic, material, and biological evidence to shed new light on groups of individuals who were typically relegated to the periphery of Greek society, such as non-Greeks, the impoverished, and the physically impaired.

Weaver’s teaching focuses on the art, architecture, and material culture of the ancient Mediterranean world (including the Near East and Egypt), and encompasses a wide variety of topics (e.g., gender, identity, ethnicity, health and wealth disparities, ritual, modern reception of classical antiquity) and time periods (ca. 3200 B.C.E. to 7th century C.E.).