Caroline T. Schroeder, Ph.D.
www.carrieschroeder.com
Recent News:
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April 19: "Breaking Rules and Telling Tales: Children and Childhood in Shenoute's Monastery" will be presented at the Department of Coptic Studies at the University of Münster -
Visit www.asceticchildren.org for recent updates including MAPS (2 April 2012)
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C.V. and Research pages updated 3 April 2012
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Prof. Schroeder is at the Seminar für Ägyptologie und Koptologie at the Georg-August University in Göttingen on a Humboldt fellowship for academic year 2011-12
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The essay, "Child Sacrifice in Egyptian Monastic Culture: from Familial Renunciation to Jephthah's Lost Daughter," will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Early Christian Studies
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"Monastic Family Values: The Healing of Children in Late Antique Egypt" will appear in the journal Coptica 10 (2011)
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Prof. Schroeder is a Member-at-Large on the board of the North American Patristics Society
"[T]he first analysis of the ascetic ideology of one of the most important figures in early Egyptian monasticism, Shenoute of Atripe."—David Brakke, Indiana University
A "remarkable study" -- Journal of Religion
Caroline T. Schroeder is Associate Professor of Religious and Classical Studies at the University of the Pacific.
Prof. Schroeder is the author of Monastic Bodies (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007) and numerous articles on early Christianity and other topics.
Please also visit www.asceticchildren.com for current research.