Network Members: Candace Rice

 Candace Rice

Candace M. Rice is Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Classics in the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World and the Department of Classics at Brown University. She holds a BA in Classics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an M.Phil in Classical Archaeology and D.Phil in Archaeology from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses broadly on maritime trade and economic development in the Roman world. A major aim of her research is to understand the ways in which increased maritime connectivity and imperial-scale economic changes affected the lived experiences of the everyday inhabitants of the Roman world and, in turn, how these inhabitants interacted with and responded to their changing world. Candace is an active field archaeologist and has conducted fieldwork at Etruscan, Roman, and medieval sites in Italy, France, Tunisia, and Turkey. She currently co-directs the Upper Sabina Tiberina Project, focused on the excavation and interdisciplinary study of the Roman villa at Vacone, its associated late Roman and early Medieval cemeteries, and its wider central Italian landscape.