Samantha completed her Bachelor of Arts at The College of Idaho (USA), where she majored in History and doubled minored in Classics and Journalism.

After her undergraduate studies, she pursued a career in Information Technology, where she served in various technology roles. She has assisted as a Help Desk Coordinator, a Project Manager, an Educational Technology Trainer, an IT Bookkeeper, an Assistant to the Director of IT, and as a Business Analyst.

She received a research master's degree in Ancient History at Utrecht University (Netherlands).

Currently, she has a Provost Award at Trinity College Dublin to continue her research as a PhD Candidate in Classics.

She loves to travel, having visited 33 USA states and 13 European countries.

In her free-time, she enjoys long walks, hiking, reading fantasy novels, listening to music, and watching films.

• Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)

• Utrecht University (Netherlands)

• The College of Idaho (USA)

Samantha's PhD research thematically studies the connectivity of oikoumenic conquest and ancient geography in the Hellenistic world in order to coalesce the idea that Eratosthenes’ Geographika changed the empire by anchoring math as a common language and used math as a way to define the physical world. Her research questions the imperial ideology of ‘landscape’ influenced by Alexander’s campaign and conquest, and analyzes how Eratosthenes acted as an ‘Agent of Change’, since he founded the field of geography.

The theoretical and practical applications of my research brings together textual sources, ancient Greek mathematics, and the politics of the Hellenistic world to also study Eratosthenes’ geographical influence on Roman imperial ideologies of empire. By combining literary sources, archaeological evidence, GIS, and applied math, my project is an interdisciplinary research.

Eratosthenes, ancient geography, interdisciplinary studies, including mathematics, archaeology, ancient science, and GIS.

Other research interests include numismatics, ancient ships and sailing, Later Roman Empire, Roman Eastern Empire 300-550 AD, and foreigners and borderlands.