Education

  • PhD in Religions & Cultures
    September 2014-present
    Concordia University, Department of Religions and Cultures
    Title of Dissertation: Reimagining The Colonized Galatians from a Latinx Perspective: A Post-Colonial Examination of Paul’s Language on Slavery and the Flesh in his Letter to the Galatians​
    Supervisors: Prof. André Gagné ​

  • Masters in Arts (MA)
    2011-2014: Université de Montréal, Faculté de Théologie et Sciences des Religions
    Thesis: Pentecôte et langues de feu : Analyse structurelle et interprétation d’Actes des Apôtres 2,3​
    Supervisor: Prof. Pierre Létourneau

  • Bachelor Degree (B.Th.)
    2001-2008:     Université de Montréal, Faculté de Théologie et Sciences des Religions
    Concentration: Theology
 
  • Partial Studies: Literature and Humanities
    Concordia University
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Languages

Modern Languages
  • English, French, Spanish and German

Ancient Languages
  • Koine Greek and Coptic

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

Funding
  • ​May 2016 - April 2019: FRSCQ Doctoral Research Grant – $60,000
  • January 2015 - April 2016 : Groupe de recherche sur le christianisme et l’Antiquité tardive / Christianity and Late Antiquity Research Group – $9,000 
  • September 2014 - December 2017: Concordia Unversity Conference and Exposition Award - $5,000
  • September 2014 - December 2017: Faculty of Arts and Science Conference Award - $875

​Awards

Academic Working Experience

Teaching Position
  • Religions of the West - RELI 2014 (Summer 2018)
  • Religions of the West - RELI 2014 (Fall 2017)
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Workshop Leader
  • Grad Pro Skills - Instructor for Success in Grad School workshops. Title of workshops:
    • Meet & Write (Writing sessions)
    • Effective Reading Strategies
    • Writing a Literature Review
    • English Grammar 1
    • English Grammar 2
    • Funding Application Strategies 

Tutorial Leader
  • Sociology and Media - SOCI 221 (Fall 2016)

Teacher Assistant 
  • Witchcraft Magic and Religion - RELI 386 (Winter 2021)
  • Introduction to Islam - RELI 224 (Fall 2020)
  • Encountering Religion - RELI 216 (Winter 2019 & 2020)
  • Justice and Social Conflict - RELI 312 (Fall 2018)
  • Women and Religion - RELI 233 (Winter 2018)
  • Religion in Practice - RELI 210 (Winter 2017)
  • Religion and Violence - RELI 355 (Winter 2016)
  • Leaders, Rebels, Saints - RELI 325 (Fall 2015)
  • Religions of the West - RELI 214 (Fall 2014)

Leadership & Community Service

Publishing Sector
  • Journal of Religion and Culture, A Peer-Reviewed Graduate Journal, from the Department of Religion, at Concordia University.
    • Editor in Chief (September 2017-August 2018)
    • ​​Media and Editor (September 2014 - August 2017)
Event Organization
  • Annual Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference September (AGIC), serving as President. Themes for the conferences:
    • January 2017 – Religion, Ideology and Violence.
      Keynote Speaker: Dr. Michael Jerryson.
    • March 2016 –Body, Gender and Sexuality.
      Keynote Speaker: Prof. Leslie Orr
Mentorship
  • PhD Mentor for the Doctoral Mentorship Program at Concordia University (September 2016-May 2017)
Student Associations
  • Student Ambassador for the CSSR (September 2016-August 2016)

Publications

Book Reviews

  • Review: De Wet, Chris L. "The Unbound God: Slavery and the Formation of Early Christian Thought." Journal of Religion and Culture. Vol. 28, no. 2 (2019). Pg. 189-191.
  • Review: MacDonald, Denis R. "Mythologizing Jesus: From Jewish Teacher to Epic Hero." Journal of Religion and Culture. Vol 27, no. 1 (2017). Pg. 87-90. 

Conferences

  • November 23-36, 2019, San Diego, CA
    SBL Anual Meeting: Paul and Politics Panel.
    Slavery and Politics in the Epistle to the Galatians.
  • May 23-25, 2019, Ottawa, ON.
    ACEBAC Annual meeting.
    Vérité et contexte dans les Actes des Apôtres
  • March 22, 2019, Medford, MA.
    ​Annual ​New England and Eastern Canada SBL Meeting.
    Scriptures and Characterization as Interpretive Technique in Stephen’s Speech (Acts 6:8–7:60)
  • November 20, 2018, Denver, CO.
    SBL Annual Meeting:     Slavery, Resistance, and Freedom.
    Appropriating the title of "Servant of God" in the 2nd Century CE: Slavery and Identity in the Acts of Paul and Thecla
  • April 13-15, 2018, Syracuse, NY
    Eastern International Region of the American Academy of Religion Meeting.
    ​Slavery in Social Imagination: Tropes and Characterization of Female-Slaves in Christian Apocryphal Narratives.
  • May 27, 2017, Toronto Ontario
    CSSR Annual Meeting
    The Metaphor of Servant in the Acts of Paul and Thecla
  • ​April 28-29 2017, Waterloo, Ontario
    Eastern International Region of the American Academy of Religion Meeting.
    Imposing Identity: Characterization of Slaves in Canonical and Apocryphal Narratives during Late Antiquity.
  • November 19-22 2016, San Antonio, Texas.
    SBL Annual Meeting: Bible and Emotion Panel.
    Emotions and Affect in the Lucan Apparitions of the Resurrected Jesus: From Shifts in the Narrative Paradigms to Group-Affect.
  • April 10th, 2016. Providence, Rhode Island
    Annual ​New England and Eastern Canada SBL Meeting.
    Reassessing Our Understanding of Christianities in Late Antiquity: The Apocryphal Accounts of James as a Case Example of Historiography.
  • June 16th, 2015. Montreal
    Concordia University, "Religion, Violence, and the Ethics of Biblical and Religious Studies." 
    Questioning martyrdom in the Apocryphon of James: Ascetic Philosophies and the Kingdom of God/Death. 
  • May 29th, 2015. Québec City
    International Colloquium held by the Université de Laval, GRECAT, and CLARG; "Nag Hammadi à 70 ans : Qu’avons nous appris? / Nag Hammadi at 70: What Have We Learned?" (May 29-31, 2015). 
    The Characterization of Mariam and Salome in the Gospel of Thomas: A Narrative Approach.
  • March 5th 2015. Montreal
    Concordia's Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference
    Words, Meaning and the Effect of Repetition: Semitic Rhetoric in Gertrude Stein's "Three lives"?
  • September 25-27, 2014, Rome (Italy)
    Fourth International Conference of the RBS
    « γλῶσσαι ὡσεὶ πυρός » - Comprendre les langues de feux dans leur contexte structurelle.  Analyse rhétorique du récit de la Pentecôte.
  • July 9,  2014, Vienna (Austria) 
    SBL International Meeting
    Structural Analysis of the Apocryphon of James and its Inferences on Martyrdom.
  • May 5 2014, Montreal
    GRECAT/CLARG Fifth Annual Workshop
    Symbols, Meaning and Interpretative Limitations in Biblical and Greco-Roman Literature: The Theophany of the Pentecost Story as a Case Study of a Genre-Criticism Approach.

Learned Societies and Research groups