Lela Urquhart

Lela Urquhart is Assistant Professor in the History department at Georgia State University. She won a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize in 2009, and spent her year at the Academy finishing her dissertation on Colonial Religion and Indigenous Society in the Western Mediterranean: Impact, Interactions, and Integrations (advised by Ian Morris, Richard Martin, Josh Ober, and Giovanna Ceserani). Her research interests include religious architecture, colonization and colonialism, Phoenician and Punic archaeology, ethnic identity, and the historiographic tradition.