Assistant Professor
Year Started at JMU: 2023
carrarem@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Education
Ph.D., Florida State University
Fields and specialties
Ancient Mediterranean history; Classical studies
Teaching areas
Ancient Mediterranean history; Classical studies
Research interests
Roman cultural history; ancient gender and sexuality; Greek and Roman historiography; Latin literature; digital humanities
Selected publications and presentations
Cato in Cicero: Reading Roman History in the Late Republic. Book project in progress.
“Creating and Contesting Kyniska: The Reception of the First Female Olympic Victor.”Antichthon. Forthcoming.
“Cicero on the End of Cato the Elder’s Life,” Society for Classical Studies (SCS) Annual Meeting, 2023.
“Deadly Dress-Up: Perseus and Demetrius as Readers of the Textual Body in Livy’s Macedonian Narrative,” Feminism and Classics, 2022