Katia is a Roman archaeologist, whose research revolves around the themes of the economy, architecture, and maritime archaeology. She has worked in particular on economic exploitation of agricultural and mineral resources, as well on long-distance trade in and across the arid regions of North Africa, Egypt, and Syria. She received her D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 2015, having previously studied at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She has since worked as a research fellow at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis and the CNRS, and has taught at the University of Marseille at Aix-en-Provence.
Katia taught ARCH 2620, “All Italia: City and Country in Ancient Italy” in Fall 2017 and ARCH 0678, “Underwater in the Mediterranean: An Introduction to Maritime Archaeology” in Spring 2018.