Katrina Knight

Katrina Knight is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of South Dakota. Her research focuses on identity and culture in the Roman and post-Roman West, particularly societies marginalized after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. She holds a PhD and MA in Ancient History from Emory University, alongside degrees in classical studies, medieval/early modern studies, and Roman archaeology.

Her current research includes a manuscript comparing post-Roman Britain and Ostrogothic Italy in the 5th–6th centuries, and explores classical reception in film/fiction, Roman frontiers, and disaster in antiquity. She has published in Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies and presented at conferences such as the Antiquity in Media Studies Conference (2024).

Her teaching spans Greek/Roman history, European Middle Ages, classical art/archaeology, and classical languages.