Samantha Richter - Harvard University

Sammi Richter is a fourth year PhD student studying Classical Archaeology at Harvard University. She received her BA in Anthropology, Classics, and Archaeology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her MA in Classical Archaeology from the University of Arizona. She has participated in several archaeological digs including excavations in the Athenian Agora, Falerii Novi, and the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project. Her research is centered around tracing the distribution, assimilation, and utilization of iconographies between major Mediterranean cultures (Greece, Phoenicia, Persia, Egypt, etc.) in the 5th and 4th c BC.