Research Interests

Roman sculpture, relief sculpture, Roman archaeology, iconography, numismatics, cultural identity, politicized visual culture, Dacia (ancient Romania)

Research Projects

• Great Marble Map of Rome Project (co-director)
• Ancient World 3D (co-director)

Recent Publications (as E. Wolfram Thill)

• 2022. “Dispatches from the Homefront: The Anaglypha Panels in Rome.” Britannia 52: 1-26.
• 2022. “Public Sculpture and Social Practice in the Roman Empire.” In The Oxford Handbook of Roman Imagery and Iconography, edited by N. Elkins and L. Cline, 270-291. New York: Oxford University Press.
• 2018. “Setting War in Stone: Architectural Depictions on the Column of Marcus Aurelius.” American Journal of Archaeology 122.2: 277-308.
• Sobocinski, M.G. and E. Wolfram Thill. 2018. “Dismembering a Sacred Cow: The Extispicium Relief in the Louvre.” In Roman Artists, Patrons and Public Consumption: Familiar Works Reconsidered, edited by B. Longfellow and E. Perry, 38-62. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
• full CV (coming soon)

Teaching Interests

innovative technologies (Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality) in the classroom, critical thinking

Teaching Projects

• Ancient World 3D (co-director)

Classes This Semester (Fall 2023)

• CLAS-A 418 [HER-H418] Myth and Reality in Classical Art
• CLAS-B 311 Sex and Gender in the Ancient World
• CLAS-B 312 Plague, Disaster, and Death in the Ancient World
• CLAS-B 313 Extraordinary Ancient Women

Previous Courses Taught

• CLAS-C 205 Classical Mythology
• CLAS-A 301 [HER-H310] Classical Archaeology
• CLAS-C 310/321 Classical Cultures and Drama
• CLAS-C 414 [HER-H414] Art and Archaeology of the Roman World
• CLAS-C 419 [HER-H419] Art and Archaeology of Pompeii
• CLAS-B 314 The Environment in the Ancient World

Why I Love Classical Studies

When I was growing up, I watched way too many archaeology-themed TV shows on The Learning Channel, back when that channel showed boring documentaries. I loved the combination of hard data, imagination, and story-telling. Then in high school I was required to take 4 years of Latin, and I fell in love with that and the Romans in general. Classical Studies is fascinating, because you can explore questions on all sorts of scales, from “what is this object” to “how do societies organize themselves?”.

Cool Things I’ve Done Through Classical Studies

• worked on excavations in Italy and Cyprus (and less excitingly, Michigan)
• traveled to Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, England, France, Germany, Italy, Romania
• worked in the storage rooms in the basement of the Louvre (Paris) and the attic of the Musei Capitolini Palazzo dei Conservatori (Rome)
• learned to scuba dive (long story)

Classes This Semester (Fall 2023)

• CLAS-C 205 Classical Mythology
• CLAS-C 387 Roman History
• HER-H 101 History of Art 1

Previous Classes Taught

• CLAS-C 101 Ancient Greek Culture
• CLAS-C 102 Roman Culture
• CLAS-C 213 Sport and Competition in the Ancient World
• CLAS-C 351 [HIST-C 395] Change and Innovation in Ancient Greece
• CLAS-C 361 Ancient Roman Revolutions
• CLAS-C 419 [HER-H 419] Art and Archaeology of Pompeii

Classes This Semester (Fall 2023)

• CLAS-C 101 Ancient Greek Culture

Previous Classes Taught

• CLAS-C 102 Roman Culture
• CLAS-C 205 Classical Mythology
• CLAS-C 351 Change and Innovation in Greece
• CLAS-C 361 Ancient Roman Revolutions
• CLAS-C 386 Greek History
• CLAS-C 387 Roman History

Classes This Semester (Fall 2023)

• CLAS-L 131 Beginning Latin I

Previous Courses Taught

• CLAS-L 132 Beginning Latin II

Classes This Semester (Fall 2023)

• CLAS-C 205 Classical Mythology

Classes This Semester (Fall 2023)

• CLAS-C 210 [MHHS-M 325] Ancient Medicine and Modern Terminology

Classes This Semester (Fall 2023)

• CLAS-C 205 Classical Mythology

Previous Courses Taught

• CLAS-C 231 Sport and Competition in the Ancient World