Rate My Professor Julia Feehan

Julia Feehan's MA thesis, titled "An Investigation into the Daily Lives and Relationships of Domestic Enslaved Women in Ancient Rome," is supervised by Hannah Sorscher and Gwynaeth McIntyre. The project examines the social relationships and networks of domestic enslaved women in Republican and Imperial Rome, including their daily lives, gendered expectations, sexuality, and place in the domestic sphere and wider Roman society. Although studies have examined enslaved men and women as a group, there is little research on the relationships between enslaved women themselves and how these shaped their daily lives. Feehan draws from the palliata comedies of Plautus and Terence, Roman law, and material evidence such as graffiti, epigraphy, and tombstones. She addresses biases in literary sources by elite Roman men to illuminate the lived experiences of enslaved women in Roman households. In addition to her postgraduate research, Feehan serves as a Service Representative at AskOtago, the University of Otago's support service in the St David II Building, Dunedin.