Rachel Meyers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3623554 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Meyers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Meyers |
| SIGNATURE | MEYERS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iowa State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0464-2153 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Farms, Feces, and Food Safety in Roman Italy
This article examines a crucial and underexplored topic at the intersection of Roman foodways, agriculture, and health by considering the situation on the Roman farm where the extensive use of manure as well as other practices posed serious dangers to food safety. Manure was central to Roman agriculture, and a growing body of evidence for widespread instances of foodborne illnesses can be linked to manuring. We bring together literary and archaeo…
Aerarium
The Aerarium , or treasury, was the depository for money, documents, copies of laws, military standards, and other records of the Roman state. It was located inside the Temple of Saturn in the Forum of Rome, though nearby buildings were probably used for storage and for carrying out some functions of the treasury.
Aerarium militare
The aerarium militare was created by Augustus as a treasury to distribute pensions for soldiers who had completed their military service. After the initial funds given by Augustus, income from the vicesima hereditatum and centesima rerum venalium financed the aerarium militare .
Developing Visual Messages to Support Liquefied Petroleum Gas Use in Intervention Homes in the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (Hapin) Trial in Rural Guatemala
BACKGROUND: Household air pollution adversely affects human health and the environment, yet more than 40% of the world still depends on solid cooking fuels. The House Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) randomized controlled trial is assessing the health effects of a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) stove and 18-month supply of free fuel in 3,200 households in rural Guatemala, India, Peru, and Rwanda. AIMS: We conducted formative research in …
Vosko, L. F. (2019). Disrupting Deportability
Coinage, Roman Empire
During the Roman imperial period, coinage was modified a number of times through the introduction of new denominations and the debasement of the metals. By studying the coins, we can also learn about the organization of the empire and the increasing concentration of power in the hands of one supreme ruler. The imperial portraits, always identified by name on the obverse, have long assisted in identifying sculpted portraits, but the images on the …
A New Analysis of Antonine Statuary Groups in Roman Spain
This article bridges two fields often kept separate: the study of portrait statues and the study of the statue bases and their texts. However, the statues and their inscribed bases are complementary and necessarily must be studied together. The bases provide information about the titulature of the emperors and the dedicants. Portrait heads have been used in the creation of typologies and identification of regional variations. Too often the portra…
Hard Sell
Grassroots Citizenship at Multiple Scales
Precarious Workers and Collective Efficacy
Scholars of contemporary capitalism have argued that the rise of flexible accumulation and precarious employment has left workers disillusioned and adrift, experiencing an erosion of solidarities and human bonds. In contrast, this study uncovers a sense of collective efficacy where existing scholarship would lead us to least expect it: among workers who are, structurally, among the most marginal and vulnerable. The case examined is a Chicago livi…
Filiae Augustorum
While the titles of imperial family members on Roman coins have been used to establish chronology, I argue that the specific titulature on the coins of Faustina II and Lucilla promotes their roles as the ties among three emperors. Though other scholars have commented on their basic roles, crucial evidence for how the Antonines promoted the roles of these women has been overlooked. By highlighting this intentional language compared to coins of pri…
Eventful Subjectivity
Scholarship on events has been devoted primarily to large-scale occurrences that transform macro structures. Here we put forward a perspective that we termeventful subjectivitywhich moves the analysis of events in two related directions. First, we shift the arena of eventful analysis from rare world historical occurrences to smaller, more frequent events. Second, we direct attention away from macro-structural outcomes to micro-level changes in un…
Tabellarii
During the Roman Republic tabellarii were slaves, freedmen, and free citizens who served as private messengers, used by officials and private citizens alike.
Seals, Greece
Greek seals, which can also be referred to as gems, stamps, or signets, are small objects (1–3 cm) made of precious stones or metal.
Aerarium militare
The aerarium militare was established in 6 CE by Augustus as a detachment of the Roman state treasury.
Seals, Roman
The production of seals in the Roman world was undoubtedly influenced by Etruscan and Greek traditions.
Overstrike
Overstriking refers to the process in which an old coin, rather than a newly prepared flan, was used in the minting process.
Aerarium
The Aerarium , or treasury, was the depository for money, documents, and other valuables of the Roman state. It was located inside the Temple of Saturn, god of agriculture and protector of wealth, at the foot of the Capitoline Hill in the Forum of Rome.
Tabularium
The Tabularium , a building designed to hold tablets ( tabulae ), is traditionally located between the two summits of the Capitoline hill on the western end of the Forum Romanum.
