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Felipe Rojas Silva

Assistant Professor of Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University

My interests in the ancient world are diverse, but I specialize on the Eastern Mediterranean during the classical period. I am writing a book exploring how people in Greek and Roman Anatolia used Bronze and Iron Age material culture to substantiate narratives about local and universal history. I have conducted fieldwork at different sites in Anatolia and the Levant, including Sardis, Aphrodisias, and Petra. Much of my work in the field has invovled monumental architecture: temples, altars, gates, and fountains. Since 2013, I direct the Brown University Labraunda Project and I am the associate director of the Notion Archaeological Survey, both of which explore major sites in anceient western Turkey.

I want to promote dialogue between independent scholarly communities encouraging archaeologists, anthropologists, architects, philologists, and artists to encroach on each other's disciplines and combine their methodologies to study the ancient world.

Experience

  • –present
    Assistant Professor of Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University