Julia Kelto Lillis
Dr. Julia Kelto Lillis is Assistant Professor of Early Christian History at Union Theological Seminary, where she specializes in gender and sexuality in early Christianity. She earned a BA from St. Olaf College, an MDiv and ThM from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a PhD in Religion from Duke University. She received the American Society of Church History’s Jane Dempsey Douglass prize for her article, “Paradox in Partu: Verifying Virginity in the Protevangelium of James.” Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity, won the Best First Book Prize from the North American Patristics Society. Her second book will analyze ideas of genderless personhood that early Christians imagined for heavenly or earthly human life.