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Elizabeth R. Macaulay
Elizabeth R. Macaulay in 2026
Born	1980 (age 45–46) New York, NY, U.S.
Alma mater	Cornell University (B.A.) St John's College, Oxford (M.St.) St John's College, Oxford (D.Phil.)
Organization	The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Title	Professor; Executive Officer, Liberal Studies

Elizabeth R. Macaulay is an American scholar of archaeology, classics, and liberal studies. She is the Executive Officer of the Liberal Studies Department at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.[1] Macaulay's research areas include Roman gardens, classical, Egyptian, and Islamic architecture; the reception of ancient architecture in the modern world and World's Fairs; and the intersections between archaeology and diplomacy.

Macaulay attended and graduated from the Taft School.[2] She received her undergraduate degree in Classical Archaeology in 2002 from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Her submission The Political Uses of Roman Gardens won the undergraduate thesis prize in the College of Arts and Sciences.[3]

Macaulay continued her Classical Archaeology studies at St. John's College, Oxford between 2003 and 2008, earning her M.St. and D.Phil degrees. There, she continued her research on Roman gardens, culminating in her dissertation The City in Motion: Movement and Space in Roman Architecture and Gardens from 100 BC to AD 150 with Janet DeLaine and Nicholas Purcell as supervisors.[4][5].

Building on the pioneering work of Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski and others that opened new areas of classical archaeological research, Macaulay published the article A commercial nursery near Abu Hummus (Egypt) and re-use of amphoras for the trade in plants[6] in the Journal of Roman Archaeology that demonstrated the existence of large-scale plant nurseries to support these gardens, underscoring the significance of this feature of Roman life. The article explored their political and cultural significance, arguing that gardens were spaces integral to Roman public and private life. The research grew to include research and publications on the distribution and movement of plants across the Roman world,

Macaulay applied the archaeological method to study Bayt Farhi and other important Jewish houses in Ottoman Damascus to understand their construction and decorative practices, leading to the publication Bayt Farhi and the Sephardic Palaces of Ottoman Damascus in the Late 18th and 19th Centuries[7]. Interest in Islamic Architecture led to research on ajamī rooms and the European collectors who purchased and moved them. This led to awareness and research of understudied archaeological objects that had been moved to other countries. Many objects had been used for political and diplomatic purposes to municipalities and universities. This research is featured in Archaeological Ambassadors: A History of Archaeological Gifts in New York[8], which examines Cleopatra’s Needle, the so-called Marathon Stone, the Column of Jerash, and the Temple of Dendur, and the political goals of the gifts and their recipients.

In the books Housing The New Romans: Architectural Reception and the Classical Style in the Modern World, co-edited with Katherine von Stackelberg, and Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham, co-edited with M. McGowan, Macaulay applied her classical expertise to modern cities such as New York, where buildings featuring classical and Egyptian architecture and art offered sophisticated interpretations and expressions worthy of research in the context of a modern city. With Neoclassical and Revivalist decorative styles inadequate, Macaulay and Von Stackelberg proposed the Neo-Antique framework to better account for unique combinations of Classical and Eqyptian elements.[9] Similarly, Macaulay and McGowan, through a curated selection of New York buildings, provide examples of the city's evolving and significant architectural dialogue with Neoclassical, Egypitian, and Near Eastern antiquity.[10][11]

Macaulay's 2026 book Ancient Fantasies and Modern Power: Neo-Antique Architecture at the U.S. World's Fairs, 1893–1915[12] examined the use of classical architecture as a vehicle for cultural expression in late 19th and early 20th-century America. The book researches five major American world's fairs, Chicago in 1893, Nashville in 1897, Omaha in 1898, St. Louis in 1904, and San Francisco in 1915, used Greco-Roman architectural and their use of classical architecture to communicate ideas on modernity and progress in the United States.[13]

Macaulay began teaching at the University of London and the University of Oxford, and has been a member of Wolfson College, Oxford since 2008. She joined the CUNY Graduate Center in 2011 as a visiting professor in the Classics department and the Master of Arts Liberal Studies program in 2012. She became Deputy Executive Officer of the Liberal Studies department in 2012, acting Executive Officer in 2017, and official Executive Officer in 2019.[14] She received her full professorship in 2025, continuing to teach in the Liberal Studies and Classics programs as well as the Ph.D. program in Anthropology-Archaeology, and the Master of Arts programs in Digital Humanities and Islamic Art.

Macaulay serves as a contributing and acquiring editor[15] and serves on the board[16] of Smarthistory, a public scholarship website devoted to art history education. On the Smarthistory site, she has contributed educational essays and videos on classical, Islamic, and Egyptian art. Her contributing editor roles cover Islamic Art and she works with Roman and Islamic art, cultural heritage, and archaeology scholars as an acquiring editor.[17]

• Ancient Fantasies and Modern Power: Neo-Antique Architecture at American World's Fairs, 1893–1915. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2026. doi:10.1017/9781009407090. ISBN 978-1-009-40713-7.

