Catherine is a second-year MPhil candidate in Islamic Art and Architecture at the University of Oxford, focusing on Christian architecture in the medieval Middle East. She completed her BA in Classics at the University of Pennsylvania in 2019, then spent two years working in education and the art world before returning to academia. Her research primarily focuses on Christian-Muslim interaction and its expression in material culture, with additional interests in contemporary Middle Eastern art. Catherine’s dissertation will explore ornamentation in Syriac Christian architecture in medieval Mosul. She joined the Invisible East programme in July 2022 to assist with encoding documents for upload to the website.
