Kassandra J. Miller

Kassandra J. Miller is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, where she also serves as a "walk-along" with the Colby College Justice Think Tank, supporting incarcerated scholars' research. She earned her Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Chicago and previously held Visiting Assistant Professorships at Union College (2017-2019) and Bard College (2019-2020).

Her research focuses on:

• The social history of ancient Greece and Rome
• Ancient medicine
• Time and timekeeping
• Gender and sexuality
• Science and technology
• Magic and astrology
• Constructions of difference

Miller's work particularly examines how temporal frameworks were used to establish or reinforce hierarchies of gender, class, and civic status in antiquity. As part of the E-C Chronoi working group "Synchronizing the Body in Ancient Medicine and Philosophy," she investigates how women's bodily rhythms related to external patterns like lunar phases and normative durations of pregnancy, menstruation, or breastfeeding.

Her publications reveal a strong focus on the intersection of timekeeping and medical practice in antiquity. The most recent works analyze how sundials and water clocks transformed medical science, with particular attention to how temporal measurements affected the understanding of bodily rhythms and medical conditions like fevers.

Miller is actively involved in academic service, currently serving as co-chair of the SCS-affiliate group Classics and Social Justice (2023-2025) and co-organizing the "Slavery and Technology in Greco-Roman Worlds" conference in January 2024.

Her research approach bridges multiple disciplines including classics, history of medicine, gender studies, and history of science, reading ancient texts both with and against the grain to place medical writings in dialogue with non-medical literary, papyrological, epigraphic, archaeological, and art historical evidence.