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Literary History of the Hebrew Bible
Biblical and Cuneiform Law
Writing and Scribal Culture in the Ancient Near East
Mesopotamian Literature

Roman military and intellectual history

Japan, Japanese history, Japanese culture, the divination industry, the beauty industry, linguistic anthropology,

Roman history (esp. Republican), historiography, Roman topography, spatial studies

I work chiefly on Late Antique intellectual history and the material culture of the later Roman Empire. My research focuses on the power of images and perceptions of piety and the body in Late Antique thought. I am primarily interested in manifestations of holiness in the bodies, portraits, and biographies of pagan and Christian holy men and women. I have recently developed an interest in the relationship between children and parents in Late Antiquity and the role of the family in Christian asceticism. Additional areas of interest include urban topography, the reception of classical texts (Homer especially) in the later Roman and Byzantine empires, and Greek folk culture.

Material culture, Roman children

late antique Mediterranean - education, Christianity, preaching, pedagogy

Roman world of 1st cent. C.E.; Roman imperial women, especially Livia and Agrippina the Elder and Agrippina the Younger; Tacitus; Food & Foodways; Ancient Philosophy, especially Plato; Muslim innovation and reception of Greco-Roman antiquity

Mediterranean World, Asia Minor, Roman Empire, North Africa, early Christianity, New Testament, Christian apocrypha, feminist hermeneutics, Augustine of Hippo, the development of the earliest churches (including “dissenting” movements) and of early Christian writings in their social and cultural environments. She also contributes to the scholarship on “engaged” methods of adult pedagogy. Church History, Dead Sea Scrolls, Early Christianity, Feminist Interpretation of the Bible, Gospels & The Historical Jesus, Pauline Studies, Social History of Early Christianity, Technology in Teaching.

the history and theory of ancient and modern translation
history of classical reception, especially among the non-elite of the 18th and 19th century
the history of the book
digital humanities

Ancient Greek and Roman history, material culture, orientalism, Egyptian cults, social history, Mediterranean Studies, concepts of ethnicity, religious identity, and foreignness from a material culture perspective, classical archaeology, classical civilization, ancient sculpture, migration studies

Religion and Society in Late Antiquity; sermons; social attitudes and social relations; laypeople; John Chrysostom; Cappadocian Fathers

Early Christianity, Feminist Historiography, New Testament World