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Isabel °­Ã¶²õ³Ù±ð°ù (Ph.D. Harvard) specializes in the history and literature of the Roman Republic and early Empire. She is particularly interested in how texts (especially works of literary prose and inscriptions) mediate questions of Roman identity, religious practice, and criminal behavior. Her first book, Stealing from the Gods: Temple Robbery in the Roman Imagination (University of Michigan Press, 2026), investigates how authors portray temple robbers as isolated and irredeemably greedy individuals and why these grotesque invective creations are so common in a diverse range of texts. She has also written on topics such as the use of mythological motifs in Roman political invective, flamingo sacrifice in Roman religion, nymph worship in Roman Britain, and the rhetoric of Roman imperial expansion. She is currently working on two book-length projects, one on the goddess Nemesis and one on appeals to divine justice in Roman inscriptions and oratorical texts. Her work has been supported by the Fondation Hardt in VandÅ“uvres, Switzerland, the Margo Tytus Summer Residency program at the University of Cincinnati, and the Center for Humanities and the Arts at Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô Boulder.

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