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a)
Books
Disability, Medicine, and Healing Discourse in Early Christianity. London: Routledge. Under contract, in
preparation. Co-editor with Chris L. de Wet and Jonathan L. Zecher.
The Garb of Being: Embodiment and the Pursuit of Holiness in Late Ancient Christianity. New York:
Fordham University Press, 2019. Co-editor with Georgia Frank and Andrew S. Jacobs.
Beholden: Religion, Global Health, and Human Rights. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Winner of the 2016 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. Reviews to date have appeared in Journal of
Religion & Health (April 11, 2016); Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (May
2016); Sojourners (May 2016); Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (December 2016); Religious Studies
Review (March 2017); invited OUP blogpost, “Religion and the social determinants of health”
(2/9/15); book launch hosted by the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard
University (4/3/15); online interview for the Harvard University Initiative on Health, Religion &
Spirituality. Translation forthcoming into Romanian (2020-21).
4Basil of Caesarea: On Fasting and Feasts. Popular Patristics Series; Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s
Seminary Press, 2013. Lead author and collaborative translator with Dr. Mark DelCogliano.
God Knows There’s Need: Christian Responses to Poverty. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. In
an August 2010 Harvard Divinity Bulletin review, Professor Susan Abraham called the book “deeply
satisfying,” adding: “The raucous and intractable ‘debate’ on health care reform taking place
right now will find resources in this text to address the polarized and contradictory ways in which
the debate has shaped up publically.” Also reviewed by: Publishers Weekly (April 13, 2009); Library
Journal (May 15, 2009), Theological Studies (vol. 71/2, June 2010, pp. 503–504), The London Tablet
(Feb. 20, 2010), p. 31, Catholic Historical Review (April 2010), InCommunion, Catholic News
Service/National Catholic Reporter, and Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society (vol. 38/1,
Spring 2011, pp. 165-167). Two book-related interviews with the author are online at
http://livedtheology.org/god-knows-theres-need-christian-responses-to-poverty-interview/
(Project on Lived Theology) and the alumni magazine of the Friedman Nutrition School at Tufts
University, (Tufts Journal).
Wealth and Poverty in Early Church and Society (Volume editor), Holy Cross Studies in Patristic
Theology and History 1. Grand Rapids: BakerAcademic, 2008. Select, peer-reviewed and
revised papers from a 2005 conference of the Stephen and Catherine Pappas Patristic Institute,
Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Boston, MA; Foreword by His Eminence
Archbishop Demetrios [Trakatellis], Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in America.
The Hungry are Dying: Beggars and Bishops in Roman Cappadocia. Oxford Studies in Historical
Theology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Reviewed in Church History (June 2002),
Journal of Ecclesiastical History (Jan. 2003), Bryn Mawr Classical Review (March 2003), Journal of
Theological Studies (vol. 54/1, April 2003, p. 323–324), Journal of Religion (vol. 83/4, Oct. 2003, p.
631–633), American Historical Review (vol. 108/5, Dec. 2003, pp. 1503–1504), and Journal of Roman
Studies (vol. 93, Nov. 2003, pp. 413–414). Translations: Romanian.
Essentials of Nutrition for the Health Professions. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1987. College-level
health science textbook designed for nursing students.
b)
Peer-Reviewed/Invited Articles
“Religion and Public Health: Learning from the [Ancient] Past,” Public Health, Religion, and
Spirituality Network Bulletin, Issue 2 (Spring 2020), online.
http://www.publichealthrs.org/a009/. [double-peer-reviewed prior to final acceptance and
publication]
“Doctors in the Choir: Healing Embodiment and Ingestion in Early Christian Space.” Journal of
Early Christian Studies 28:2 (2020): 255-82.
