Jennifer Trimble

Bio

Jennifer Trimble works on the visual and material culture of the Roman Empire, with interests in portraits and replication, the visual culture of Roman slavery, comparative urbanism, and ancient mapping. Her book on Women and Visual Replication in Roman Imperial Art and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2011) explores the role of visual sameness in constructing public identity and articulating empire and place. Trimble was co-director of the IRC-Oxford-Stanford excavations in the Roman Forum (now being prepared for publication), focused on the interactions of commercial, religious and monumental space. She also co-directed Stanford's Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project, a collaboration between computer scientists and archaeologists to help reassemble a fragmentary ancient map of the city of Rome.

Academic Appointments

• Associate Professor, Classics

Administrative Appointments

• Associate Professor, Department of Classics, Stanford University (2008 - Present)
• Associate Professor, Dept. of Classics, Stanford University (2005 - 2008)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Stanford University (2001 - 2008)
• Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Stanford University (1999 - 2001)
• Ellen Andrews Wright Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center (2012 - 2013)
• Hellman Faculty Scholar, Stanford University (2005 - 2006)
• Dean's Fellow in the Humanities, Stanford University (2005 - 2006)
• Visiting Scholar, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford (2004 - 2004)
• Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Humanities, Stanford (1999 - 2001)
• Predoctoral Fellowship, Institute for the Humanities, Michigan (1998 - 1999)
• Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan (1998 - 1999)
• Predoctoral Fellowship, American Research Institute in Turkey (1997 - 1997)
• Travel Fellowship, History of Art, Samuel H. Kress Foundation (1997 - 1997)
• Mellon Candidacy Fellowship, University of Michigan (1996 - 1996)
• Regents Rackham Fellowship, University of Michigan (1993 - 1996)

Honors & Awards

• Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Stanford University (2005)
• Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Michigan (2000)
• Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome (1997-1998)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

• Co-director, IRC-Oxford-Stanford Excavations in the Roman Forum (2003 - 2005)
• Co-director, Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project (2000 - 2004)
• Director, magnetometry survey, Monte Polizzo, Sicily (2001 - 2001)
• Director, magn. survey, Statonia, Etruria (1998 - 1999)
• Trench supervisor; field survey team member, Leptiminus, Tunisia (1995 - 1996)
• Archaeological Investigator, Psalmodi, France (1995 - 1995)
• Supervisor, numismatics, Sardis, Turkey (1992 - 1993)
• Student excavator, Kelheim, Germany (1990 - 1990)
• Member, Curriculum committee, Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University (2013 - 2014)
• Member, Archaeology advisory committee, American Academy in Rome, Stanford University (2012 - Present)
• Member, Fellowships committee, Archaeological Institute of America, Stanford University (2012 - Present)
• Stanford representative, Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, Stanford University (2001 - 2004)
• Stanford representative, Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, Stanford University (2005 - 2012)
• Stanford representative, Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, Stanford University (2013 - 2014)
• Head of search committee, Department of Classics, Stanford University (2011 - 2012)
• Interim director, Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University (2009 - 2010)
• Director of graduate studies, Department of Classics, Stanford University (2008 - 2011)
• Member, Graduate committee, Department of Classics, Stanford University (2007 - 2008)
• Member, Graduate committee, Department of Classics, Stanford University (2011 - 2012)
• Director of undergraduate studies, Department of Classics, Stanford University (2003 - 2004)
• Member, Undergraduate committee, Department of Classics, Stanford University (2005 - 2007)
• Member, Curriculum committee, Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University (2006 - 2007)
• Member, Curriculum committee, Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University (2011 - 2012)
• Member, Finance committee, Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University (2007 - 2008)
• Member, Undergraduate committee, Department of Classics, Stanford University (2001 - 2003)
• Advisory Board, Berliner Studien zum antiken Rom (2012 - Present)
• Editorial Board, Classical Antiquity (2000 - 2008)
• Article referee, Journal of Roman Archaeology
• Article referee, American Antiquity
• Article referee, American Journal of Archaeology
• Article referee, Journal of Social Archaeology
• Article referee, Papers of the British School at Rome
• Article referee, Classical Antiquity
• Grant referee, National Geographic- Committee for Research and Exploration

Professional Education

• B.A., Bryn Mawr College, English (1986)
• M.A., Harvard University, Classical Art and Archaeology (1994)
• M.A., University of Michigan, Latin (1999)
• Ph.D., University of Michigan, Classical Art and Archaeology (1999)