She has excavated at the Roman Baths in Iesso (Spain), and at the Roman imperial palace at Felix Romuliana (Serbia), a UNESCO World Heritage site. She argues that emperors of this era sensitively adjusted their ideological messaging to address ever-evolving internal and external political pressures-including inordinate pressure from the Persian Sassanid East-and that the stylistic abstraction most commonly associated with the imperial art of the period was not as all-pervasive as generally assumed. Taking a transculturally-sensitive, multimedia, and contextual approach, hers is the first book to treat the imperial art of this critical transitional era in its own right, rather than as an accessory in a longue durée narrative. She is currently at work on a monograph, Tetrarchic Art, Architecture, and Ideology Between East and West (284-325 CE). She has published on Roman, Persian, and Digital Humanities topics, and taught equally wide-ranging coursework. University of North Carolina, Chapel HillĪnne Hunnell Chen specializes in the art and archaeology of the globally connected Late Roman world.
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