Dr Sophie Hay is an archaeologist and worked on the Insula I.9 Pompeii Project for the British School at Rome in collaboration with The University of Reading. She is currently working at the University of Cambridge as a Post-doctoral Research Associate on a Pompeii project ― The Bar of Amarantus and his Neighbours ― that focuses on the publication of the excavations of the Insula I.9 Project. She was awarded a doctorate from the University of Southampton based on the results of her fieldwork in Pompeii; designing and implementing a system to record standing buildings. This then formed the basis for the chronological analysis of a block of houses with a view to understanding the development of a group of non-elite houses through time. She has project managed over one hundred geophysical surveys and has worked on a vast number of archaeological sites in Italy as well as further afield in Sudan, Libya, Turkey and Tunisia.
For Sophie, watching the individuals she has studied for so long coming to life for this project has been an incredible experience, and she cannot wait to share her work and passion for Pompeii with students and teachers. Any photographs in the materials or on the website, unless otherwise attributed, belong to Sophie and we are very grateful for their use.