Yifat Monnickendam (2009), working on her Ph.D. at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, spent several weeks with us as a Visiting Scholar, continuing her work in the library of our Institute for Christian Oriental Research, thanks to the generosity of Rev. Professor Sidney Griffith and Dr Monica Blanchard, and thanks also to the award of a Lea Goldberg Travel Grant by the Hebrew University. Her thesis is entitled “Halakhic Issues in the Writings of the Syriac Church Fathers Ephrem and Aphrahat.”
Ms Monnickendam has published two papers: “‘I Will Put to Death and Bring to Life, I Will Smite and Heal’ – Two Versions of the Polemic on the Resurrection of the Dead,” Tarbiz 76 (2007): 329-51; and “Bruria as a Contradictory Analogy to Rabbi Meir,” Derech Aggadah 2 (1999): 37-63. She has delivered several conference papers, and left us en route to the Congress of the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies, where she delivered a paper entitled “Matrimonial Law of Ephrem the Syrian: Between Christian Identity and Jewish Law.”
Dr Chrysi Kotsifou (2006-2008) gained her doctorate in 2002, after undergraduate and graduate research at Goldsmith’s and King’s Colleges, University of London. She held post-doctoral fellowships at CUA, Princeton, the American University in Cairo, and Columbia, and taught at the American University in Cairo. She was granted a two-year Teaching and Research Fellowship in the Center, combined with an appointment as Visiting Associate Curator in the Semitics/ICOR Library, supported by funds from the Center, the Institute of Christian Oriental Research, and the Dean of Arts and Sciences. The Center is grateful for the collaboration of Professors Sidney Griffith and Larry Poos (Dean of Arts and Sciences) and for the support of the late Professor Michael O’Connor. In addition to graduate teaching, Dr Kotsifou worked on the preservation, cataloguing, and publication of some of the Coptic ostraca and papyri lodged in the ICOR library.
Karl Johan Skeidsvoll (2006-2007), a Research Fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway, held a position here as Visiting Scholar during the Fall semester, during which he continued his research on Gregory of Nazianzus.
Dr Caroline T. Schroeder (2006), Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford University. A Visiting Scholar during the Spring semester.
Dr Wendy Mayer (2005-2006), formerly Deputy Director of the Centre for Early Christian Studies at the Australian Catholic University, a Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow, and a Research Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, is an Affiliate of our Center. She was in residence as an Honorary Research Fellow for intermittent periods throughout the year.
