Dr. Aerynn Dighton

Dr. Aerynn Dighton

Division

  • Classics

Title

  • Instructor 1
  • Undergraduate Recruitment Coordinator

Contact

atdighton@cmll.msstate.edu

Address

  • 1300 Lee Hall
  • Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday 3:00pm-4:00pm; Tuesday 1:00pm- 3:00pm

Joined CMLL in: 2020

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Textile and clothing history
  • the Late Roman Republic
  • Gender & sexuality in the Greco-Roman world
  • Latin language pedagogy

TEACHING INTERESTS

  • Latin and Greek languages
  • Roman history
  • Gender & sexuality

EDUCATION

• BS in Textile & Clothing Design, UC Davis, 2000
• MA in History, CSU Stanislaus, 2009
• PhD in Classics, UC Santa Barbara, 2018

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • Review: What Shall I Say of Clothes? Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of Dress in Antiquity, eds. Megan Cifarelli and Laura Gawlinski. Classical Journal, 2020.06.05
  • Mutatio Vestis: Clothing and Political Protest in the Late Roman Republic,” Phoenix 71.3-4 (Fall 2017): 345-369.