Associate Professor of Religious Studies Jennifer Barry has authored a new public-facing article for Bible Odyssey, a leading online resource that makes biblical scholarship accessible to a broad audience. In her piece on the Apostolic Fathers, Barry introduces readers to the early Christian writers of the late first and early second centuries whose works shaped […]
Associate Professor of Religious Studies Jennifer Barry has signed a contract for her fourth book, titled Terrifying Women of the Ancient World.Barry’s new work will be published with Basic Books and is a public-facing history that provides a re-narration of the Roman Empire through the stories of the formidable women who helped shape it.
Associate Professor of Religious Studies Jennifer Barry received the 2024 Summer National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) Research Grant. Due to this highly competitive funding, she was able to develop materials to secure an advanced book contract for her third monograph, Scandalous Christian Histories, which will be published with the University of Edinburgh Press.Barry was […]
Jennifer Barry, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, has been awarded the 2024 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer stipend to begin work on her next book-length project titled Scandalous Christian Histories.The stipend will be used to dedicate full-time research to examine the use of scandal stories in the ecclesiastical histories of the early Christian church. […]
On February 11, 2024, the online magazine, Ancient Jew Review, published a shining review of Prof. Jennifer Barry’s first book Bishops in Flight.The review can be found here:Bishops in Flight: Exile and Displacement in Late Antiquity in Review, Book NotesBarry, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, is currently on research leave as the Harvard Loeb Classics Library Fellow […]
