Dr Roko Rumora

Roko Rumora is Senior Curator of Mediterranean Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum, holding a linked appointment in the Faculty of Classics. He is responsible for the care, research, and interpretation of collections that extend from the Greek and Roman world to the Levant, South Arabia, Mesopotamia, and Iran.

Roko is an art historian specialising in Roman sculpture from Anatolia and the eastern Roman Empire. His research asks how statues worked in public spaces: how they were displayed, repaired, maintained, and understood. He is particularly interested in statue repairs, display architecture, and the ways ancient viewers made meaning from objects through processes of visual comparison.

Before coming to Cambridge, Roko was Assistant Curator of Ancient Art at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, where he was responsible for a cross-cultural reinstallation of the ancient collections. His previous curatorial work includes collaborative exhibitions on the archaeological heritage of Türkiye, Lebanon, Libya, and the Balkans. At the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, he co-curated The Horse and Rider from Albania (2023) and the upcoming exhibition Anatolia and the Classical World: From Highlands to Islands (2027). Additionally, at the University of Chicago’s ISAC Museum, he co-curated Making Sense of Marbles: Roman Sculpture at the OI (2022), an exhibition exploring the historical consequences of lost archaeological provenance.

Born and raised in Croatia, Roko holds a BA in Art History from Columbia University (2014) and a PhD in Art History from the University of Chicago (2025).