{"id":5,"date":"2017-12-06T14:11:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T14:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/professor-example\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2025-11-13T16:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T16:12:24","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/evan-jewell\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Research Interests<\/h2>\n<p>Ancient Mediterranean history; youth and age in the Roman world; gender history and queer theory; ancient colonization, slavery, freedpersons, migration and displacement; Roman urban history and topography; Roman material culture and archaeology; memory studies; Latin epigraphy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Current Research<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Roman Youth and Power<\/h4>\n<p class=\"\">Currently I am finishing up my first monograph entitled, <strong><em>Youth and Power: Acting Your Age in the Roman Empire, 149 BCE &#8211; 79 CE<\/em><\/strong>. It takes age, specifically youth, as something that can be performed (i.e., \u201cacting your age\u201d, or not), much like gender, and traces how these performances changed over two hundred years, due to a whole range of historical factors, from demographic conditions to legal and artistic developments. I am also at work on a number of book chapters and articles arising from this project.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Related Papers:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cBody Work, Biohacking and the Enslaved Boy in the Roman Empire\u201d, Department of Classics, Johns Hopkins University, October 23, 2025.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Not that \u201cchill and mature terrorist\u201d: Nero iuvenis and Augustus puer.\u201d, Ages of Nero: Reality and Receptions, 19th Trends in Classics conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 22-24, 2025.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMaking Roman Youths at Pompeii: The Ethics of Appropriation from Guglielmo Pl\u00fcschow to Matteo Della Corte,\u201d Classics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, April 10, 2025.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSame-Sex Rape in the Roman Military: Catullus (c. 15, 28) and the Poetics of Homosociality,\u201d\u00a0<em>Ancient Rape Cultures: Graeco-Roman and Judeo-Christian<\/em>, Institutum Romanum Finlandiae (The Finnish Institute in Rome), October 27-28, 2022.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe\u00a0<em>Puer\u00a0<\/em>in the\u00a0<em>Princeps<\/em>.\u201d Respondent:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/classics.ucla.edu\/person\/amy-richlin\/\">Amy Richlin<\/a>\u00a0(UCLA). Lees Seminar, Rutgers University \u2013 Camden, March 25, 2022. [<strong>online<\/strong>]<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">Rome\u2019s Next Generation: Youth Agency in the Late Republic and Augustan Age.\u201d at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mommsen-gesellschaft.de\/veranstaltungen\/tagungen-workshops-sommerschulen-und-ausstellungen\/14-tagungen\/295-taking-the-lead-in-late-republican-and-early-imperial-rome-office-agency-and-initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Taking the lead in late Republican and early Imperial Rome: office, agency and initiative<\/em><\/a>, University of Bielefeld, Germany, July 15-16, 2019.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cUpending Age Models: Octavian from\u00a0<em>puer<\/em>\u00a0to\u00a0<em>iuvenis.<\/em>\u201d at\u00a0<em>The Roman Civil Wars of 49-30 BCE: Analyzing the Breakdown of Models,\u00a0<\/em>The British School at Rome, Italy, July 22-24, 2019.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cFashioning an imperial\u00a0<em>aetas<\/em>: Nero\u2019s portrait, the\u00a0<em>depositio barbae,\u00a0<\/em>and the\u00a0<em>Iuvenalia<\/em>.\u201d at\u00a0<em>Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting<\/em> (January 4-7), Boston, January 5, 2018;\u00a0<em>Ages, Ageing, and Old Age in Greco-Roman Antiquity, VIII Arachne Conference,\u00a0<\/em>University of Gothenburg, Sweden, October 25-27, 2017.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/classics.princeton.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/event-pdfs\/Program%20as%20of%20Sept%2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Growing the State: The cult of Iuventas in the Middle Republic and Augustan Rome<\/a>.\u201d at\u00a0<em>Religion and the State in Classical Greece and Rome<\/em>, Princeton University, September 22-23, 2017.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Towards a Subaltern Topography of Ancient Rome:<\/h4>\n<h4>Wayfinding, Spatial Identities and Urban Space<\/h4>\n<p class=\"\">A <strong>second project<\/strong>, currently in its early stages, looks at non-elite spatial identities and modes of spatial perception in Roman urban contexts, as represented in both non-elite (primarily graffiti and inscriptions) and elite texts in conversation with archaeological contexts and visual media.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Related Papers:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul data-rte-list=\"default\">\n<li><strong>(2025)<\/strong>, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/antichthon\/article\/abs\/wayfinding-in-the-roman-city-a-subaltern-spatial-modality\/53D154210E9BAE9913CF08C148E7E15E\">Wayfinding in the Roman City: A Subaltern Spatial Modality<\/a>,\u201d special issue of\u00a0<em>Antichthon<\/em>, vol. 58 [2024], eds. Maxine Lewis and Amy Russell.<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">Invited talks at Bryn Mawr College (2021), Princeton University (2021), University of Pennsylvania (2022), Warwick University (2023), University of Oxford (2025).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWayfinding among the Living and the Dead: Monuments, Prepositions and Spatial Identities at Rome.\u201d at <em>The Spatial Turn in Roman Studies <\/em>II, Durham University, UK, December 2-3, 2020. [online]<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cStreet View: Monuments, Prepositions and the Creation of Spatial Identities at Rome.\u201d at <em>North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (NACGLE), <\/em>Washington D.C., January 5-7, 2020.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Secondary Projects<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Plautine\u00a0<em>adulescens\u00a0<\/em>in the historical context of Middle Republican Rome.<\/li>\n<li>The relationship between Roman colonization, slavery and freedpersons in the Middle Republican period at Rome and in the Italian peninsula.<\/li>\n<li>The role of the &#8220;pygmy&#8221; or dwarf somatotype in Roman households, especially at Pompeii.<\/li>\n<li>The changing relationship between the Roman villa and the magistracy of the aedile.<\/li>\n<li>A co-edited volume on rethinking migration in antiquity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Interests Ancient Mediterranean history; youth and age in the Roman world; gender history and queer theory; 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