Selected Presentations & Appearances
"Papyrology as an Art of Destruction"
- Fresh Perspectives on the Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri, Papyrology, and Communication in the Ancient World
· October 2021
Lecture
The Chester Beatty Library,
"From Bethany to Bethabara and Back Again"
- Bible and Early Christiany Studies Seminar
· March 2021
Lecture
Australian Catholic University,
"Building Bethabara"
- The Social Worlds of Early Christians: A Symposium in Honor of L. Michael White
· October 2020
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
University of Texas at Austin,
"The Biblical Position on Sex"
- Sex Week
· March 3, 2020
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Furman University,
"Patristic Writers and John’s Compositional Goals"
- Annual Meeting
· November 2019
Lecture
The Society of Bibilical Literature,
"Where Did John Baptize? A Tale in Two Maps"
- International Conference on Patristic Studies
· August 2019
International Meeting or Conference
Oxford University,
"Desire’s Social Good: The Fathers on Marriage Revisited"
- Marriage and/as Metaphor in Christian and Jewish Traditions
· March 26, 2019
- March 27, 2019
Keynote/Named Lecture
20th Annual Brenninkmeijer-Werhahn Annual Lecture and Conference,
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
"Every Bible Tells a Story: New Testament Textual Criticism and the Stories People Want"
- The Bible Unearthed Panel
· February 28, 2019
Invited Talk
University of Oklahoma,
"Augustine"
- Core Social Sciences
· February 2018
Invited Talk
Boston University,
"Why Stories Matter: The Eye of Faith and the Effect of Christ’s Spittle"
· February 2018
Invited Talk
Duke University,
"New Testament Textual Criticism as Exegesis"
- Annual Meeting
· 2018
International Meeting or Conference
The Society for New Testament Studies,
Athens, Greece
Panelist, “Avoiding Deception: Forgeries, Fake News, and Unprovenanced Material in Religious Studies"
- Annual Meeting
· November 2017
International Meeting or Conference
Society of Biblical Literature,
"The Bible as Plunder: The (Possible) Theft of the Codex Bezae and the Problem of Provenance"
- Pre-Conference Workshop
· November 2017
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Study of Religion as an Analytic Discipline,
“Seeing, Hearing, and Doing: The Impact of the Byzantine Liturgy on the Transmission of the Gospel of John"
- Joint session of New Testament Textual Criticism, Johannine Literature, Papyrology and Early Christian Backgrounds Sections
· November 2017
International Meeting or Conference
Annual Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature,
"The Liturgical Annotations to Codex Bezae and the History of Textual Scholarship"
- Philologia Sacra et Profana: Constructions of the Authentic
· September 17, 2017
- September 18, 2017
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Yale University,
Whitney Humanities Center
“On Textual Nostalgia: Herman C. Hoskier’s Collation of ‘Evangelium 604’ Revisited"
- Herman Hoskier and the Future of Textual Scholarship on the Bible Conference
· August 2017
International Meeting or Conference
Dublin City University,
"Slippery Rocks"
- Annual Meeting
· May 2017
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts,
"Dismissing Her Quietly: Shame and the Persistent Precarity of Mary"
- Cushing Lecture
· April 2017
Keynote/Named Lecture
University of Detroit, Mercy,
“The Significance of the Liturgy in the Textual Transmission of the Pericope Adulterae", with Tommy Wasserman
- Tenth Annual Birmingham Colloquium in New Testament Textual Criticism
· March 2017
International Meeting or Conference
University of Birmingham,
“‘A Pearl of the Gospel’: Reading Communities and the Para-Textual Evidence for the Tenacity of the Johannine Pericope Adulterae"
- The Bible in Ancient and Modern Media Section
· November 2016
International Meeting or Conference
Annual Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature,
"Can an Adulteress Save Jesus?"
