Assistant Professor of History
Ancient Mediterranean and Ancient Near East
B.A.- Rutgers College
M.A. Rutgers University- College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D-. City University of New York-Graduate Center
Phone: 609-771-2341
Email: goldmanr@tcnj.edu
Office: Social Sciences 207
Biography
Dr. Rachael Goldman is a historian of the Ancient Mediterranean and Ancient Near East. She has published on the subject of ancient color and social and cultural history. She has won awards for her work from the New York Classical Club, The College Art Association, and The Association of Greek and Latin Epigraphers. Her recent book “Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome” was published by Gorgias Press, 2013. Another article, “The Multicolored World of the Romans” is forthcoming from the journal Glotta in 2015. Her current research involves the color analysis of mosaics in Galilean Synagogues and an edited volume of essays on Color in an Ancient Global World.