Kimberly Bowes
Assistant Professor, Classical Archaeology

120 Goldwin Smith Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-3201
(607) 255-0538
FAX: (607) 254-8899
Email: kdb48@cornell.edu

 

Office Hours, Fall 2007: Monday and Wednesday, 11-12:30, 4:30-5:30 and by appointment

Courses, Fall 2007:

• CLASS 220 Introduction to Classical Archaeology (Fall 2007)
• CLASS 331 Archaeology of Ancient Religion

Areas of Interest
Archaeology of late antiquity; archaeology of religion; domestic architecture; landscape archaeology; later Roman economies.

Education

2002  Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University. Princeton, New Jersey. Department of Art and Archaeology.
1993  Master of Arts with distinction, Courtauld Institute of Art. London.
1992  Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, Williams College. Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Employment           

2004-2007  Fordham University. Assistant Professor, Tenure Track. History of Art. survey.
2002-2004  Yale University. Post-Doctoral Fellow/Lecturer. Whitney Humanities Center/ Department of Classics.
 

Selected Publications 

Forthcoming Private Worship and Public Values: Religious Change in Late Antiquity. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
2007 Between Text and Territory: Survey and Excavation in the terra of San Vincenzo al Volturno. Edited with Richard Hodges and Karen Francis. British School Monographs, Rome/London.
2005 Hispania in Late Antiquity: Current Approaches. Edited with Michael Kulikowski. Brill Press, Leiden.[Review: The American Historical Review, 111.4 (2006), 1238-1239].

2007 “‘Christianization’ and the rural home,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 15.2: 143-170.
2007 “Out of Pirenne’s shadow? Late antique San Vincenzo reconsidered,” in Between Text and Territory: Survey and Excavation in the terra of San Vincenzo al Volturno, eds. Bowes, Hodges and Francis, British School Monographs, Rome/London.
2006 “Building sacred landscapes: Villas and cult,” in Villas tardoantiguas en el Mediterraneo occidental, eds. A. Chavarría, J. Arce, G. P. Brogiolo (Anejos de Archivo Español de Arqueología, 38) C.S.I.C, Madrid: 73-95.
2005  “‘Une coterie espagnole pieuse:’ Christian archaeology and Christian communities in Theodosian Hispania,” in Hispania in Late Antiquity: Current Approaches, eds. Bowes and Kulikowski, Brill Press, Leiden: 189-258.
2005  “Rethinking the later Roman landscape,” with A. Gutteridge, Journal of Roman Archaeology 18: 405-418.
2005  “Personal devotions and private chapels,” in Late Ancient Christianity: A People’s History of Christianity, Vol. 2. ed. V. Burrus, Fortress Press, Philadelphia: 188-210.
2003  “An amphitheater and its afterlives: Survey and excavation in the Durres amphitheater,” Journal of Roman Archaeology 16: 380-394.
2001  “Ivory lists: Consular diptychs, Christian appropriation and polemics of time in Late Antiquity,” Art History 24.3: 338-357.
2001  “ ‘…Nec sedere in villam.’ Villa-churches, rural piety and the Priscillianist controversy,” in Urban Centers and Rural Contexts in Late Antiquity, eds. T. Burns and J. Eadie, Michigan State University Press, East Lansing: 323-348.

Excavations                        

2002-2004  Director. Durres Amphitheater Project, Durres, Albania.
1998-2000  Co-Director. Haluzta Project, Halutza, Israel. Excavation of Nabatean to late antique city. Co-Directors, Haim Goldfus and Benny Arubas.

Selected Fellowships            

2005  Rome Prize in Ancient Studies. Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.
2005  Getty Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship in the History of Art. (Declined)
2000-2003  Woodrow Wilson Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Yale University.

Recent Invited Lectures           

2007  Sheffield University. “Rethinking the Late Roman Villa: Wealth and Power in the Rural Landscape.”
2006  Princeton University, Group for the Study of Late Antiquity and Program in the Ancient World. “Rethinking the Late Roman Villa: Wealth and Power in the Rural Landscape.”
2006  Yale University. “Contesting the Private: Private Worship, Heresy and the Theodosian Code.”
2006  Archaeological Institute of America, Northern New Jersey Chapter. “Fighting the Church: Private Churches and Domestic Piety in the Age of Constantine.”
2006  Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia. II seminario interdisciplinare di storia e archeologia dell’alto medioevo. “Rural bishoprics: Theory and practice.”
2004  Princeton University, Group for the Study of Late Antiquity and Program in the Ancient World. “Possessing the Holy: Private Churches and the Christianization of the late Roman Countryside”

Current Projects

Living Through Late Antiquity: Houses, Empire and Economy. Book project on later Roman villas, wealth and economics.
Sofiana Project: Excavation of a Roman estate village in central Sicly.

Updated 9/20/07