Adam Rabinowitz, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Classics, assistant director of the Institute of Classical Archaeology and a Planet Texas 2050 researcher. He is a 2002 Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and a field archaeologist with twenty-five years of archaeological field experience at Greek, Roman, and Byzantine sites in Italy, England, Israel, Tunisia, and Ukraine. His archaeological research focuses on daily life, domestic architecture, commensal practices and the lived experience of culture contact.