Educational Background

• Ph.D., Fordham University
• M.T.S., Emory University
• B.A., Elon University

Research Interests

• Early Christianity and Late Antiquity
• Religion and the History of Medicine
• Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome
• Poststructuralism
• Historiography
• Western Religious History

Teaching Interests

• History of Christianity
• History of Biblical Interpretation
• Theories of Religion
• Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
• Religion and Pop Culture

Selected Publications

BOOKS

Raised on Christian Milk: Food and the Formation of the Soul in Early Christianity (Yale University Press, 2017).

ARTICLES

"Fed to Perfection: Mother's Milk, Roman Family Values, and the Transformation of the Soul in Gregory of Nyssa," Church History 84:3 (Fall 2015): 1-36. 

"The Health-Giving Cup: Cyprian's Ep. 63 and the Medicinal Power of Eucharistic Wine," Journal of Early Christian Studies23.2 (Summer 2015): 189-211.