“Orthodox Humanitarianisms: Patristic Foundations,” Review of Faith and International Affairs 14:1
(2016): 26–33. (special issue on “Orthodox Christianity and Humanitarianism: Ideas and Actions
in the Contemporary World”)
5Vortmann, M, Balsari, S, Holman SR, Greenough PG. “Water, sanitation, and hygiene at the
world’s largest mass gathering.” Current Infectious Disease Reports, 17:2 (2015); doi: 10.1007/s11908-
015-0461-1. [see below for additional collaborative public health research]
“De Beneficentia: A Homily on Social Action attributed to Basil of Caesarea” first critical edition
and analysis of a fifth- or sixth-century Greek text on philanthropy, in collaboration with
Caroline Macé (Catholic University of Leuven, who has prepared the critical edition) and Brian
Matz (Carroll University), Vigiliae Christianae 66 (2012): 457–481.
Smith Fawzi MC, Holman SR, Kiley R, Li M, Barry D, Bandara S, Fuller A. “Closing the
implementation gap in services for children affected by HIV/AIDS: From assisting orphans and
vulnerable children (OVC) to providing long-term opportunities for economic growth.”
[Commentary]. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 22 (2011): 1401–1412.
“Unmercenary Saints,” in John Anthony McGuckin (ed.), Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodox
Christianity, Vol. 2. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, pp. 618–620.
Smith Fawzi MC, Holman SR, Fuller A. “Children affected by HIV/AIDS,” [Letter], Health
Affairs 29/4 (2010): 744; doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0243.
“On Phoenix and Eunuchs: Sources for Meletius the Monk’s Anatomy of Gender,” Journal of
Early Christian Studies 16 (2008): 79–101.
“Rich City Burning: Social Welfare and Ecclesial Insecurity in Basil’s Mission to Armenia,”
Journal of Early Christian Studies 12 (2004): 195–211.
“Lightfoot’s ‘Woman’: Scribal transmission and the Victorian Reporter.” Anglican Theological
Review 84 (2002): 251–268.
“The Entitled Poor: Human Rights Language in the Cappadocians.” Pro Ecclesia 9 (2000): 476–
489.
“Healing the Social Leper in Gregory of Nyssa’s and Gregory of Nazianzus’s ‘Peri philoptochias.’”
Harvard Theological Review 92 (1999): 283–309. Selected for reprinting in the Classical and Medieval
Literature Criticism (Thomas Gale Publishers), Vol. 82, June 2006.
“The Hungry Body: Famine, Poverty and Identity in Basil’s Homily 8” Journal of Early Christian
Studies 7 (1999): 337–363.
“Molded as Wax: Formation and Feeding of the Ancient Newborn.” Helios 24 (1997): 77–95.
c)
Book Chapters
“Shaping Water: Public Health and the ‘Medicine of Mortality’ in Late Antiquity,” in Chris L.
de Wet, Susan R. Holman, and Jonathan L. Zecher, eds., Disability, Medicine, and Healing Discourse
in Early Christianity. London: Routledge, forthcoming.
6“Stampede at the Kumbh Mela” (co-authored with Satchit Balsari) in Himanshu Grover and
Tanveer Islam, eds., Case Studies in Disaster Mitigation and Prevention. Disaster and Emergency
Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation; Elsevier, 2020, in press.
“Works of Relief and Charity [in the Early Church in the Roman Empire],” in Paul van Geest,
Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte, and David Hunter, eds., Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity. Leiden:
Brill, in press.
“ ‘And Yet the Books’: Footnotes in Patristic Social Welfare,” in Georgia Frank, Andrew S.
Jacobs, Susan R. Holman, eds., The Garb of Being: Embodiment and the Pursuit of Holiness in Late
Ancient Christianity. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020, pp. 294–317.
“Daring to Write Theology without Footnotes.” In Charles Marsh, Peter Slade, and Sarah
Azaransky, eds., Lived Theology: New Perspectives on Method, Style and Pedagogy. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2017, pp. 89–101.
“Martyr-Saints and the Demon of Infant Mortality: Folk Healing in Early Christian Pediatric
Medicine.” In Christian Laes, Katariina Mustakallio, and Ville Vuolanto, eds., Childhood and
Family in Late Antiquity: Life, Death and Interaction. Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and
Religion 15; Leuven: Peeters, 2014, 233–254. (Invited chapter for The Roman Family VI
conference, 2012)
“A Good Place to Build Something New: Global Health Equity in the Department of Medicine.”
