Stephen J. Davis

Stephen J. Davis is Professor of Religious Studies, History, and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University, specializing in the history of ancient and medieval Christianity, with a special focus on the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. Since 2013, he has served as Head of Pierson College, one of the fourteen residential colleges at Yale. He is the author of several books, including The Cult of St. Thecla: A Tradition of Women's Piety in Late Antiquity and Coptic Christology in Practice: Incarnation and Divine Participation in Late Antique and Medieval Egypt. His book, Christ Child: Cultural Memories of a Young Jesus, was published by Yale University Press in 2014. For over a decade, Stephen has directed the Yale Monastic Archaeology Project, sponsoring archaeological and archival work at several ancient and medieval monastic sites in Egypt.