Kimberly D. Bowes (born 1970) is an American archaeologist who is a professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
[2] She is currently the director of Integrated Studies, a freshman-year intensive liberal arts course for the Benjamin Franklin Scholars at the University of Pennsylvania.
[2] In recent years, a significant shift in both focus and practice transpired in Bowes’ research.
While she is continuously focused on the archaeology and material culture of the Roman and later Roman worlds, her research interests have shifted from late antiquity and the archeologies of religion and elite space to historical economies with a distinct focus on poverty and the lived experience of the poor.
[1] Her forthcoming study on Roman peasants in Italy reflects a greater attention to non-elites in the studies of Roman archaeology and economic history and a shift in her methodology, integrating archaeological and scientific data, anthropological theory and historical economics become.