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Candace Rice is an Assistant Professor specializing in Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University. Her research focuses on Mediterranean maritime trade and economic development during the Roman period. She is particularly interested in how archaeological records reveal the changes in connectivity that affected the nature of the Roman economy, enhancing supra-regional integration and local economic development. Currently, she co-directs fieldwork in Croatia, Italy, and Türkiye. Candace holds a D.Phil in Archaeology and an M.Phil in Classical Archaeology from the University of Oxford. Before her position at Brown, she held faculty appointments at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Alberta. She also spent a year as a Senior Fellow at the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations at Koç University in Istanbul. Her research has received funding from various awards, including the Rust Family Foundation Award and the Salomon Award. She has contributed to projects that investigate the societal changes during the early medieval period in central Italy and has been involved in research on the Upper Sabina Tiberina Project.
Department: Department of Economics