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Assistant Professor of Christianity in Late Antiquity

• Affiliation(s)

  • Near Eastern Studies

• Fields of Study

  • Christianity in Late Antiquity

• About

  My work is focused on the history of Christianity in time period known as “late antiquity,” roughly 300 C.E. to 700 C.E., and I am particularly interested in the rhetorical and historiographical methods Christians adopted as Christian culture shifted from being in the minority to being dominant in the later Roman Empire. My current project examines the subjective experience of death as imagined by late ancient Christians.

  I teach introductory undergraduate courses on Christianity, as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on Christianity in late antiquity, Gnosticism, asceticism, and theories of historiography. I also teach language courses for undergraduates and graduates in Greek, Coptic, and Syriac.

  Selected Publications

  Angels in Late Ancient Christianity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

  “Salvage: Macrina and the Christian Project of Cultural Reclamation.” Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 81 (2012): 273-97.
  
  “Negotiations with Death: Ephrem’s Control of Death in Dialogue.” Shifting Frontiers VIII: Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity, ed. David Brakke, Deborah Deliyannis, and Ed Watts (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012), 23-34.
  
  “Preserving the Divine: a?t?- Prefixed Generative Terms and the Untitled Treatise in the Bruce Codex.” Vigiliae Christianae 65 (2011): 311-28.

• Education

  • PhD, Indiana University, 2008