Elizabeth C. Robinson

Elizabeth C. Robinson

Irene Rosenzweig/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize (year one of a two-year fellowship)
September 6, 2010–August 1, 2011
Profession
Assistant Professor, Department of French and Italian, University of Texas at Austin
Project title
Larinum: A Case Study for the Romanization of Southern Italy
Project description

I will continue dissertation research on the Romanization of southern Italy using Larinum as a case study. This site, a non-Roman capital in the fourth and third centuries BCE, was incorporated into the Roman state in the first century BCE. In order to create a comprehensive picture of cultural change at this site, I will assemble the ancient sources and extant remains pertaining to Larinum from the fourth century BCE to the first century CE. I will conduct library research in Rome, and I will examine the settlement patterns around Larinum, the monuments and inscriptions at the site, and the unpublished votive and funerary artifacts in storerooms at Larino, Isernia, and Campobasso. I will explore how these remains illustrate the continuity and change of cultural elements. My unique study will provide valuable new information about processes of cultural change at this site before and after Roman conquest.