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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Mount Allison University. I received my Ph.D. from Columbia University and my M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School. My work has appeared in Journal of Religion, Religion & Literature, and Harvard Divinity Bulletin among other print and online publications.  I am currently teaching Christianity: Thought, Practice, and Sanctuary and Islam and Mysticism: Divine Encounters.

“Names Matter: How to Better Represent the Orthodox Churches in Textbooks and the Academy,” The Journal of Religion 96, no. 4 (2016)

“Internal Liturgy: The Transmission of the Jesus Prayer in the Philokalia and The Way of a Pilgrim (Rasskaz Stranika),” Religion & Literature 48, no. 1 (2016)

“Beyond the End of the World: My Time on an Offshore Oil Platform,” Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Vol. 39, Nos. 3 & 4 (2011)

The Mirror of Glory: Sense and Subjectivity in Near Eastern Mysticism

The Saints of Boston: Icons of Eastern Christian Churches in Greater Boston (Pluralism Project, Harvard University)

“Eternity in the Now: The Church as Curator of Timeless Beauty,” in For Such a Time as This: Young Adults on the Future of the Church, edited by Mary Lohre (Judson Press, 2014)

“The Monk Philosopher in Yaḥyā ibn ‘Adī (d. 974) and Severus Ibn al-Muqaffa’ (d. c. 987),” in Orthodox Monasticism Past and Present (Gorgias Press, 2015)).

“The Reflexivity of Love: Fakhruddin ‘Iraqi’s Divine Flashes and St. Symeon the New Theologian’s Hymns of Divine Eros,” in Love, Marriage, and Family in Eastern Orthodox Perspective (Gorgias Press, 2016)

“Seeing to be Seen: Mirrors and Angels in John of Dalyatha,” in Syriac Christian Culture: Beginnings to Renaissance, CU Press (forthcoming)

Education

Ph.D. Columbia University, 2018

-Department of Religion

M.T.S. Harvard University, 2009

-Master of Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School

B.A. Syracuse University, 2004

-Dual Major in International Relations and Honors in Religious Studies

-Minor in Photo Journalism, S.I. Newhouse School of Communications

-Magna cum laude, phi beta kappa

Christianity: Thought, Practice, and Sanctuary

Islam and Mysticism: Divine Encounters