Students
Karl Berg '22
Area(s) of Interest: Late Roman & Early Christian social history and material culture, the Imperial Cult, Constantine I, slavery and servitude in the Roman Empire, fourth-century imperial legislation, Dura-Europos and Rome’s Eastern Frontier, patristic apologia.
Rachel Edney '22
Area(s) of Interest: Syriac Christianity; asceticism; hagiography; Council of Chalcedon; heresiology; history of biblical exegesis; Arabic Christian theology; Christian-Muslim interactions
Tess Fitzsimmons '22
Area(s) of Interest: Augustine; Gregory the Great; Prudentius; Boethius; Cassiodorus; Late Antique Church councils; Late Antique Christian poetry; liturgics; the history of biblical exegesis; the roots of papal government; Classical ethnography
Lucy Grinnan '22
Area(s) of Interest: Late antique and medieval women's Latin writing; desire and embodiment in ancient literature; women's liturgical history; dance and choreography; spoken Latin
Theresa Crnkovich '23
Area(s) of Interest: New Testament in Greek and Latin, Early Church Fathers, the art of translation, ancient foreign languages, literature as insight into a culture
Susan Francino '23
Area(s) of Interest: Latin Poetry; Late Antique and Christian Latin; Byzantine Studies; Hymnography; Byzantine and Medieval Musical Notation; Liturgical Theology; Patristic, Byzantine, and Orthodox Theology; Translation
Adam Wyatt '23
Area(s) of Interest: Late Roman history, early Christian churches and architecture, Constantine and the Constantinian Dynasty, Roman mystery cults, medieval reception of Antiquity, ancient philosophy, St. Ambrose of Milan.
Melissa Yorio '23
Area(s) of Interest: Hagiography; Late Roman & Early Christian cultural history and material culture; Syncretism of female religious figures in the early Christian world; Epigraphy; Historical Linguistics; Early monasticism; Christian mysticism; Historiography
Bramwell Atkins '24
Area(s) of Interest: Letters of Consolation, Christian Platonism, Neo-Platonism, Non-Chalcedonian Christianity, Boethius, Augustine, and their Medieval Reception, the allegoresis of Homer and Plato
James Schetelich '24
Area(s) of Interest: Ancient Jewish apocalypticism; Augustine; Jewish exegesis during the Second Temple period; kinship in antiquity; the New Testament and its early reception