I am a historian of late antiquity focusing on rural societies and marginal communities of the Mediterranean world. My work intersects the environmental, social, and religious history of Middle Eastern Christianity, as well as its relations with Judaism and Islam.

My dissertation, Mountains of Revelation: Rural Society and Christian Myth-Making in Late Antique Mesopotamia, tells the story of marginal mountain communities caught between the geopolitical struggles of Byzantium, Sasanian Iran, and early Islam. Based on manuscripts dispersed in libraries across Europe, North America, and the Middle East, I reconstruct the history of an expansive mountain network and its surrounding social landscape. Members of this network traced their origin to the legendary Mar Awgen, an Egyptian monk who is remembered until this very day across the confessional boundaries of Eastern Christianity as the fourth-century founder of Mesopotamian monasticism. Untangling the redactional layers and divergent geographical transmissions of narratives surviving in hagiographies, chronicles, manuscript colophons, and liturgical collections, I show how the Awgen tradition was the product of a distinct monastic network. Through their reflections on their monastic origins, members of this network formulated a religious identity accommodated to their mountainous environment, responded to their surrounding social landscape of ordinary believers, and participated in broader religious and cultural trends which trace to a Greco-Roman past and nod to a Muslim future.

Based on my research of the interconnectedness of the late antique Mediterranean world, I published an article on the sixth-century circulation of theological knowledge and conciliar documents between the Greek East and Latin West through the intermediary of North Africa, which came out in Dumbarton Oaks Papers (2023). I have further articles and book reviews in different stages of pre-publication on topics such as Syriac hagiographies, counter-intellectual currents in late antique Eastern Christianity, and modern historiographical approaches to the religious diversity of the late antique and medieval Middle East.