Ann Marie Yasin
Ann Mari Yasin is an Associate Professor of Art History and Classics at the University of Southern California specializing in the architecture and material culture of the Roman and late antique world. She studies materiality, built-environments, landscapes, and urbanism as they pertain to the ancient and late ancient religious worlds. Biography. In 1993, Yasin earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan, where she majored in Classical Archaeology and History of Art. In 1995, she received her Master of Arts in Art History from the University of Chicago with her thesis "The Vienna Dioscorides : A Late Antique Document of Social Exchange". In 2002, she earned her Ph.D. in Art History, also from the University of Chicago. Her doctoral thesis was titled: "Commemorating the Dead – Constructing the Community: Church Space, Funerary Monuments and Saints' Cults in Late Antiquity". In 1997 and 1998, Yasin served as a lecturer at the University of Chicago; she continued as a lecturer here in 2001. In 2000, Yasin was the Assistant Director of the Classical Summer School at the American Academy in Rome. Between 2002 and 2005, Yasin taught at Northwestern University as an Assistant Professor in both the Department  of Art History and a joint-appointment in the Department of Classics. Since 2005, Yasin has worked at the University of Southern California in the departments of Classics and Art History, advancing from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor in 2009. Yasin was a member of the American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship Program in 2018. She published her first book "Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean: Architecture, Cult, and Community" in 2009, discussing the creation of sacred spaces through both lay and clerical actors alike during the fourth and seventh centuries. Yasin has served as an Associate  Editor and the Exhibition Reviews Editor for the journal "Studies in Late Antiquity" since 2016. Publications. Books. Yasin, Ann Marie. "Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean: Architecture, Cult, and Community (Greek Culture in the Roman World)." Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.