• Archaeological Ambassadors: A History of Archaeological Gifts in New York City. Cham: Springer Palgrave Macmillan. 2024. ISBN 978-3-031-51390-9.

• Antiquity in Gotham: The Ancient Architecture of New York City (First ed.). New York: Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press. 2021. ISBN 978-0-8232-9384-1.

• Bayt Farhi and the Sephardic Palaces of Ottoman Damascus in the Late 18th and 19th Centuries. The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Vol. 72. Boston, MA: American Schools of Oriental Research. 2018. ISBN 978-0-89757-100-5.

• Macaulay, Elizabeth; McGowan, Matthew M., eds. (2018). Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham. New York: Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press. ISBN 978-0-8232-8102-2.

• Macaulay, Elizabeth; von Stackelberg, Katharine T., eds. (2017). Housing the New Romans: Architectural Reception and Classical Style in the Modern World. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-027233-3.

• Bragg, Edward; Hau, Lisa Irene; Macaulay, Elizabeth, eds. (2008). Beyond the Battlefields: New Perspectives on Warfare and Society in the Graeco-Roman World. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars. ISBN 978-1-84718-516-7.

• Schroeder, H., ed. (2007). Crossing Frontiers: The Opportunities and Challenges of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Archaeology: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Oxford, 25-26 June 2005. Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph. Vol. 66. Oxford: School of Archaeology. ISBN 978-0-9549627-7-7.

• "Colosseum, Reception of". Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford University Press. April 2025. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.8994. ISBN 978-0-19-938113-5.

• "Greco-Roman Architecture, Reception of". Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford University Press. May 2024. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.8992. ISBN 978-0-19-938113-5.

• "Column of Trajan, Reception of". Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford University Press. July 2023. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.8996. ISBN 978-0-19-938113-5.

• "Pantheon, Reception of". Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford University Press. July 2023. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.8993. ISBN 978-0-19-938113-5.

• "Roman Gardens and Landscape Architecture". Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Oxford University Press. January 2023. doi:10.1093/obo/9780190922467-0081. ISBN 978-0-19-092246-7.

• "Classical Architecture in Europe and North America since 1700". Art History. Oxford University Press. November 2018. doi:10.1093/obo/9780195389661-0318. ISBN 978-0-19-538966-1.

• "A Letter from the Museum Reviews Editor". American Journal of Archaeology. 126 (3): 329–330. July 2022. doi:10.1086/720862. ISSN 0002-9114.

• With Reilly, Matthew C. (November 2021). "Respice, Adspice, Prospice: The 'Marathon Stone', Lewisohn Stadium, and the Changing Reception of the Classics at City College in the Twentieth Century". Classical Receptions Journal. 13 (4): 457–484. doi:10.1093/crj/claa031. ISSN 1759-5142.

• "Making The Met, 1870–2020: A Universal Museum for the 21st Century". American Journal of Archaeology. 125 (2): 319–330. April 2021. doi:10.3764/aja.125.2.0319. ISSN 0002-9114.

• "J. P. Morgan's Classical Commissions: McKim, Mead & White's Morgan Library and Annex in Context". International Journal of the Classical Tradition. 24 (1): 68–113. 2017. doi:10.1007/s12138-016-0419-5.

• "Reception, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries". Classical Receptions Journal: 447–478. 2016.

• With Simard, J. (2015). "From Jerash to New York: Columns, Archaeology, and Politics at the 1964–65 World's Fair". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 74 (3): 341–362.

• With Burns, R. (2015). "A Monumental Roman Building in Southeast Damascus?". Levant. 47 (1): 93–111.

• "Transforming the Site and Object Reports for a Digital Age: Mentoring Students to Use Digital Technologies in Archaeology and Art History". Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (7). 2015.

• With Kenawi, M.; McKenzie, J. (2012). "A Commercial Nursery Near Abu Hummus, Egypt, and the Reuse of Amphoras in the Roman Plant Trade". Journal of Roman Archaeology. 25: 195–225.

• "Planting Pots at Petra: A Preliminary Study of Ollae Perforatae at the Petra Garden Pool Complex and at the 'Great Temple'". Levant. 38: 159–170. 2006.

• Bakogianni, Anastasia; Hope, Valerie, eds. (2015). "Triumphal Washington: New York City's 'Roman' Arch". War as Spectacle: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed Conflict. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 209–239.

• Gleason, K. L., ed. (2013). "The Use and Reception". The Cultural History of Gardens, Volume I: Ancient Gardens. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 99–118.

• Laurence, R.; Newsome, D., eds. (2011). "The City in Motion". Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space. Oxford University Press. pp. 262–289.

