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