Sheira Cohen is Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology in the Department of Classics. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (PhD Classical Art and Archaeology); she was born in Aotearoa New Zealand and studied at both the University of Auckland (BA Anthropology and Ancient History) and University of Sydney (MA Classics). Her work explores questions of how people formed communities and expressed their intersecting identities through their material culture. Her research interests include burial practices, mobility and networks, shepherds and pastoralism, and urbanism. She is an active field archaeologist and currently supervises excavations at the ancient city of Gabii, a city outside Rome. Her fieldwork makes use of cutting-edge digital recording techniques as well as new biochemical and bioarchaeological analyses to learn more about the lives of ordinary people in the past.