Gretel Rodríguez

Gretel Rodríguez is Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Brown University, specializing in Roman art, architecture, and archaeology with secondary expertise in ancient Mesoamerican art. Her research investigates art-society relationships through themes of viewership, identity formation, and cultural interaction.

Rodríguez's scholarship examines Roman honorific monuments, captive iconography, Greek colonial ceramics, and Mediterranean water sanctuaries. Her fieldwork spans Rome, Bay of Naples, Southern France, and Chiapas, Mexico. Recent publications reinterpret the Roman Arch at Orange through postcolonial frameworks and analyze Iphigenia myth representations in funerary contexts.

Research Approach:

• Integrates archaeological evidence with literary and iconographic analysis
• Employs postcolonial perspectives on cultural encounter
• Examines local reception of imperial art forms

Rodríguez is affiliated with Brown's Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World and the Program in Early Cultures. Her work appears in the American Journal of Archaeology, RES Anthropology and Aesthetics, and Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal.