Sean V. Leatherbury is Assistant Professor of Art History at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2012, and has held fellowships at Oxford, the Getty Villa, and the Bard Graduate Center. His research focuses on the visual and material culture of late antiquity, with a particular concentration on the art and architecture of the eastern Mediterranean, the relationship between art and text, issues of identity, and the transformation of the so-called minor arts from the Roman to the Byzantine period.

His first book, Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity: Between Reading and Seeing (Routledge, 2019), explores how the numerous Greek and Latin texts written into the interiors of late antique churches, synagogues, and mosques functioned as powerful verbal and visual statements of cultural values and religious beliefs. Currently, he is completing a book project on the Roman and late antique floor mosaics of Syria, a unique group of artworks whose existence has been threatened by the war in the region, and co-editing a volume on late antique art and local identities.