WOAH List TEST – Women of Ancient History

Name	Philippa Townsend
Position	Chancellor's fellow
Institutional Affiliation	University of Edinburg
Latitude	55.9445158
Longitude	-3.19143
Research Interests	Early Christian identity formation; Race and ethnicity in the Greco-Roman world; Sacrifice in the Greco-Roman world; Non-canonical ('Gnostic') Christian texts and the construction of orthodoxy and heresy Greek philosophical traditions (especially Neoplatonism) and their relationship to early Christianity.
Websites	http://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-philippa-townsend
Publications	The Manichaean body and society. Motions of Late Antiquity: Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society in Honor of Peter Brown. ed. / Jamie Kreiner; Helmut Reimitz. Brepols, 2016. (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages; Vol. 4).