Westar Institute

Andrew Crislip is Professor of History and Blake Chair in the History of Christianity at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, where he has taught since 2008. His publications include Selected Discourses of Shenoute the Great (with David Brakke, Cambridge University Press), Thorns in the Flesh: Illness and Sanctity in Late Ancient Christianity (University of Pennsylvania Press), From Monastery to Hospital: Christian Monasticism and the Transformation of Health Care in Late Antiquity (University of Michigan Press), and articles in journals including Interpretation, Harvard Theological Review, Biblica, The Journal of the Bible and Its Reception, and Vigiliae Christianae. Dr. Crislip’s current work focuses on Egyptian monasticism, ancient healing traditions, and the history of emotions. He has taught also at the University of Helsinki, Union Presbyterian Seminary, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and Yale University. He earned his PhD from Yale and his BA from Mary Washington College.