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Visiting Fellow, 2023 – 2024

Joseph Sanzo

Associate Professor of the History of Religions Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Biography

Joseph Sanzo is an Associate Professor of the History of Religions and Director of the Center for the Study of Lived Religion at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. His research interests include ancient Mediterranean religion, with a particular focus on ritual practices during late antiquity. He is a member of a European Research Council Starting Grant project that is investigating late-antique Jewish and Christian magical objects (e.g., amulets and incantation bowls) as sites for thinking about early Jewish-Christian relations.

Project

Textual Amulets of the Mediterranean World: 1000 BCE-1000 CE

2023 – 2024