Savannah Marquardt

Savannah Sather Marquardt studies the art and religion of the ancient Mediterranean, with a particular focus on the Greek world and pre-Roman Southern Italy. Her dissertation project, entitled “Chthon: Material Eschatologies of Burial in Colonial Southern Italy (5th-4th c BCE),” explores how funerary art in the culturally heterogeneous colonial poleis of Southern Italy enacted highly localized relationships between the living, the land, and the dead. 

Savannah holds a BA in Classics from Princeton University and an MA from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, and has excavated at various projects in Greece and Italy.  In 2024, she was named a Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow for her work on religion and ethics.