Reconsidering Opportunities for Female Benefactors in the Roman Empire
A small, yet significant body of archaeological and epigraphical evidence demonstrates that women in the Roman Empire undertook a variety of public roles. Recent research has centered on wealthy, elite females, who made benefactions in Rome and around the empire in the form of building projects, alimenta, and entertainment. These endeavors required a great deal of money and placed the benefactress in the eye of the public. One of the better known…
Representations of the Antonine Empresses on the Nymphaeum in Olympia
Although sculpted portraits often receive more scholarly attention than the statue bodies they were set into, the different types of statue bodies can reveal more information about the portrait statue as a whole. This paper examines the Nymphaeum in Olympia, a monument which originally included an impressive array of statues of the imperial family as well as the family of its commissioner, Herodes Atticus. By analyzing the statue type of each ind…
Hard Work
Fluid Subjectivities
An investigation of intertextual gaps located in utterances offers a useful strategy for feminist interpretations of narrative performances. In order to complicate the notion of a "gendered consciousness," intertextual analysis forces encounters with the interfused, split meanings that grow in the permeable spaces of "women's words" and enables us to confront contradiction and ambiguity involved in verbal identifications with subject positionings
Listen to the Heron's Words
This book examines the expressive genres used by women living in rural communities in north India to resist and criticize pervasive ideologies of gender and kinship that subordinate women. Translations of songs and of personal narratives reveal the profound cultural dissent embedded in womens speech genres. The ethnographic analyses 1) comment on current attempts to redefine use of the term culture by the social sciences 2) explore the hidden tra…
Eventful Subjectivity
Scholarship on events has been devoted primarily to large-scale occurrences that transform macro structures. Here we put forward a perspective that we termeventful subjectivitywhich moves the analysis of events in two related directions. First, we shift the arena of eventful analysis from rare world historical occurrences to smaller, more frequent events. Second, we direct attention away from macro-structural outcomes to micro-level changes in un…
Grassroots Citizenship at Multiple Scales
Precarious Workers and Collective Efficacy
Scholars of contemporary capitalism have argued that the rise of flexible accumulation and precarious employment has left workers disillusioned and adrift, experiencing an erosion of solidarities and human bonds. In contrast, this study uncovers a sense of collective efficacy where existing scholarship would lead us to least expect it: among workers who are, structurally, among the most marginal and vulnerable. The case examined is a Chicago livi…
Hard Work
Fluid Subjectivities
An investigation of intertextual gaps located in utterances offers a useful strategy for feminist interpretations of narrative performances. In order to complicate the notion of a "gendered consciousness," intertextual analysis forces encounters with the interfused, split meanings that grow in the permeable spaces of "women's words" and enables us to confront contradiction and ambiguity involved in verbal identifications with subject positionings
Reconsidering Opportunities for Female Benefactors in the Roman Empire
A small, yet significant body of archaeological and epigraphical evidence demonstrates that women in the Roman Empire undertook a variety of public roles. Recent research has centered on wealthy, elite females, who made benefactions in Rome and around the empire in the form of building projects, alimenta, and entertainment. These endeavors required a great deal of money and placed the benefactress in the eye of the public. One of the better known…
Representations of the Antonine Empresses on the Nymphaeum in Olympia
Although sculpted portraits often receive more scholarly attention than the statue bodies they were set into, the different types of statue bodies can reveal more information about the portrait statue as a whole. This paper examines the Nymphaeum in Olympia, a monument which originally included an impressive array of statues of the imperial family as well as the family of its commissioner, Herodes Atticus. By analyzing the statue type of each ind…
Listen to the Heron's Words
This book examines the expressive genres used by women living in rural communities in north India to resist and criticize pervasive ideologies of gender and kinship that subordinate women. Translations of songs and of personal narratives reveal the profound cultural dissent embedded in womens speech genres. The ethnographic analyses 1) comment on current attempts to redefine use of the term culture by the social sciences 2) explore the hidden tra…
Fluid Subjectivities
An investigation of intertextual gaps located in utterances offers a useful strategy for feminist interpretations of narrative performances. In order to complicate the notion of a "gendered consciousness," intertextual analysis forces encounters with the interfused, split meanings that grow in the permeable spaces of "women's words" and enables us to confront contradiction and ambiguity involved in verbal identifications with subject positionings
Hard Work
Representations of the Antonine Empresses on the Nymphaeum in Olympia
Although sculpted portraits often receive more scholarly attention than the statue bodies they were set into, the different types of statue bodies can reveal more information about the portrait statue as a whole. This paper examines the Nymphaeum in Olympia, a monument which originally included an impressive array of statues of the imperial family as well as the family of its commissioner, Herodes Atticus. By analyzing the statue type of each ind…
Tabellarii
During the Roman Republic tabellarii were slaves, freedmen, and free citizens who served as private messengers, used by officials and private citizens alike.
