May Peterson is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History, working on the art and architecture of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. She is interested in the borders of Christianity and its sacred spaces, the disciplinary boundary between art history and archaeology, and in the historiographies of conversion and ethnogenesis as they play into European national identities. Currently, Peterson is an academic engagement graduate fellow working within the Smart Museum of Art’s Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry.