Professional Summary
Tianqi Zhu is a fifth year PhD candidate in Classical Archaeology at the University of Cincinnati (B.A. Vassar 2017; MPhil. Cambridge 2020). He is broadly interested in the history and archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean, in particular urbanization, festivals, and civic life in Roman Greece and Asia Minor. After being a regular member at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in 2023-24, Tianqi is currently writing his dissertation entitled "Boom during Crisis: Festival Cultures and Performance Spaces in the Third-Century Roman East." He has excavated at Lieti and Tharros in Italy, Corinth and Athens in Greece, Komana Pontica in Turkey and Nanjing in China, and has worked at various museum collections in Rome, Cambridge, and San Diego.
Research and Practice Interests
Tianqi Zhu's research interests include social history, culture contact, urbanism, and epigraphy in the Roman Empire, in particular the Eastern Mediterranean. He is keen to combine historical and archaeological analyses in his research.