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Leslie Dossey

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Leslie Dossey is a historian specialising in late antique north Africa. She is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago.

Education

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Dossey received her PhD from Harvard University in 1998. Her doctoral thesis was entitled Christians and Romans: Aspiration, Assimilation, and Conflict in the North African Countryside.[1]

Research

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Dossey published Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa in 2010 with the University of California Press.[2] The work was described by David L. Stone as 'a truly interdisciplinary and multi-scalar study' with 'a powerful thesis'.[3] She has published on gender, religion, and the history of sleep in late antiquity.

Bibliography

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  • Wife Beating and Manliness in Late Antiquity.” Past & Present (2008) 3-40
  • Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa (California: University of California Press, 2010)
  • 'Exegesis and dissent in Byzantine North Africa', North Africa Under Byzantium and Early Islam, ed. by Susan T. Stevens and Jonathan Conant (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2016)
  • 'Watchful Greeks and Lazy Romans: Disciplining Sleep in Late Antiquity', Journal of Early Christian Studies 21, 2013 (2) 209-239
  • 'Night in the Big City: Temporal Patterns in Antioch and Constantinople as Revealed by Chrysostom’s Sermons', Revisioning John Chrysostom (Leiden: Brill, 2019)

References

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  1. ^ "Christians and Romans: Aspiration, Assimilation, and Conflict in the North African Countryside". hollis.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  2. ^ Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa.
  3. ^ Stone, David L. (2013). "Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa by Leslie Dossey (review)". Journal of Social History. 46 (4): 1099–1101. ISSN 1527-1897.