University of Texas at Austin
My research addresses the interrelationship of cultic activity around the ancient and late antique Mediterranean through material culture, emphasizing continuity, localization, and the role of memory to navigate artificial disjunctions common to much earlier scholarship, particularly those situating the Roman and eastern Roman (Byzantine) empires as separate entities.
Keywords: architecture, religion(s), ritual movement, procession, transculturation, memory theories, object agency
Personal Website: https://utexas.academia.edu/KearstinJacobson