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Michael Philip Penn Teresa Hihn Moore Professor of Religious Studies Stanford University Michael Philip Penn Teresa Hihn Moore Professor of Religious Studies Stanford University Education Ph.D. Department of Religion, Duke University, September, 1999. Dissertation: “‘With a Chaste and Closed Mouth’: Ritual Kissing, Social Boundaries, and Early Christian Communities.” M.A. Department of Religion, Duke University, September, 1996. Graduate Certificate, Program in Women’s Studies, Duke University, September, 1995. A.B. Department of Molecular Biology, cum laude, Princeton University, May, 1993. Thesis: “The Biological Images Project: Using Computers to Help Teach Biology.” International and National Awards American Council for Learned Societies Digital Extension Grant (2016) Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Five College Digital Humanities Research Fellowship (2013) American Council for Learned Societies Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship (2011) Institute for the Study of the Ancient World Residential Fellowship (2011) American Council for Learned Societies Digital Innovation Fellowship (2011, declined) British Academy/American Philosophical Society Research Fellowship (2011) American Academy of Religion Research Assistance Grants (2011, 2004) Wabash Center Grant for Pedagogical Issues in Teaching Eastern Christianity (2011) National Humanities Center Grant to Co-Organize “Late Antiquity at 40” Conference (2010) John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2007) National Humanities Center Residential Fellowship (2007) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2007) National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Fellowship (2005) Nominee, American Academy of Religion Best First Book Award (2005) Alternate, American Council for Learned Societies Fellowship (2005) National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar Grant (2004) Wabash Center Summer Research Grant (2004) Wabash Center Grant for Summer Workshop on Teaching and Learning (2004) United States Information Agency Fellowship for Cairo, City of Islam Program (1999) Finalist, Woodrow Wilson/Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship (1999) Goethe Institute Fellowship for Summer German Study (1995) University Awards (Stanford) Teresa Hihn Moore Chair in Religious Studies (2017) Mary Sutton Weeks Faculty Scholar in the School of Arts and Humanities (2017) University Awards (Mount Holyoke) Meribeth E. Cameron Faculty Award for Scholarship (2015) William R Kenan, Jr. Faculty Chair (2013-present) Faculty Grants (2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003) Research Assistant Grants (2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006) Faculty Fellowships (2011, 2010, 2008, 2006) Diversity Grant for Syriac Liturgical Music Concert (2010) Library and Informational Technologies Grant (2004) Kraft-Hiatt Postdoctoral Fellowship, Brandeis University (2001) Finalist, Princeton Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship (2000) Jean O’Barr Teaching Endowment Award, Duke University (1998) Margaret Taylor Smith Teaching Endowment Award, Duke University (1997) J.B. Duke Doctoral Fellowship, Duke University Publications (Single Author Books) Envisioning Islam: Syriac Christians in the Early Muslim World (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). When Christians First Met Muslims: A Source Book of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015). Kissing Christians: Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005). Nominated for the American Academy of Religion’s Best First Book Award. Reviewed in: Bible and Critical Theory, Catholic Historical Review, Church History, Henoch, Journal of Biblical Literature, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Journal of Theological Studies, Medieval Encounters, Religious Studies Review, Spiritus. Publications (Collaborative Books) Invitation to Syriac Christianity (Under Contract: University of California Press). Senior editor. Christine Shepherdson, Charles Stang, and Scott Johnson, associate editors. Hymnal According to the Rite of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch (Antioch Press, Forthcoming). Co-translated with Gabriel Aydin and the Syriac Orthodox Bishops of America. English translation of Ruben Duval, Traite de grammaire Syriaque (Gorgias Press, Forthcoming). Co-translated with Maria Doerfler and Adam McCollum. Publications (Articles and Book Chapters) “Early Syriac Reactions to the Rise of Islam” in The Syriac World (New York: Routledge, Forthcoming). “Automated Syriac Script Charts” Studia Patristica 45 (Forthcoming). Co-authored with Nick Howe and Kaylynn Crawford. “Know Thy Enemy: The Materialization of Orthodoxy in Syriac Manuscripts” in Snapshots of Evolving Traditions: Textual Fluidity, Manuscript Culture and New Philology (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2017), 221-241. “Melania’s Afterlives” in Melania: Early Christianity Through the Life of One Family (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016), 245-259. “A Character Style Library for Syriac Manuscripts,” Proceedings of the International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (2015). Co-authored with Nick Howe and Alice Yang. “Demons Gone Wild: An Introduction, Edition, and Translation of the Syriac Qenneshre Fragment,” Orientalia Christiana Periodica 79 (2013): 367-399. “Using Computers to Identify Ancient Scribal Hands,” Studia Patristica 44 (2013): 261- 265. “Jacob of Edessa’s Defining Christianity: An Introduction, Edition, and Translation” Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 64 (2012): 175-199. “The Wright Decoder: A Page Index to the British Library Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 15.1 (2012): 30-76. “God’s War and His Warriors: The First Hundred Years of Syriac Accounts of the Islamic Conquests” in Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Encounters and Exchanges (Oxford University Press, 2012), 69-90. “Reconsecrating a Defiled Church: A Medieval Syriac Ritual and its Later Modifications” Parole de l’Orient 35 (2010): 417-434. “Addressing Muslim Rulers and Muslim Rule” Oriens Christianus (2010): 71-84. “Moving Beyond the Palimpsest: Erasure in Syriac Manuscripts” Journal of Early Christian Studies 18 (Summer, 2010): 261-303. “A Temporarily Resurrected Dog and Other Wonders: Thomas of Marga and Early Christian/Muslim Encounters” Medieval Encounters 16 (Summer, 2010): 209-242. “Piety and the Pumice Stone” Studia Patristica 45 (2010): 197-201. “The Composition of the Qenneshre Fragment” in Aramaic in Post-Biblical Judaism and Early Christianity (Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2010), 33-48. “Monks, Manuscripts, and Muslims: Syriac Textual Changes in Reaction to the Rise of Islam” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 12 (Summer, 2009): 235-257. “A New Introduction, Edition, Translation, and Commentary of John and the Emir” Le Muséon (June, 2008): 65-91. “Kissing, Purity, and Early Christian Social Order” Studia Patristica 39 (2006): 87-92. “Syriac Sources for Early Christian/Muslim Relations” Islamochristiana 29 (2003): 59-78. “Ritual Kissing, Heresy, and Early Christian Orthodoxy” Journal of Ecclesiastical History (November, 2003): 625-640. “Identity Transformation and Authorial Identification in Joseph and Aseneth” The Journal for the Study of Pseudepigrapha 13 (2002): 171-183. “Performing Family: Ritual Kissing and the Construction of Early Christian Kinship” Journal of Early Christian Studies 11 (Summer, 2002): 151-174. “‘Bold and Having No Shame’: Ambiguous Widows, Controlling Clergy, and Early Syrian Communities” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 4 (Summer, 2001): 155-181. “Introduction and Translation of Shenoute’s ‘On the Piety of Women’” Coptic Church Review 16 (Spring, 1995): 26-29. Publications (Book Reviews, Entries, Reports, Review Articles) Book reviews in Review of Biblical Literature, Church History, Journal of Early Christian Studies, National Women’s Studies Association Journal “Jacob of Edessa” in The Encyclopedia of Islam, Third Edition (Leiden: Brill, Forthcoming). “Pseudo-Methodius” and “John bar Penkaye” in The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, Forthcoming). “Nonnus of Nisibis,” “Athanasius of Balad,” “Julian of Halicarnasus” in Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2011). “The Great Isaiah Scroll” Art Forum (June, 2008). Research Report on Imaging Islam in Religious Studies News (January, 2007). “Counter Factual Essay,” “One Source Social History,” “Taking a Stand” in Teaching the Bible: Practical Strategies for Classroom Instruction (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 2005). Conference Report of “Aramaic in Post-Biblical Judaism and Early Christianity” in Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies (July, 2004). “Der Kuß” in Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2001), 1907- 1908. “Feminist Pedagogy as Praxis” Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 4 (Spring, 1997): 217-219 Invited Lectures “Syriac Memories of the Islamic Conquests,” Plenary, University of Tübingen, June 2017. “Computer Assisted Paleography.” Five College Book History, Nov. 2016. “Envisioning Islam.” Featured Fellow ACLS Annual Meeting, May, 2016. “When Christians First Met Muslims,” Baylor University, Apr., 2016. “Something Old and Something New.” Duke University, Feb., 2015. “Commenting on Chalcedon.” Norwegian School of Theology, Oslo, Dec. 2014. “Rethinking Early Christian-Muslim Relations.” Brown University, Feb., 2014. “New Approaches to Ancient Manuscripts.” Tufts University, Jan., 2014. “Revealing Changes.” Bowdoin College, Dec., 2013. “Using Muslims to ‘Think
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