Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences: Public Scholarship and the Mediterranean World

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Chelsea A.M. Gardner Sabrina C. Higgins

Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences

Public Scholarship and the Mediterranean World

Chelsea A.M. Gardner, Sabrina C. Higgins

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Routledge
10 March 2025

Museums & museology; History: theory & methods; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Archaeology by period & region

This volume brings together specialists from a broad demographic and professional range – academics, museum curators, students, and content creators – to discuss case studies, challenges, and potential future avenues for public scholarship on the history, archaeology, and cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, North Africa, and Western Asia.

Together, the contributions promote the creation of inclusive methods of knowledge mobilization and communication in public spheres across three main areas: cultural heritage, pedagogy, and public-facing scholarship. These areas have all been directly affected by Eurocentric structures that have claimed ownership of ancient Mediterranean cultural heritage and have dictated how it has been taught in schools and communicated to the broader public. The volume is divided into three sections – Museums, Teaching and Learning, and Global and Local Projects – each addressing pressing challenges faced within these interrelated fields and offering ways for us to overcome the exclusionary narratives that plague them.

Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences provides an invaluable resource for those interested in public history, from academics to lay audiences, in the fields of Ancient Mediterranean, North African, and Western Asian Studies. The book also appeals to professionals and researchers whose interests lie in public-facing scholarship, pedagogy, digital humanities, decolonization studies, museum studies, and popular media.

Edited by: Chelsea A.M. Gardner, Sabrina C. Higgins
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032647906
ISBN 10: 1032647906
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 10 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Chelsea A.M. Gardner is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Classics at Acadia University. She is an archaeologist working in the Mani Peninsula in southern Greece, where she is the director of the CARTography Project and the Southern Mani Archaeological Project. Sabrina C. Higgins is an Associate Professor of Aegean and Mediterranean Societies and Cultures, cross-appointed between the Departments of Global Humanities and Archaeology at Simon Fraser University. She is an archaeologist and art historian whose research interests include the cult of the Virgin Mary in Late Antique Egypt, religious transformation, sacred landscapes, gender and agency theory, late antique Monasticism, eastern Christianity, material culture of religion, as well as digital humanities pedagogy.