#  Margaret M. Andrews 

Assistant Professor of Classics

 

 

 



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 Margaret M. Andrews is a Classical archaeologist specializing in Roman urban history over the *longue durée.* Her research focuses on the physical and social transformations that Roman cities experienced from the beginning of Rome through the early Middle Ages (ca. 900 BCE - 900 CE). Meg is primarily interested in sub-elite, residential spaces and in understanding how prevailing social dynamics both shape and are shaped by the construction of urban space at all scales, from the house to the city as a whole. She has recently begun focusing on the concept of the neighborhood as a physical and social unit that bridges top-down urban administrative policies and bottom-up generative processes of urban development.  
  
Meg is the co-director for the Falerii Novi Archaeological Project, an archaeological excavation of the Roman city of Falerii Novi in central Italy, approximately one-hour’s drive north from Rome. The project combines geophysical remote sensing with excavation to clarify the occupation history of the site, which spanned at least 700 years. It privileges non-civic spaces in order to shed much-needed light on diachronic aspects of residential and commercial life within Roman cities.  
  
Much of Meg’s fieldwork has taken place in Rome or central Italy. She played a leading role in the excavations of the Villa Magna Project near Anagni, Italy and co-edited the resulting publication, *Villa Magna: An Imperial Estate and its Legacies. Excavations 2006-2010* (British School at Rome). She has also published various fieldwork projects in Rome in the *Journal of Roman Archaeology* and the *American Journal of Archaeology*.  
  
Before her arrival at Harvard in 2020, Meg received an A.B. in Classics from Princeton University in 2005 and a Ph.D. in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. She was a Rome Prize Fellow in Ancient Studies at the American Academy in Rome from 2011-2012.



 

 

 





 

 

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