Education: BA in Classics, University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio); MA in Medieval and Late Antique Studies, Central European University (Budapest, Hungary).

Areas of research: Patristics, Late Antiquity, Panegyrics, Christian Poetry, Graeco-Arabic Studies, and Syriac and Arabic translation movements.

Regions of primary interest: North Africa, Egypt and Syria in Late Antiquity and the early medieval period.

Research languages: Greek, Latin, Arabic and Syriac.