Department of History

Natalie works on the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the Roman Empire and into the early Middle Ages (200-800) with a particular interest in the power dynamics that inform experiences of gender, sexuality, and violence. She intends to explore this through a study of the power of beauty by focusing on the danger it poses especially to women. Natalie is also interested broadly in how aspects of fashion reveal social, religious, and economic relationships within the greater Roman and Late Antique world. She earned her B.A. in History from UC San Diego, and Master’s in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies from the University of Oxford.