Christina DiFabio

Christina earned her BA in Biology, Classics, and Classical Archaeology from Brown University in 2014, with honors in archaeology. Her current research focuses on urbanization and the role of local communities in the process. Her dissertation, “Synoikism, Sympolity, and Urbanization: A Regional Approach in Hellenistic Anatolia,” examines city formation in western Anatolia from ca. late 4th c. BCE - 1st c. CE. She uses settlement pattern data to examine urbanization developments as well as evidence for political alliances, trade, and kinship ties from literary, epigraphic, material culture, and iconographic sources to understand how local elites used urbanization to insert themselves into larger imperial and inter-city networks.

She has worked with the Notion Archaeological Survey in Turkey since 2015. She has also been a staff member with the Brown University Labraunda Project (Turkey), a trench supervisor at the Vigla Archaeological Project (Cyprus), and a trench co-supervisor at Corinth (Greece).

Christina has a strong dedication to museum learning, especially for college students and adults. She completed a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies at University of Michigan, and she has done museum education work at the RISD Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.