I am a historian of medieval culture, spirituality, and politics, currently in my third-year of Duke’s PhD Program in History. My dissertation focuses on textual constructions of fifteenth-century kingship fashioned
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Avinoam J. Stillman studies early modern Jewish history, with particular interest in kabbalah in East-Central Europe and the Ottoman Empire, as well as in Hebrew manuscripts and printed books. He is
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Abigail Emerson is a second-year Hebrew Bible/Old Testament PhD candidate in Duke’s Graduate Program in Religion. She earned a BA with distinction from Yale University in 2014 and an MA
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Maroun El Houkayem is a doctoral student in the graduate program in Religion (Early Christianity track) focusing primarily on the formation of Arabic Christianity as a result of the contacts
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Matthew is currently a law student at Duke studying for his J.D. At the lab he is researching the norms, ethics, and laws surrounding manuscript fragment creation, sale, and collection.
Jonathan Homrighausen is a doctoral student in the Graduate Program in Religion in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament track, studying how the visual and material reception of biblical texts—such as Esther,
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Arif Erbil is an M. A. student in the History department at Boğaziçi University studying sixteenth-century Ottoman political thought. He will be joining to the Graduate Program in Religion at
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Sinja Küppers is a doctoral student in Classical Studies studying the social history of Higher Education in the Roman Empire. At the Lab, she is investigating the history of the Duke Papyrus
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Elizabeth Schrader is a doctoral student in the Religion department, studying Early Christianity with a focus on New Testament textual criticism and women in the Gospels. At the Lab, she
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Nathan Tilley is a doctoral student in the Graduate Program in Religion studying conceptions of human nature in the thought of Babai the Great (c. 551-628), a monastic leader in
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