Starting August 1st, Andy is the first postdoc to join the GenAut team; he will be working on the Armenian side of the project. Welcome aboard!

With research experience in Syriac, Armenian, Greek, Coptic and Arabic Christianity, as well as a background in Egyptology and archaeology, Andy is interested in the interaction between religious and secular traditions in the Eastern Mediterranean and its consequences, positive (intercultural exchange of information and texts, multilingualism and translation) as well as negative (religious debate and polemic).
Andy previously worked in the ERC StG project ‘Reviving the Ascetic Ideal in the Eastern. Mediterranean (969-1375 AD)‘ (PI: Adrian Pirtea) at the Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. He previously held fellowships and positions at the University of Florence, University of Oxford (British Academy Newton International Fellowship), Ghent University, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He currently teaches Coptic at the University of Vienna in the Department of Egyptology, and is co-editor of the book series Eastern Christian Cultures in Contact (Brepols).
Andy and Dan have previously collaborated in preliminary stages of the project, for the project description, and in the long run for the TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar.