Susan Ashbrook Harvey

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Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Born1953 (age 70–71)
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2008)
Academic background
Education
ThesisAsceticism and Society: A Study in John of Ephesus' Lives of the Eastern Saints' (1982)
Doctoral advisorSebastian Brock
Academic work
Discipline
InstitutionsBrown University

Susan Ashbrook Harvey (born 1953) is the Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence and the Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith Professor of History and Religion at

Byzantine Christianity, with Syriac studies as her particular focus.[2]

Career

Harvey was born Susan Jean Ashbrook in 1953 in

Byzantine Studies from the University of Birmingham and then a PhD at the same institution in 1982.[5] Her thesis was supervised by Sebastian Brock, one of the foremost experts in the Syriac language and a source of inspiration for Harvey's later interest in Syriac Christianity.[6] From 1983 to 1987, she was Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Rochester. In 1987, she joined the faculty of Brown University
.

Harvey's work focuses on the social aspects of Christianity, particularly issues affecting women. She has researched the variety of roles women played in the ancient church, and highlighted the many women saints emerging from all walks of life. According to Ross Shepard Kræmer, "Susan Harvey has almost single-handedly established an entire sub-field of studies on women and gender in the Syrian Orient".

Guggenheim fellowship to work on biblical women and women's choirs in Syriac Christianity.[9]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ ———— (Fall 2015). "An Interview With Professor Susan Ashbrook Harvey". Brown-RISD Cornerstone (Interview). Vol. 4, no. 1. Interviewed by Sohn, Justin. p. 16. Archived from the original on 2022-04-30. Retrieved 2022-04-30.
  2. ^ "Susan Ashbrook Harvey". Brown University. Archived from the original on 2021-05-05. Retrieved 2022-04-30.
  3. ^ "Harvey, Susan Ashbrook 1953- (Susan Jean Ashbrook Harvey)". Encyclopedia.com. Archived from the original on 2021-10-20. Retrieved 2017-08-09.
  4. ^ ———— (1997-09-07). "An Interview with Susan Ashbrook Harvey". St. Nina Quarterly (Interview). Vol. 1, no. 4. Interviewed by Regule, Teva. Lincoln, Rhode Island. Archived from the original on 2017-09-09. Retrieved 2022-04-30.
  5. ^ a b "Susan Asbrook Harvey '75, Doctor of Humane Letters". Grinnell College. 2007-06-01. Archived from the original on 2021-11-09. Retrieved 2017-05-07.
  6. ^ ————. "Asceticism and Society in Crisis". University of California Press. Archived from the original on 2017-08-09. Retrieved 2022-04-30.
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  8. ^ "Curriculum Vitæ" (PDF). Brown University. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-02-23. Retrieved 2022-04-30.
  9. ^ "Susan Ashbrook Harvey". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on 2022-04-30. Retrieved 2017-05-07.