Nicole Berlin

At Johns Hopkins, Nicole Berlin is a lecturer for the MA in Cultural Heritage Management and MA in Museum Studies programs.

Berlin is an archaeologist and art historian who focuses on the ancient Mediterranean world and is a specialist of Roman houses and mosaics. Berlin is currently the Curator of Collections at the Davis Museum. While at the Davis, she has curated a number of exhibitions, including “Picturing Pompeii: Archaeology and Early Travel Photography” and “Gold, Glass, and Pearls: Ancient Mediterranean Jewelry at the Davis Museum.” Previously, Berlin was the Zanvyl Krieger Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Walters Art Museum. She has held curatorial fellowships at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Johns Hopkins University Archaeological Museum and is a member of the American Excavations at Morgantina (Sicily). Her research has been supported by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection and The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.

Berlin is an active member of CIAO (Committee for the Investigation of Antioch on the Orontes), a consortium of scholars who work on ancient Antioch.

Berlin recently co-authored an article about Antioch’s mosaics for Antioch on-the-Orontes: History, Society, Ecology, and Visual Culture (Cambridge University Press) and is actively researching wall painting, stucco, and mosaic fragments from Antioch now held at the Princeton University Art Museum. She has also published articles on embodied responses to mosaics in the villas of Roman Britain (Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal), the role of archaeological archives in curatorial work (Brepols), and the mosaics of Roman Sicily (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut).

She holds a PhD and MA from Johns Hopkins University, as well as a BA from Northwestern University.