Linda Gosner

Linda Gosner is an Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology at Texas Tech University. She studies Iron Age and Roman archaeology and history with a particular focus on the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, and western Mediterranean islands. Her current research examines the impact of Roman imperialism on technology, craft production, labor practices, and everyday life in the Roman provinces of the western Mediterranean world. Her work engages with broad questions about human-environment interaction, community and identity, labor history, mobility, and culture contact. Recent publications include the co-edited volume Local Responses to Mobility and Connectivity in the Ancient West-Central Mediterranean (Equinox Press) and journal articles for such venues as the European Journal of Archaeology, the Journal of Field Archaeology, and Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean. An active field archaeologist, Linda has worked in the Balearic Islands, Spain, Portugal, Sardinia, Italy, Egypt, Jordan, and Turkey. She currently works in Sardinia, co-directing the Sinis Archaeological Project and serving as a collaborator with the Progetto S’Urachi (Brown University). The former is a landscape survey that explores the successive impacts of the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, and Romans on resource extraction and settlement patterns along the island’s west-central coast. The latter is an excavation of the Nuraghe S’Urachi, a large megalithic monument and adjacent settlement dating from the Bronze Age to the Roman period.

Linda has been a recipient of fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), the American Council of Learned Societies, the Fulbright Foundation, and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation. Prior to joining Texas Tech, Linda was a postdoctoral fellow with the Michigan Society of Fellows (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) and received her PhD from the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University.

 

Language spoken: English