About Katherine

Current Position:

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow – The Cyprus Institute (Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Center)

EIDOS of a City: simulating the collapse and resilience of ancient Eastern Mediterranean urban environments via agent based modelling

Katherine is a Roman archaeologist, computational archaeologist, and field archaeologist. In 2019 she was awarded the PhD in archaeology from the University of Southampton where she worked under the direction of Prof. Simon Keay. Katherine’s interests are focused around ancient urbanism, urban religious landscapes, pedestrian/traffic modelling, agent-based modelling, and network analysis. Her doctoral thesis focused upon modelling religious processions at Ostia Antica, Rome’s ancient port, during the late 2nd c. AD. Currently she is chair of the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) Standing Committee as well as being the current Editor-In-Chief of the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal (TRAJ).

Katherine grew up in the Pacific Northwest of the US. She undertook her undergraduate degree at St. Olaf College in Minnesota in 2007–2011, completing a triple major in English, Latin, and Medieval Studies. Participating in her first archaeological excavation at Ostia while in undergrad instilled a passion for pursing archaeology at the graduate level. She undertook her first MA in Classical Archaeology at the University of British Columbia in 2011–2013. A second MA was completed at the University of Haifa in Maritime Civilizations in 2013–2014, where she specialised in maritime archaeology.