Benjamin J. Young is a historian of art and photography.

Serwint teaches ancient art and archaeology with a focus on the cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean basin. She received her doctorate in classical archaeology from Princeton University in 1987 and a master's from the same institution in 1983. Prior to that she received a master's in art history (ancient) from the University of Chicago in 1977, and her bachelor's in classics (ancient Greek) was awarded in 1973 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.