Biography
Jessica Plant received her PhD from Cornell University in the History of Art and Archaeology in 2023, and MAs from Cornell in the History of Art and Archaeology (2019) and Archaeology (2017), for which she was also awarded the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies (CIAMS) MA thesis award. She earned her BA, summa cum laude, in Classical Civilizations and Near Eastern Studies and Art History from the University of Minnesota. Her research has been supported by the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and the Kress Foundation. She is currently a Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge (2023-2026).
Research
- Art and archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean with a focus on Roman and Late Antiquity
- The social and cultural dimensions of ornament, architecture, and craft production
- Cross-cultural and cross-craft interactions in the ancient Mediterranean
- Archaeology of religion and domestic space
- Relational approaches to material culture and pre-modern media
- Critical historiography in the fields of archaeology, classics, and art history
Publications
Plant, J. 2025. “Plastic Approaches to Roman Design: (Im)Perceptible Mediations in Plaster Wall Reliefs.” Art History 48 (3):506–36.
Plant, J. 2022. “Hard as Rock and Light as Air: Stucco Ceilings in Roman Domestic Space.” In Materiality in Roman Art and Architecture. Aesthetics, Semantics and Function, edited by Annette Haug, Adrian Hielscher, and M. Taylor Lauritsen, 113–30. Decor 2. Boston: De Gruyter.
