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Sabrina Higgins

Associate Professor, Global Humanities & Archaeology

Hellenic Studies Professor in Aegean and Mediterranean Societies & Cultures

 shiggins@sfu.ca

 AQ 6201

 

 

Profile

Research interests

  • Late Antique Studies
  • Archaeology
  • Art History
  • Marian Studies
  • Religious Transformation
  • Sacred Landscapes
  • Church History
  • Early Christianity
  • Gender and Agency Theory
  • Late Antique Monasticism
  • Eastern Christianity
  • Material Culture of Religion

Education

  • PhD, Religious Studies, University of Ottawa
  • MA, Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, University of British Columbia
  • BA (honours), Classics and Religious Studies, University of Ottawa

Biography

I am a field archaeologist and art historian cross appointed between the Departments of Global Humanities and Archaeology.  My work is inherently multidisciplinary, intersecting the fields of Late Antique Studies, Archaeology, Religious Studies, Art History, Papyrology, and Gender Studies. At present, my research is largely situated in the field of Marian studies, specifically the ways in which we can use material culture to understand the development and spread of the early cult of the Virgin Mary in Egypt. More broadly, I am also interested in the ways in which art and space interact within Late-Antique Christian religious structures and the manner in which art is used by socially marginalized populations to exert agency. In addition to these research interests, I maintain three active field projects, including the Philae Temple Graffiti Project and The Ibis Hypogeum Graffiti Project, North Abydos (both in Egypt), as well as the excavations of the late antique site at Golemo Gradi拧te in North Macedonia. I am also the co-founder of two digital humanities projects, Peopling the Past and the Digital Mary Project.

Publications

Edited Volumes

  • 2025. C.A.M. Gardner and S.C. Higgins (eds), Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences: Public Scholarship and the Mediterranean World (London, forthcoming).

Journal articles and book chapters

  • R. B茅langer Sarrazin, J.H.F. Dijkstra, N. Hedley, and S.C. Higgins, 鈥楴ew Greek Inscriptions from Philae鈥�, Tyche (forthcoming), (2025) ms. of 11 pp.*
  • S.C. Higgins and C.A.M. Gardner, 鈥業ntroduction: Our Collective Responsibility to the Future of the Ancient Past鈥�, in C.A.M. Gardner and S.C. Higgins (eds), Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences: Public Scholarship and the Mediterranean World (London, forthcoming), (2025) ms. of 11 pp.
  • S.C. Higgins, A. Cama帽o, and M.R. Laurence, 鈥楻eimagining the Digital Mary Project as a Counter-Practice Within/Against the Neoliberal University鈥�, in C.A.M. Gardner and S.C. Higgins (eds), Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences: Public Scholarship and the Mediterranean World (London, forthcoming), (2025) ms. of 18 pp.
  • C. Johnston, S.C. Higgins, M. Daniels, and V. Austen, 鈥楾he Peopling the Past Project: Multivocality and Multimodality in Teaching Ancient History鈥�, in C.A.M. Gardner and S.C. Higgins (eds), Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences: Public Scholarship and the Mediterranean World (London, forthcoming), (2025) ms. of 18 pp. + 3 Figs.
  • R. B茅langer Sarrazin, J.H.F. Dijkstra, N. Hedley, and S.C. Higgins, 鈥楶icturing Religion: The Philae Temple Graffiti Project鈥�,&苍产蝉辫;in J. Hamilton (ed.), Making and Experiencing Graffiti in Ancient and Late Antique Egypt and Sudan (Leiden, forthcoming), (2025) ms. of 14 pp. + 16 Figs.*

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  • R. B茅langer Sarrazin, J.H.F. Dijkstra, L. Duchesne, N. Hedley, S.C. Higgins, and J. Westerfeld, 鈥楻evealing Monastic Life: The Ibis Hypogeum Graffiti Project, North Abydos鈥�, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 59 (2023) 17-33.*
  • R. B茅langer Sarrazin, J.H.F. Dijkstra, N. Hedley, and S.C. Higgins 鈥榃ere the Last Priests of Philae Trilingual?鈥�, Enchoria 37 (2020-2023) 1-4.*
  • S.C. Higgins, C.A.M. Gardner, and M. Funke, 鈥楶odcasting the Ancient Greek and Roman World鈥�, Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook (2022) DOI: .
  • R. B茅langer Sarrazin, J.H.F. Dijkstra, N. Hedley, and S.C. Higgins, 鈥楩igures That Matter: The Graffiti of the Isis Temple at Philae鈥�, Egyptian Archaeology 60 (2022) 36-40.*
  • 鈥楽t. Thecla and the Art of her Pilgrims: Towards an Autonomous Feminine Aesthetic Praxis鈥�,&苍产蝉辫;Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies 11 (2019) 65-80.
  • and M. Daniels, 鈥楢lternate Academics: Moving beyond the Academy鈥�, Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 3 (2015) 238-46.
  • 鈥楻iding into Late Antiquity: A Thracian Rider Relief from Golemo Gradi拧te, Konjuh鈥�, in M. Rakocija (ed.), Ni拧 and Byzantium: The Collection of Scientific Works 11 (Ni拧, 2013) 173-86.
  • 鈥楧ivine Mothers: The Influence of Isis on the Virgin Mary in Egyptian Lactans-滨肠辞苍辞驳谤补辫丑测鈥�, Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies 3-4 (2012) 71-90.

