Penelope J.E. Davies

holds a B.A. from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. from Yale University and  is currently Associate Professor at the University of Texas in Austin.  Her research focuses on public art and architecture and politics in ancient Rome.  She is author of Death and the Emperor:  Roman Imperial Funerary Monuments from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius (Cambridge University Press 2000 and University of Texas Press 2004, winner of the Vasari Award, as well as articles and essays on ancient Rome.