Nathan Tilley, Graduate Assistant

Please note: Nathan has left the "Religious Studies" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Nathan Tilley received his PhD from the Graduate Program in Religion in 2022, specializing in Early Christianity. His areas of research include intellectual history, eastern Christian literature of late antiquity (Greek, Syriac, Coptic, Armenian), asceticism, and ancient philosophy & medicine. His dissertation examines how East Syrian monastic leader Bābai the Great (ca. 551-628) used earlier theological, philosophical, and medical texts to develop ideas about human nature in a time of controversy. 

He was most recently Junior Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, DC during the 2021-2022 year. 

He holds a M.T.S. in the History of Christianity from the University of Notre Dame and a B.A. in Philosophy and Religious Studies from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead-Cain Scholar.

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