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Julia Wetzel

Email: JuliaWetzel@my.unt.edu

Preferred pronouns: She/Her

Dissertation/thesis title: "The Making of a Princeps: Imperial Virtues in Monumental Propaganda"

Major Professor: Dr. Christopher Fuhrmann

Specialty Areas: I specialize in the presentation of imperial virtues and cosmology in monumental propaganda and architecture in the Classical world as well as architectural history from the Greeks to the end of the Medieval era.

I am a first year PhD candidate here at UNT and I specialize in Ancient and Architectural History. My academic journey started back home in Illinois where I received my BA at Rockford University and then moving to Texas in 2016, where I began and received my MA here at UNT. My academic journey has taken me to Rome for research and Romania for an archaeological dig in between and during degrees. I am also a teaching assistant for the department where I have worked with upper and lower levels of history. As a student I truly enjoy learning and academic curiosity and do my best to encourage the same curiosity in others. I am currently mastering Latin and learning Greek to support my research interests. I sit on the Phi Alpha Theta and the UNT Eagle History Society committees as well.

Additional information:

Conference Papers and Presentations:

  • "Transforming Men into Gods: Mechanisms of Imperial Deification" 11th Annual Texas A&M History Conference, College Station, TX, February 21-22, 2020
  • "Possessing the Qualities of the Divine: An Emperors Deification" AHA Annual Conference, NYC, January 3-6, 2020
  • "Stories in Stone: Revealing Imperial Rome" Society of Biblical Literature, International Conference, Rome, July 1-5, 2019
  • Poster Presenter: Graduate Student Research Symposium, April 5, 2019 at UNT
  • "An Emperor's Worth Enshrined in Stone" Body, Place, and Identity Conference at UNT March 1-2, 2019
  • Midwest Regional Phi Alpha Theta Conference April 23-24, 2015
  • 56th Annual Missouri Conference on History March 17-18, 2014

Publications:

  • Forthcoming: "The Making of a Princeps; Imperial Virtues in Monumental Propaganda," MA Thesis, University of North Texas
  • Forthcoming: "Temples in Ancient Greece," "First Dedication to Sol Invictus," "Dominus et Deus," and "Mithraism in the Roman Empire," Religion and World Civilizations: How Faith Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present, Edited by Dr. Andrew Holt: ABD-CLIO
  • Forthcoming: "Aemelius," and "Lingones," Tacitus Encyclopedia, edited by Dr. Victoria Emma Pagan: Wiley-Blackwell Press.

Professional Affiliations and Memberships:

  • American Historical Association
  • Archaeological Institute of America
  • The Classical Association of the Middle West and South
  • Phi Beta Kappa, Honor Society
  • Phi Alpha Theta, Honor Society
  • Phi Theta Kappa, Honor Society

Field/Research Experience:

  • UNT Study Abroad: Italy (May-June 2018)
  • Cumidava Archeological Research Program, (CARP) Rasnov, Romania (June-July 2016)
  • Rockford University Study Abroad: Rome, Italy (March 2015)