Ian M. Gerdon Curriculum Vitae

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EDUCATION University of Notre Dame, Ph.D. in History of 2017 Dissertation on theologies and practices of love in early Christian ascetic tradition Advisor: Fr. Brian Daley, S.J. Doctoral exams passed (Nov 2012) with high pass University of Chicago, Master of Divinity 2009 Thesis: Martyrdom as a Model for Christian Life Field placement: Monastery of Holy Cross & Disciples Divinity House Saint John’s University School of Theology, Master of Arts in Theology 2008 Thesis: Ambiguous Anthropology in Advisor: Fr. Columba Stewart, O.S.B. Exams passed and thesis defended with honors Wabash College, Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude 2000 Majors in Philosophy and Religion, Minor in Physics Distinction on Comprehensive Exams in Philosophy and Religion Loyola University Chicago Center, Rome, Italy 1999 Undergraduate overseas study, spring semester (January-May)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE INSTRUCTOR OF RECORD: 7 classes Foundations of Theology, University of Notre Dame 2013-2015  First required undergraduate theology and religious studies class  Original curriculum design and development for 5 sections of 17-47 students  Twice ranked in top 20% of division for intellectual challenge Writing and Rhetoric, University of Notre Dame 2016-2017  Required undergraduate class on effective and ethical writing  Original curriculum design and development for 2 sections of 13-14 students  Ranked in top 20% of division for intellectual challenge ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR: The Catholic Faith, University of Notre Dame 2016-2017  Teaching Assistant for Dr. John Cavadini  Graded weekly papers, met weekly with students one-on-one Christianity & in Antiquity Colloquium, Notre Dame 2011-2012  Teaching Assistant and Guest Lecturer for Dr. Greg Sterling Foundations of Theology, Heaven & Hell, University of Notre Dame 2010-2011  Teaching Assistant and Guest Lecturer for Dr. Robin Darling Young GUEST LECTURES: The Bible and Its Interpretation, University of Notre Dame Spring 2017  Lecture on ’s Life of Moses for Dr. Jennifer Martin

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Seeking Christ in the Desert, University of Notre Dame Spring 2014  Lecture on Maximus the Confessor’s Liber Asceticus for Dr. James DeFrancis

AWARDS, GRANTS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award 2017 Graduate Student Union Conference Presentation Grant, Notre Dame 2017 University Writing Program Graduate Teaching Assistantship 2016-2017 Notebaert Professional Development Award, University of Notre Dame 2015 Graduate Student Union Conference Presentation Grant, Notre Dame 2015 Presidential Scholarship, University of Notre Dame 2009-2014 Paper selected for plenary session at Pappas Graduate Patristics Conference 2007

PUBLICATIONS PEER-REVIEWED: “The Evagrian Roots of Maximus the Confessor’s Liber Asceticus,” forthcoming in Studia Patristica (expected 2017) BOOK REVIEWS: Review of Reconstructing the Theology of Evagrius Ponticus: Beyond , by Augustine Casiday, in Religious Studies Review 42.4 (December 2016): 295. Review of The Oxford Handbook of Maximus the Confessor, eds. P. Allen and B. Neil, in Religious Studies Review 42.4 (December 2016): 297. ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS: “St. Gilbert of Battersea,” in Sightings, The Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion at the University of Chicago (3 June 2010) “,” “Roman Catholicism,” and “,” in A Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion, eds. C. Taliaferro & E. Marty (Continuum: 2010; second edition in preparation)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS “Friend of Christ, Friend of Sinners: Friendship in Maximus’s Centuries on Charity” North American Patristics Society Annual Conference (Chicago, IL, 2017) “Providence and Judgment in Maximus the Confessor’s Centuries on Charity” North American Patristics Society Annual Conference (Chicago, IL, 2016) “The Evagrian Roots of Maximus the Confessor’s Liber Asceticus” 17th International Conference on Patristic Studies (Oxford, United Kingdom, 2015) “Divine Abandonment in Evagrius Ponticus and Maximus the Confessor” North American Patristics Society Annual Conference (Chicago, IL, 2014) “Marvel & Believe: The Gnostic Wonder of Clement of Alexandria” Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality Meeting (Notre Dame, IN, 2013) “‘The Circumstantial Law of Nature’: Fallenness in Maximus the Confessor” Pappas Graduate Student Patristics Conference (Brookline, MA, 2008) “The of John Damascene in The Three Treatises” Pappas Graduate Student Patristics Conference (Brookline, MA, 2007)

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PEDAGOGICAL AND LINGUISTIC TRAINING Practicum on Teaching Writing, University Writing Program 2016 Pedagogy Workshop for Foundations of Theology, Theology Department 2013 Dumbarton Oaks Library Greek Summer School 2008 Four-week intensive study of Byzantine Greek and paleography

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Research Assistant for Dr. R. Young, University of Notre Dame 2012  Contributed research for a chapter in Evagrius and His Legacy (ND: 2015) Research Assistant for Dr. G. Sterling, University of Notre Dame 2011-2012  Assisted with editorial work for Light from the Gentiles (Brill: 2014) Graduate Assistant for Dr. R. Young, University of Notre Dame 2011  Researched resources and means of acquisition for Byzantine Borderlands research collection in non-Greek Research Assistant for Dr. R. Young, University of Notre Dame 2010-2011  Researched Eastern Christianity, provided updated bibliographies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Grants & Fellowships Consultant, University of Notre Dame 2014-present  Proven record advising winners of NSF-GRFP, Fulbright, Mellon/ACLS, etc.  Held nearly 1000 half-hour student consultations over three years  Strategic planning and data management  Aided in raising dollar amount of external fellowship wins threefold Asst. Circulation Supervisor, University of Chicago Library 2005-2009  Responsible for Library facilities and patrons after business hours  Principal provider of customer service  Trained, supervised, and evaluated approximately 24 student workers annually  Managed payroll and scheduling for student workers

SERVICE 23rd Institute on Teaching and Mentoring 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Application Consultant Graduate Student Union, University of Notre Dame 2015-2017 Humanities Representative, Conference Presentation Grant Selection Committee Fulbright Review Committee, University of Notre Dame 2014-2017 Liebmann Candidate Selection Committee, University of Notre Dame 2014-2017

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS American Academy of Religion 2016-present North American Patristics Society 2013-present

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PUBLIC TALKS “The Rule of Benedict in the World: Living outside of the Cloister” 2009 All Souls Anglican Church (Wheaton, IL) “Early and Hospitality” 2007 St. Francis Catholic Worker House (Chicago, IL)

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