Rebecca Levitan

Rebecca Levitan is an art historian and archaeologist, specializing in ancient Mediterranean sculpture and its afterlives. She joined the Classics Department at King's College London in 2023 after completing a PhD in the History of Art Department at University of California, Berkeley. Levitan has held fellowships at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the American Academy in Rome, and the British School at Rome. These opportunities also supported archaeological fieldwork in Greece and Italy and further research in Turkey and Jordan. At the ASCSA, Rebecca is working on her first monograph, which focuses on a Hellenistic sculptural type known as “the Pasquino Group” and its Roman marble copies, including their long afterlives. She is also collaborating with a small international team on an archaeological project on Naxos related to colossal sculpture in the Archaic Mediterranean.