Temple University

Cecelia Heintzelman (she/they) is a first-year Art History MA student. They graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Ancient History and History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania in 2022. She is also the Collections Manager at the LaSalle University Art Museum in Philadelphia, PA. Previously, they worked as a Collections Assistant in the Penn Museum’s Mediterranean Section. She has assisted in curating several exhibitions, including the current exhibition at the LSUAM: Treasures of Immortality: Ancient Chinese Funerary Art (August 2023 - August 2025). Her research broadly focuses on the Byzantine Empire in the Mediterranean, specifically the sense and sensation of depictions of Christ and his followers in Byzantine art.

BA, Ancient History (with Distinction) and History of Art, Magna Cum Laude, University of Pennsylvania, 2022