Dr Laura Nasrallah is Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School, with a joint appointment with the Department of Religious Studies, Yale University. She received her education from Harvard Divinity School and Princeton University.
Professor Nasrallah’s research and teaching bring together New Testament and early Christian literature with analysis of archaeological remains of the Mediterranean world, and often engage issues of colonialism, gender, race, status, and power. In her work she also displays an interest in Jewish/Christian relations, both in her historical reconstructions and in the contemporary world.
Her major works include Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses: Magic, Aesthetics, and Justice (Cambridge UP, February 2024), Archaeology and the Letters of Paul (Oxford, 2019), Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture: The Second-Century Church Amid the Spaces of Empire (Cambridge, 2010), and “An Ecstasy of Folly”: Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity (Harvard UP, 2003).
UiO's honorary doctoral degrees
Honorary doctoral degrees of UiO (Doctor Honoris Causa) are given to prominent academics. The degrees are awarded without a thesis defence/disputation.
UiO has been entitled to appoint honorary doctorates since 1824, and appointments usually occur every three years.
The honorary doctors are conferred at UiO's Annual Celebration on 2 September.