Associate Professor Penelope Davies earned her PhD in Classical Archaeology from Yale University in 1994. Her work focuses primarily on public monuments of Rome and their propagandistic functions. She was the recipient of a Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1997-8, and is author of Death and the Emperor: Roman Imperial Funerary Monuments from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius (Cambridge University Press 2000). She is currently working on a book on the art and architecture of the Roman Republic.