Deanna Kathryn Cunningham

I am a PhD researcher at the University of St Andrews, supervised by Professor Carlos Machado and Professor Rebecca Sweetman. My PhD looks at the application of network analysis and phenomenological approaches to examine how monumental Christianisation spread across Late Antique Macedonia and its impact on lived experience. The Ewan & Christine Brown Postgraduate Scholarship in the Arts and Humanities generously funds my research.

I completed my BA (Hons) at the University of Southampton in Archaeology and Ancient History in 2021. In 2022 I graduated with distinction from the MSc in Archaeology at the University of Oxford. My dissertation entitled 'Late Antique Christian Bread Stamps: The Possibilities and Difficulties of Archaeological Interpretation', was supervised by Dr Ine Jacobs. Between 2022 and 2023 I worked as a commercial archaeologist in the UK and gained invaluable experience in both field archaeology and post-excavation before joining St Andrews to begin my PhD.

• Roman and Late Antique Archaeology
• Early Christian Archaeology
• Pilgrimage and Religious Experience in Antiquity
• The Archaeology of Greece
• Networks
• Landscape, Topography and Place-Making

AN1003: Ancient Empires

AN1004: Cities and Communities

ID2006: Introduction to Archaeology