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Emma-Jayne Graham is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at The Open University. Her research specialisms include material religion, votive offerings, sensory archaeology, Roman mortuary practices, and experiences of ancient disability and impairment. She is General Editor for a new book series with Routledge focused on Studies in Ancient Disabilities, and co-produces The Votives Project website and network with Jessica Hughes.

Emma-Jayne’s recent publications include Reassembling Religion in Roman Italy (Routledge, 2021), which draws on assemblage theory, posthuman perspectives, and new materialism to explore the ways in which lived religion was produced and experienced in Roman Italy. Other relevant publications include ‘Hand in hand: Rethinking anatomical votives as material things’, in Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Approaching Religious Transformations from Archaeology, History and Classics (De Gruyter, 2020, edited by V. Gasparini et al.), Bodies of Evidence: Ancient Anatomical Votives Past, Present and Future (Routledge, 2017, co-edited with Jane Draycott), and ‘Babes in arms? Sensory dissonance and the ambiguities of votive objects’ in Senses of the Empire: Multisensory Approaches to Roman Culture (Routledge, 2017, edited by Eleanor Betts).

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