Carolyn M. Laferrière
I am an art historian, a curator, and an educator. I am currently the Assistant Curator of Ancient Mediterranean Art at the Princeton University Art Museums. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Scholar and Teaching Fellow at the University of Southern California's Center for the Premodern World and a Postdoctoral Associate with Archaia, Yale University's Interdisciplinary Program for the Study of the Ancient World, as well as a Lecturer in the Departments of the History of Art and Classics. I specialize in Archaic and Classical Greek art and architecture, with a particular emphasis on the visual representation of music, art and religious ritual, funerary art, ancient aesthetics, and sensory studies. I am committed to studying ancient Mediterranean material culture in its global context, with a particular focus on Gandharan art and ritual, and multicultural exchange across the Silk Road. Further areas of research are Neo-Attic art in first-century BCE/CE Rome, the receptions of Greco-Roman art in the 19th century, and curatorial practice.
I earned my Ph.D. in 2017 from Yale University, in the Department of the History of Art. I was a visiting scholar in the Faculty of Classics at Oxford University in 2015, and a Student Associate Member at the American School of Classical Studies in 2016-17. I have also studied at the University of British Columbia for an M.A. in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology (2010), and Carleton University for a B.A. in Art History and Classics & Religion (summa cum laude, 2008).