Doctoral Student in Archaeology and the Ancient World (Ph.D., May 2012)

Lyra received her B.A. in Anthropology and Classical Civilization from New York University (2000) and M.A.s in Classical Art and Archaeology and in Latin from the University of Michigan (2006). Her many interests in the field include topics of culture change, colonialism/post-colonialism, archaeological theory, archaeological ethics, and ancient literacy. Her fieldwork experience includes excavations at the Roman town of Silchester in England, colonial and prehistoric sites in Virginia and Maryland, and on the Via Sacra in Rome; and the field survey at Metaponto, Italy. She has attended summer workshops in osteology at the Museu Nacional de Arqueologia in Lisbon, and in numismatics at the American Numismatic Society. Additionally, she interned for two years at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, in the department of Egyptian, Classical, and Middle Eastern Art. She is currently enrolled in the Public Humanities M.A. program at the John Nicholas Brown Center, where she plans to explore her interests in the public archaeology of slavery in the United States.