Dr. des. Catherine Keane

Dr. des. Catherine Keane is a postdoctoral researcher in late antique archaeology and Byzantine art history. In particular, her focus is on the economic roles of the Byzantine church, investigating archaeological contexts in which agricultural workshops and other productive facilities were co-located with ecclesiastical complexes. Her other projects address late antique crises and damage, and theoretical applications of resilience theory and anthropology of agency.

Forschungsschwerpunkte
Late antique archaeology and Byzantine art history in Cyprus, Anatolia, Aegean, and the Levant.
Economy and trade networks in the eastern Mediterranean.
Religious development from antiquity to the Byzantine period, church architecture, pilgrimage, and monasteries.
Agricultural and productive archaeology, domestic architecture.
Roman and Byzantine urban landscape use and long-term settlement patterns.

Curriculum Vitae
2024-2025
Resident Fellowship, Center for Advanced Studies
"Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages"
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany

2023-2024
Qualifizierungsstelle, wissenschaftlicher Kompetenzen (Postdoc)
Marburg University Research Academy (MARA)
Fachgebiet Christliche Archäologie und Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany

2022–2023
Postdoctoral Fellowship
Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), Istanbul, Turkey

2014–2021
Ph.D., Spätantike und Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte; Klassische Archäologie
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany
“More than a church: The archaeology of late antique basilicas and economic production in Cyprus”
Advisors: Prof. Dr. Franz A. Bauer; Prof. Dr. Albrecht Berger

2016-2019
Archaeological fieldwork
Supervisor: Archaeological fieldwork in Katalymmata ton Plakoton, Cyprus
Department of Antiquities of Cyprus

2016-2017
Seminar instructor, LMU Munich – Cyprus in late antiquity
Graduate seminar (with Cyprus excursion February 2017)

2015–2016
Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, New York, NY (Dr. Holger Klein)

2013–2014
Visiting Research Training, Ancient Greek, University of Edinburgh, UK

2012–2013
M.Sc., Mediterranean Archaeology
University of Edinburgh, UK
“The Archaeology of Christianization in Pamphylia”
Advisors: Dr. James Crow; Dr. John Bintliff

2008–2012
B.A., Anthropology, Classical Archaeology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
“Etruscan Domestic Architecture”
Advisors: Dr. Simon Stoddart, University of Cambridge; Dr. Timothy Pauketat,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Stipendien/Preise

2022
Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute/Council of American Overseas Research Centers Research Fellowship
Nicosia, Cyprus

2022
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute, Bradley University
“Middle East Christianity: A Historic and Living Tradition”

Felderfahrung

2016-2019
Archaeological fieldwork
Supervisor: Archaeological fieldwork in Katalymmata ton Plakoton, Cyprus
Department of Antiquities of Cyprus

2011
Archaeological fieldwork
Carnuntum Archaeological Park, Austria
Commercial excavation of Roman amphitheatre

2011
Archaeological fieldwork
Harewood House, Leeds, UK (14th century manor)
University of York

2010
Archaeological fieldwork
Middle Mississippian/Early Cahokian Colony at Little Bluff, Trempealeau, WI, USA
UIUC Mississippian Initiative Archaeological Field School Program

Tagungen (Auswahl)

2023
7th Research Network, Socio-Ecological Approaches to the History and Archaeology of Anatolia, (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Istanbul, Climate Change and History Research Initiative, and ANAMED):
“Resilience and the Economic Role of the Church in the Eastern Mediterranean”

2023
PhD course (The Aftermath of Urban Crises), Aarhus University:
“Polycrisis in the 6th-9th century eastern Mediterranean: Resilience and the “Dark Ages"

2022
Symposium on Olive Oil and Wine Production in the Aegean and Mediterranean in Antiquity Rural Settlements, Urban Centers and Trade, Bodrum, Turkey:
“Beyond local sustenance: Ecclesiastical complexes in Late Antique Cyprus and Southern Anatolia”

2022
24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies (Venice – Padua):
 “Ecclesiastical participation in local economies: An archaeological perspective from Cyprus"

