Avner Goldstein
Teaching Assistant
Avner Goldstein
Ph.D. Candidate
Contact
Stokes Hall South 366
Email: avner.goldstein@bc.edu
Education
- A.B., Princeton University, 2021
Courses
Europe in the World I
Atlantic Worlds II: Race, Religion, and the Struggle for Democracy
Modern History I
Global Environmental History
Research Interests
Environmental history; Roman history; British history; social history; archaeology
Advisor
Department
Biography
Avi Goldstein is an environmental historian of the Roman world and writes about the relationships between humans and marine animals, plants, and geologies. His dissertation, “The Saltwater Province: Society, Empire, and Environment in Roman Britain, 50 BCE–450 CE,” brings together history, archaeology, and marine sciences to examine how imperial social institutions and cultural practices shaped—and were shaped by—people’s relationships with coastal and saltwater environments in Britain as a province of the Roman Empire. He has also written about coastal environments in other times and places, including eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New England.
Goldstein has supervised a number of archaeological excavations, including the Roman bath complexes at Ancient Corinth (Greece) and Cosa (Italy), and he also served as the Laboratory Director at Ballintubber Castle (Ireland), where he managed the processing, conservation, and study of archaeological environmental samples and artefacts. At Boston College, he has taught courses on environmental, European, and American history and serves as Assistant Director of the Lowell Humanities Series, the university’s marquee lecture program. He holds an A.B. in Classics from Princeton University.