About
Ashton earned her B.A. from the College of William and Mary (2021) and M.A. from the University of Michigan (2022), both in Classical Studies. Graduating with honors, her undergraduate thesis explored indigenous Italic identity in 5th century BCE Paestum. She has worked as a research assistant for the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, as well as an intern at both the San Antonio Museum of Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ashton’s research interest centers around Greek colonization, the social, material, and cultural history of contacts between local populations and settler communities in the ancient Mediterranean. Ashton is particularly interested in decolonizing and Indigenous research methods in cultural heritage, archeological, and museum work
