Cornell University
Intercollege Program
 

ARCHAEOLOGY  CORE  FACULTY
     
 
Kimberly Bowes
Assistant Professor,
Classics Department

kdb48@cornell.edu
607.255.0538
120 Goldwin Smith Hall
Education
  • Princeton University, Department of Art and Archaeology, Ph.D. 2002
  • Courtauld Institute of Art, London, MA with distinction 1993
  • Williams College, BA suma cum laude 1992
Teaching Experience
  • Cornell University — Assistant Professor 2007-present
  • Fordham University — Assistant Professor 2004-2007
  • Yale University — Lecturer/Postdoctoral Fellow 2002-2004
 
Research Interests
Archaeology of late antiquity; archaeology of religion; domestic architecture; landscape archaeology; later Roman economies
 
Research Experience (current)
Roman Peasant Project. Cinigiano, Tuscany. In collaboration with the Universita di Siena/Grosseto.
Philosophiana Project. Sicily. In collaboration with the Universita di Messina and the Soprintendenza di Caltanisetta.
 
Selected Recent Publications
2008 Private Worship and Public Values: Religious Change in Late Antiquity. Cambridge University Press.
2008 "Early Christian Archaeology: A State of the Field," Religion Compass 2.4: 575-619.
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.
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. Chavarr’a, J. Arce, G. P. Brogiolo (Anejos de Archivo Espa–ol de Arqueolog’a, 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.
2005 Hispania in Late Antiquity: Current Approaches. Edited with Michael Kulikowski. Brill Press, Leiden. [Review: The American Historical Review, 111.4 (2006), 1238-1239].
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.