Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity (CSLA)
Yitz Landes *23
(Religion)
“The Transmission of the Mishnah and the Spread of Rabbinic Judaism, 200 CE – 1200 CE”
Advisor: Moulie Vidas
Walter Beers *22
(History)
“The Tottering House of the World”: The Ruralization of the Miaphysite Church in the Works of John of Ephesus (c. 507-88 C.E.)”
Advisor: Jack Tannous
Alyssa Cady *22
(Religion)
“Discursive Constructions: Space and Time in Northern Italy in the Late Fourth Century”
Advisor: AnneMarie Luijendijk
Joe Glynias *22
(History)
“Baghdad on the Orontes: Between Greek and Arabic Intellectual Worlds in Eleventh-Century Antioch”
Advisor: Jack Tannous
Vicky Hioureas *22
(History)
“A Sociocultural History of Violence in Twelfth-Century Byzantium”
Advisor(s): John Haldon and William Chester Jordan
Lucas McMahon *22
(History)
“Information Transmission and the Byzantine State: Geography, Logistics, and Geopolitics, 600 -1200”
Advisor(s): Jack Tannous and John Haldon
Stephanie Fan *21
(Comparative Literature)
“Pleasure as a First Principle? Nietzsche and the French Moralists on Mortality and Religion”
Advisor(s): Anthony Grafton, Alexander Nehamas
Skyler Anderson *20
(History)
“Challenging Received Wisdom: The People of the Book and the Creation of an Islamic Tradition”
Advisor: Jack Tannous
Thomas Benfey *20
(Near Eastern Studies)
“The Scholars of Sasanian Iran and Their Islamic Heirs”
Advisor: Michael Cook
Lorenzo Bondioli *20
(History)
“Peasants, Merchants, and Caliphs: Capital and Empire in Fatimid Egypt”
Advisor (s): John Haldon and Maria Rustow
Jonathan Klein Henry *20
(Religion)
“Exorcists: The Origins, Roles, and Lives of Late Antique Exorcism Specialists”
Advisor: AnneMarie Luijendijk
Cecilia Palombo *20
(Near Eastern Studies)
“The Christian Clergy’s Islamic Local Government in Late Marwanid and Abbasid Egypt”
Advisor: Michael Cook
Tzvi Lamm *20
(Religion)
“Teachers, Prophets and Exegetes: Jewish and Early Christian Intellectual History, 200 BCE - 200 CE”
Advisor: Moulie Vidas
Mark Letteney *20
(Religion)
“Christianizing Knowledge: A New Order of Books in the Theodosian Age”
Advisor: Elaine Pagels
John Lansdowne *19
(Art and Archaeology)
“The Dead Christ at Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome”
Advisor: Charlie Barber
Alexander Petkas *19
(Classics)
“Synesius of Cyrene and the Politics of the Late Antique Philosophical Letter”
Advisor: Christian Wildberg
Abraham Berkovitz *18
(Religion)
“The Life of Psalms in Late Antiquity”
Advisor: Martha Himmelfarb
Merle Eisenberg *18
(History)
“Building Little Romes: Christianity, Identity, and Governance in Late Antique Gaul”
Advisor: Helmut Reimitz
Jaqueline Sturm *18
(Art and Archaeology)
“The Bishop, His House, and His Church-Early Medieval Episcopal Complexes In Italia Annonaria (300-600 CE)”
Advisor: Charlie Barber
Ian Ward *18
(History)
“The Oath of Loyalty and the Post-Carolingian Transformation, c.830-1000”
Advisor: Helmut Reimitz
Molly Lester *17
(History)
"The Word as Lived: The Practice of Orthodoxy in Early Medieval Iberia, c. 500-711"
Advisor: Helmut Reimitz
Lee Mordechai *17
(History)
"Costly Diversity: Transformations, Networks, and Minorities in Byzantium, 976-1118"
Advisor: John Haldon
Giuseppe Ricci *15
(History)
“Nomads in Late Antiquity: Gazing on Rome From the Steppe, Attila to Aparuch (370-680 C.E.)”