• With Gleason, K. L. (2010). "Introduction". The Gardens of the Ancient Mediterranean: Cultural Exchange Through Horticultural Design, Technology, and Plants. Bollettino di Archeologia Online. pp. 1–8.

• "Imported Exotica: Approaches for the Study of the Ancient Plant Trade". The Gardens of the Ancient Mediterranean: Cultural Exchange Through Horticultural Design, Technology, and Plants. Bollettino di Archeologia Online. 2010. pp. 16–25.

• Bracken, S.; Galdy, A.; Turpin, A., eds. (2009). "Political Museums: Porticos, Gardens and the Public Display of Art in Ancient Rome". Collecting and Dynastic Ambition. Cambridge Scholars. pp. 1–22.

• Bragg, E.; Hau, L. I.; Macaulay, Elizabeth, eds. (2008). "The Fruits of Victory: The Generals, Plants and Power in the Roman World". Beyond the Battlefields: New Perspectives on Warfare and Society in the Graeco-Roman World. Cambridge Scholars. pp. 205–225.

• Frischer, B.; Crawford, J.; De Simone, M., eds. (2007). "Garden Material". The "Horace's Villa" Project, 1997–2003: Report on New Fieldwork and Research. Archeopress. pp. 191–195.

• Morel, J. P.; Juan, J. T.; Matamala, J. C., eds. (2006). "The Role of Ollae Perforatae in Understanding Horticulture, Planting Techniques, Garden Design, and Plant Trade in the Roman World". The Archaeology of Crop Fields and Gardens. EdiPuglia. pp. 207–220.

• Toldinstone Footnotes (March 2024). "The Ancient Architecture of New York City" (Podcast).

• With McGowan, Matthew (September 2018). "Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham" (Podcast). Interviewed by Beth Harpaz. New Books Network.

• "The Gould Memorial Library: A Forgotten Stanford White Gem in the Bronx". The Gotham Center for New York City History. September 2018.

• "House of Neptune and Amphitrite at Herculaneum". Smarthistory.

• "Women in Roman Art". Smarthistory.

• "Assyrian Revival Architecture in New York City". Smarthistory.

• "Assyrian Lamassus in Victorian Britain". Smarthistory.

• "Petra: Rock-cut Façades". Smarthistory.

• "Petra: Urban Metropolis". Smarthistory.

• "Petra: The Rose Red City of the Nabataeans". Smarthistory.

• "The Samanid Mausoleum, Bukhara (Uzbekistan)". Smarthistory.

• "The Umayyads, an Introduction". Smarthistory.

• "The Great Mosque of Damascus". Smarthistory.

• "Mimar Sinan, Mosque of Selim II, Edirne". Smarthistory.

• "The Ardabil Carpet". Smarthistory.

• "Islam, an Introduction". Smarthistory.

• Macaulay, Elizabeth. "The Kaaba". Smarthistory.

• "The Dome of the Rock (Qubbat al-Sakhra)". Smarthistory.

• Macaulay, Elizabeth. "Pyxis of al-Mughira". Smarthistory.

• "The Five Pillars of Islam". Smarthistory.

• "Arts of the Islamic World". Smarthistory.

• Federal Hall National Memorial. Smarthistory. June 2025.

• The New York Obelisk, Cleopatra's Needle. Smarthistory. February 2024.

• With Dr. Beth Harris In Full Color, Ancient Sculpture Reimagined. Smarthistory. November 2022.

• With Dr. Beth Harris Blue at the Center of Empire. Smarthistory. June 2022.

• Dr. Steven Zucker Memorial for a Prince, Sinan's Şehzade Mosque. Smarthistory. September 2022.

• A Jewish House in Damascus, Bayt Farhi. Smarthistory. October 2020.

• Dr. Steven Zucker The Statue of Liberty, Constructing the Light of Democracy. Smarthistory. April 2018.

• "The Temple of Dendur". Smarthistory.

• Dr. Steven Zucker Qa'a: The Damascus Room. Khan Academy.

• Dr. Steven Zucker Alexander Sarcophagus. Khan Academy.

• With Dr. Beth Harris Sinan, Rüstem Pasha Mosque. Khan Academy.

• Dr. Steven Zucker Sinan, Süleymaniye Mosque. Khan Academy.

• Dr. Steven Zucker Hagia Sophia as a Mosque. Khan Academy.

• Dr. Steven Zucker Two Royal Figures (Saljuq Period). Khan Academy.

• With Dr. Steven Zucker Ilkhanid Mihrab. Khan Academy.

• Antiquariangotham Instagram site
• Smarthistory page
• Soundcloud page
• Google Scholar citations
• YouTube page
• CUNY Graduate Center page
• Elizabeth R. Macaulay's site