Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Gretel Rodríguez is Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, where she specializes in the art, architecture, and archaeology of the ancient Roman Empire. Her work investigates the relationship between art and society, exploring issues of viewership, identity, and acculturation in relation to ancient artistic production. Her publications deal with Roman honorific architecture, the iconography of captives on public monuments, painted ceramics in the Greek colonies of Magna Graecia, and, recently, the architecture and material culture of water sanctuaries throughout the Mediterranean world, which is the project she will be developing as a Cogut Faculty Fellow. Her secondary specialization is in the art and architecture of ancient Mesoamerica. She has conducted research in Rome, the Bay of Naples, Southern France, and in Chiapas, Mexico. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Archaeology, RES Anthropology and Aesthetics, and the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal.