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Title

Associate Professor of Classical Studies

Degree

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Field of Specialty

Roman and Greek art and archaeology. Latin language and literature. Mythology in
Greek and Roman Art. Roman Social History and Daily Life.

Contact Information

Mandel Center for the Humanities 213
781-736-2183
aoko@brandeis.edu

Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow

Associate Professor and Chair of Classical Studies
Research and Scholarship:
Books Published:
The Sarno Bath Complex (`L¿Erma¿ di Bretschneider, Monograph series of the Italian Superintendency, Rome, 1990).
Naked Truths: Women, Sexuality, and Gender in Classical Art and Archaeology (contributor and co-editor, with Claire L. Lyons) (Routledge Press, London, 1997). (Paperback edition, Routledge Press, London, 2000).
Water Use and Hydraulics in the Roman City (contributor and sole editor). Vol. no. 3 in the Colloquium and Conference Papers Series of the Archaeological Institute of America (Kendall-Hunt Publishing Co., Dubuque, Iowa. 2001).

Books in Preparation and Under Contract
The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy: Water, Sewers, and Toilets. (sole author). Under contract with the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill and London. The volume has undergone external review and is being reedited in preparation for publication sometime within the next year and a half.
Pompeii and Herculaneum: Roman Daily Life in the Shadow of Vesuvius (sole author). Under contract with Cambridge University Press, New York and Cambridge, England. In preparation.

Teaching:
Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching, 1988-89
Perlmutter Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research, 1997-98
American Philological Association National Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1997-98
The Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer ¿69 and Joseph Neubauer Prize for Excellence in
Teaching and Mentoring

Publications

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann Olga. ""'Stinking to High Heaven': Odors, Scents, and Stench in Roman Urban Daily Life"." The Senses in Antiquity. Ed. Mark Bradley, ed.. Durham, U. K.: Acumen Publishing, U. K., 2014. 1-35 pp.. (forthcoming)

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann Olga. Pompeii and Herculaneum: Roman Daily Life in the Shadow of Vesuvius. 1st ed. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. (forthcoming)

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann Olga. The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy: Water, Sewers, and Toilets. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, N.C. and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. (forthcoming)

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann Olga, Gemma C.M. Jansen, Eric M. Moormann eds., Eric M. Moormann, ed. Roman Toilets: Their Archaeology and Cultural History. Leiden, Netherlands: Bulletin Antieke Beschaving (BABESCH), 2011.

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann Olga. ""Dura Europos: Water Systems, Infrastructure, and the Goddess Fortuna in a Desert City"." Dura Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity (Exhibition Catalogue). Boston and New Haven: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, and Yale University Art Gallery, 2011

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann Olga. ""Facilities in France, Germany, and Switzerland for Roman Merde," rev. article of Alain Bouet, Les latrines dans les provinces gauloises, germaniques et alpines (Gallia Supplement 59)." Journal of Roman Archaeology 23. (2010): 693-700.

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann Olga. "Review article: New Perspectives on Ancient Technology and Engineering in Greece and Rome." Rev. of The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World, by John Peter Oleson, ed. Technology and Culture vol. 49 October 2008: 1025-1030.

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann Olga. "Water, Water (Literally) Everywhere: Turkey, Italy, Greece, Near East and Mesopotamia, North Africa, Gallia, Germania, Spain rev. article on Cura Aquarum in Ephesus ed. Gilbert Wiplinger." Journal of Roman Archaeology 21. (2008): 549-556.

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann Olga. "The City Baths in Pompeii and Herculaneum, ch. 15." The World of Pompeii. 1st ed. vol. 2007 Ed. Pedar W. Foss and John J. Dobbins. London and New York: Routledge Press, 2007. 224-256.

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann Olga. "Roman Latrines: How the Romans Did Their Business." Archaeology Odyssey 7. 3 (2004): 48-55.

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann Olga. Water Use and Hydraulics in the Roman City. Colloquium and Conference Papers Series of the Archeological Institute of America. 2001 ed. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt Publishing Company, 2001.

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann Olga, co-ed Claire Lyons. Naked Truths: Women, Sexuality, and Gender in Classical Art and Archaeology. 1997 and pbk. ed. 2000 ed. London: Routledge Press, 1997.

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann Olga. The Sarno Bath Complex: Architecture in Pompeii's Last Years. Monograph Series of the Italian Superintendency, 1990 ed. Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 1990.

Courses Taught