Elizabeth Barringer Fentress is a Roman archaeologist who specialises in Italy and North Africa.
She has collaborated on the excavation of numerous sites in the Western Mediterranean and published their results.
[3] In 2003, she set up Fasti Online, an international database of Mediterranean archaeological excavation.
Her primary concentration has been on the application of archaeology to history of the longue durée in both the Italian peninsula and the countries of North Africa.
Her work has focused on social and economic aspects of Roman landscapes of all periods, with special regard to the interaction between Roman and non-Roman peoples at their points of contact in areas such as slave markets, the limes, urban areas like Cosa in Italy and Meninx, Utica, Sétif and Volubilis in North Africa and an imperial Villa, Villa Magna, in Italy.