Bryce Hammer is a doctoral candidate at Rutgers University, pursuing an interdisciplinary PhD in Classics and Ancient History. A cultural historian of ancient Rome with a specialization in slavery and sexuality, her research focuses on the reality of enslaved masculinity, as well as its representations in erotic poetry, the Roman legal code, and the art and graffiti of Pompeii. Drawing from postcolonial theories of subalternity, feminist conceptions of gender as performance, and sociological approaches to dramaturgy, she argues that enslaved males were compelled to perform a type of distorted, non-hegemonic masculinity. While at the American Academy, she will be working on her dissertation, provisionally titled Coercive Desires: Male Sexual Enslavement in the Roman World.