Conference presentations

  • 鈥業ntroducing Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences: Considering Paths Forward for Public Scholarship and Pedagogy in the 21st Century鈥�, Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA, January 2-5, 2025.
  • 鈥楻eborn from the Waters of the Font: The Vessel as an Allegory for Baptism in a Perforated Stone Slab from Golemo Gradi拧te, Konjuh鈥�, One Hundred Years of the Archaeological Museum Conference Series, Skopje, North Macedonia, May 28, 2024. 
  • 鈥楶odcasting in the Ancient History Classroom鈥�, American Research Center in Egypt Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, April 19-21, 2024.
  • 鈥楾he Peopling the Past Project: Multivocality and Multimodality in Teaching Ancient History鈥�, Presenting the Past; Responsible Engagement and Mediterranean History, March 25, 2023, Vancouver. Co-authored talk with C. Johnston, M. Daniels, and V. Austen.
  • 鈥楾he Digital Mary Project and the Democratization of Data鈥�, Presenting the Past; Responsible Engagement and Mediterranean History, March 25, 2023, Vancouver. Co-authored talk with A. Cama帽o.
  • 鈥楾he Materialization of Mary: The Physical Evidence of a Marian Cult in the Eastern Mediterranean鈥�, The Virgin Beyond Borders (II), March 9-12, 2022 (Virtual).
  • 鈥楾he Peopling the Past Project鈥�, Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco, January 6, 2022 (Virtual).

