Rate My Professor Janette McWilliam

McWilliam's research interests encompass ancient material culture, Greek and Roman social, cultural, and political history, Roman children and women, Roman art, Roman law, ancient medicine, Latin epigraphy, cultural identities in the ancient world, and museum studies. Current projects focus on Roman children, pedagogical approaches to classical languages, and First World War antiquities collections in Queensland. She has curated numerous exhibitions at the R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum, such as Cyprus: An Island and a People (2015), A Study in Stone (2014), and Wondrous Machines: Hero of Alexandria's Ancient Automata (2022). Key publications include the co-edited volume Cyprus: An Island and a People (2015); book chapters "Children in Roman religion and ritual" (2021) in Children in Antiquity and "The socialization of Roman children" (2013) in The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World; and journal articles "Family perpetrated and condoned violence in the education of male Greco-Roman children" (2023) in the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, "Collecting antiquities in wartime: The First World War Antiquities (Queensland) Project" (2024) in the Journal of the History of Collections, and "Vitalis or Vitalinis? A Roman grave-marker for an eight-year-old girl" (2018) in Antichthon. McWilliam directs international museum internships and field schools in Italy, fostering hands-on engagement with classical antiquities.