Anna Bonnell Freidin

My research and teaching focus on Roman culture from the first century BCE through the third century CE. I am currently working on a book manuscript that explores how Romans constructed, understood, and mitigated the risks of childbirth. The project blends the study of risk and uncertainty with histories of gender, the family, imperialism, science, medicine, and magic. My interest in Roman history began at Harvard, where I received an A.B. in Classics in 2008. After Harvard, I pursued an MPhil in Ancient History at Cambridge with a Gates Cambridge Scholarship and then worked on The Virgil Encyclopedia (2013) at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C.. In 2018, I earned my doctorate in Classics from Princeton through the interdisciplinary Program in the Ancient World, along with a certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies. I am a core faculty member in the Interdepartmental Program in Greek and Roman History, as well as an affiliate of Classical Studies and the Science, Technology, and Society Program.

Courses

• Women in the Ancient Mediterranean
• Growing up in the Roman World
• Rome: The Roman Empire and the Transformation of the Mediterranean World
• The Roman Family

Fields of study

• Ancient Rome and the Mediterranean
• Family, gender, and society in Greco-Roman antiquity
• Medicine and magic
• Roman imperialism