Katrina Kuxhausen

University of California Los Angeles

Heinrich Schliemann Fellow

Research Topic: Monuments in Motion: Object Itineraries and the Reuse of Sacred Architecture in Roman Greece

Katrina Kuxhausen-DeRose is a PhD candidate in Archaeology at UCLA, studying material reuse, itinerancy, memory, sacred space, and cross-cultural exchange between ancient Greece and Rome. She attended the University of Arizona, where she graduated with a BA in Classics, History, and Anthropology in 2021 and an MA in Classics in 2023. She has excavated at Campo della Fiera (Orvieto, Italy), Poggio del Molina (Populonia, Italy), Valle Gianni (Lake Bolsena, Italy), the Sanctuary of Zeus and Pan at Mt. Lykaion (Arcadia, Greece), Masis Blur (Yerevan, Armenia), and the Agora (Athens, Greece). Additionally, she has participated in cultural heritage projects such as the Parrhasian Heritage Park in Arcadia and the Gefyra program in Laconia. Recently, she contributed to the monograph, Weaving Dreams: Kilims from Geraki, Laconia, a catalogue of traditional weavings published by the Benaki Museum and edited by Sharon Gerstel and Sofia Pitouli. Using digital archaeology methods, she has worked to promote sustainable tourism and improve accessibility to information by publishing site drawings, trail maps, and 3D models of artifacts online. Now, as a fellow in ASCSA’s Regular Member program, she will collect comparative site data, conduct archival research on legacy excavation materials, and begin spatial reconstruction for her dissertation examining the movement and reuse of sacred monuments in Roman Greece.