Trinity Jackman graduated from Columbia and received a Ph.D. in classical archaeology from Stanford, where she was an assistant director of Stanford’s excavations on the Acropolis of Monte Polizzo, an Iron Age site in western Sicily. She went on to a post-doctoral position at Columbia University and until June 2008 was a visiting assistant professor in their history department. Now at the Royal Ontario Museum, she is working on a book on late antiquity.