Faculty

Robyn Le Blanc

Assistant Professor (Roman archaeology, Roman provinces, numismatics)
Email: rlleblan@uncg.edu
Office: 1109 MHRA
Phone: no direct line; leave message on general office phone: 336-334-5214
At UNCG Since: 2014

Education

Ph.D.  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill – 2016
M.A.   University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill – 2010
B.A.    George Washington University – 2008

 

Research Interests

Dr. Le Blanc specializes in the archaeology and coinage of the Roman provinces. Her current research explores Roman civic symbols, local myths, and foundation imagery on the coinage of provincial cities. She is also developing projects on mythological female founders in the Roman Empire, and on Roman money banks. In 2021-2022 Dr. Le Blanc was the Kershaw Lecturer in Near East Archaeology for the Archaeological Institute of America, and she has recently given invited talks for the American Numismatic Society and the Oxford Numismatic Society. Dr. Le Blanc has participated in excavations in Israel, England, and Montenegro and is co-director of WIRE: Women in the Roman East (see more at wireproject.org). In summer 2024, she will co-direct the UNCG in Rome study tour.

 

Selected Publications

  • “Religious Architecture: the monuments and sanctuaries,” The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra, R. Raja (ed.), Oxford, forthcoming.
  • “The Marsyas of the Forum Motif on Coins from Roman Mesopotamia and Osrhoene.” The Numismatic Chronicle 180 (2020): 157–179, pls.30–31.
  • “The Glass of Islamic Ashkelon.” Ashkelon 8: The Islamic and Crusader Periods, T. Hoffman (ed.), Eisenbrauns, 575–628 (2019).
  •  “Founders and Foundation Myths on Civic Coins from Late Hellenistic and Roman Ascalon (Israel).” Israel Numismatic Research 12 (2017): 71-98.
  •  Boehm, R., D. Master and R. Le Blanc. “The Basilica, Bouleuterion, and Civic Center of Ashkelon,” American Journal of Archaeology 120/2 (2016): 271-324.

Selected Awards and Honors

  • Kershaw Lecturer in Near Eastern Archaeology, Archaeological Institute of America, 2021–2022.
  • James Y. Joyner Award for Teaching Excellence (junior), UNCG, 2020.
  • PI, “Memory and Landscapes,” (with Linda Stine), Transforming the Humanities at a Minority Serving Institution: Funding for Inter-disciplinary Faculty Student Groups, UNCG and Mellon Foundation, 2019–2020.
  • Martin Price Fund for Ancient Greek Numismatics, Royal Numismatic Society, 2018.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Institute, “Textual Data and Digital Texts in the Undergraduate Classroom,” 2018-2019.
  • Digital Partners Grant, UNCG, 2018-2019.

Full CV

Links

WIRE: Women in the Roman East (wireproject.org)

Personal website (www.robynleblanc.com)