Faculty Working in the Early Christian or Associated Fields

 

 

The Center's actitivites are immediately supervised by a Director and two Associate Directors:

 

Philip Rousseau
D.Phil., Oxford University
Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Early Christian Studies, Director

Late antique religion, with emphasis on early Christian asceticism

William E. Klingshirn
Ph.D., Stanford University
Professor, Department of Greek and Latin, Associate Director

Late antique history, Roman religion, Christianization, divination

 

Leonora Neville
Ph.D., Princeton University
Associate Professor, Department of History, Associate Director

Byzantine History

 

 

The Center's policies are developed under the guidance and with the approval of a Faculty Advisory Board, which includes (in addition to the above) all those teaching in the early Christian and closely related fields, as follows:

 

Monica Blanchard
Ph.D., The Catholic University of America
Curator, Semitics/ICOR Libraries

Languages and literatures of the Christian Near East, orientalist librarianship

 

John P. Galvin

Dr. Theol., Innsbruck

Professor of Systematic Theology, School of Theology and Religious Studies

Christology, Ecclesiology

 

Francis T. Gignac
D.Phil., Oxford University
Professor, Director of Biblical Studies, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Papyrology and Biblical Greek

 

Sidney H. Griffith

Ph.D., The Catholic University of America
Professor and Chair, Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literature

Syriac, Christian Arabic

 

Katherine L. Jansen

Ph.D., Princeton University

Associate Professor, Department of History

Medieval Italy, medieval women and gender, religious and cultural history

 

William P. Loewe

Ph.D., Marquette University

Associate Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies

Systematic and Fundamental Theology, especially Christology and Soteriology

 

Frank A. C. Mantello
Ph.D., University of Toronto
Professor and Chair, Department of Greek and Latin

Latin Patristics, Latin paleography, textual criticism

 

Frank J. Matera

Ph.D., Union Theological Seminary, Richmond

Andrews-Kelly-Ryan Professor of Biblical Studies, School of Theology and Religious Studies

New Testament

 

William J. McCarthy
Ph.D., The Catholic University of America
Associate Professor, Department of Greek and Latin

Greek and Latin Patristics 

 

Mark Morozowich

Doctorate in Eastern Christian Studies, Pontifical Oriental Institute

Assistant Professor, School of Theology and Religous Studies

Liturgy

 

Kenneth Pennington
Ph.D., Cornell University
Kelly-Quinn Professor of Ecclesiastical and Legal History
Columbus School of Law and School of Theology and Religious Studies

Canon law 

John F. Petruccione
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Department of Greek and Latin

Latin Patristics, early Christian poetry and hagiography

 

Dominic Serra

S.L.D., Pontifical Institute of Liturgy, Sant'Anselmo, Rome

Associate Professor, Director of Liturgical Studies and Sacramental Theology, School of Theology and Religious Studies

Sacraments of Christian Initiation

Janet Timbie
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Semitic Languages and Literatures, Member of the Executive Committee

Coptic language and literature 

 

Tarmo Toom

Ph.D., The Catholic University of America

Associate Professor of Latin Patristics, School of Theology and Religious Studies

Latin Patristics 

 

Matthias Vorwerk
Ph.D., University of Münster
Assistant Professor, School of Philosophy, Member of the Executive Committee
Ancient and late antique philosophy 

 

Susan Wessel

Ph.D., Columbia University

Assistant Professor of Greek Patristics, School of Theology and Religious Studies, Member of the Executive Committee

Greek Patristics