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Dr. Brent Nongbri is a Post Doctoral Fellow in Early Christianity in the Department of Ancient History. He received his PhD from Yale University in 2008 in the field of religious studies. He held teaching posts at Yale University and Oberlin College before coming to Macquarie in 2010.
Dr. Nongbri's interests center on method and theory in the study of religion and the material culture of the ancient Mediterranean world. With regard to the former, he is especially interested in problems surrounding the use of religion as category for studying the ancient world. In the sphere of material culture and archaeology, Dr. Nongbri specializes in papyrology and early Christian manuscripts.
His current projects include a book on the history of the concept of religion and a study of the dating of early Christian literary manuscripts (the latter funded by a competitive Macquarie University New Staff Grant awarded in 2010).
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