About

Jennifer Gates-Foster is an Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned her B.A. in Anthropology and Archaeology from the University of Virginia, and her M.A. in Greek and Classical Archaeology, as well as her Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She joined the Department of Classics and Curriculum in Archaeology in 2013, after holding the Moses and Mary Finley Research Fellowship at Darwin College, Cambridge, and serving as an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She has also been a residential Fellow at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies and received a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Research Grant. Her primary research interests include the archaeology of the Near East and Egypt during the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Her recent book documents the material traces of trade, travel, and settlement in Egypt’s Red Sea coastal region over 800 years. She has published extensively on pottery, settlement patterns, the archaeology of the ancient economy, and the relationship between material culture and identity. Currently, she is working on a monograph analyzing Ptolemaic desert settlements in Egypt and finalizing her fieldwork publication at Horvat Omrit in Israel. She also leads the Catawba Vale Collaborative, a project focused on developing accessible trail networks and uncovering regional history in North Carolina. At UNC, she teaches courses on archaeology and heritage, Egyptian and Roman archaeology, and borders and boundaries, as well as graduate courses on Roman provinces, Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, archaeology and nationalism, and island and desert archaeology.

Awards & honors

• Loeb Classical Library Foundation Research Grant (2011)

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