Carolyn M. Laferrière

Carolyn M. Laferrière was appointed assistant curator of ancient Mediterranean art at the Princeton University Art Museum in 2022, and made associate curator in 2024. At the Museum, she curated the exhibition Roberto Lugo / Orange and Black, featuring the work of the Philadelphia-based ceramic artist who draws inspiration from Greek ceramics. She is also working on a larger exhibition, co-curated with Professor of Art & Archaeology Nathan Arrington, on Greek funerary objects. 

Laferrière is the author of Divine Music in Archaic and Classical Greek Art: Seeing the Songs of the Gods (Cambridge University Press, 2024). She is currently at work on her second book project, which examines the temporalities of style in Neo-Attic reliefs, and is co-editing Phenomenology and the Painted Vase, under contract with the University of Wisconsin Press. She is also the associate editor for the journal Greek and Roman Musical Studies.  

Before coming to the Museum, Laferrière was a postdoctoral scholar and teaching fellow at the Center for the Premodern World and the Department of Classics at the University of Southern California (2020–22). In addition to teaching courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels, she oversaw a lecture series titled Iconoclasm in the Premodern World and played a crucial role in organizing the 2022 exhibition The Silk Roads: Connecting Communities, Markets, and Minds Since Antiquity at USC’s Doheny Memorial Library. Previously, she was a postdoctoral associate with Archaia, Yale University’s program for the interdisciplinary study of the ancient world, and a lecturer in the Departments of the History of Art and Classics. In 2018–19, she curated Sights and Sounds of Ancient Ritual at the Yale University Art Gallery. She earned a BA (summa cum laude) in art history and classics & religion from Carleton University, an MA in classical and near eastern archaeology from the University of British Columbia, and an MA, MPhil, and PhD in history of art from Yale University.