Hello! I’m Chance Bonar, an Advising Fellow at the University of Virginia. I advise and teach first- and second-year students, and research a range of topics: ancient Mediterranean religions, slavery and colonialism in the ancient world, Mediterranean notions of authorship, gender and sexuality in early Christianity, Christian antisemitism, and the history and literature of Roman Palestine.

I completed my PhD at Harvard University in the Committee on the Study of Religion. Additionally, I have recently been a Lecturer in Religion and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University, a William R. Tyler Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, an Instructor of Theology at Boston College, and a Lecturer of Advanced Greek at Harvard Divinity School. I also functioned as a Residential Tutor at Lowell House and as a First-Year Proctor in Harvard College.

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