Emily "Sal" Salamanca

I am a current Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. I specialize in ancient political thought and its reception. My dissertation explores sumptuary legislation as a nexus between wealth, popular politics, and aesthetics in ancient Athens, republican Rome, and Renaissance Venice. My additional research projects have included investigations of the rehabilitative effects of temporary political exclusion in Athens and Rome and revolutionary rhetoric in Renaissance Florence.

My research has been supported by the University Center for Human Values.

Before coming to Princeton, I received my dual B.A. in Political Science and Italian Studies from the University of Chicago.

I am originally from Lexington, Kentucky.