Ally Kateusz, PhD, is a cultural historian specializing in the leadership roles of women during the early Christian era and Late Antiquity. Her research focuses on the intersection of religion and gender in art and text. She employs ancient iconography to help recover the nearly lost memories of women's ritual and liturgical authority.
Dr. Kateusz has published articles in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Early Christian Studies and the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, as well as other venues. Her research has won a First Prize Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza New Scholar Award, a Feminae Journal Article of the Month, and the First Place Otis Worldwide Outstanding Dissertation award. She is Research Associate with the Wijngaards Institute of Catholic Research in London.