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Nastasya Kosygina is currently a PhD candidate in visual studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her dissertation, titled “Palimpsestuous Urbanism: Infrastructure and the Watery Underwriting of Late Antique Rome,” addresses geology, urban planning, and representation of water in the city of Rome during the late imperial and early medieval periods (circa third to seventh century, CE). In her work, she is particularly interested in the lived experiences of marginalized and subaltern individuals and communities—the impoverished, the unhoused, and the enslaved—who had intimate, first-hand knowledge of the landscape of volcanic ash and water from and upon which the city of Rome is constructed.
RCC Research Project: Old Rome’s Floods and New Rome’s Earthquakes