Jennifer Hevelone-Harper
Professor of History
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
- B.A. Gordon College
- M.A. University of Chicago
- M.A. Princeton University
- Ph.D. Princeton University
Bio
Teaching Fields:
Late Antiquity, Byzantium, Early Islam, Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Research Fields:
Christian Spirituality in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Byzantine Gaza and Palestine, Development of Christian Thought
Selected Publications:
"Desert Fathers and Desert Literature," Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010).
"Ecclesiastics and Ascetics: Finding Spiritual Authority in Fifth and Sixth-Century Palestine." Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 9.1 (2006).
"Anchorite and Abbot: Cooperative Spiritual Authority in late Antique Gaza," in The Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies. (Leuven: Peeters, 2006).
Disciples of the Desert: Monks, Laity, and Spiritual Authority in the Sixth-Century. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 2005).
"The Three Heirs of Rome," in A History of World Civilizations from a Christian Perspective, edited by Jerry Pattengale. St. Marion, Indiana: Triangle Publishing, forthcoming.