NICOLA DENZEY LEWIS

Nicola Denzey Lewis's research interests include the social and intellectual contexts of the ancient world, particularly the intersection of early Christianity and the Roman Empire from the first to the fourth century CE. Her work is interdisciplinary, incorporating methods and insights from Religious Studies, Classics, History, Art History and Archaeology. Particular areas of interest include Gnosticism, the social history of women in antiquity, and death in ancient Rome.

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Biography

Born in Toronto, Nicola received a B.A. in Religious Studies at the University of Toronto then an M.A (1994) and Ph.D (1998) from Princeton University in Religion and the Program in the Ancient World. She has published numerous articles on the ancient world including three books: The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Ancient Christian Women (Beacon, 2007), Introduction to 'Gnosticism': Ancient Voices, Christian Worlds (Oxford, 2012) and Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Under Pitiless Skies (Brill, 2013). Nicola has received honors and fellowships from, among others, the Mellon foundation, the American Academy of Religion, and Harvard University, where she has taught before moving to Brown.

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NICOLA DENZEY LEWIS, M.A., Ph.D.
Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Religious Studies
Phone: +1 401 863 3104
E-mail: ndenzey@brown.edu

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