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Rebecca Falcasantos serves as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia's College of Arts and Sciences, specializing in ancient and late antique Mediterranean religious cultures with emphasis on inter-group conflict and ritual practices in the late Roman East.
Her academic credentials include:
- BA from Creighton University
- MA from the University of Notre Dame
- PhD from Brown University
Her research investigates how communal rituals, rhetoric, and violence shaped cultural transformations during the 4th-5th centuries, particularly examining negotiation of historical memory between imperial centers and provincial peripheries like Cappadocia, Syria, and Palestine. Core methodologies integrate landscape analysis, gender theory, and violence studies to explore boundary construction in religious diversity contexts.
Publications from 2016-2020 reveal consistent interdisciplinary engagement with ritual embodiment, pilgrimage economies, and gendered religious travel, demonstrating how late antique church histories perpetuate cultures of violence through textual rewritings of events like Arian conflicts. Her work bridges historical analysis with contemporary discourse on religious violence.