In Peter Tishler, Christine Wenc, and Joseph Loscalzo, eds., The Teaching Hospital: Brigham and
Women’s Hospital and the Evolution of Academic Medicine. New York: McGraw Hill, 2014, 383–391.
(Invited chapter on the history of the Division of Global Health Equity)
“Out of the Fitting Room: Rethinking Patristic Social Texts on ‘The Common Good.” In Johan
Leemans, Brian Matz, and Johan Verstraeten, eds., Reading Patristic Texts on Social Ethics: Issues and
Challenges for 21 st Century Christian Social Thought. Washington: Catholic University of America
Press, 2011, pp. 103–123. (Invited chapter based on invited colloquium paper)
“On the ground: Realizing an ‘altared’ philoptochia.” in Matthew Pereira, ed., Philanthropy and
Social Compassion in Eastern Orthodox Tradition. Papers of the Sophia Institute Annual Academic
Conference Dec. 2009. New York: Theotokos Press, 2010, pp. 31–49. (Invited chapter based on
invited plenary paper)
“Sick Children and Healing Saints: Medical treatment of the child in Christian antiquity.” In
Cornelia B. Horn and Robert R. Phenix, eds. Children in Late Ancient Christianity. Studien und
Texte zum Antiken Christentum/Studies and Texts on Ancient Christianity; Tübingen: Mohr-
Siebeck, 2009, pp. 143–170. Series Editor: Christoph Markschies. (Invited chapter)
“Healing the world with righteousness? The language of social justice in early Christian
homilies,” in Miriam Frenkel and Yaacov Lev, eds., Charity and Giving in Monotheistic Religions.
Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients. Berlin/NY: De Gruyter, 2009, pp.
89–110. (Invited chapter)
7“God and the Poor,” in Andrew B. McGowan, Brian E. Daley SJ, and Timothy J. Gadin (eds.),
God in Early Christian Thought : Essays in Memory of Lloyd G. Patterson, Vigiliae Christianae Supplements
94. Leiden: Brill, 2009, pp. 297–321. (Invited chapter)
“Rich and Poor in Sophronius of Jerusalem’s Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John.” In Susan R.
Holman, ed., Wealth and Poverty in Early Church and Society. Holy Cross Studies in Patristic Theology
and History, vol. 1. Grand Rapids: BakerAcademic, 2008; pp. 103–124. (Chapter is double-peer-
reviewed revision of invited plenary lecture)
“Constructed and Consumed: Everyday Life of the Poor in 4 th C. Cappadocia,” in W. Bowden,
A. Gutteridge, and C. Machado (eds), Social and Political Life in Late Antiquity. Late Antique
Archaeology 3; Leiden: Brill, 2006; pp. 441–464. (Invited chapter)
“Taxing Nazianzus: Gregory and the Other Julian.” In M.F. Wiles and E.J. Yarnold (eds.), Studia
Patristica XXXVII. Leuven: Peeters, 2001; pp. 103–109. (Conference proceedings)
“‘You speculate on the misery of the poor:’ Usury as civic injustice in Basil of Caesarea’s second
homily on Psalm 14.” In Keith Hopwood (ed.), Organised Crime in the Ancient World. London and
Swansea: Duckworth/Classical Press of Wales, 1999; pp. 207–228.
“Nutrition Management.” In John W. Hare (ed.), Diabetes Complicating Pregnancy: The Joslin Clinic
Method. New York: Alan R. Liss, Inc., 1989; pp. 69–80 (Invited chapter)
d)
Book Reviews
Michael Balboni and John Peteet (eds.), Spirituality and Religion within the Culture of Medicine: From
Evidence to Practice. Reviewed in Journal of Religion and Health, vol. 56, no. 5 (October 2017): 1892–
1894. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-017-0461-6.
