Guest
Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Dr. Susan Ashbrook Harvey is the Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith Professor of History and Religion at Brown University. She specializes in late antique and Byzantine Christianity, with an emphasis on Syriac Christianity. Susan has published extensively on asceticism, liturgical prayer, and women in late antique Christianity. Some of her books include Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination, Song and Memory: Biblical Women in the Syriac Tradition, and Holy Women of the Syrian Orient (with Sebastian P. Brock). She earned her PhD from the University of Birmingham as a Marshall Scholar and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.