Sebastian De Vivo is a graduate student in the Classical Archaeology track. His
dissertation focuses upon the memory of battle in Ancient Greece, from the
sixth through the fourth centuries B.C.E., particularly material practices
of commemoration and how these construct narrative memories of traumatic
experiences. His interests also include monumentality and urbanism,
anthropological theory, Goya, Jorge Luis Borges, and Julio Cortázar. He
received his MA from the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at
Stanford, and his BA in Liberal Studies and Classics from California State
University, Los Angeles.
Research InterestsArchaeology of war and trauma in the ancient Greek world, the intersections of visual culture and moral ideals, and the reception of classics in Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar
