Avner Goldstein
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 marine environments and the relationships between humans and marine animals, plants, and geologies. His dissertation, “A Marine Environmental History of Roman Britain, 50 BCE–450 CE,” brings together ancient history, colonial 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 over time.
He is the Laboratory Director at Ballintubber Castle, an archaeological site in County Roscommon, Ireland, where he manages the processing, conservation, and study of archaeological environmental samples and artefacts. He has also excavated at other sites including the Roman town of Cosa in Italy. At Boston College, he has taught courses on environmental and European 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.