Jennifer Trimble

Jennifer Trimble is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at Stanford University, specializing in the visual and material culture of the Roman Empire with research interests spanning portraiture, replication, Roman slavery representations, comparative urbanism, and ancient cartography.

Education:

• B.A. in English, Bryn Mawr College (1986)
• M.A. in Classical Art and Archaeology, Harvard University (1994)
• M.A. in Latin, University of Michigan (1999)
• Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan (1999)

Her scholarship examines how visual replication constructs public identity and articulates imperial power through meticulous analysis of Roman monuments and artifacts. Key contributions include investigations into gendered representations, urban spatial dynamics, and the socio-political dimensions of visual culture across the empire.

Trimble's publication trajectory reveals consistent engagement with Roman visual rhetoric, from her foundational 2011 monograph on replication to 2018 studies of the Sleeping Hermaphrodite's reception and the Tomb of the Haterii's funerary symbolism. These works demonstrate methodological breadth across art history, archaeology, and social theory while maintaining focus on visual culture's role in imperial ideology.

As co-director of the IRC-Oxford-Stanford excavations in the Roman Forum and Stanford's Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project, she bridges traditional archaeology with digital humanities through interdisciplinary collaborations between computer scientists and classicists to reconstruct ancient urban landscapes.