Sarah Yeomans, PhD, visiting assistant professor of art, has just had her co-edited volume "Why Ancient Objects Matter: Greek and Roman Art and Materiality from Antiquity to the Present" published by academic publisher DeGruyter-Brill. Her own contribution to the collection, “Portrait of a Physician: The Marcianopolis Instrumentarium,” is an analysis of a collection of 5th-century C.E. Roman surgical instruments and other medical implements recovered from the ancient Roman city of Marcianopolis, located in present-day Bulgaria.
Yeomans is an archaeologist and art historian specializing in the material and visual culture of the Graeco-Roman world, with a particular emphasis on Graeco-Roman medicine and the impact of pandemic events on the Roman Empire. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Southern California and two master's degrees: an M.A. in archaeology from the University of Sheffield (U.K.) and a second M.A. in art history from the University of Southern California. Yeomans was a Fulbright Fellow in 2021-2022 and a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellow in 2022-2023, during which she conducted research on archaeological sites related to Graeco-Roman medical practices and technology in Turkey, Italy and Bulgaria.