2022
Organizer and session presider, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI: “Byzantium Bizarre: Storytelling through sacred spaces”

2022
American Institute of Archaeology /Society for Classical Studies, Joint Annual Meeting:
“Recovery after crisis: Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean in the 7th and 8th centuries”

2021
Invited guest lecturer in Medieval Studies program (20th anniversary), University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign:
Workshop – Excavating in the eastern Mediterranean: Myths and realities
Seminar – Late antique ecclesiastical agro-processing in the Mediterranean

2019
Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology Conference (PoCA), Berlin
“Re-examining urban shifts in 7th/8th century Cyprus: continuity and transformation”

2018
Center for Advanced Studies, LMU, Munich: Topographies in Motion
“Re-examining urban shifts in 6th/7th century Cyprus"

2015
University of Oxford, Oxford University Byzantine Society XVIIth International Graduate Conference: Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Byzantine World, 300-1500 CE:
“Architectural history and settlement patterns of Christianity in Pamphylia”

2015
American Research Center, Sofia, Bulgaria, International Medieval Conference:
Town and Country in the Byzantine World: Social and Economic Perspectives

2014-2017
LMU Biannual Doctoral Colloquia, St. Leonhard in Pitztal, Austria

·         Christianization in Pamphylia

·         Wahrnehmung in der spätantiken Stadt: Neue Sichtweisen

·         Subterranean Cyprus: Church crypts and baptisteries

Publikationen
Forthcoming, late 2023/early 2024
More than a church: Late antique ecclesiastical complexes in Cyprus
Book manuscript, Brill Publishing, Late Antique Archaeology (Supplementary Series)
In print, 2023
“Beyond local sustenance: Ecclesiastical complexes in late antique Cyprus and southern Anatolia”
Conference proceedings of the Symposium on Olive Oil and Wine Production in the Aegean and Mediterranean in Antiquity Rural Settlements, Urban Centers and Trade, Bodrum, Turkey.
Forthcoming, 2024
“The ecclesiastical landscape of Nea Paphos”
Proceedings, Nea Paphos Conference III. Another acropolis of Paphos: Fabrika Hill and beyond: Archaeological and historical studies, Institut français d’Athènes.

2021
“Ecclesiastical economies: Examining the integration of churches in maritime topographies of late antique Cyprus” Religions 12, no. 11: 989. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12110989
(Special issue: Unlocking Sacred Landscapes)
In print
“Re-examining urban shifts in 7th/8th century Cyprus: continuity and transformation” Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology (PoCA) Conference 2019 proceedings (Logos Verlag, ed. S. Schmid).

Newsletter articles

·         “This is fine (?): Navigating crisis with resilience”, ANAMED Blog (Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations), March 2023.

·         “More than a church: Late antique ecclesiastical complexes in Cyprus” CAARI Newsflash, November 2022.

Translation and proofreading

2019
Translation, German to English: Altmann, J. (2010), Joannes Eleemon: Ein vergessener Wohltäter.

2018
Proofreading, Vogiatzi, M. (2019), Byzantine Commentaries on Aristotle’s Rhetoric. Anonymous and Stephanus, In Artem Rhetoricam Commentaria (De Gruyter).

2015
Proofreading, S. Feist (ed.), (2020) colloquium proceedings, Transforming Sacred Spaces: New approaches to Byzantine ecclesiastical architecture.

Editorial contribution

2022 Editorial board (Monograph series), American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)

2022-2023 Editorial board, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies

2022-2023 Specialist editor and copy editor, Rosetta Journal Committee

2016 Specialist Editor, Diogenes (Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern Greek Studies)

Professional memberships:
European Association of Archaeologists
American Institute of Archaeology / Society for Classical Studies

Byzantine Studies Association of North America

Royal Archaeological Institute, London
American Society of Overseas Research
Chartered Institute for Archaeologists
Mediävistenverband e.V.
Spätantike und Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte Verein
Südosteuropa Gesellschaft
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Christliche Archäologie

Links

ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-2338-7346
Academia.edu: uni-marburg1.academia.edu/CatherineKeane