Please join us to learn about the research from Bonnie Maldonado & Maddalena Scarperi.

Maddalena Scarperi is a sixth-year graduate student in Ancient History at UPenn. She obtained her BA and MA degrees from the University of Trento, spending time as a visiting student at Barnard College and Tübingen University. She is currently working on a dissertation titled “Life in a Fifth-Century Greek Colonial World: Metaponto between Narratives and Practices”, where she reconsider textual and material evidence about the social world of this Greek settlement in ancient southern Italy from a postcolonial, multi-scalar, and gender-based perspective.

In her presentation, Maddalena will share the results of the research she conducted for the last chapter of her dissertation, a micro-history re-membering women’s colonial experiences in 6th and 5th c. BCE Metaponto starting from the bodily remains and grave goods deposited in one burial.