WILLIAMS, Michael A.
Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
Appointed: 1977.
Education:
- B.A. 1968, Abilene Christian University.
- M.A. 1970, Miami of Ohio.
- Ph.D. 1977, Harvard University.
Teaching Specializations: history of early Christianity; religion and society in the Greco-Roman world.
Field Experience/Research/Awards:
- Professeur-Chercheur invite, L’Universite Laval, Quebec, 1991.
- Research in Egypt, 1987; travel to international conferences, Belgium 1988, Italy 1990.
- Recent Publications:
- Rethinking “Gnosticism.” Princeton University Press, 1996.
- Co-editor, Innovation in Religious Traditions: Essays in the Interpretaion of Religious Change. Relgion and Society 31. Mouton de Gruyter, 1992.
- The Immovable Race: A Gnostic Designation and the Theme of Stability in Late Antiquity. Nag Hammadi Studies 29. (Brill, 1985).
- Editor, Charisma and Sacred Biography, Journal of the American Academy of Relgion, Thematic Studies Series 48: 3-4 (Scholars Press, 1982).