Jennifer Trimble

Trimble's research centers on the art and archaeology of the Roman Empire, with strong interests in visual representation, urbanism, gender, and the interaction of cultural and social science frameworks. She is completing a book for Cambridge University Press entitled Image, Place and Power in the Roman Empire: Visual Replication and Urban Elites; aiming to show how replicated portrait statues of women illuminate tensions between visual representation and socio-economic developments, individuals and larger dynamics, and empire and locality.

Jen has excavated in Turkey, Tunisia, Germany and France and has directed magnetometry surveys in Italy; she is now is co-director with Andrew Wilson (Oxford) and Darius Arya (Institute of Roman Culture) of a new excavation in the Roman Forum Post Aedem Castoris, investigating the commercial infrastructure of the Forum and its interactions with religious, political and monumental space.

She is also co-director with Marc Levoy (Stanford, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) of Stanford's Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project, focusing on the Severan Marble Plan of Rome and exploring issues of graphic representation and reconstruction, and the urban fabric of the ancient megalopolis and its relationship to larger social and political developments.