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Christine Luckritz Marquis

Associate Professor of Church History

Ph.D., Duke University
M.A., Yale Divinity School
B.A., Illinois Wesleyan University

Biography

Dr. Christine Luckritz Marquis is Associate Professor of Church History, having been at Union Presbyterian Seminary since Fall 2013. Previously, she taught at Duke University, Lehigh University, and Moravian Theological Seminary. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship from 2010-2012.

Research Interests

Her teaching and research explore early Christian communities and their practices, especially those founded in Egypt, Syria, and the Arabian Peninsula.

Selected Publications

Her first book is “Death of the Desert: Monastic Memory and the Loss of Egypt’s Golden Age” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). The book explores how memory and spatial practices were transformed by acts of violence among Egyptian ascetics. She has also co-edited and translated "The History of the Great Deeds of Bishop Paul of Quentos and Priest John of Edessa: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity," volume 29 (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2010). She contributed to "Melania: Early Christianity Through the Life of One Family" (University of California Press, 2016). Her translation work is found in the first two volumes of More New Testament Apocrypha and on the Coptic Scriptorium webpage.