May 21, 2026 To celebrate our 2026 Fellowship recipients , we connected with this year’s awardees to learn more about their projects and the unique paths that led them into the field of archaeology. We’re thrilled to introduce Katrina Kuxhausen-DeRose, recipient of the prestigious 2026 Anna C. and Oliver C. Colburn Fellowship ! Katrina Kuxhausen-DeRose (UCLA) Tell us about your project: Monuments in Motion: Reuse and Negotiation of Itinerant Sacred Architecture in Roman Greece What tales do “wandering” monuments tell? Scholars have long debated whether architectural spolia primarily reflects pragmatic recycling or ideological motivations. However, repurposed religious buildings are not so easy to put in a box. Katrina Kuxhausen-DeRose (UCLA), recipient of the 2026 Colburn Fellowship, is tracing the exceptional journeys of reused sacred monuments in Roman Greece in order to follow how temples and altars were selected, dismantled, transported, and rebuilt under imperial rule.…