Amy graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009 with her Ph.D. in Ancient History. Her dissertation, entitled “Not Effigies Parvae Populi Romani: Gods, Agency, and Landscape in Mid-Republican Colonization,” focuses on the cults of the Latin and Roman colonies founded in Samnium and Northern Italy between 338 and 177 BCE. She has two Master’s Degrees: one in Ancient History from the University of Pennsylvania and the second in Classics from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where her thesis topic pertained to the survival of militaristic religious rituals throughout the Roman Republic. She received the 2008-09 Oscar Broneer Traveling Fellowship for study at the American Academy in Rome, although her love of Rome began during her studies at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in 1998. Amy also spent a year in Greece in 2005-06 as the Wheeler Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. All of these trips abroad contributed to her study of Mediterranean religious, military, and colonial history, especially the melding of communities through organization of the sacred landscape.

Amy’s true love is teaching; and she has taught a variety of subjects including Latin, Greek History, Roman History, Ancient Historiography, Roman Topography, and Roman Art and Architecture. In May 2010, Amy led students to Rome, Pompeii, and Paestum in the course "The Ancient Roman City."