Duke University

Faculty Member, Divinity School

Other Affiliations: Duke University, Graduate Program in Religion
Princeton University, Political Science
University of California, Los Angeles, Law

Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity in Late Antiquity

About

I’m glad you’ve found my page.  I have recently accepted a position as Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity at the Divinity School at Duke University, where I will be working with the Graduate Program in Religion as well. 

I am currently finishing my dissertation, tentatively titled “’If you are to judge the world …’: Monastic Formation, Episcopal Authority and Conceptions of Justice in Late Antiquity” under the direction of Elizabeth A. Clark, Ph.D.  My work focuses on the development of judicial ideals and practices of adjudication in the context of monastic and clerical settings at the turn of the fifth century.

My research interests include the intersection between monastic, ecclesial and civic practices in late antiquity, responses to infant- and childhood-mortality in particularly the Christian East, the so-called “Church Order” genre, issues of gender and particularly masculinity in Christian asceticism, as well as encounters between Jewish and Christian thought and practice in the first few centuries of the Common Era.

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