This dissertation examines the rise of consumerism, and in particular, the development of the Egyptian woman as a housewife and consumer from 1863 to 1922. My focus is on middle to upper class urban women, mainly in Cairo and Alexandria. I examine the ways in which both the educ…
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Re-Membering Ancient Women: Hypatia of Alexandria and Her Communities is a recovery of Hypatia of Alexandria (355–415 ACE) as a skilled rhetorician and instructor of note who taught in Alexandria, Egypt. This work addresses Hypatia as a missing female figure from the history of …
In this dissertation, I investigate reflection on divine providence and the formation of paideia (school culture) in Christian Alexandria (c. 100-250). My research focuses on a conceit developed in the writings of Clement and Origen of Alexandria that divine providence functions…
As one of the most visible signs of the modern world, the myriad of shopping places and types can be considered as a valuable lens through which to examine the contemporary city. In Alexandria, Egypt, the situation was particularly interesting because retail space was moving in …
This dissertation argues that Alexandria is a colonial cosmopolitan city whose colonial status sets it apart from the cosmopolitanism of European and American cities. Since its inception in the 3rd century, BCE, Alexandria's cosmopolitanism emerged from and was shaped by colonia…
This dissertation is a text-critical study of the text of the four Gospels found in the writings of Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria (c. 296-373 C.E.). The issues addressed are: (1) the collection of his Gospels-text, (2) the textual character of that text, and (3) the informati…
Graeco-Roman, Jewish and Christian exegetes of late antiquity operated within an identifiable interpretive tradition that had its roots in the earliest recorded theological criticisms of the Homeric epic tradition, criticisms which were to have far-reaching and decisive influenc…
The dissertation examines the way Venetian painters represented Alexandria in the Silk Weavers' Guild and Scuola Grande di San Marco life of St. Mark painting cycles commissioned from 1496 until 1534. These images such as Gentile Bellini's St. Mark Preaching in Alexandria reveal…
Cyril of Alexandria has been scorned by many liberal theologians and church historians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Some liberal Protestants, in particular, have regarded the fifth-century Egyptian bishop either as a Christian Platonist, whose theology was captive …
Modern scholarship has shown that Callimachus' poetics is a poetics of reinvention, one that demands to be read against other specific literary works. In the past, scholars have focused on Callimachus' relationship to his poetic antecedents, while studies of the poet's engagemen…
Classical education played an integral role in defining elite social relationships in the ancient world. In the later Roman Empire, it was a commodity that was often controlled by pagans. This made it controversial. Despite persistent imperial and ecclesiastical efforts to under…
The religious zeal of the First Great Awakening inspired African Americans to establish plantation congregations or quasi-independent churches in the South. They were also welcomed into largely white meeting houses and provided the same privileges as other members of the congreg…
“Eutrapelia: Humorous texts in Hellenistic poetry” provides a study of the literary humor in Hellenistic iambic poetry in the context of rapid political and cultural change in the Ancient Mediterranean of the third century BCE. This project clarifies several questions connected …
My dissertation investigates the articulation and dissemination of radicalism in and between Beirut, Cairo and Alexandria in the late 19th and early 20th century. It argues that there existed a deep connection between the brand of radicalism that emerged in these cities, its dis…
The point of departure for this dissertation is an intriguing and unexploited body of sources: the British and French consular court records of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Alexandria. Consular courts held jurisdiction in all criminal (and some civil and commercia…
This dissertation brings to bear current debates about cosmopolitanism and hybridity on the overlooked area of Middle Eastern cosmopolitanism, through the representative case study of Alexandria. Comparing discourses of cultural identity associated with the city, I identify two …