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This is my personal faculty page at Vanderbilt University, where I am Associate Professor of the History of Christianity and an affiliate faculty member in the Program in Classical and Mediterranean Studies, the Program in Islamic Studies, and the Department of History.
I earned my Ph.D. in History from Princeton University with training in the history of the Middle East and Mediterranean in the periods of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (roughly 200-800 of the current era).
My teaching and research focus on the history of Christianity in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. In particular, he is interested in historical texts in the Syriac language (a dialect of Aramaic). Although often overlooked, these Syriac sources offer many new perspectives on the history of Christianity. Syriac was the common language of Christianity in the Middle East and Asia for over a thousand years. Syriac literature and networks of Syriac-speaking scholars were often a cultural bridge between Christi