Melania is a 3rd Year PhD student in the Religious Studies Department’s EMWAR and Theology concentrations. Her research interests currently focus on the history of Christianity in Late Antiquity, the early Medieval period, and the Middle and Late Byzantine periods. Melania is particularly interested in a comparative approach to the study of Eastern and Western Christian mystical theology, as well as topics in theological anthropology, Christian cosmology, and Byzantine material culture.
Melania, whose background is in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, has received her BA in Politics and Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh and her Masters degrees (MTS & ThM) concentrating in Patristic Theology from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. Please do not hesitate to contact her with any questions about her work or shared interests at melania.linderman@yale.edu.