Mellon-Helis Fellows

The Fellows listed below are taking courses, preparing for comprehensive examinations, or working on their dissertations, and have received, are receiving, or will receive stipends from the Center’s endowment funds.

 

 

Sidney R. Banks MA (Graduate Student in Early Christian Studies).  Doctoral Dissertation: "Blazing Walls, Blazing Brothers: Monks and the Making of the Demon in the Pachomian Koinonia."  Directors: Professor Philip Rousseau (Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Christian Studies) and Dr Janet Timbie (Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures).

 

Brent Gilbert (Graduate Student in the Department of Greek and Latin).

 

Carl W. Griffin MA (Graduate Student in Early Christian Studies).  Doctoral Dissertation: “Cyrillona: a Critical Study and Commentary.”  Director: Rev. Professor Sidney H. Griffith ST (Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures).  Carl Griffin is Directing Editor of the Eastern Christian Texts Project at Brigham Young University.

 

Andrew Hayes MA (Graduate Student in the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures).

 

Erik Kolb MA (Graduate Student in Early Christian Studies).

 

Benjamin Lewis (Graduate Student in Greek and Latin).

 

Robert Morehouse MA (Graduate Student in the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures).  Doctoral Dissertation: "Bar Daysan and Mani in Ephraem the Syrian's Heresiography."  Director: The Revd Professor Sidney H. Griffith ST (Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures). 

 

Mark Mourachian (Graduate Student in Early Christian Studies).  Doctoral Dissertation: "Human Freedom in the Context of the Theological Anthropology of St Ephrem the Syrian."  Director: Rev. Professor Sidney H. Griffith ST (Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures).

 

Edward Naumann MA (Graduate Student in the Department of Greek and Latin).

 

Jared Ortiz MA (Graduate Student in the School of Theology and Religious Studies).

 

Jutta Raithel MA (Graduate Student in Early Christian Studies).  Doctoral Dissertation: “Beginning at the End: Literary Unity and the Relationship between Anthropology and Liturgy in the Protevangelium Jacobi (P Bodmer 5).”  Director: Professor Philip Rousseau (Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Christian Studies).

 

Dana Robinson (Graduate Student in the Department of Greek and Latin).

 

Robert Simkins MDiv (Graduate Student in the School of Theology and Religious Studies).  Doctoral Dissertation: "Palladius and Ascetic Social Engagement."  Director: Professor Philip Rousseau (Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Christian Studies).

 

Clare Wilde, Licentiate, Pontifical Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies (Graduate Student in the School of Theology and Religious Studies).  Doctoral Dissertation: “ The Qur’an in Early Melkite Texts.”  Director: Rev. Professor Sidney H. Griffith ST (Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures).  Clare Wilde teaches at Georgetown University.

 

 

Graduate Members

Graduate Members, while not funded by the Center, are working in the early Christian field.

 

Rev. George Alexson (Graduate Student in Early Christian Studies).   Doctoral Dissertation: “The Letters of Barsanuphius and John.”  Director: Professor Philip Rousseau (Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Christian Studies).   Father Alexson is Dean of the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation, Atlanta, GA.

Robert M. Alspaugh (Graduate Student in the School of Theology and Religious Studies).  Doctoral Dissertation: “The Christology of Gregory of Nyssa.”  Director: Professor Philip Rousseau (Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Christian Studies).

Dr Allen Barnes (Graduate Student in Early Christian Studies).

Frank DuPreez (Graduate Student in the School of Theology and Religious Studies).  Doctoral Dissertation (proposed): "Gregory the Great and the Jews."

Tera Harmon (Graduate Student in the School of Theology and Religious Studies).

Sister Maria Kiely MA (Graduate Student in the Department of Greek and Latin).  Doctoral Dissertation: "The Poetics of Christian Asceticism: the Pastoral Use of the Song of Songs in the Writings of Ambrose of Milan."  Director: Professor Philip Rousseau (Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Christian Studies).

Fred Mannella (Graduate Student in the School of Theology and Religious Studies).  Doctoral Dissertation: "Per creaturam invisibilem: Divine Providence in the Thought of St Gregory the Great."

Elizabeth Pavlick (Graduate Student in the School of Theology and Religious Studies).

Fred W. Sand (Graduate Student in the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures).

Charles Shunk MA  (Graduate Student in the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures).

Stuart Squires (Graduate Student in the School of Theology and Religious Studies).

Paul Stevenson MA (Graduate Student in the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures).