Emanuela received a B.A. (First Class Honours) in Classical Studies (2007) and an M.A. in Classical Archaeology (2009) from the University of Alberta. Her past fieldwork has included Greece (Kastro-Kallithea), Romania (Porolissum), and Menorca (harbor of Sanitja). Her current fieldwork includes survey and excavation at Petra, Jordan (Brown University Petra Archaeological Project) and on the island of Montserrat (Survey and Landscape Archaeology on Montserrat Project). Emanuela’s many research interests include the army and frontiers of the Roman Empire, the archaeology of the Roman provinces, the cult of Mithras, ancient colonialism and imperialism, Roman epigraphy, Roman social history, and ancient slavery. Her dissertation comparatively examines the creation of the last two Roman provinces, Dacia and Arabia, from the 2nd - 3rd centuries CE.