Elizabeth A. Murphy (Assistant Professor of Roman Archaeology, Florida State University) is an archaeologist studying the social structures and cultural practices of work and labor in the Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean. As such, her research draws on a wide range of perspectives concerning the ancient economy, technology, material culture studies, and crafts production. She is also Director of an archaeological survey project, Landscape Archaeology of Southwest Sardinia Project, which investigates rural lifeways and settlement organization in the Sulcis Region of Sardinia over the longue durée. During her time at UrbNet, she will be working on a book project that analyzes differences in the socio-economic status and well-being of different urban “middling classes” of crafts and trades people in the Roman world by comparing workshop evidence in terms of their working conditions, workshop placement, funerary commemoration, and contribution to local urban economies.