Arielle Hardy is a doctoral candidate in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World Graduate Group at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a mediterranean archaeologist and art historian: she has participated in archaeological projects in Italy, Bulgaria, Türkiye, and Greece, and has worked at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis in California, and the Penn Museum in Philadelphia, among other galleries and fine art collections. At Penn, she was a Charles Williams Graduate Fellow from 2020–2021 and 2022–2023, and in 2024 she held a Career Exploration Fellowship at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy. She is a Kolb Society Fellow, and served on the board of the Penn Museum Graduate Advisory Council for the past four years. Most recently, she held a Penn Museum Assistantship to help establish the Gallery Ambassador program, which will enable Penn undergraduates to interact with the public in a professional capacity as museum employees. Arielle received the Fulbright Greece-Turkey Joint Research Award and will be based in Athens and Istanbul, respectively. In Greece, she will be hosted by Dimitris Plantzos, Professor of Classical Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and be an Associate Fellow of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. In Türkiye, she will be hosted by Matthew Harpster, Assistant Professor of Archaeology and History of Art at Koç Üniversitesi. Her time in Greece and Türkiye will support her dissertation research, which takes large Hellenistic period (4th–1st centuries BCE) altars as its subject, and considers formal and functional shifts over time. These altars were sumptuously decorated cultic structures; they speak to cross-cultural artistic influence, regional variations in sacrificial ritual, and diachronic changes in the experience and enactment of religious praxis.