Arielle Suskin

Case Western Reserve University

Kleiner Fellow

Research Topic: Roman Bronze Figural Balsamaria in Context: Mobility, Identity, and Religion

Arielle Suskin is a PhD candidate in Art History at Case Western Reserve University. Her research focuses on how ancient peoples shaped public, private, and community identities through material culture, particularly through portable objects. At the School, she is researching Roman figural balsamaria from Greece and the Greek East. She was previously a research assistant and curatorial intern in the Department of Greek and Roman Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

She has participated in the American Excavations Samothrace, the American Numismatic Society Eric P. Newman Graduate Seminar in Numismatics, and the Summer Institute for Technical Studies in Art (SITSA) at the Harvard Art Museums.