Ph.D. Katinka Sewing
Biography
Consultation
Dr Katinka Sewing from Heidelberg University, whose research focuses on the art, architecture, and material culture of Late Antiquity and the Byzantine world. Her work explores transformations of sacred space in the eastern Mediterranean, Late Antique urbanism, and gendered experiences in the Byzantine period.
After studying Christian archaeology at the University of Münster and historic architecture at the University of Regensburg, she completed her PhD in Byzantine archaeology at Heidelberg University. She has participated in numerous archaeological fieldwork projects in Asia Minor, focusing in particular on the impact of Christianisation on urban and ritual landscapes between the 4th and 7th centuries CE.
Dr Katinka Sewing is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw, where she is carrying out the project “The Missing Piece: Euphratesia as a Hub of Sacred Architecture within the Cultural Landscape of Late Antique Northern Syria”.
Most important scholarly articles
1) A Late Antique Pilgrimage Church at the Harbor Canal of Ephesus and its Interaction with its Religious Center, in: N. D. Kontogiannis – T. B. Uyar (Eds.), Papers from the Fourth International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium (Istanbul 2021) 219–237
2) Up, Down, and Around. Staircases as Architectural Indicator for the Identification of Late Antique Pilgrimage Centers in Asia Minor and Beyond, in: A. Rickert – S. Schlosser (Eds.), Gestaltung, Funktion und Bedeutung antiker Treppenanlagen. Multiperspektivische Analyse einer transkulturellen Konstante, Kasion 11 (Münster 2022) 437–459
3) A New Pilgrimage Site at Late Antique Ephesus. Transfer of Religious Ideas in Western Asia Minor, in: M. Ivanova – H. Jeffrey (Eds.), Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds (Leiden 2020) 78–101
4) Die Südthermen (ehemals Bischofspalast) in Limyra. Bauaufnahme und Interpretation, Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Wien 84, 2015, 213–257
5) in print: A Nilotic Scene in the Apse Mosaic of the Bishop`s Church in Doliche, together with Y. Tanrıverdi, in: Journal of Mosaic Research 19 (2026)