Awards and Honors
- 2024-2025: Loeb Classical Library Foundation Sabbatical Fellowship, Harvard University
- 2020: Fellow, Gilder Lehrman Center for Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University
- 2016-2017: National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship
- 2016: Visiting Distinguished Lecturer, Max Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt
- 2015-2016: Fellowship for Associate Professors, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
- 2008, 2011: Visiting Scholar in Residence, American Academy in Rome
- 2008: Derek Bok Award for Teaching Excellence, Harvard University
- 2004-2005: Individual Research Grant, American Academy of Religion
- 2004-2005: Faculty Research Associate, Women's Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School
Publications
Books:
- The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021
- Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Under Pitiless Skies. Leiden: Brill, 2013.
- Introduction to “Gnosticism”: Ancient Voices, Christian Worlds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Translated into Italian as I Manoscritti di Nag Hammadi. Una biblioteca gnostica del IV secolo. Trans. Matteo Grosso. Milan: Frecce, 2014.
- The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women. Boston: Beacon Press, 2007
Edited Book:
- Beyond the Gnostic Gospels: Studies in Honor of Elaine Pagels. With Lance Jenott, Philippa Townsend, and Eduard Iricinschi. Berlin: Mohr Siebeck, 2013.
Selected Articles:
- “What if the Pliny/Trajan Correspondence is Not What We Think It Is?” (forthcoming: Journal of Early Christianity)
- “Guarding against Sexual Assault in Late Antique Egyptian ‘Magical Texts’: A Lived Religion Approach to Some Coptic ‘Magical’ Papyri." Religions of the Roman Empire (forthcoming)
- “Virgins in Late Antique Rome: The View from the Catacombs.” Journal of Late Antiquity, (forthcoming)
- “Of Dolls and Doubles: Thinking Through the Subjectification of Some Late Ancient Grave Goods.” Religions of the Roman Empire (forthcoming)
- “Ordinary Religion in the Late Roman Empire: Principles of a New Approach.” Studies in Late Antiquity 5/1 (2021), 104-118.
- “Did Roman Jews Have Ritual?” Historia Religionum 10 (2018): 27-39.
- “Damasus and the Derelict Relics.” Early Medieval Europe 26/4 (2018): 417-39.
- “Rethinking the Origins of the Nag Hammadi Library.” (Co-authored with Justine Ariel Blount), Journal of Biblical Literature 133 (2014): 399-419.
- “‘Enslavement to Fate,’ ‘Cosmic Pessimism’ and other Explorations of the Late Roman Psyche: A Brief History of a Historiographical Trend.” Studies in Religion/Sciences Réligieuses 33 3/4 (2005): 277-99.