Jacqueline DiBiasie-Sammons is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Mississippi and Senior Faculty Fellow of the Luckyday Residential College. Her research focuses on Roman archaeology, particularly ancient graffiti and inscriptions from Pompeii and Herculaneum, combined with innovative digital technologies like Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) and multispectral imaging. She holds a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Texas at Austin (2015) and an M.A. from the same institution (2011). Dr. DiBiasie-Sammons' work emphasizes material analysis of graffiti media (charcoal, chalk, ochre) to understand ancient spatial practices and social dynamics. Her current book project, supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, examines the aesthetics and materials of Roman graffiti. She pioneered digital methods for visualizing fragile inscriptions, with publications in American Journal of Archaeology , Journal of Epigraphic Studies , and Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik . In teaching, she emphasizes Latin language instruction and archaeological fieldwork, having earned the 2022 Cora Lee Graham Award for Outstanding Teaching of Freshmen. Courses include Archaeological Ethics , Digital Archaeology , and study-abroad programs in Italy. Her research has been recognized with the 2021 Dr. Mike L. Edmonds New Scholar Award in Humanities. Key affiliations: Luckyday Residential College Senior Fellow, Herculaneum Graffiti Project Lead Grants: NEH Summer Stipend (2021), Multiple institutional teaching/research grants Field projects: Ongoing excavations in Campania, Italy Her work bridges classical material culture with modern technology, offering new insights into ancient communication patterns and urban life. Current projects include a comparative study of graffiti across Western Roman provinces and development of open-access digital archives for inscriptions.








