Dr. Miriam A.W. Rothenberg

Miriam A. W. Rothenberg is a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church at the University of Oxford, having received her PhD in Archaeology and the Ancient World from Brown University in 2021. She has worked on Montserrat and Martinique in the Caribbean, and in Italy, Greece, Sudan, England, and various parts of the United States. Rothenberg’s research interests link environmental disasters, landscape, memory, and trauma. Since 2015, she has investigated these questions—and how they relate to the Caribbean’s enduring legacy of slavery and colonialism—in the context of Montserrat’s 30 years of contemporary volcanic crisis.

Her book Community and Corrosion: A Contemporary Archaeology of Montserrat’s Volcanic Crisis is forthcoming from the University Press of Florida. Rothenberg’s broader interests include landscape archaeology, GIS, and spatial analysis; memory, trauma, dark heritage, and ruination; geoarchaeology; social volcanology; digital archaeology; and the intersections between temporality and materiality.