Doctoral Student Fellow
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Classics
Ricarda Meisl is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Classics at NYU. She holds a B.A. in Ancient History and Classical Antiquities (2012), as well as Archaeology (2013), and a M.A. in Ancient History (2016) from the Karl-Franzens University in Graz (Austria). Her research focuses on the body in Classical Greece and the reception of antiquity in art and among the public in the 20th and 21st century. She has forthcoming publications on the use of ancient Greece in gender constructions of white supremacist groups, and as politicized nostalgia, on antiquity in perfume commercials, and on 21stcentury artistic engagements with the (neo-)classical body.
Her dissertation ‘The Fractured Ideal: The Male Body between Representation and Reality in Classical Greece,’ engages with idealized and divergent male bodies in Classical Greece and asks how conceptualizations of bodies negotiated understandings of identity and citizenship. It focuses especially on the lived experiences of citizens to create a more complex vision of ancient bodies and their socio-political meaning.