Education
PhD, Religion, Duke University (in progress, 2018–present)
MDiv, Princeton Theological Seminary (2017)
BA, Biblical and Theological Studies and Spanish, Wheaton College, IL (2014) Publications
- “Speechless and Searching: Augustine’s Understanding of Infancy,” Studia Patristica (Leuven: Peeters, 2021). Forthcoming.
- “Towards Syriac Digital Corpora: Evaluation of Tesseract 4.0 for Syriac OCR,” with Emily Chesley and Abigail Pearson, Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 22, no.1 (Spring 2019): 109–192.
Projects
Conference Presentations
- Book Review Panelist, Andrew Mellas’s Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium: Compunction and Hymnody, Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, TX, November 2021
- “God Among the Flames: Romanos the Melodist’s Trinitarian Vision of Daniel 3,” Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, TX, November 2021
- “The Role of God in Augustine’s Search for the Trinity,” Patristics, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference, Virtual Conference, October 2020
- “Speechless and Searching: Augustine’s Understanding of Infancy,” The XVIII International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford, UK, August 2019
- “Fearless Service, Confident Speech: Ephrem the Syrian’s Interpretation of Martha,” Archbishop Iakovos Graduate Student Conference in Patristic Studies, Boston, March 2019
- “Jesus and the Shame of Women: Ephrem’s Hymns on the Samaritan Woman,” Archbishop Iakovos Graduate Student Conference in Patristic Studies, Boston, March 2018
- “‘The Divine Names’: A Dionysian Hymn,” Archbishop Iakovos Graduate Student Conference in Patristic Studies, Boston, March 2016
Upcoming Talks and Conferences
- “Quiet but Pervasive: The Holy Spirit in the Hymns of Romanos the Melodist,” American Academy of Religion, Denver, CO, November 2022