Advisor: John Haldon
Group for the Study of Late Antiquity (GSLA) 1986-2011
George Hatke *11
(Near Eastern Studies)
"Africans in Arabia Felix: Aksumite relations with Himyar in the sixth century C.E."
Advisor: Michael Cook
Jamie Kreiner *11
(History)
"The Social Function of Merovingian Hagiography, 600-750"
Advisor: Peter R. Brown
Pavlos Avlamis *10
(Classics)
"Aesopic Lives: Greek Imperial Literature and Urban Popular Culture"
Advisor: Froma I. Zeitlin
Ariel López *10
(History)
"Shenoute of Atripe and the Uses of Poverty"
Advisor: Peter R. Brown
Katherine Leigh Marsengill *10
(Art and Archaeology)
"Portraits and Icons: Between Reality and Holiness in Byzantium"
Advisor: Slobodan Ćurčić
Richard E. Payne *10
(History)
"Christianity and Iranian Society in Late Antiquity, ca. 500-700 CE"
Advisor: Peter R. Brown
Jack Tannous *10
(History)
"Syria between Byzantium and Islam: Making Incommensurables Speak"
Advisor: Peter R. Brown
Eduard Iricinschi *09
(Religion)
"The scribes and readers of Nag Hammadi Codex II : book production and monastic paideia in fourth-century Egypt"
Advisor: Elaine Pagels
Kevin James Kalish *09
(Comparative Literature)
“Greek Christian Poetry in Classical Forms: The Codes of Visions from the Bodmer Papyri and the Melding of Literary Traditions”
Advisor: Daniel Heller-Roazen
Daniel Louis Schwartz *09
(History)
"Christian Education and Worship in the Making of the Late-antique Church: Paideia and Cult in the Catechetical Homilies of Theodore of Mopsuestia "
Advisor: Peter R. Brown
Philippa Lois Townsend *09
(Religion)
"Another race?: ethnicity, universalism, and the emergence of Christianity"
Advisors: Elaine Pagels and Peter R. Brown
Alessandra Ricci *08
(Art & Archaeology)
"Reinterpretation of the ‘Palace of Bryas’: A Study in Byzantine Architecture, History and Historiography"
Advisor: Slobodan Ćurčić
Uriel Simonsohn *08
(Near Eastern Studies)
"Overlapping jurisdictions: confessional boundaries and judicial choice among Christians and Jews under Early Muslim rule"
Advisor: Peter R. Brown
David Allen Michelson *07
(History)
“Practice Leads to Theory: Orthodoxy and the Spiritual Struggle in the World of Philoxenos of Mabbug (470-523)”
Advisor: Peter R. Brown
Nancy Khalek *06
(History)
“From Byzantium to Early Islam: Studies on Damascus in the Umayyad Era”
Advisor: Peter R. Brown
Dimitrios T. Dentsoras *06
(Philosophy)
“Virtue, Knowledge, and Happiness: Stoic moral theory and its Socratic and Platonic antecedents”
Advisor: John Cooper
Yumna Masarwa *06
(Art and Archaeology)
“From a Word of God to Archaeological Monuments: A Historical-Archaeological Study of the Umayyad Ribats of Palestine”
Advisor: Thomas Leisten
William Faizi McCants *06
(Near Eastern Studies)
“Founding Forefathers: The impact of the Greek and Arab Conquests on Native Histories of Culture”
Advisor: Michael Cook
Lisa Bailey *04
(History)
“Preaching and Pastoral Care in Late Antique Gaul: The Eusebius Gallicanus Sermon Collection”
Advisor: Peter R. Brown
Volker Menze *04
(History)
“The Making of a Church: The Syrian Orthodox in the Shadow of Byzantium and the Papacy”
Advisor: Peter R. Brown
Yannis Papadoyannakis *03
(Religion)
"Christian therapeia and politeia. The Apologetics of Theodoret of Cyrrhus against the Greeks"
Advisor: John Gager
Kimberly Bowes *02
(Art and Archaelogy)