Older

  • 鈥楢dvancing Methods to Record the Philae Graffiti鈥�, ConText II 鈥� Workshop on the First Cataract Region, Berlin, December 10, 2021 (Virtual). Co-authored talk with N. Hedley.
  • 鈥楶eopling the Past: An Educational, Open-Access Resource Centering Real People in the Ancient Mediterranean鈥�, Classical Association of Canada Conference, Victoria, May 25, 2021 (Virtual).
  • 鈥楥ontextualizing Cult: The Physical Evidence for the Early Cult of Mary in the Eastern Mediterranean and Digital Scholarship as Praxis鈥�,&苍产蝉辫;Keynote Lecture, The Digital Mary Workshop, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, May 27, 2019.
  • 鈥楾he Digital Mary Database at SFU鈥�, The Digital Mary Workshop, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, May 28, 2019.
  • 鈥淢ary, the Apocrypha and the Construction of a Visual Identity in Late Antique Egypt.鈥� Presented at the 17th Annual International Congress of Christian Archaeology, Utrecht University and Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands, July 2-6, 2018.
  • 鈥淪t. Thecla and the Art of Her Pilgrims: Towards a Feminist Aesthetic Praxis.鈥� Presented at the 11th Annual Coptic Studies Symposium, University of Toronto, Toronto, April 28th, 2018.
  • 鈥淎cademic Jobs and Hiring Processes.鈥� Invited speaker at the SFU Graduate Student Professional Seminar, SFU, Burnaby, BC, March 15th, 2018.
  • 鈥淭o the Virgin We Pray: The Spatial and Historical Contexts of Marian Art in Egyptian Monasticism.鈥� Invited lecturer, Greek and Roman Studies Departmental Lecture, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, November 3rd, 2017.
  • 鈥淪anctuary and Survival at Golemo Gradiste: The Use and Re-Use of a Late Antique Church in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.鈥� Invited Lecturer, Classical Association of Vancouver Island, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, November 2nd, 2017.
  • 鈥淯nearthing the Virgin Mary: The Physical Evidence of Cult.鈥� Invited Lecturer, Archaeological Institute of America, Vancouver Chapter, University of British Columbia, April 4th, 2017.
  • 鈥淧rivate Devotion - Public Veneration: The Proliferation of Marian Iconography in Late Antique Egypt.鈥� Presented at the Byzantine Collectivities Conference, 尤物视频, British Columbia, February 3-4, 2017.
  • 鈥淩ural Christianity in the Eastern Roman Empire: An Overview of the Excavations at Golemo Gradiste, Konjuh in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia鈥� Presented at the Archaeology Departmental Seminar Series, 尤物视频, British Columbia, December 1, 2016.
  • 鈥淪trange Things in Stranger Places: A Preliminary Report of the 2016 Excavation Season at Golemo Gradiste, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia鈥� Presented at the Atlantic Classical Association, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, October 21-22, 2016.
  • 鈥淭he Materiality of Mary: The Development and Profusion of the Cult of Mary in Late Antique Egypt (Fifth 鈥� Ninth Centuries).鈥� Presented at The Material World of the Early Middle Ages, Forest Grove University, Oregon, October 7-8, 2016.
  • 鈥淎 Preliminary Report of the 2015 Excavation Season at Golemo Gradi拧te, Konjuh, FYROM.鈥� Invited Lecturer, Departmental Lecture, St. Mary鈥漵 University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, March 31st, 2016.
  • 鈥淧ainting the Town with the Virgin: The Development and Profusion of Marian Iconography in Late Antique Egypt.鈥� Presented at the Atlantic Classical Association, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 23-24, 2015.
  • 鈥淭hinking Outside the Box: Alternate Careers in Academia.鈥� Session Chair and Organizer, Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 8-11, 2015.
  • 鈥淩endering the Mother of Jesus as Theotokos: A Look at the Iconography of the Virgin in Fifth- to Ninth-Century Egypt.鈥� Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern International Region of the American Academy of Religion, University of Syracuse, Syracuse, New York, May 3-4, 2014.
  • 芦 Cultures, rencontres et le divin 禄. Session Chair, Colloque Pierre Savard, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, April 24, 2014.
  • 鈥淧icturing the Virgin: A Thematic Study of Marian Wall Paintings in the Fifth to Ninth Centuries.鈥� Presenter, The Seventh Annual Coptic Studies Symposium 鈥淐optic Heritage: Monasticism 鈥� Consistency and Change鈥�, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, March 1, 2014.
  • 鈥淭he Materialization of Mary: References to Churches and Monasteries of the Virgin Mary in Inscriptions and Papyri.鈥� Presenter, Mitarbeiterbesprechungen, Kommission f眉r Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen Arch盲ologischen Instituts, Munich, Germany, January 23, 2013.
  • 鈥淔inding Mary: The Utilization of the Documentary Evidence to Uncover Marian Churches in Egypt.鈥� Presented at the Ottawa Early Christianity Group, Saint Paul鈥漵 University, Ottawa, Ontario, December 7, 2012.
  • 鈥淩iding in Late Antiquity: A Thracian Rider at the Late Antique Site of Konjuh, FYROM.鈥� Presented at the Ni拧 and Byzantium Conference 鈥淪t. Emperor Constantine and the Heritage of Europe鈥�, University of Ni拧, Ni拧, Serbia, June 3-5, 2012.
  • 鈥淲herefore art thou Mary? The Reconstruction the Cult of the Virgin Mary from the Documentary Papyri.鈥� Presented at The Fifth Annual Coptic Studies Symposium 鈥淐optic Literature鈥�, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, March 24, 2012.
  • 鈥淒igging Christianity in the Balkans: A Report of the 2011 Excavation Season at Golemo Gradiste, Konjuh, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.鈥� Presented at the Archaeological Institute of America: Ottawa Chapter, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, March 21, 2012.
  • 鈥淕reek History and Archaeology in the Classroom.鈥� Keynote Lecture, Greek Language Education Symposium in Ontario, Greek Community Center of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, January 14, 2012.
  • 鈥淒ivine Mothers: The Influence of Isis on the Virgin Mary in Egyptian Monastic Iconographic 尤物视频.鈥� Presented at The Fourth Annual Coptic Studies Symposium 鈥淐optic Heritage 鈥� Dynamics and Diversity鈥�, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, February 26, 2011.
  • 鈥淒ivine Mothers: The Influence of Isis on the Virgin Mary in Egyptian Monastic Iconographic 尤物视频.鈥� Presented at the Critical Inquiries in Classics and Religious Studies: Material Culture, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, January 2011.
  • 鈥淎rchaeology and the Social Construction of the Cult of Mary.鈥� Presented at the University of Ottawa, Graduate Mini-Conference, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, December 2009.
  • 鈥淚n God鈥檚 House: The Innovation of the Roman Church: From Christ to Constantine.鈥� Presented at the University of British Columbia Graduate Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, May 2008.
  • 鈥淧resented Archaeological Excavation experience to members of the local archaeological community.鈥� Presented at the American Institute of Archaeology: Ottawa Chapter, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, 2006.
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