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.
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 have also taught Greek, Coptic, and Syriac language courses for undergraduates and graduates.
Selected Publications
"Perpetual Adjustment: The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity and the Entailments of Authenticity." Journal of Early Christian Studies 30 (2022): 313-342.
"Vast Lessons: Jacob of Edessa's The Six Days and the Tools of Knowledge." Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 25 (2022): 9-42.
Moment of Reckoning: Imagined Death and Its Consequences in Late Ancient Christianity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
“The Will of Others: Coercion, Captivity, and Choice in Late Antiquity.” Co-written with Mira Balberg. Studies in Late Antiquity 2.3 (2018): 294-315.
“The Legend of Arius’s Death: Imagination, Space, and Filth in Late Ancient Historiography.” Past & Present: A Journal of Historical Studies 277 (2015): 3-29.
“Simeon and Other Women in Theodoret’s Religious History: Gender in the Representation of Late Ancient Christian Asceticism.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 23 (2015): 583-606.
Angels in Late Ancient Christianity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Affiliation(s)
Field(s) of Study
- Religion and Christianity in Late Antiquity