Seals, Greece
Greek seals, which can also be referred to as gems, stamps, or signets, are small objects (1–3 cm) made of precious stones or metal.
Aerarium militare
The aerarium militare was established in 6 CE by Augustus as a detachment of the Roman state treasury.
Seals, Roman
The production of seals in the Roman world was undoubtedly influenced by Etruscan and Greek traditions.
Overstrike
Overstriking refers to the process in which an old coin, rather than a newly prepared flan, was used in the minting process.
Aerarium
The Aerarium , or treasury, was the depository for money, documents, and other valuables of the Roman state. It was located inside the Temple of Saturn, god of agriculture and protector of wealth, at the foot of the Capitoline Hill in the Forum of Rome.
Tabularium
The Tabularium , a building designed to hold tablets ( tabulae ), is traditionally located between the two summits of the Capitoline hill on the western end of the Forum Romanum.
Reconsidering Opportunities for Female Benefactors in the Roman Empire
A small, yet significant body of archaeological and epigraphical evidence demonstrates that women in the Roman Empire undertook a variety of public roles. Recent research has centered on wealthy, elite females, who made benefactions in Rome and around the empire in the form of building projects, alimenta, and entertainment. These endeavors required a great deal of money and placed the benefactress in the eye of the public. One of the better known…
Eventful Subjectivity
Scholarship on events has been devoted primarily to large-scale occurrences that transform macro structures. Here we put forward a perspective that we termeventful subjectivitywhich moves the analysis of events in two related directions. First, we shift the arena of eventful analysis from rare world historical occurrences to smaller, more frequent events. Second, we direct attention away from macro-structural outcomes to micro-level changes in un…
Filiae Augustorum
While the titles of imperial family members on Roman coins have been used to establish chronology, I argue that the specific titulature on the coins of Faustina II and Lucilla promotes their roles as the ties among three emperors. Though other scholars have commented on their basic roles, crucial evidence for how the Antonines promoted the roles of these women has been overlooked. By highlighting this intentional language compared to coins of pri…
Grassroots Citizenship at Multiple Scales
Precarious Workers and Collective Efficacy
Scholars of contemporary capitalism have argued that the rise of flexible accumulation and precarious employment has left workers disillusioned and adrift, experiencing an erosion of solidarities and human bonds. In contrast, this study uncovers a sense of collective efficacy where existing scholarship would lead us to least expect it: among workers who are, structurally, among the most marginal and vulnerable. The case examined is a Chicago livi…
Hard Sell
A New Analysis of Antonine Statuary Groups in Roman Spain
This article bridges two fields often kept separate: the study of portrait statues and the study of the statue bases and their texts. However, the statues and their inscribed bases are complementary and necessarily must be studied together. The bases provide information about the titulature of the emperors and the dedicants. Portrait heads have been used in the creation of typologies and identification of regional variations. Too often the portra…
Coinage, Roman Empire
During the Roman imperial period, coinage was modified a number of times through the introduction of new denominations and the debasement of the metals. By studying the coins, we can also learn about the organization of the empire and the increasing concentration of power in the hands of one supreme ruler. The imperial portraits, always identified by name on the obverse, have long assisted in identifying sculpted portraits, but the images on the …
Aerarium
The Aerarium , or treasury, was the depository for money, documents, copies of laws, military standards, and other records of the Roman state. It was located inside the Temple of Saturn in the Forum of Rome, though nearby buildings were probably used for storage and for carrying out some functions of the treasury.
Aerarium militare
The aerarium militare was created by Augustus as a treasury to distribute pensions for soldiers who had completed their military service. After the initial funds given by Augustus, income from the vicesima hereditatum and centesima rerum venalium financed the aerarium militare .
Developing Visual Messages to Support Liquefied Petroleum Gas Use in Intervention Homes in the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (Hapin) Trial in Rural Guatemala
BACKGROUND: Household air pollution adversely affects human health and the environment, yet more than 40% of the world still depends on solid cooking fuels. The House Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) randomized controlled trial is assessing the health effects of a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) stove and 18-month supply of free fuel in 3,200 households in rural Guatemala, India, Peru, and Rwanda. AIMS: We conducted formative research in …
Vosko, L. F. (2019). Disrupting Deportability
Farms, Feces, and Food Safety in Roman Italy
This article examines a crucial and underexplored topic at the intersection of Roman foodways, agriculture, and health by considering the situation on the Roman farm where the extensive use of manure as well as other practices posed serious dangers to food safety. Manure was central to Roman agriculture, and a growing body of evidence for widespread instances of foodborne illnesses can be linked to manuring. We bring together literary and archaeo…
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