Helen Wong

Helen received a B.A. in History and Classical Studies from Brandeis University and an MSt in Classical Archaeology from Keble College, University of Oxford. Her thesis, "Forming Kraters in Cyprus: A Petrographic and 3D Scanned Exploration of Iron Age Cypriot Ceramic Continuity," was a petrographic study, conducted with CMRAE at MIT, of a set of kraters held at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East. Her research interests are in non-elite experiences of empire and the construction of generational memory, especially through landscape alteration, in the Hellenistic Levant and Egypt. In her dissertation, she examines death rituals as reflections of non-elite life in Levantine cities under Ptolemaic and Seleucid rule. She is also interested in issues of classical reception, especially in the context of modern colonialism. She has excavated in Greece, Turkey, and Israel-Palestine and has practical experience with petrography, geophysical prospection, and 3D data analysis.