Caroline T. Schroeder

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Caroline Theresa Schroeder
Academic background
Education
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Oklahoma

Caroline Theresa Schroeder (b. 1971) is Professor of Classics and Letters at the University of Oklahoma. She is an expert on early Christianity.

Education[]

Schroeder received her PhD from Duke University in 2002. Her thesis was entitled Disciplining the Monastic Body: Asceticism, Ideology, and Gender in the Egyptian Monastery of Shenoute of Atripe.[1] She received her MA from Duke University in Religion in 1998, and her BA from Brown University in Religious Studies in 1993.

Career[]

Before her appointment as Professor at the University of Oklahoma, Schroeder was Assistant Professor at the University of the Pacific.[2] She co-founded and co-directs the ground-breaking digital project Coptic Scriptorium.[3] [4] She has published extensively on women, gender, and monasticism. Her work has been described as 'immensely promising for scholars in the areas of late antiquity, gender studies and early Christian studies'.[5] The volume she edited with , Melania: Early Christianity through the Life of One Family. Christianity in late antiquity, came out of a symposium in honor of Elizabeth A. Clark held in 2013.

Schroeder has been awarded grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation, and the Alexander Humboldt Foundation.[6] The National Endowment for the Humanities award of $192,500 funded an international project, the KELLIA project, over two years to digitize Coptic texts.[7]

Bibliography[]

  • Children and Family in Late Antique Egyptian Monasticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020)
  • Catherine M. Chin and Caroline T. Schroeder, Melania: Early Christianity through the Life of One Family. Christianity in late antiquity (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017)
  • Monastic Bodies: Discipline and Salvation in Shenoute of Atripe (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007)

References[]

  1. ^ Schroeder, by Caroline T. (2002). Disciplining the monastic body : asceticism, ideology, and gender in the Egyptian monastery of Shenoute of Atripe. 2002.
  2. ^ "Caroline T. Schroeder". students.pulse.pacific.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  3. ^ "Children and Family in Late Antique Egyptian Monasticism | Ancient history". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  4. ^ "Global Philology Project | Digital Humanities". Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  5. ^ "Monastic Bodies: Discipline and Salvation in Shenoute of Atripe – Bryn Mawr Classical Review". Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  6. ^ Pacific, College Of The (2015-09-03). "Of Coptic texts and spider silk". Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  7. ^ Pacific, College Of The (2015-09-03). "Of Coptic texts and spider silk". Retrieved 2021-01-15.

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