About Me

I am a scholar of the New Testament and early Christianity, with a focus on the Pauline epistles and Graeco-Roman political theory and historiography. I am a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in New Testament and Christian Origins at the University of Edinburgh and am currently on track to defend my dissertation in summer 2027.

My primary research interests center on the canonical letters of Paul, ancient political philosophy, and Second Temple Judaism. My dissertation will argue that the letter to the Ephesians can be read as an “epistolary constitution” that establishes the assembly of Christ-following Jews and Gentiles as a new politeia. In an epistolary form, Ephesians defines the cult, citizenship, public ethics, and proper household structure of the new politeia in ways that align with other Jewish and Graeco-Roman politeia literature from the 5th century BCE to the 2nd century CE.

In addition to my scholarship, I am a devoted educator with extensive experience in graduate education and a devotion to cultivating classrooms that are welcoming, hospitable, and intellectually rigorous. I am experienced in both residential and online teaching modalities, as well as teaching diverse audiences from middle school to second-career adults.