The Catholic University of America

Faculty Working in the Early Christian or Associated Fields

The Center's activities are immediately supervised by a Director and two Associate Directors:

Philip Rousseau
D.Phil., Oxford University
Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor; Director
Late antique religion, with emphasis on early Christian asceticism

William E. Klingshirn
Ph.D., Stanford University
Professor and Chair, Department of Greek and Latin, Associate Director
Late antique history, Roman religion, Christianization, divination
 
Janet Timbie
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Semitic Languages and Literatures, Associate Director
Coptic language and literature
 
 
The Center's policies are developed and implemented by an Executive Committee, which includes (in addition to the Director and Associate Directors) the following (thus covering the remaining sectors of the university with which the Center interacts):
 
Jennifer Davis
Ph.D., Harvard University
Assistant Professor Department of History, Associate Director of the Center for Medieval and Byzantine Studies
Early medieval history
 
Matthias Vorwerk
Ph.D., University of Münster
Associate Dean, School of Philosophy
Ancient Philosophy, Plato, Plotinus, Neoplatonism
 
Susan Wessel
Ph.D., Columbia University
Associate Professor of Church History and Historical Theology, Area Director of Church History, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Greek and Latin Patristics
 
Örgü Dalgiç
Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts. NYU
Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow, Department of Art and Art History
Byzantine, Islamic and western art in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
 
Caroline Sherman
Ph.D., Princeton University
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Early modern French and intellectual history
 
 
The Center's policies are further enhanced with the help of a Faculty Advisory Board, which includes all those who teach and pursue research in the early Christian or related fields:
 
Monica Blanchard
Ph.D., The Catholic University of America
Curator, Semitics/ICOR Libraries
Languages and literatures of the Christian Near East, orientalist librarianship
 
Dr. Theol., Innsbruck
Professor of Systematic Theology, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Christology, Ecclesiology
 

Rev. Francis T. Gignac, S.J.
D.Phil., Oxford University
Professor, Director of Biblical Studies, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Papyrology and Biblical Greek

Rev. Sidney H. Griffith, S.T.
Ph.D., The Catholic University of America
Professor and Chair, Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literature
Syriac, Christian Arabic
 
Andrew D. Gross
Ph.D., New York University
Assistant Professor, Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literature
Rabbinic Studies
 
Rev. John Paul Heil
S.S.D., Pontifical Biblical Institute
New Testament
 
Katherine L. Jansen
Ph.D., Princeton University
Associate Professor, Department of History
Medieval Italy, medieval women and gender, religious and cultural history
 
William P. Loewe
Ph.D., Marquette University
Associate Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Systematic and Fundamental Theology, especially Christology and Soteriology
 
Frank A. C. Mantello
Ph.D., University of Toronto
Professor, Department of Greek and Latin
Latin Patristics, Latin paleography, textual criticism
 
Rev. Frank J. Matera
Ph.D., Union Theological Seminary, Richmond
Andrews-Kelly-Ryan Professor of Biblical Studies, School of Theology and Religious Studies
New Testament
 
William J. McCarthy
Ph.D., The Catholic University of America
Associate Professor, Department of Greek and Latin
Greek and Latin Patristics
 
Rev. Mark Morozowich, S.E.O.D.
Doctorate in Eastern Christian Studies, Pontifical Oriental Institute
Acting Dean, School of Theology and Religous Studies
Liturgy
 
Kenneth Pennington
Ph.D., Cornell University
Kelly-Quinn Professor of Ecclesiastical and Legal History
Columbus School of Law and School of Theology and Religious Studies
Canon law

John F. Petruccione
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Department of Greek and Latin
Greek and Latin Patristics, early Christian poetry and hagiography
 
Rev. Dominic Serra
S.L.D., Pontifical Institute of Liturgy, Sant'Anselmo, Rome
Associate Professor, Director of Liturgical Studies and Sacramental Theology, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Sacraments of Christian Initiation
 
Tarmo Toom
Ph.D., The Catholic University of America
Associate Professor of Latin Patristics, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Latin Patristics