Jennifer Trimble

About

Jennifer Trimble is an Associate Professor of Classics at Stanford University, working within the Classics Department. She holds a B.A. in English from Bryn Mawr College, an M.A. in Classical Art and Archaeology from Harvard University, and both an M.A. and Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the visual and material culture of the Roman Empire, with particular interests in portraits and replication, the visual culture of Roman slavery, comparative urbanism, and ancient mapping. Her notable contributions include her book titled 'Women and Visual Replication in Roman Imperial Art and Culture,' published by Cambridge University Press in 2011, which explores the role of visual sameness in constructing public identity and articulating empire and place. She has served as co-director of the IRC-Oxford-Stanford excavations in the Roman Forum, a project examining the interactions of commercial, religious, and monumental space, which is currently being prepared for publication. Additionally, she co-directed Stanford's Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project, a collaborative effort between computer scientists and archaeologists aimed at reassembling a fragmentary ancient map of Rome.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Physics
• Art
• Mechanical engineering
• Visual arts
• Art history
• World Wide Web
• Engineering
• Mathematics
• Library science

Selected publications

• The Zoninus Collar and the Archaeology of Roman Slavery

  American Journal of Archaeology · 2016-06-20 · 69 citations

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  This article analyzes slave collars of the fourth and fifth centuries C.E. as a way of contributing to current debates about the archaeology of Roman slavery. Taking as my case study the well-preserved Zoninus collar, I first trace its history in antiquarian collecting and publishing in the mid 18th century. This scholarship was characterized by a profound split between text and object that has had lasting effects on the material we have now and how we approach it. In the second half of the arti…

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• INTRODUCTION: ‘IF YOU NEED AN ACTUAL STATUE…’

  Art History · 2006-04-01 · 43 citations

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• Process And Transformation On The Severan Marble Plan Of Rome

  2008-01-01 · 41 citations

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  The Severan Marble Plan is an extraordinary map. Carved between 203 and 211 CE, it represented the imperial city of Rome in plan view, depicting every temple and warehouse, every street and alley, every tenement building and luxury dwelling, every ground-floor room, doorway and internal staircase. This chapter draws on the approach of J.B. Harley to explore the Severan Marble Plan as a constructed image of the city as much as an indicator of what stood where. It was carved onto 150 marble slabs…

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• Framing and Social Identity in Roman Portrait Statues

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2017-04-10 · 23 citations

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• Appropriating Egypt for the Ara Pacis Augustae*

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2017-10-25 · 23 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Verity Platt

  Atkins (United States)

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• Michael Squire

  3 shared

• Jaś Elsner

  3 shared

• Franz Alto Bauer

  2 shared

• Janet Delaine

  2 shared

• Philipp von Rummel

  Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Zentrale

  2 shared

• Susanne Muth

  2 shared

• Lothar Haselberger

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Labs

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