Camille Angelo

Camille Leon Angelo is an archaeologist and cultural historian of Greco-Roman and late antiquity. Her work examines materiality, sexuality, affect, and space in late antiquity through new materialist, feminist, and queer lenses. She has excavated in the eastern Mediterranean and the Caucasus.

Her current research primarily engages with archaeological, art historical, papyrological, and epigraphic evidence, though she has also worked with manuscripts. Her scholarship has appeared in journals, such as Eastern Christian Art and the Journal of Roman Archaeology. She also has a new edition and translation in press at the Journal of Coptic Studies.

“Monastic Materialities: Space, Subjectivity, and Sexuality in Late Antiquity,” Camille’s dissertation, teases out the often-overlooked material dimensions of monastic formation in late antiquity through a critical analysis of ancient spaces in the eastern Mediterranean. In it, she argues that the spaces monks constructed in turn constructed monks’ sexual subjectivities.

She has won several awards. In 2024, the North American Patristic Society awarded her article “A Souvenir from Syene?” the Best First Article Prize, and Yale recognized her excellence in teaching with the prestigious, university-wide Prize Teaching Fellowship.

Camille is currently the Chair of the Society of Biblical Literature’s Students in the Profession Committee (2022–2024). She has worked with the Yale Monastic Archaeology Project since 2019. In 2018, she launched the Late Antiquity Modeling Project (LAMP), a digital humanities collective dedicated to creating reconstructions of the sensory and affective dimensions of late antique ritual spaces.