Maureen completed the Ph.D. in the Spring of 2024. Her dissertation, titled "Unacknowledged Influence: The Impact of Anikia Juliana’s Cultural Matronage on 6th-Century Constantinople", analyzes the monuments renewed and funded by Anikia Juliana across the city of Constantinople, modern Istanbul, Turkey. Maureen used a digital reconstruction of Juliana's most famous monument, the church of St. Polyeuktos, to demonstrate that it was likely constructed with a dome.
Maureen is an assistant professor of art history at Jacksonville State University.
Late Antique, Byzantine, and Medieval art history
Feminist art history
Somaesthetics
Pedagogy
Digital humanities
2011
- “Bessarion’s Gift to Venice: His Plea on Behalf of Byzantium,” Porphyra, 16, 77-83.
2021
- "For Power and Prestige: The Political Dimensions of Anikia Juliana's Ecclesiastical Matronage in Sixth-Century Constantinople," Securing Power in the Sixth-Century Roman Empire Online Workshop, Cambridge University, UK
2020
- “Anikia Juliana’s Matronage: Tradition and Innovation,” Society of Architectural Historians, Seattle, WA
2016
- “Softening the Blow: Soldier Saints and Penitents at the Panaghia Kosmosoteira,” Southeastern College Art Conference, Roanoke, VA
2014
- “Softening the Blow,” Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia
- “Esther and Ahasuerus: A Diplomatic Plea on Behalf of the Contarini Family,” the Southeastern College Art Conference, Sarasota, Florida
2013
- “For the Glory of Constantine: The Systematic Removal of Images of Fausta.” The Feminist Art History Conference, American University, Washington, D.C.
- “Bessarion’s Gift to Venice: A Plea on Behalf of Byzantium.” The Medieval-Renaissance Forum, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, New Hampshire.
2010
- “Bessarion’s Gift to Venice: His Plea on Behalf of Byzantium.” Associazione Culturale Bisanzio, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy.
2021 Immersive Global Middle Ages Participant, University of Colorado Colorado Springs and Vanderbilt University
2020 Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning Pedagogy Fellowship, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California
2019 Regent’s Fellowship, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California
2018 Regent’s Fellowship, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California
2017 NEH Summer Institute Participant, “Beyond East and West: The Early Modern World, 1400-1800,” Indiana University – Bloomington, June-July 2017
2011 Outstanding Teaching Assistant – University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
2006 Dean’s list – Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia
2005 Dean’s list – Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia