SONJA G. ANDERSON

Department of Religion [email protected] (507) 222-4218 1 North College Street Northfield, MN 55057

EMPLOYMENT

Carleton College (Northfield, Minnesota) Assistant Professor of Religion (2017–present) Affiliated Faculty for Judaic Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Middle East Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion (2016–2017) Core Faculty for Middle Eastern Studies Concentration

Yale University Part-Time Acting Instructor of Greek (2013–2016) , , and Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

McDougall Teaching Fellow (2015–2016) Yale Center for Teaching and Learning

Teaching Fellow (Fall 2011–Fall 2012) Yale Divinity School and Yale College

EDUCATION

Yale University, New Haven, Ph.D. in Religious Studies; subfield: New Testament (May 2016) Dissertation: “Idol Talk: the Discourse of False Worship in the Early Christian World” Dissertation Directors: Dale B. Martin and Hindy Najman

M.A., M.Phil. in Religious Studies (May 2013)

University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana M.T.S. in Biblical Studies (May 2009)

University of California, Los Angeles B.A. in Religious Studies, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa (May 2003)

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Carleton College (Assistant Professor and Visiting Assistant Professor) RELG 100: “Illness, Medicine, and Magic” RELG 110: “Understanding Religion” RELG 121: “Introduction to Christianity” RELG 161: “Making Meaning of the Hebrew Bible” RELG 162: “Jesus, the Bible, and Christian Beginnings” RELG 228: “Martyrdom, Suffering, and the Body” RELG 229: “Monks and Mystics” RELG 233: “Gender and Power in the Catholic Church” RELG 234: “Angels, Demons, and Evil” RELG 290: “Origins of Monasticism” RELG 290: “Intermediate Koine Greek” RELG 305: “Apocalypse How?”

Yale Center for Teaching and Learning (McDougal Fellow), Fall 2015–Spring 2016. Led courses and advanced teaching workshops on pedagogical theory and technique for Yale graduate students, including: “Fundamentals of Teaching with Images and Objects,” “Teaching as a Woman,” “Religion in the Classroom,” “Peer Learning,” “Fundamentals of Teaching in the Humanities,” “Promoting Reading Excellence,” and “Teaching Students with Diverse Educational Backgrounds.”

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Sole Instructor) RLST 257 / 665: “Patristic Greek” (Spring 2016)

Yale Divinity School (Sole Instructor) REL 518: “Intermediate Koine Greek” (Fall 2015) REL 3606: “Intensive Elementary New Testament Greek” (Summer 2014) REL 3605b: “Elementary New Testament Greek II” (Spring 2014) REL 3605a: “Elementary New Testament Greek I” (Fall 2013)

Yale College (Co-Instructor with Professor Dale B. Martin) RLST 150b: “The New Testament in History and Culture” (Spring 2013)

Yale Divinity School and Yale College (Teaching Fellow) REL 501a: “Introduction to the New Testament: Gospels and Acts” (Fall 2012, for Adela Yarbro Collins) RLST 150b: “The New Testament in History and Culture” (Spring 2012, for Dale B. Martin) REL 620: “History of Christian Theology to 451” (Fall 2011, for Christopher Beeley)

University of Notre Dame (Teaching Assistant) THEO 20822: “What Catholics Believe” (Spring 2009, for Eugene Gorski)

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PUBLICATIONS

Review of Stefania Tutino, Shadows of Doubt: Language and Truth in Post-Reformation Catholic Culture (Oxford University Press, 2014) for Religious Studies Review (August 2018).

Review of Guy Stroumsa, The Scriptural Universe of Ancient Christianity (Oxford University Press, 2016) for Church History 87:1 (March 2018). with Hindy Najman, review of Sarah Pearce, ed., The Image and Its Prohibition in Jewish Antiquity (Journal of Jewish Studies, 2013) for Studia Philonica Annual 29 (2017).

Review of Robert Orsi, History and Presence (Harvard University Press, 2016) for Reading Religion (October 2016).

In progress: “Seeing What’s Not There: Visual Analysis in the Biblical Studies Classroom.” (Proposal accepted March 2019; in preparation for submission to the Wabash Center Journal for Teaching.)

“When Eucharists Attack: Policing the Body of Christ in Cyprian’s De Lapsis.” (In preparation for submission to the Journal of Early Christian Studies.)

Articles for 1 Corinthians, Wisdom Commentary Series, ed. Mary Rose D’Angelo and Barbara Reid (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press).

PRESENTATIONS

Presenter, “Racism, Pedagogy, and Biblical Studies” program unit, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting; Denver, Colorado, November 2019.

Panelist, “Politics, Pedagogy, and the Profession,” North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting; Chicago, Illinois, May 2018.

“Gender and Power in the Catholic Church: Contraception and Abortion,” Robert and Myra Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Lecture; Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University; March 13, 2018.

“Medicine and Magic in Early Christianity,” Religion and Science Discussion Group; Skinner Chapel, Carleton College; October 9, 2017.

“Discerning the Body in Cyprian’s De Lapsis,” North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting (panel: “Imagining the Early Christian Body: Places and Parts”); Chicago, Illinois, May 2017.

Faculty guest speaker for panel on “Religion and Gender/Sexuality/Bodies”; Skinner Chapel, Carleton College; April 6, 2017.

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“Canonizing the Apostolic Fathers in Modern Publication Practices,” Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (Book History program unit); San Antonio, Texas, November 2016.

Good Friday Reflection, Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale; Yale University, March 2016.

“How to Convert an Idolater: Satire and Theories of Ritual,” Greco-Roman Lunch; Department of Classics and ; Yale University, February 2016.

“Are Idols Real? Demons, Christians, and Rabbis,” Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (Pauline Epistles program unit); Atlanta, Georgia, November 2015.

“Christians and Rabbis on Idols and Demons,” Ancient Judaism Regional Seminar; Columbia University, New York, March 2015.

“Pope Francis’s ‘Theology of Women’,” Theology on Tap, sponsored by the Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale; Yale University, December 2013.

“How to Talk About Talking Idols,” Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (Speech and Talk program unit); Baltimore, Maryland, November 2013.

“When Eucharists Attack: Policing the Body of Christ in Third-Century Carthage,” Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (Religious World of Late Antiquity program unit); Chicago, Illinois, November 2012.

Panelist, “Pastoral Care in Campus/Youth Ministry,” More Than a Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church, sponsored by Fordham University, Fairfield University, Union Theological Seminary, and Yale Divinity School; Yale Divinity School, October 22, 2011.

“Violence and Pacifism in the Christian Tradition,” Department of Theology MTS Colloquium; University of Notre Dame, Spring 2009.

LANGUAGES

Greek (classical, koine, and byzantine), biblical Hebrew, Latin, Syriac (basic reading), German, French (reading), Spanish (some reading)

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

Curricular Innovation Grant, Carleton College, Spring 2018.

Syriac Summer School Fellowship, Hill Manuscript & Museum Library, Summer 2018.

Blanshard Fellowship, Yale University, 2014–2015.

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Graduate Student Assembly Conference Travel Fund award for SBL Annual Meeting, Yale University, 2012.

Summer Language Institute Fellowship, Yale University, 2010.

University Fellowship, Yale University, 2009–2015.

Presidential Fellowship (declined), University of Notre Dame, 2009–2015.

Emory Graduate Diversity Fellowship (declined), Emory University, 2009–2015.

University Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, 2007–2009.

Summer Research Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, 2007.

Ray C. Petry Fellowship (declined), Duke Divinity School, 2007–2009.

Diversity Fellowship (superseded by University Fellowship), University of Notre Dame, 2007– 2009.

Phi Beta Kappa, UCLA, inducted Spring 2007.

Theta Alpha Kappa, UCLA, inducted Spring 2007.

Highest Departmental Honors in the Study of Religion, UCLA, Spring 2007.

Dean’s Honors List, UCLA Spring, Fall 2006; Spring, Fall 2005; Spring, Fall 2004.

PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING

McDougal Fellow, Yale Center for Teaching and Learning, Fall 2015–Spring 2016. Led courses and advanced teaching workshops on pedagogical theory and technique for Yale graduate students (see below under Teaching Experience for details).

Certificate of College Teaching Preparation, Yale Center for Teaching and Learning, expected Spring 2016. Completing a comprehensive training program for effective college-level teaching. Requirements include teaching observations, preparation of a teaching portfolio, and eight Advanced Teaching Workshops.

Certificate in the Fundamentals of Teaching Texts in the Humanities, Yale Center for Teaching and Learning, Fall 2011. Completed a semester-long class in syllabus and course design, evaluation procedures, facilitation of discussions, classroom conflict resolution, and promotion of students’ critical reading and writing skills.

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Co-facilitator, book group on Ellen Berrey, The Enigma of Diversity: The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial Justice; Carleton College, Winter 2017. Faculty, student, and staff book group on the language of diversity in institutional culture.

Co-facilitator, Teaching at the Intersections; Yale University, Spring 2016. Co-facilitating a bi- weekly lunch series for graduate instructors, ladder, and non-ladder faculty focused on the intersections of race, gender, class, and ability in the classroom.

