Late Roman Phiosophy, Medicine, REMEDHE co-founder

Research
Book Manuscripts
Spiritual Taxonomies and Ritual Authority: Platonists, Priests, and Gnostics in the Third Century CE
(Divinations Series, University of Pennsylvania Press, January 2016)

Sosipatra: Philosopher and Priestess
(Under contract with Oxford University Press, Women in Antiquity Series, due August 2017)

Works in Progress:
“Platonic Afterlives: Origen, Porphyry, and Iamblichus on the Restoration of the Soul,” submitted to Studies in Late Antiquity (under review)

“Chapter 7: Religion, Medicine, and Health” in Blackwell’s Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity, Nicholas Baker-Brian, Josef Lossl, ed.s (under contract, submitted)

“The Good Doctor: Imperial Physicians and Medical Professionalization in Late Antiquity”
(Studia Patristica, Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Patristics Studies, August 2015, Oxford, accepted, forthcoming 2017)

“Porphyry of Tyre on Demons and Embryos: Ancient Matter, Ancient Assemblages” (in preparation)

Book Proposal, co-edited source book on ancient medicine for University of California Press

Articles in Journals and Edited Books
Co-authored with Kristi Upson-Saia, “From the Guest Editors” and “The State of the Question: Religion, Medicine, Disability and Health in Late Antiquity.” Journal of Late Antiquity 8.2 (Fall 2015), 253-56; 257-72.

“Medicine.” In Late Ancient Knowing, ed. Catherine Chin and Moulie Vidas, 80-98. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015.

“Pythagoras the Theurgist: Porphyry and Iamblichus on the role of ritual in the philosophical life.” In Religious Competition in the Third Century CE: Jews, Christians, and the Greco-Roman World, ed. Jordan D. Rosenblum, Lily Vuong, and Nathaniel DesRosiers, 32-38. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2014.

“A Case Study in the Late Roman Appropriation of the Classical Greek Patrimony: Images of the Ideal Philosopher among Third-Century Platonists.” In Philosophy and the Abrahamic Religions: Scriptural Authority and Theories of Knowledge, ed. Torrance Kirby, Rahim Acar, and Bilal Bas, 57-68. New Castle on Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012.

“A Strange Consensus: Demonological Discourse in Origen, Porphyry and Iamblichus.” In The Rhetoric of Power in Late Antiquity: Religion and Politics in Byzantium, Europe and the Early Islamic World, ed. Elizabeth DePalma Digeser, Robert M. Frakes, and Justin Stephens, 219-38. London: Taurus, 2010.

“Third Century Daimonologies and the Via Universalis: Origen, Porphyry and Iamblichus on daimones and other angels.” Studia Patristica 45 (2010): 207-216.

“High Priests of the Highest God: Third Century Platonists as Ritual Experts.” Journal of Early Christian Studies18.4 (Winter 2010): 481-513.

“Augustine and Meister Eckhart: Amata Notitia and the Birth of the Word” in Philotheos: International Journal for Philosophy and Theology (July 2008).

“Metaphors of Imaging in Meister Eckhart and Marguerite Porete,” Medieval Perspectives, 13 (1998), 99-108.

Editorial Work:
Co-edited with Kristi Upson-Saia, Special Issue of Journal of Late Antiquity 8.2 (Fall 2015) on Religion, Medicine, Disability and Health in Late Antiquity.

Co-edited with Jared Secord and Christoph Markchies, Special Issue of Studia Patristica, forthcoming 2017.

Encyclopedia Articles:
“Agnostos Theos,” entry in Blackwells Encyclopedia of Ancient History (2012)

“Bardesanes,” entry in Blackwells Encyclopedia of Ancient History (2012)

“Apotropaic gods,” entry in Blackwells Encyclopedia of Ancient History (2012)

“Madness,” entry in the Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage (Brill, 2009)