Lynn Parrish

Promoted to Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
lparrish@purdue.edu

Lynn Parrish received her master’s in anthropology, Ph.D. in philosophy and classical literature, and bachelor’s in art history and English from Purdue University. She is a philosopher with special interests in social and political theory, philosophy of technology, and philosophy of art and architecture.

Parrish is a member of the Purdue ROSETTA Initiative (Remote Observation and Sensing Technologies and Techniques in Archaeology). In the summer of 2022, faculty from Computer Science, Civil Engineering, Classics, and Philosophy utilized such remote-sensing techniques as LIDAR drone mapping, Structures from Motion, Magnetometer Survey, and On-site Mapping procedures, to generate an AI analysis of the acquired data which will produce a 3D-modeled site plan of the archaeological remains of ancient Plataea. This project was fundamentally connected with the recent AI initiative by the Department of Philosophy in participation with the Computer Science Department.

Building on her previous work, she has begun a new research project analyzing pilgrimage architecture and the transitional pilgrimage housing that supports its ritual activity. Inspection of these sites will yield a theoretical model of sacred space, and detailed, quantitatively grounded, analytical documentation of architectural religious complexes and the ritual practices that they catalyze will 'materialize' a model of the deep interconnections between the sacred and the profane in the ancient world.