Co-coordinator, Yale Interdisciplinary Working Group for the Study of Antiquity; Yale University, Summer 2014–Spring 2015. Managed schedule of speakers, budget, and did graphic design for monthly symposium involving faculty and graduate students in Religious Studies, Classics, Art History, History, and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures; part of the Yale Initiative for the Study of Antiquity and the Premodern World.

Conference website design for Everyday Writing in the Medieval Near East: Documentary History and the Cairo Geniza, Yale University, November 2013.

Conference website design for Rabbis and Other Jews: Rabbinic Literature and Late Antique Judaism, Yale University, May 2014.

Conference organizer for Textual Unities, Yale University, October 2013.

Conference organizer for The Rest is Commentary: New Work on Ancient Jewish Texts, Yale University, February 2013. b. Editing

Research Assistant for Vasileios Marinis, May 2015–present. Editing of various articles and books (English and Byzantine Greek), including: Death and the Afterlife in Byzantium: The Fate of the Soul in Theology, Liturgy, and Art (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Michael Peppard, The World’s Oldest Church: Bible, Art, and Ritual at Dura-Europos, Syria (, 2016).

(Byzantine Greek) Vasileios Marinis and Robert Ousterhout, “‘Grant Us to Share a Place and Lot With Them’: Relics and the Byzantine Church Building (9th–15th centuries)” (forthcoming), December 2014.

(Latin and Greek) David Eastman, The Deaths of the Apostles: Ancient Accounts of the Martyrdom of Peter and Paul [Latin, Greek, Syriac] (Society of Biblical Literature, in progress), July 2014.

(Byzantine Greek) Vasileios Marinis, Architecture and Ritual in the Churches of Constantinople: Ninth to Fifteenth Centuries (Cambridge University Press, 2014).

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(Greek) Dylan M. Burns, Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism, Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014).

Hindy Najman, articles in various Festschriften and Journal for the Study of Judaism 43, 2012.

(index preparation) Hindy Najman, Losing the Temple and Recovering the Future: An Analysis of 4 Ezra (Cambridge University Press, 2014).

(index preparation) Florentino García Martínez, Between Philology and Theology: Contributions to the Study of Ancient Jewish Interpretation, ed. Hindy Najman and Eibert Tigchelaar, Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism no. 162 (Brill, 2013).

(footnotes and bibliography) Dale B. Martin, New Testament History and Literature (Yale University Press, 2012).

S. Scott Bartchy, various articles and Call No Man Father: The Apostle Paul’s Vision for a Society of Siblings (Hendrickson Publishers, in preparation), Fall 2007–2015. c. Other Service

Guest Presenter for Adult Religious Education class, Saint Dominic Catholic Church, Northfield, Minnesota, Fall 2016–present.

Co-leader, Women Reading Theology, Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale, Summer 2014–present. Monthly reading group for parishioners and students interested in contemporary Catholic women theologians.

Q&A moderator for Robert Blair Kaiser, “Stories of Vatican II: the Human Side of the Council,” Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale, November 3, 2012.

On-Campus Representative (OCR) for Society of Biblical Literature, Yale University Department of Religious Studies, 2010–2014.

Special Collections cataloger, University of Notre Dame Hesburgh Library, Summer 2009. Created catalogue entries for the newly-donated Sergei and Marina Utechin Collection (Russian, German, and French volumes) using the Aleph and OCLC programs.

Lay Delegate, Northern Indiana Annual Conference of the , Lafayette, Indiana, 2008.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Society of Biblical Literature American Academy of Religion North American Patristics Society Catholic Biblical Association Catholic Theological Society of America Sonja G. Anderson CV (March 2019), 8 of 8

REFERENCES

Primary References: Harold Attridge ([email protected]) of Divinity Yale Divinity School

Dale B. Martin ([email protected]) Woolsey Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus Yale University

Michael McNally ([email protected]) Professor of Religion and Department Chair Carleton College

Hindy Najman ([email protected]) Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture University of Oxford

Additional References: Kathleen Byrnes ([email protected]) Campus Minister for Social Justice and Community Engagement Fairfield University

Stephen Davis ([email protected]) Professor of Religious Studies, History, and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Yale University

Eddie DeLeón, C.M.F., D.Min. ([email protected]) Assistant Professor of Pastoral Ministry and Director of Intercultural Outreach Catholic Theological Union

Kathryn Lofton ([email protected]) Professor of Religious Studies, American Studies, History, and Divinity Yale University

Vasileios Marinis ([email protected]) Associate Professor of Christian Art and Architecture Yale Divinity School