Future Thinking in Roman Culture (ePub)

Maggie L. Popkin is the Robson Junior Professor in the Humanities and Associate Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University, USA. She is the author of The Architecture of the Roman Triumph: Monuments, Memory, and Identity (2016). Her research on Greek and Roman art and architecture has appeared in numerous edited volumes and journals including the American Journal of Archaeology, Hesperia, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and the Journal of Late Antiquity. She is a senior member of the American excavations in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods at Samothrace, Greece.

Diana Y. Ng is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA. Her research and publications address civic engagements with mythical history via public sculpture and architecture in Asia Minor, elite commemoration, and the application of cognitive theories of learning and remembering to the investigation of Roman public statuary and theatrical space. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Roman Studies, Istanbuler Mitteilungen, and edited volumes on Roman art, memory studies, and applications of cognitive theory to classical studies. She is the co-editor, with Molly Swetnam-Burland, of Reuse and Renovation in Roman Material Culture: Functions, Aesthetics, Interpretations (2018).