Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow

The Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Endowed Chair in the Humanities

aoko@brandeis.edu
781-736-2183
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for the Humanities, 213

Departments/Programs

Anthropology
Classical Studies
Comparative Humanities
Fine Arts
Italian Studies
Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Degrees

University of Michigan, Ph.D.
University of Michigan, M.A.
Upsala College, B.A.

Expertise

Roman Art, Archaeology, Civilization, Culture, Engineering, Technology, and Daily Life (including sanitation, toilets, sewers, and water systems); Pompeii, Herculaneum, and other sites near Mt. Vesuvius on the Bay of Naples; Ancient Greek Art and Archaeology; Latin Language and Literature; Mythology in Greek and Roman Art and Text; and Greek Language and Literature.

Profile

Head of the Division of the Humanities
The Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Endowed Chair in the Humanities
Professor of Classical Studies

Research and Scholarship:
Books Published:
1. The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy: Toilets, Sewers, and Water Systems (sole author), University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill and London, 2015, paperback, 2018.

2. Roman Toilets: Their Archaeology and Cultural History. (contributor and co-editor with Gemma C.M. Jansen and Eric M. Moormann) BABESCH (Bulletin Antieke Beschaving) Supplementary series, Annual Papers in Archaeology (Leuven, 2011).

3. 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).

4. 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).

5. The Sarno Bath Complex (L'Erma di Bretschneider, Monograph series of the Italian Superintendency, Rome, 1990).

Books in Preparation and Under Contract:
1. Making Sense of Pompeii and Herculaneum: Daily Life and the Sensorium of the Ancient Roman City (sole author). Under contract with Cambridge University Press, New York and Cambridge, England. Forthcoming.

2. Sixty-Eight Toilets and Urinals in the Ancient City of Rome: Sanitary, Urbanistic, and Social Agency, co-authored and edited with Gemma C. M. Jansen and Richard L. J. Neudecker. Under contract with BABESCH (Bulletin Antieke Beschaving), Leuven, Belgium. Forthcoming.

3. The Bloomsbury Cultural History of Technology, Volume I, Pre-History through Antiquity (2.5 MBP-600AD), contributor and co-editor with Rabun M. Taylor. Under contract with Bloomsbury Press, London, UK. Forthcoming.

Teaching:
I teach courses on Roman Art, Archaeology, Civilization, Culture, Engineering, Ancient Medicine, Technology, and Daily Life; on Pompeii, Herculaneum; on Greek Art and Archaeology; on Latin Language and Literature (in Latin and in translation); and on Mythology in Greek and Roman Art and Text and on Greece, Rome, Myth, and the Movies.

Teaching Prizes:
Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching, 1988-89.
Perlmutter Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research, 1997-98.
American Philological Association (now Society of Classical Studies) National Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1997-98.
The Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer '69 and Joseph Neubauer Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring 2006-07.
Most Creative Professor Award from the Brandeis University senior class of 2011.
National Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from the Archaeological Institute of America, 2016.

Courses Taught

CLAS	134b	The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Rome
CLAS	136b	Roman Technology, Medicine, and Art
CLAS	140a	Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Greek and Roman Art and Text
CLAS	145b	Topics in Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology
CLAS	150b	Pompeii: Life in the Shadow of Vesuvius
CLAS	165a	Roman Sex, Violence, and Decadence in Translation
CLAS	167b	Classical Myths Told and Retold
CLAS	200a	Proseminar
CLAS	250b	Capstone Course

Awards and Honors

Appointed the Archaeological Institute of America’s Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship for 2022/2023, one of he highest honors that the Institute can bestow. (2021 - 2023)

Elected by the Advisory Council of the American Academy in Rome to the Executive Committee of the AAR, 5-member committee overseeing activities and events for the Rome Prize Fellows in Rome. (2020 - 2023)

Appointed Associate Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome, 2018-19, sabbatical year away from Brandeis (2018 - 2019)

Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Endowed Chair in the Humanities (2017)

2016 National Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from the Archaeological Institute of America, awarded in San Francisco, California, January 7, 2016. (2016)

Davis Teaching Fellow, 2014-15, and David Teaching Mentor for 2016-17 (2014 - 2015)

Furthermore Grants in Publishing, branch of the J. M. Kaplan Fund: I was selected for a grant in June, 2014, for my book, The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy: Toilets, Sewers, and Water Supply. (2014)

Promotion to Full Professor (2013)

The Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer '69 and Joseph Neubauer Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring (2006)

Named a Senior Research Fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001 - 2002)

American Philological Association National Award for Excellence in Teaching as "one of the best professors of classics in the United States and Canada" (1997 - 1998)

Kermit H. Perlmutter Award for Teaching Excellence (internal award) (1996 - 1997)

Radcliffe Institute Fellowship (Mary Bunting) (1993 - 1994)

Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship (1992)

Louis D. Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching (1988 - 1989)

Scholarship

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann O.. "Sensual Studies for Roman Houses and Households." The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Classical Houses and Households. Ed. Bradley Ault and Alessandro Sabastiani. London and New York:, 2022 (forthcoming)

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann Olga, contributor and co-editor with Gemma C.M. Jansen and Richard L. J. Neudecker. Sixty-Eight Toilets and Urinals in the Ancient City of Rome: Sanitary, Urbanistic, and Social Agency. Leuven, Belgium: Bulletin Antieke Beschaving (BABESCH), Supplementary series, Annual Papers in Archaeology, 2022. (forthcoming)

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann Olga. "Greco-Roman Urban Water Infrastructure." The Blackwell Companion to Cities in the Greco-Roman World. Ed. Miko Flohr and Arjan Zuiderhoek. London, UK: Blackwell Press, 2022 (forthcoming)

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann Olga. "Rome, Caput Mundi: Health, Hygiene, and Sanitation." in Sixty-Eight Toilets and Urinals in the Ancient City of Rome: Sanitary, Urbanistic, and Social Agency. Ed. Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, Gemma C. M. Jansen and Richard L. J. Neudecker. Leuven, Belgium: BABESCH, part of Brill Press, 2022. 1-82. (forthcoming)

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann Olga. Making Sense of Pompeii and Herculaneum: Daily Life and the Sensorium of the Ancient Roman City. 1st ed. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. (forthcoming)

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann O.. "Review of Mark A. Locicero, Liquid Footprints: Water, Urbanism, and Sustainability in Roman Ostia." American Journal of Archaeology forthcoming, 2021 (forthcoming)

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann O.. "Review of Nicola Chiarenza, Annette Haug, and Ulrich Müller (eds.), The Power of Urban Water. Studies in Premodern Urbanism." Gnomon forthcoming 2021

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann Olga. "Review article, Toilets in the NW Provinces: Making Additions to a Growing Catalogue." Rev. of Latrinae: Roman Toilets in the Northwestern Provinces of the Roman Empire (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology, 2018), by Stefanie Hoss (ed.). Journal of Roman Archaeology 2019: pp. 798-801.

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann Olga, paperback edition. The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy: Toilets, Sewers, and Water Systems. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, paperback edition, 2018.

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann Olga. "Roman Urban Smells: The Archaeological Evidence." The Senses in Antiquity (series) Smell and the Ancient Senses (title). Ed. Mark Bradley, ed.. Durham, U. K.: Routledge Press, U. K., 2015. pp. 90-109.

Koloski-Ostrow, Ann Olga. The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy: Toilets, Sewers, and Water Systems. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, N.C. and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

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), Supplementary series, Annual Papers in Archaeology, 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. 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 2000 pbk. ed. ed. London: Routledge Press, 2000.

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.