Natalia graduated from Boston College where she earned a degree in Classics and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. While there, she wrote an honors thesis on the Sibyl of Cumae in late Republican and Augustan sources. Natalia entered the Ancient History program in 2008; she has excavated at Pompeii, Italy and Mt. Lykaion, Arkadia, Greece. Her recently-completed dissertation, "Medea and her Children at Corinth and Beyond: Myth, Cult, and History," explores the connections of Medea with Corinth and Perachora via the archaeological and literary records.