Research Statement

My research intersects Roman domestic space (Nevett, 2010) and computational archaeology (Grosman, 2016). Leveraging an interdisciplinary approach which considers ancient texts and contexts, I explore questions surrounding ancient Roman décor, the spatial evolution of domestic architectural forms, and the social function of the ancient house (Wallace-Hadrill, 2018) within the broader context of urban maintenance in the ancient city (Jacobs, 2007). In my Dual-PhD, I explored the impact of computational approaches on Roman domestic space and analysed the history of excavations and archaeological records of the House of Marcus Lucretius in Pompeii (McClinton, 2019) and the Roman Houses on the Caelian Hill in Rome (McClinton, 2024). The outcome of this research has been to create a new state-of-the-art interpretation for both houses, along with a new methodological approach (McClinton, 2025).

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