· February 2016
Invited Talk
Bowdoin College,
"Biblical Interpretation, Sexual Ethics, and Finding Some Goood in the World"
- Annual Meeting
· February 2016
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
National Association of College and University Chaplains,
Furman University
"Modernity’s Vanishing Point: Jesus and the Retreat of Authenticity"
- Greer-Heard Point-Counterpoint Forum
· February 2016
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary,
Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
Interviewee - "The Sexuality of the Bible"
· February 2020
Community Outreach
The Bad Christian Podcast
Interviewee - Episode 99
· September 2019
Community Outreach
"The Bible as a Living Document"
, The Bible for Normal People Podcast
Service to the Profession
Participant
- Faculty Short Course on Improving Departmental Climate
·
August 2, 2021
- August 5, 2021
Professional Development
Duke Office of Faculty Advancement & Duke Office of Institutional Equity,
Reviewer
·
2021
Other
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies,
Editorial Board
·
2021
- 2023
Editorial Activities
Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testament,
Reviewer
- Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
·
2021
Other
American Council of Learned Societies,
Reviewer
·
2020
Other
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies,
Editorial Board
- Biblical Interpretation Series
·
2020
- 2023
Editorial Activities
Brill,
Advisory Board
- MARK16 Virtual Research Environment
·
2019
- 2023
Other
Swiss National Science Foundation,
Editorial Board
·
2019
- 2023
Editorial Activities
Novum Testamentum,
Editorial Board
·
2019
- 2023
Editorial Activities
TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism,
Evaluator
·
2019
Other
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft,
President
- New England and Eastern Canada Region
·
2017
- 2018
Event/Organization Administration
Society of Biblical Literature,
Evaluator
- Edito Critico Maior
·
2016
Editorial Activities
Novum Testamentum Graecum,
Co-Convenor
·
2016
- 2018
Event/Organization Administration
Boston Area Patristics Group,
Chair
- New Testament Textual Criticism Section
·
2013
- 2018
Editorial Activities
Society of Biblical Literature,
Editorial Board
·
2013
- 2018
Editorial Activities
Journal of Biblical Literature,
Member
·
2010
- 2018
Committee Service
International Greek New Testament Project Committee,
Service to Duke
Arts & Sciences Committee on Undergraduate Teaching
(School)
·
2021
- 2023
Committee Service
Academic Standards and Honors,
Member, Provost's Committee on 12-Month Graduate Funding
(School)
·
2021
Committee Service
Admissions Committee
(Department)
·
2020
- 2023
Committee Service
Graduate Program in Religion ,
Appointments, Tenure, and Promotion Committee
(University)
·
2020
- 2023
Committee Service
Duke Faculty Affairs,
Convenor
. Early Christian Track
·
2020
- 2023
Curriculum Innovations
Graduate Program in Religion,
Chair
. Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
·
2019
- 2023
Curriculum Innovations
Department of Religion,
Academic & Administrative Activities
Conferences, Lectures, Public Programs
“The Corporeal Consequences of Discursive Violence,” organized with Todd Berzon (Bowdoin College). March 2022.
“Of Peptides and Scribes: Applying Life Sciences to the Study of Manuscripts,” a presentation featuring Dr. Timothy L. Stinson, organized with the Manuscript Migration Lab. November 2021.
“Ethiopic (Ge‘ez) Manuscripts: An Informational Event with Examples Drawn from Duke’s Collection,” a presentation by Dr. Gay Byron with manuscripts curated by J. Andrew Armacost organized with the Franklin Humanities Institute Manuscript Migration Lab. October 2021.
“Dr. William H. Willis and the Duke Papyri: A Conversation,” a conversation featuring Dr. Daniel Sharp and Dr. Nicholas Wagner organized with the Franklin Humanities Institute Manuscript Migration Lab. September 2021.
“Preservation, Restitution, and the Idea of ‘Cultural Heritage,” a workshop featuring Dr. Felwine Sarr and Dr. Astrid Swenson organized with the Franklin Humanities Institute Manuscript Migration Lab. April 2021.
“Cultural Heritage Restitution: Ethical and Legal Issues,” a workshop featuring Dr. Patty Gerstenblith, Mr. András Riedelmyer, and Dr. Heghnar Watenpaugh organized with the Franklin Humanities Institute Manuscript Migration Lab. November 2020.
“How Social Movements Feel,” a lecture by Dean Spade, organized with the Boston University Gender and Sexuality Faculty Studies Group. March 2018.