Megan Gatton

New York University

Fulbright/IKY Ph.D. Research Award

Research Topic: Reframing a Regional Practice: The Case of Athena Alea, Tegea and Artemis Orthia, Sparta

Megan B. Gatton is a field archaeologist and art historian, studying sacred contexts of the Early Iron Age and Archaic Mediterranean world. As the ASCSA-affiliated Fulbright-IKY Fellow, she will study ancient objects carved from ivory and animal bone that were ritually deposited in the sanctuaries of Artemis Orthia, Sparta, and Athena Alea, Tegea. Megan is the Environmental Archaeology Coordinator for the Selinunte Main Urban Sanctuary Project (Sicily) and a Research Associate for the Quirinal Project (Rome). She has analyzed archaeological faunal assemblages in Greece and the United States.

Her published work has appeared in the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology and the Journal of Ancient Architecture. She is a Ph.D. candidate at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, having earned an M.St. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Oxford (2021) and a B.A. in Classics-Art History from New York University (2020).