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Clayton Fant,
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Clayton Fant, I came to Akron in 1984 from Italy where I had been living and teaching off and on since 1979. Before that I held the junior faculty folding chair at Wellesley College. I am a reformed philologist who still loves language and literature, but my publications are in Roman archaeology and epigraphy.
My interest in the Roman marble trade began at St.Stephens's School in Rome with a 9th grade class in the topography of theancient city. I have done research and field work in Turkey, Greece, Tunisia and Egypt and am currently involved in projects in Pompeii (Italy). Distractions from finishing a book called Marble and the Caesars are named Beckett (7), Emerson (5), and Connor (4).
I am interested in digital media and committed to using them to enhance teaching as well as present research. With the support of the Ohio Humanities Council I am building a website on Pompeii which includes a searchable photo database and studies of special topics.
Distractions are wine making and house renovation.
Current project at Pompeii, "Taste and ostentation in White Marble at Roman Pompeii," funded by an American Philosophical Society research grant and a University of Akron Summer Faculty Fellowship for 1999 (read an illustrated online version).
Read my complete CV if you have the patience!
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