Jennifer Gates-Foster

Research: Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, Hellenistic and Early Roman Near East, Pottery Studies

Affiliated Research/Academic Unit

• Ctr for European Studies
• Middle Eastern Studies

International Research

Regions of Academic Interest: Africa, Europe, Middle East

Countries of Academic Interest: Armenia, Egypt, Syria

Awards

2011-12               Fellow, Academic Year, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University

2011-12               Loeb Classical Library Foundation Research Grant

2011-12               Getty Seminar Participant, Art and Archaeology of Rome’s Provinces

2008                    University of Texas Faculty Development Program Summer Research Award

Selected Publications

 “The Eastern Desert in the Ptolemaic Period: A Developing Picture.” In H. Barnard and K. Duistermaat, eds., The Peoples of the Eastern Desert. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California Press (forthcoming).

“The Eastern Desert” In C. Riggs, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt. Oxford:Oxford University Press (forthcoming) 736-47.

“Pottery.” In C. Riggs, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming) 648-63.

“The Well-Remembered Path: Roadways and Cultural Memory in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt.” In S. Alcock, J. Bodel and R. Talbert eds., Highways, Byways and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell (2012) 202-221.

Book review, S. Marchand and A. Marangou ed., Amphores d’égypte de la Basse Époque à la l’époque Arabe.Journal of Roman Archaeology 24 (2011) 803-807.

Book review, G. Bugh ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World. New England Classical Journal 36 (2009) 51-54.

Book review, V.A. Maxfield and D.P.S. Peacock, Survey and Excavation: Mons Claudianus, 1987-1993: Ceramic Vessels and Related Objects. Journal of the American Oriental Society 127.4 (2007) 12-13.

Book Review, M. Venit, Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria: Theater of the Dead. American Journal of Archaeology 111.1 (2007).

J. Harrell, S.E. Sidebotham, R. Bagnall, S. Marchand, J.E. Gates and J.L. Rivard, “The Ptolemaic to Early Roman Amythest Quarry at Abu Diyeiba in Egypt’s Eastern Desert.”  Bulletin de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale 106 (2006) 127-162.

“Hidden Passage: Graeco-Roman Roads in Egypt’s Eastern Desert.” In E. Robertson et al eds., Space and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology. Calgary: University of Calgary Press (2006) 315-322.

J.E. Gates, A. Wilburn and T. Gagos, “Material Culture and Texts of Graeco-Roman Egypt: Creating Context, Debating Meaning.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 42 (2005) 171-188.

 “A Clay Sealing from Karanis in the Kelsey Museum.” The University of Michigan Museums Bulletin. Ann Arbor (2005) University of Michigan Press.

J.E. Gates, S. Alcock and J.F. Cherry, “Internet resources for Mediterranean regional survey projects: A preliminary listing.” In S.E. Alcock and J.F. Cherry eds., Side-by-Side Survey: Comparative Regional Studies in the Mediterranean World. 243-251. Oxford (2005) Oxbow Books.

S. Alcock, J.E. Gates and J. Rempel, “Reading the landscape: survey archaeology and the Hellenisticoikoumene.” In A. Erskine ed., A Companion to the Hellenistic World. 354-372. Oxford  (2005) Blackwell Publishing.