Scholastic Research

• Intended Doctoral thesis: 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 – Under the supervision of Prof. André Gagné (Department of Religion, Concordia University, Montreal).
• Master’s Thesis: The Symbolism of the “Tongues as of fire” of Acts 2:3; Structural analysis of the Pentecost Account (Acts 2:1-47) – Under the supervision of Prof. Pierre Létourneau (Faculté de Théologie et Science Religieuses, Université de Montréal, Montreal). 

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Comprehensive Examinations

• Post-Colonial Theories (Winter 2016)
• Slavery during the Roman Empire (Summer 2017)
• History of New Testament Studies (Winter 2017)

Fields of Specialization and Interest

Specialization

• Roman Slavery
• Post-Colonial Studies
• New Testament Studies (Luke-Acts, and Pauline corpus)
• Apocryphal Gospels (Nag Hammadi mostly)
• Early Christianity (1st to 4th Century CE)
• Synchronic Approaches (Structural Analysis, Narative, and Intersectional, reading from the margin)

Interested in

• Gender Studies
• Philosophy of Religion
• Material Culture
• Ethnography, Anthropology
• Sociology of Religion(s)
• Crusades (Jewish and Muslim Perspective)
• Literature (Antebellum, and Colonial periods)
• Central/South American Native Studies

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Current Research

• Telling the Past and Quoting Scriptures in Stephen's Sermon in Acts 7 (Structural Analysis) 
• Lucan Apparitions of the Resurrected Jesus and the Travellers to Emaus (Narrative Approach, and Emotions Theories)
• Paul and the Fortune Teller in Acts 16 (Structural and Intersectional analysis)
• Rhoda and Peter, Silence and Agency (Structural and Intersectional analysis)
• The Metaphor "Slave of God" in the Acts of Paul and Thecla (Narrative and Intersectinal approach)