Sabrina Higgins

Sabrina Higgins is an Associate Professor cross-appointed between the Departments of Global Humanities and Archaeology, and the Director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University. Her research is inherently multidisciplinary, intersecting the fields of late antique studies, archaeology, religious studies, art history, papyrology, gender studies, and public scholarship. At present, her 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, as well as public scholarship and digital humanities, the subjects of her recently published co-edited volume. In addition to this research, she is an active field archaeologist and maintains 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 Gradište in North Macedonia. She is also the co-founder of two digital humanities projects, Peopling the Past and the Digital Mary Project.