Department

Theology

Position

Associate Professor

Books

• Paulist Press
  “Early Monastic Practices of Strategic Speech and Selective Silence to Limit Violence.” In Social Reconciliation in the Catholic Tradition. Ed. Jay Carney and Laurie Johnston. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, p. 62-81 2018
• Brepols Publishers
  Philosopher-Monks, Episcopal Aughority, and the Care of the Self: The Apophthegmata Patrum in Fifth-Century Palestine. Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia 80 (Turnhout, Bel.: Brepols Publishers, 2018) 2018
• Medieval Institute Publications (Western Michigan University)
  The Reception and Use of Monastic Literature: Text Creation and Community Formation. Christianities Before Modernity Series. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications (Western Michigan University), forthcoming (under contract).

Articles

• Journal of Religion & Society Supplement Series
  "In Memoriam: Memory and Imitation in Augustine and Athanasius." In Augustine in Christian Thought, Life and Practice. Ed. John O’Keefe and Michael Cameron. Journal of Religion & Society Supplement Series 15., p. 212-26 2018
• Journal of Religion & Society Supplement Series
  (with Ashley Young). "Jewish Identity and Religious Commitments in the American Midwest: Results of a Limited Study on Interfaith Upbringing." Religion and Globalization. Ed. Ronald A. Simkins and Zachary B. Smith. Journal of Religion & Society Supplement 16 (2018): 202-28
  16, p. 202-28 2018
• Early Christianity
  "Of Firstfruits and Social Fixtures: How Didache 13 Uses Torah to Reform Roman Patronage." Early Christianity 8.2 (2017): 251-68
  8.2, p. 251-68 2017
• Journal of Religion & Society Supplement Series
  "Monks and Empire: Asceticism and Political (Dis)Engagement in Late Antiquity." Religion and Politics. Ed. Ronald A. Simkins and Zachary B. Smith. Journal of Religion & Society Supplement 14 (2017): 14-27
  14, p. 14-27 2017

Presentations

• "Apa Carion the 'Monk'?" Lived Religiousness in Antiquity Unit, Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego, CA 2019
• "Self-Violence and Othering Violence: The Legacies of Christian Holiness." History of Christianity Unit, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Diego, CA 2019
• "Truth, Texts, and Community Formation in the Early Byzantine and Medieval Periods." Symposium on Religion and Justice, The Kripke Center, Creighton University, Omaha, NE 2019
• "Blinding Words: Legal Tests as a Potential Framework for Ascetic Scholarship." Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Denver, CO 2018
• "Authority, Dissent, and Social Formation in Late Antiquity." 31st Annual Symposium on Jewish Civilization, Creighton University, Omaha, NE 2018
• "Contextualizing Cassian: A Challenge to Foucault’s View of Obedience in Monasticism." North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL 2018
• "Making Spaces for Making Men." "You Are Here" Interdisciplinary Conference, Department of English, Creighton University 2018
• "Foucault’s Monks: Reassessing Foucault’s View of Subjectivity and Authority." AAR/SBL Rocky Mountain-Great Plains Regional Meeting, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 2018
• "Early Monastic Practices of Strategic Speech and Selective Silence to Limit Violence." Social Reconciliation in the Catholic Tradition Conference, Creighton University, Omaha, NE 2017
• "Who’s Right, Which Rite, Why Write? Apophthegmata as Protreptic and Paraenetic." North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL 2017
• "Between Two Worlds: Being Raised Jewish and Interfaith in the American Midwest." Symposium on Religion in Global Context, The Kripke Center, Creighton University, Omaha, NE 2017
• "Speech, Silence, and Violence: Healing and Harm in the Egyptian Desert." North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL 2016
• "In Memoriam: Memory and Imitation in Augustine and Athanasius." Symposium on Augustine in Christian Thought, Life, and Practice, The Kripke Center, Creighton University, Omaha, NE 2016
• "Monks and Empire: Asceticism and Political Engagement in Late Antiquity." Symposium on Religion and Politics, The Kripke Center, Creighton University, Omaha, NE 2016

Other

• Jewish Studies Research Grant

• Faculty Research Support Grant

• Course Adaptation Grant

• Summer Faculty Research Fellowship