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Archiving Faith: Record-Keeping and Catholic Community Formation in Eighteenth-Century Mesopotamia (2022)
Journal Article

This article investigates the archiving practices of a little-known group of Catholics in the Ottoman Empire, the Diyarbakır Chaldeans, in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It argues for a flexible definition of archives, based not on tr... Read More about Archiving Faith: Record-Keeping and Catholic Community Formation in Eighteenth-Century Mesopotamia.

The Interconnected Histories of the Syriac Churches in the Sixteenth Century (2021)
Journal Article

Due to their different doctrinal positions, the various Syriac-using Churches of the Middle East have generally been understood as rivals to each other, with separate histories that can be studied in isolation. This article argues that doctrinal diff... Read More about The Interconnected Histories of the Syriac Churches in the Sixteenth Century.

The Ambiguities of Belief and Belonging: Catholicism and the Church of the East in the Sixteenth Century (2018)
Journal Article

This article considers the emergence of the Chaldaean (East Syrian Catholic) Church in the 1550s, a topic of considerable relevance for scholars of eastern Christianity and of Counter-Reformation Catholicism alike. The Chaldaeans seem to present a pa... Read More about The Ambiguities of Belief and Belonging: Catholicism and the Church of the East in the Sixteenth Century.

Paradigmatic Piety: Liturgy in the Life of Martha, Mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger (2016)
Journal Article

The Life of Martha, the mother of the sixth-century stylite Symeon the Younger, has been almost completely neglected in modern scholarship. Yet the text possesses considerable historical interest as evidence for the contested development of a cult, a... Read More about Paradigmatic Piety: Liturgy in the Life of Martha, Mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger.