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I’m an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializing in the New Testament and its early reception. I have sustained research interests in the origins of the biblical books attributed to John and the reception of biblical texts, figures, and images in late antiquity.

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Academic Appointments

2018–present

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Department of Religious Studies
Associate Professor, 2024–
Assistant Professor, 2018–2024
Carolina Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016–2018

Department of Classics
Adjunct Assistant Professor, 2019–present

2014–16

Yale University

Yale Divinity School
Lecturer, 2014–16

Yale Institute of Sacred Music
Postdoctoral Associate, 2014–2016

Education

2013

University of Georgia

Ph.D., Linguistics

2009

University of Georgia

M.A., Religion

2006

Southern Adventist University

B.A., English

Awards & Fellowships

2026

John L. Sanders Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Service

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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2023

Elected Member

Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas

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2023

Grant from the CBA

Catholic Biblical Association

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2023

Summer Residency, National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center

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2021

Borden Faculty Fellow

UNC Institute for Arts and Humanities

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2021

Schwab Academic Excellence Award

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2016–18

Carolina Postdoctoral Fellow for Faculty Diversity

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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2014–15

ISM Fellow in Sacred Music, Worship, and the Related Arts

Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University

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