PhD Candidate Jordan Conley Wins Prestigious Dissertation Grant

Jordan Conley, ABD in the Ancient Mediterranean Religions track, has won a major grant from the North American Patristics Society to complete her dissertation next year.    Conley’s dissertation addresses the world of a late antique Egyptian saint’s shrine and is entitled ““Bodies, Blessings, and Bile: Sensory Encounters at the Shrine of Saints Cyrus and John.”   The North American Patristics Society is the major American academic organization dedicated to the study of early Christianity.