Faculty
Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver
Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics with a secondary appointment in History of Art and Architecture
Constellation(s): Agency, Identity
Carrie Weaver’s area of specialization is the art, architecture, and archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean world, with an emphasis on funerary art and architecture, burial practices, and the analysis of human bone. She has excavated in Pompeii and Sicily, and analyzed human remains from Rome, Sicily, Turkey, and the UK. Her research bridges science and the humanities, drawing upon the methods of these disparate fields to reconstruct past population dynamics and cultural practices. This approach is evident in her book, The Bioarchaeology of Classical Kamarina: Life and Death in Greek Sicily (University Press of Florida, 2015). Her current book project, Marginalized Populations in the Ancient Greek World: The Bioarchaeology of the Other, draws upon literary, artistic, material, and biological evidence to shed new light on groups of individuals who were typically relegated to the periphery of Greek society, such as the disabled, deformed, and ethnically disparate.
Weaver’s teaching focuses on the art, architecture, and material culture of the ancient Mediterranean world (including the Near East and Egypt), and encompasses a wide variety of topics (e.g., gender, identity, ethnicity, health and wealth disparities, ritual, modern reception of classical antiquity) and time periods (ca. 3200 BCE to 7th century CE).
Education
Selected Publications
Sulosky Weaver, C.L. 2016. "Encounters with Death: Was there Dark Tourism in Classical Greece?" Journal of Greek Archaeology 1: 211–32.
Sulosky Weaver, C.L. 2015. The Bioarchaeology of Classical Kamarina: Life and Death in Greek Sicily. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Sulosky Weaver, C.L. 2015. “Walking Dead and Vengeful Spirits.” Popular Archaeology 19.
Wilson, R.J.A. with J.W. Hayes, C.L. Sulosky Weaver, and G. Di Stefano. 2014. “Il banchetto funerario nella Sicilia della prima età bizantina: nuove attestazioni da Kaukana.” Sicilia Antiqua 11: 515–63.
Sulosky Weaver, C.L. and R.J.A. Wilson. 2014. “Probably Atretic Cephalocele in an Adult Female from Punta Secca (Sicily, Italy).” International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 24: 747– 56.
Smith, T.J. and C.L. Sulosky Weaver. 2014. “Near Death Experiences: Greek Art and Archaeology Beyond the Grave.” In N.S. Rabinowitz and F. McHardy (eds.) From Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 13–38.
Review of Joseph L. Rife, Isthmia Volume IX. The Roman and Byzantine Graves and Human Remains (Princeton, 2012). The Classical Journal 109 (2014): 380–3.
Wilson, R.J.A. with J.W. Hayes, C.L. Sulosky, and G. Di Stefano. 2011. “Funerary Feasting in Early Byzantine Sicily: New Evidence from Kaukana.” American Journal of Archaeology 115: 263–302.
Wilson, R.J.A. with J.W. Hayes, G. Di Stefano, and C.L. Sulosky. 2009. “An Early Byzantine ‘Elite’ Tomb in a Domestic Context at Kaukana, Sicily.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 22: 412–5.
Selected Awards
Archaeological Institute of America Publication Subvention Grant (Von Bothmer Publication Fund), 2015
Graduate Summer Research Grant, Buckner W. Clay Endowment for Humanities, 2012
Etruscan Foundation Fieldwork Fellowship, 2010
McIntire Department of Art Teaching Assistant Award, University of Virginia, 2010
Centenary Scholarship, University of Sheffield, 2005
