Miranda Lovett

Miranda Lovett is a first-year PhD student studying ancient Greek art and archaeology with Dr. Emily Egan. Miranda graduated magne cum laude from the University of Mary Washington, receiving her B.A. in Classics with an archaeology emphasis in 2017. She also received her M.A. in Classics with an archaeology emphasis in 2020, and her Master's thesis was titled  “Environment in Miniature: Iconography of Setting in Late Bronze Age Aegean Engraved Seal Stones and Signet Rings." Miranda has participated in two excavations in Greece: the Despotiko project in the Cycladic Islands, where she did fieldwork at the site of an Archaic temple, and the Mt. Lykaion project/survey in the Peloponesse, where she worked as a lab assistant at the "birthplace of Zeus." She also worked as the 2021-2022 graduate intern for the Public Programming department at the Getty Villa (the antiquities collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum) in Los Angeles. Her research interests include Bronze Age art and archaeology, connections between ancient and modern identity, classical reception, cultural heritage, marginalized groups in antiquity, hair and identity in ancient Greece and Rome, and museum ethics.