Parrish Elizabeth Wright received her Ph.D. in Greek and Roman History and her M.A. in Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Michigan. She holds a B.A. in Classics from McGill University. Before coming to South Carolina, she was the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. She is generally interested in studying the history and archaeology of pre-Roman and Roman Italy with the use of both textual and material evidence.