AIA: Stanford welcomes Prof. Carolyn Roncaglia

Prof. Roncaglia will be joining our Stanford AIA Chapter on Friday, November 13, 2026 at 7:00pm, Stanford Archaeology Center
Lecture is free and open to the public.

This talk discusses the application of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) to Etruscan and medieval finds from the past few seasons of excavation at the site of San Giuliano, an archaeological site within the Parco Regionale Marturanum in southern Etruria. Excavations have been conducted at San Giuliano since 2016 by Baylor University in collaboration with the La Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la provincia di Viterbo e per l'Etruria meridionale. The site is famous for its many rock-cut Etruscan tombs and also has produced important evidence for the religious and military practices of medieval central Italy. Prof. Roncaglia lead a team from Santa Clara University in June 2026 to apply the imaging technique known as RTI to some of the recent finds from the site and at this talk will present the initial findings from the 2026 season.

Born in Santa Clara and raised in the Tidewater region of Virginia, Carolynn E. Roncaglia completed a B.A. in History and Classics at the University of Virginia in 2003 and a Ph.D. in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley in 2009. She teaches courses on the archaeology, history, religions, and cultures of the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East. Her research interests include Roman history, Greek and Latin epigraphy, Hellenistic history, and ancient Italy. She is the author of Northern Italy in the Roman World (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018) and co-author of The Julian Basilica: Architecture, Sculpture, and Epigraphy (American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2022) and has published articles on Pliny the Younger, the Cottian dynasty, and the emperor Claudius.