Serena Crosson

Serena Crosson is a Ph.D. candidate in the Classics Department. As a Roman archaeologist and art historian, she focuses on the intersections between artistic production and manifestations of social ideologies. In her dissertation, she investigates how social relations between women are represented in Roman wall paintings through the lens of labor as conceived under Social Reproduction Theory (SRT). As part of her historical materialist approach, she offers a new method of analysis called looking-through-labor in order to better understand the ideological forces at play in artistic production and representations of gendered bodies across different social classes in Roman antiquity in the early imperial period.