Peter Brown, Treasure in Heaven: The Holy Poor in Early Christianity. Reviewed in Journal of Late
Antiquity, vol. 10, no. 2 (2017): 282–287.
Vasiliki M. Limberis, Architects of Piety: The Cappadocian Fathers and the Cult of the Martyrs. Reviewed
in The Journal of Theological Studies NS 63/1 (April 2012): 318–321.
Invited book “briefs” for Health and Human Rights: An International Journal, vol. 13, no. 1 (2011), on
the following titles: Elena Andresen and Erin DeFries Bouldin (eds.), Public Health Foundations:
Concepts and Practices; Thomas Banchoff and Robert Wuthnow (eds.), Religion and the Global Politics
of Human Rights; Ronald Dworkin, Justice for Hedgehogs; John Harrington and Maria Stuttaford
(eds.), Global Health and Human Rights: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives; Nancy Krieger, Epidemiology
and the People’s Health; Johannes Morsink, Inherent Human Rights: Philosophical Roots of the Universal
Declaration; Jennifer Prah Ruger, Health and Social Justice; John Witte, Jr., and Frank S. Alexander
(eds.), Christianity and Human Rights: An Introduction; and Iris Marion Young, Responsibility for Justice.
8William J. Tabbernee, Prophets and Gravestones : An Imaginative History of Montanists and Other Early
Christians. Reviewed in Journal of Early Christian Studies 18 (2010): 654–655.
Sophie Métivier, La Cappadoce (IV e –VI e siècle): Une histoire provinciale de l’Empire romain d’Orient.
Reviewed in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, June 11, 2006.
Dionysios Ch. Stathakopoulos, Famine and Pestilence in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Empire.
Reviewed in Speculum 81 (2006): 606–608.
Raymond Van Dam, Families and Friends in Late Roman Cappadocia, Reviewed in Church History 74
(2005): 597–598.
Andrea Sterk, Renouncing the World Yet Leading the Church: The Monk-Bishop in Late Antiquity.
Reviewed in Journal of Early Christian Studies, 12 (2004): 543–544.
Timothy S. Miller, The Orphans of Byzantium: Child Welfare in the Christian Empire. Reviewed in The
American Historical Review (February 2004): 233–234.
Edward Yarnold, S.J. Cyril of Jerusalem. Reviewed in Journal of Early Christian Studies 10 (2002):
298–299.
Paul Jonathan Fedwick. Bibliotheca Basiliana Vniveralis II.1,2. Reviewed in Journal of Early Christian
Studies 7 (1999): 163–165.
Emily Albu Hanawalt and Carter Lindberg (eds.), Through the Eye of a Needle: Judeo-Christian Roots of
Social Welfare. Reviewed in Religious Studies Review 21 (1995): 337.
e)
Collaborative Public Health Research
[see above for related peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters]
International Reports of the Joint Learning Initiative on Children and HIV/AIDS:
Baingana F, Fuller A, Levy Guyer A, Holman SR, Kim JY, Li M, McKeever J, Mungherera L,
Psaki S, Sematimba B, Serukka D, Smith Fawzi MC, and Zaeh S. The implementation gap in services
for children affected by HIV/AIDS: Supporting families and communities in caring for and protecting vulnerable
children. Boston: The FXB Center/JLICA, 2008.
Kim JY, Mungherera L, Belfer M, Betancourt T, Holman SR, and Smith Fawzi MC [principal
writers, with other contributing writers]: Casey A, Chan A, Forman R, Fuller A, Li M, Lim Y,
Williams T, and Zaeh S. Integration and expansion of prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT)
of HIV and early childhood intervention services. Boston: The FXB Center/JLICA, 2008.
Kim JY, Mungherera L, Holman SR, and Smith Fawzi MC. The Joint Learning Initiative on Children
and HIV/AIDS (Learning Group 3) Synthesis report: Expanding access to services and protecting human rights.
Boston: The FXB Center/JLICA, 2008.
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