Gretel Rodríguez is Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture. 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, reception, colonialism, and identity in relation to ancient visual culture. Her publications deal with Roman honorific architecture, the iconography of captives on public monuments, painted ceramics in the Greek colonies of southern Italy, and, recently, the architecture and material culture of water sanctuaries throughout the Mediterranean world. Professor Rodríguez’s secondary specialization is in the art and architecture of ancient Mesoamerica. She has conducted research in Rome, the Bay of Naples, Southern France, and Chiapas, Mexico.
