Samantha Richter
Gorham Phillips Stevens Fellowship
Harvard University
Research Topic: Languages of Contact: A Shared Iconography of the Classical Mediterranean World
Sammi Richter is a fifth year PhD candidate studying Classical Archaeology at Harvard University. She received her BA in Anthropology, Classics, and Archaeology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her MA in Classical Archaeology from the University of Arizona. She has participated in several archaeological digs including excavations in the Athenian Agora, at Falerii Novi, Sardis, and the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project. Her dissertation is focused on tracing the distribution, assimilation, and utilization of iconographies between major Mediterranean cultures (Greece, Phoenicia, Persia, Cyprus, etc.) in the 5th and 4th c BCE.