About
I am a teacher and researcher of Christian history, with a focus on early Christian thought (PhD, Duke University, 2022). I am currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Early Christian Studies in the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages at the Catholic University of America. I specialize in intellectual history, eastern Christian literature of late antiquity (Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Coptic, Armenian), asceticism, and ancient philosophy & medicine. My dissertation examined how monastic leader Bābai the Great (ca. 551-628) developed East Syriac ideas about human nature in a time of controversy among Christians in the Sasanian Empire.
I recently Junior Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, DC during the 2021-2022 year.
I also hold a M.T.S. in the History of Christianity from the University of Notre Dame and a B.A. in Philosophy and Religious Studies from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead-Cain Scholar. Education
Ph.D., Duke University, Graduate Program in Religion (2022)
M.T.S., University of Notre Dame, History of Christianity (2016)
B.A., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Philosophy & Religious Studies (Greek minor) (2014) Publications
“Sterile Virgins and Procreative Texts: Platonic Verbal Reproduction in Methodius’s Symposium,”
Studia Patristica 126 (2021): 407-424.
