Avner Goldstein
Avner Goldstein
Ph.D. Candidate
Contact
Stokes Hall South 366
Email: avner.goldstein@bc.edu
Education
- A.B., Princeton University, 2021
Courses
Europe in the World I
Atlantic Worlds II: Race, Religion, and the Struggle for Democracy
Modern History I
Research Interests
Roman history, environmental history, archaeology, religion
Advisor
Department
Biography
Avi Goldstein is a Ph.D. candidate in History and researches human-environment relationships in the Roman Empire, particularly in Britain. His dissertation "A Marine Environmental History of Roman Britain, 40–450 CE" combines ancient history, archaeology, and ecology to explore how Roman institutions shaped people's relationships with saltwater environments. He excavates as a staff archaeologist at the Roman town of Cosa in central Italy, as well as at Ballintubber Castle in County Roscommon, Ireland. He is the Assistant Director of the Lowell Humanities Series at Boston College, the university's marquee lecture series. He holds an A.B. in Classics from Princeton University.