The project has two major goals: (i) On a macro, city-wide level, employ the Rome Research Group’s (Hamilton) geographic database of edicole sacre to conduct a spatial diffusion analysis (Ye) examining the origins and spread of the devotional practice in Rome to the present. (ii) On a micro, individual level, develop a prototype virtual model of a “restored” Roman edicola (employing NJIT’s SpatioScholar [Ozludil]) and track the visual experience of subjects at the shrine (Vinnikov).

The mapping website and digital archive showcases undergraduate and graduate research and writing on specific sites of environmental inequality and justice in the post-World War II United States. Student research includes analysis of primary sources, annotated secondary bibliographies, analyses of images of each site, oral interviews, and video stories as well as a final report on each site.

Multi-university research group on the sacred topography of Rome.