Image: The University of Georgia Department of Classics welcomes new Assistant Professor of Classics Jordan Pickett. Jordan received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Program in the Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean World in 2015. His dissertation, “Water after Antiquity in the Eastern Mediterranean: the Afterlives of Roman Hydraulic Infrastructure (300-800 CE),” reflects his many research interests in cities and urban history, ancient infrastructure, the environment, and the ancient economy.