- Ricarda Meisl
- Position:
RCHA Postdoc
- Degree:
Ph.D., New York University
- Bio:
Ricarda Meisl is a Post-Doctoral Associate at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, where her work focuses on the body in ancient Greece with a distinct interest in Classical reception studies and the intersection between aesthetics and political identity. She earned her Ph.D. in Classics from New York University in 2026, and has published on modern political and cultural uses of antiquity. Her publications include a co-authored chapter analyzing the mobilization of ancient Sparta in online white supremacist spaces for Abusing Antiquity?: Classics and the Contemporary Far Right. Most recently, she has been the co-editor of the forthcoming volume Political Nostalgias—Ancient and Medieval Worlds, which also contains her own contribution on the nostalgia for ancient Greek bodies in far-right groups. She is currently working on her first book project, examining the intersection of the body, the Classical ideal, and citizen and class identity in Athenian democracy.
