Biography
Colton received his Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Classics from the University of Winnipeg in 2024, and he is currently working towards an MA degree in Classics in the Ancient History and Material Culture stream at the University of Toronto.
Colton's research interests are wide-ranging: he has written on a variety of topics but broadly he is interested in the social and economic history of the Mediterranean world during the late Hellenistic period/early Roman Empire, as well as Greek and Latin epigraphy.Â
Previously he has worked as a research assistant for Professor Emeritus Wesley M. Stevens’ forthcoming LEXICA LATINA dictionary for mathematical and scientific Latin terms, and he has also been a volunteer with the Lux Project at the University of Winnipeg. With the Lux Project he helped to research and catalogue the Heatherington Collection at the University of Winnipeg and he participated in outreach activities to spread an awareness of antiquity and antiquities collections with local Winnipeg communities. Additionally, he co-authored with Professor Melissa Funke and other student volunteers a chapter on the Lux Project and public scholarship in the recently published volume Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences: Public Scholarship and the Mediterranean World (2025).