Aaron Brown

Lecturer

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (2022)

M.A., University of California, Berkeley (2015)

B.A., Florida State University (2013)

Aaron Brown is an archaeologist specializing in Roman and Italic material culture with particular interests in foodways (i.e., the practices and beliefs surrounding the production and consumption of food/drink), craft production, the life histories of artifacts, the Roman household, visual culture, urbanism, and the lived experiences of the non-elite. Much of his research draws on material and textual sources in order to reconstruct social structures and consumption patterns at a range of scales, from the local to the supra-regional, and how these changed over time. He is currently working on a social and material history of cooking in the Roman Empire.

He serves as the assistant director of the Pompeii Artifact Life History Project (PALHIP) and as a ceramic specialist for the Pompeii I.14 Project.