Kaine Byrne
About:
Pronouns: he/him/his
My path through higher education began at Mills College in Oakland, and after two years there I transferred here to UCSB to major in Classics. After obtaining a BA in Classical Archaeology, I have decided to stay here to pursue a PhD, and shift gears to focus on an emphasis in ancient history. I completed an honors thesis with Dr. Brice Erickson, which closely examined the unique significance Arcadia had to the second century “travel writer” Pausanias in his Periegesis; and Dr. Robert Morstein-Marx oversaw my senior capstone project on the imagines maiorum, or Roman ancestor masks. The latter project was accepted for publication in the journal Historia, and will be available in their 2025 summer volume.
I often say I’m interested in everything, though a broad label for my potential focus in graduate studies is gender and sexuality, particularly male homosociality and homosexuality in the ancient world.
Publications:
- Morstein-Marx, R. and K. Byrne. 2025. “The End of the Wax Imagines.” Historia 74 (3): 329-348 (forthcoming).