Advisor: Peter Brown
Interests: Medieval Europe and the Middle East; social diversity; religious minorities; “conceptual communities” (the conceptual dimension of social life); varying definitions of Christianity, Orthodoxy, etc.; Syriac Christianity; Armenian Christianity; Syriac and Armenian literature, hagiography, theology, and poetry; ecclesiastical schisms.
Dissertation Title: “Christians in Fifteenth-Century Iraq: The Church of the East as a Conceptual Community”
