Astrid Van Oyen

Astrid Van Oyen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at Cornell University. Specializing in theoretical and empirical approaches to material culture in Roman archaeology, she has worked on material sources as varied as terra sigillata pottery in France, grain silos in Spain, and Vesuvian houses in Italy, and has written about questions of postcolonial archaeology, material agency, typology, and morality. She is author of How Things Make History: The Roman Empire and its Terra Sigillata Pottery.