Astrid Van Oyen

Astrid Van Oyen is Assistant Professor of Roman Archaeology at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the archaeology of Roman Italy and the Western provinces, exploring the social, cultural, and economic dimensions of empire, craft, and rural economies, with a particular interest in materiality and non-elites. She is author of How Things Make History: The Roman Empire and its Terra Sigillata Pottery (Amsterdam University Press, 2016) and The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage: Agriculture, Trade, and Family (Cambridge University Press, 2020). She co-directs the Marzuolo Archaeological Project (Italy).