Kim Bowes
Professor of archaeology and ancient history at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent (Princeton UP, 2025), specializing in the lives of non-elite people in the Roman world.
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Mar 12, 2026 • 1h 2min
Kim Bowes, "Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Kim Bowes, archaeologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, studies the lives of ordinary Romans. She explores everyday writing and new archaeology. She traces mixed household incomes, women’s labor, child work, and fragile savings. She uncovers consumer habits, rural smallholders, and the physical toll of survival in a precarious economy.
Mar 12, 2026 • 1h 2min
Kim Bowes, "Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Kim Bowes, professor of archaeology and ancient history who studies non-elite Roman lives. She explores how ordinary Romans hustled to survive: mixed incomes, women’s textile work, child labor, and fragile savings. Archaeology and texts reveal consumption, markets, and bodily evidence of intense labor. The conversation links ancient survival strategies to modern precarity.
