Serena Crosson

Serena Crosson is a Ph.D. candidate in Classics and Roman archaeology at Stanford University. She earned her BA in Classical Languages with high honors from UC Berkeley in 2012, and completed her MA in Classics with a concentration in Roman archaeology from San Francisco State University in 2016.

Her dissertation engages with feminist theory and issues of gender, class, and labor in Roman wall paintings from Pompeii and contemporary sites. She proposes a new method of analysis called looking-through-labor, which is grounded in Social Reproduction Theory (SRT), to understand forms of women's seen and unseen labor in Roman material culture and texts. 

Serena currently works with the materials processing team on the Tharros Archaeological Research Project in Sardinia, Italy (2021-24), and is the wall painting specialist on the Pompeii I.14 Project in Pompeii, Italy (2022-24). She has also worked with the Upper Sabina Tiberina Project  in Vacone, Italy (2023); the Sanisera Archaeology Institute at Sanisera in Menorca, Spain (2021); the Via Consolare Project in Pompeii, Italy (2019); and Vindolanda Roman Fort in Hexham, England (2014).