Dr. Jon C. Cubas Díaz

Research areas

• Text–Image Relationships
• Late Byzantine Religious Architecture
• Visualization of Status
• Late Antique Funerary Culture
• Memoria (especially Practices of Remembrance)
• Late Antique and Byzantine Asia Minor

Professional practice 

• Since Summer Semester 2026: Acting Chair (W2) of Christian Archaeology and Byzantine Art History, Georg August University of Göttingen 
• Since Summer Semester 2026: Deputy Managing Director of the Institute of Archaeology
• Summer Semester 2023 – Temporary replacement for Prof. Dr. Hahn-Bruckart (during parental part-time leave), Chair of Church History, University of Rostock
• Since 2019: Research Associate, Department of Christian Archaeology and Byzantine Art History, Georg August University of Göttingen
• 2015–2019: Research Associate in Subproject A01 of Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 933 Materiale Textkulturen, Institute of Byzantine Archaeology and Art History, Heidelberg University.

 Education

• 2019: Doctorate (PhD) from Heidelberg University with the dissertation “The Funerary Culture of Rough Cilicia: Tomb Monument, Inscription, and Space. Self-Representation and Memoria in Transition” in Byzantine Archaeology and Art History
• 2007–2014: Studied Byzantine Archaeology and Art History, Classical Archaeology, Ancient History, and Greek Philology at Heidelberg University