Samantha completed her PhD in Classics at Trinity College Dublin.

Her dissertation studied the connectivity of mathematics and geography in the Hellenistic world, combining textual sources, ancient Greek mathematics, archaeological evidence, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) reconstructions. It reconsidered Eratosthenes’ contribution to ancient geography. Rather than treating his work primarily as an expression of Ptolemaic or imperial ideology, I argued that Eratosthenes developed a theoretical and mathematical approach to the inhabited world. This approach offered a new perspective on how geographical knowledge brought theoretical inquiry into conversation with empirical observation. I plan to turn it into a monograph, From Ideas to Instruments: Eratosthenes’ Geographika in Practice.

She received a research master's degree in Ancient History at Utrecht University (Netherlands).

She completed her Bachelor of Arts at The College of Idaho (USA), where she majored in History and doubled minored in Classics and Journalism.

• Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)

• Utrecht University (Netherlands)

• The College of Idaho (USA)

I am extending my dissertation research with three forthcoming articles and one article under review. My forthcoming articles address Eratosthenes’ concept of boundaries, geographical memory and the reception of the ancient past in video games, and Eratosthenes’ spatial approaches.

Alongside these projects, I am finalizing a co-authored numismatic die study of the Seleukid tetradrachms of Alexander II Zabinas (128–123 BCE) from Antioch.

• Later Roman Empire

• Roman Eastern Empire 300-550 AD

• foreigners and borderlands

• interdisciplinary studies

• ancient science

• GIS

• Eratosthenes

• ancient geography

• numismatics

• ancient ships and sailing