Title
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion(1994)
Degree
BA, Barnard College, Columbia University; MTS, AM, PhD, Harvard University
Teaching Experience
Harvard University; College of the Holy Cross
Specialties
Ancient Christianity, women in antiquity
Interests
Ancient Christian spirituality, pilgrimage, icons, relics, monasticism
Selected Publications
"Pilgrimage," Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies. Edited by Susan Ashbrook Harvey and David Hunter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. 826-43.
"From Antioch to Arles: Lay Devotion in Context." In The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 2: Constantine to c. 600. Eds. Augustine Cassaday and Frederick Norris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 531-47.
"Loca Sancta Souvenirs and the Art of Memory," in Pèlerinages et lieux saints dans l’antiquité et le moyen âge : mélanges offerts à Pierre Maraval. Eds. Béatrice Caseau, Jean-Claude Cheynet and Vincent Déroche. Paris : Travaux et Mémoires. Association des amis du Centre d’histoire et civilisation de Byzance, 2006. Pp. 193-201.
"The Image in Tandem: Painting Metaphors and Moral Discourse in Late Antique Christianity." In The Subjective Eye: Essays in Culture, Religion, and Gender in Honor of Margaret R. Miles. Edited by Richard Valantasis et al.
Princeton Theological Monograph Series, 59. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2006. Pp. 33-47.
"Romanos and the Night Vigil in the Sixth Century." In A People's History of Christianity, vol. 3: Byzantine Christianity. Ed. by Derek Krueger. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2006. Pp. 59-78.
"Dialogue and Deliberation: The Making of the Sensory Self in the Hymns of Romanos the Melodist." In Religion and the Self in Antiquity. Ed. by David Brakke, Steve Weitzman, and Michael Satlow. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2005. Pp. 163-79.
"'Taste and See': The Eucharist and the Eyes of Faith in the Fourth Century," Church History 70 (2001): 619-43.
The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity. (Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 30; Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).
"Macrina's Scar: Homeric Allusion and Heroic Identity in Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Macrina, "Journal of Early Christian Studies 8 (2000): 511-30
"The Pilgrim's Gaze in the Age before Icons," in Visuality before and beyond the Renaissance. Edited by Robert S. Nelson. (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 98-115
"Miracles, Monks, and Monuments: The Historia Monachorum in Aegypto as Pilgrims' Tales" in Pilgrimage and Holy Space in Late Antique Egypt, David Frankfurter, ed. (REligions in the Greco-Roman World; Leiden: Brill, 1998), 483-505
"The Historia Monachorum and Ancient Travel Writing" in Studia Patristica 30 (1997)
"Pilgrims' Experience and Theological Challenge: Two Patristic Views" in Akten des XII. Internationalen Kongresses fur Christliche Archaologie (Bonn 22-28, September 1991)
Jahrbuch fur Antike und Christentum, Erganzungsbande, 20:1-2, 1995. Vol. 2, pp. 787-91
Dissertation
"The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrimage to Desert Ascetics in the Christian East during the Fourth and Fifth Centuries"
Advisors: Susan Ashbrook Harvey (Brown University); Helmut Koester, Margaret Miles (Harvard)
Professional Experience
Anonymous reader for Patristic Monograph Series - University of California Press, Oxford University Press, University of North Carolina Press, Journal of Early Christian Studies, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Spiritus; Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity, Society of Biblical Literature, Steering Committee member (2005-2008); Chair, Core 151: Western Traditions, Colgate University (2005-2008); Sub-Editor (Byzantine and Eastern Christianity), Religious Studies Review (2005-2008); Editorial Advisor, Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality (2000-present); Member-at-Large, Governing Board, North American Patristics Society (2002-2005); History of Christianity Section, American Academy of Religion, Co-chair (1999-2002), Steering Committee member (1997-1999); Byzantine Studies Conference, Program Committee and Jury for Graduate Awards (1998-2000, 2008-present); Acting Managing Editor, Harvard Theological Review and Harvard Dissertations in Religion (1990), Editorial Assistant (1987-1991); Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and Sart Mustafa, Turkey: Research Assistant in archives and publications division (1985-1987, 1990), Excavation Registrar, on-site, (1986, 1987)
Distinctions
Member of Phi Beta Kappa; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2003); National Endowment for the Humanities - American Academy in Rome Summer Seminar (2002); American Council of Learned Societies Fellow (1998-99); American Association of University Women Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1998-99); American Council of Learned Societies - Contemplative Practice Fellowship (1997); National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend (1997); Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (1991-92); Harvard Graduate Student Council International Conference Grant (1991); Harvard University Scholarship (1987-1993); Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Travel Grant (1986, 1987); Dornfield Prize in Religion (Barnard College, 1985); Barnard College Travel Grant (1984)
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