“Possessing The Holy: Private Churches and Private Piety in Late Antiquity”
Advisor: Slobodan Ćurčić
Nora Edith Laos *02
(Art and Archaeology)
“Provençal Baptisteries: Early Christian Origins and Medieval Afterlife”
Advisor: Slobodan Ćurčić
Christopher Lee *02
(Classics)
“Defining the Holy: Visions of the Ascetic in Late Antiquity”
Advisor: Peter R. Brown
Megan Hale Williams *02
(Religion)
“Jerome’s Biblical Criticism and the Making of Christian Scholarship”
Advisor: Peter R. Brown
Kirsti Barrett Copeland *01
(Religion)
"Mapping the apocalypse of Paul: Geography, genre and history"
Advisors: Martha Himmelfarb, Elaine Pagels
Scott Bruce *00
(History)
“Uttering No Human Sound: Silence and Sign Language in Western Medieval Monasticism“
Advisor: PeterR. Brown
Jennifer Hevelone-Harper *00
(History)
“Letters to the Great Old Man: Monks, Laity, and Spiritual Authority in Sixth-Century Gaza”
Advisor: PeterR. Brown
Asen Kirin *00
(Art and Archaeology)
"The Rotunda of St. George and Late Antique Serdica: From Imperial Palace to Episcopal Complex"
Advisor: Slobodan Ćurčić
Jaclyn LaRae Maxwell *00
(History)
"Preaching to the Converted: John Chrysostom and his Audience in Antioch"
Advisor: Peter R. Brown
Michael Gaddis *99
(History)
"There is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ: Religious Violence (History) in the Christian Roman Empire"
Advisor: Peter R. Brown
Kevin Uhalde *99
(History)
"The Expectation of Justice, AD 400-700"
Advisor: Peter R. Brown
Nicola Frances Denzey *98
(Religion)
"Under a Pitiless Sky: Conversion, Cosmology and the Rhetoric of Enslavement to Fate in Second-Century Christian Sources"
Advisor: PeterR. Brown
Erika Thorgerson *99
(Classics)
"The Vita Augustini of Possidius : the remaking of Augustine for a post-Augustinian world"
Advisor: Peter Brown
Amy Cassens Papalexandrou *98
(Art and Archaeology)
"The Church of the Virgin of Skripou: Architecture, Sculpture and Inscriptions in Ninth-Century Byzantium"
Advisor: Slobodan Ćurčić
Joel Thomas Walker *98
(History)
"'Your Heroic Deeds Give Us Pleasure!' Culture and Society in Christian Martyr Legends of Late Antique Iraq"
Advisor: Peter R. Brown
Haim Goldfus *97
(Art and Archaeology)
"Tombs and Burials in Churches and Monasteries of Byzantine Art and Palestine (324-628 A.D.)"
Advisor: Slobodan Ćurčić
Maribel Dietz *96
(History)
"Travel Wandering and Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages"
Advisor: Peter R. Brown
Elizabeth Key Fowden *95
(Classics)
“Sergius of Rusafa : Sacred Defense in Late Antique Syria-Mesopotamia“
Advisor: Peter R. Brown
Noel Emmanuel Lenski *95
(Classics)
“Valens and the Forth Century Empire”
Advisor: Peter R. Brown
Catherine Fales Cooper *93
(Religion)
“Concord and Martyrdom : Gender, Community, and The Uses of Christian Perfection in Late Antiquity”
Advisor: Peter Brown
Derek Krueger *91
(Religion)
“Cynics, Christians, and Holy Fools : The Late Antique Contexts of Leontius of Neapolis’ Life of Symeon the Fool”
Advisor: Peter R. Brown
Richard Lim *91
(Religion)
“Public Disputation, Power and Social Order in Late Antiquity”
Advisor: Peter R. Brown
Michael David Bonner *87
(Near Eastern Studies)
“The Emergence of the ThughūR : The Arab-Byzantine Frontier in the Early ἉbbāSid Age”
Advisor: Avram Udovitch
Mark Johnson *86
(Art & Archaeology)
"Late Antique Imperial Mausolea"
Advisor: Slobodan Ćurčić