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).