Austin Goodwin Andrews is interested in the diverse religious communities around the Mediterranean during late antiquity. Originally from Hamlet, North Carolina, he studied classical archaeology and religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before serving in the Peace Corps in North Macedonia. A field archaeologist, he is currently part of the international archaeological research teams of the San Vincenzo Project on the volcanic island of Stromboli (Italy) and the Archaeological Investigation at Konjuh (North Macedonia). Before beginning graduate study, he worked in museums in New York City, including as an assistant director and curatorial assistant in the American Numismatic Society. He continues to lead lessons and tours at the Brooklyn Museum with the “Art, Research, and Teaching” guide program. At Yale Divinity School and the Institute of Sacred Music, he explores religious ideas as reflected in ancient art, objects, and spaces. His primary research interests relate to the archaeology of religion and ritual in late antiquity, including features of sacred spaces and iconography, ceramics, and funerary assemblages. Outside of YDS and the ISM, he co-organizes the Late Antique Reading Group and the Greco-Roman Lunch Colloquium.
Program of Study: Religion and the Visual Arts and Material Culture