The Project Team

The Project Team

The Cult of Saints project is directed by  Professor Bryan Ward-Perkins (Oxford University), the Principal Investigator, who is also overseeing the work on the evidence in Greek.

Engaged on the project are a number of subject specialists, overseeing specific linguistic areas: Prof Theo van Lint (Oxford University) for Armenian and Georgian; Dr Arietta Papaconstantinou (University of Reading) for Coptic; Dr David Taylor (Oxford University) for Syriac; Dr Robert Wiśniewski (University of Warsaw) for Latin.

The Researchers currently working full- or part-time on the project, some in Oxford others in Warsaw, are:

Stanisław Adamiak for the North African evidence, who completed a doctorate at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 2011, and has subsequently worked at the University of Warsaw for the ‘Presbyters in the Late Antique West’ project.

Nikoloz Aleksidze for the evidence in Armenian and Georgian, who completed a doctorate at Oxford in 2013, and has subsequently been teaching at the Free University of Tbilisi.

Julia Doroszewska for the Greek miracle collections, who completed a doctorate in Classics at the University of Warsaw in 2012, and has worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice.

Nikolaos Kälviäinen for hagiography in Greek, who holds an MA from the University of Helsinki and is currently completing a doctoral thesis at the University of Crete.

Małgorzata Krawczyk for epigraphic evidence in Greek, primarily from the Balkan peninsula, who is a doctoral student in Archaeology at the University of Warsaw.

David Lambert for evidence in Latin and for editorial work across the project; he has previously worked at St Andrews, on the Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception
of Augustine
, and at Loyola University’s Rome Center.

Sergey Minov for the evidence in Syriac, who completed a doctorate at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 2013, and subsequently held a research fellowship at the Freie Universität, Berlin.

Paweł Nowakowski for the epigraphic evidence in Greek and Latin, who completed a doctorate at the University of Warsaw in 2015 with a thesis on inscriptions in Anatolia relating to the cult of saints.

Christodoulos Papavarnavas for hagiography in Greek, who has recently completed a doctoral thesis at the University of Vienna on Greek martyrdom accounts.

Philip Polcar for evidence in Latin, who has recently completed a doctoral thesis at the University of Konstanz on the Letters of Jerome.

Efthymios Rizos for the evidence in Greek, who completed a doctorate at Oxford in 2011, and subsequently held a number of post-doctoral fellowships, particularly at Koç University, Istanbul.

Benjamin Savill for Insular and later Merovingian Latin material, who completed a doctorate at Oxford in 2017, and is currently Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of East Anglia.

Gesa Schenke for the evidence in Coptic, who completed a doctorate at Cologne University in 2000 and most recently worked on a Leiden-based ERC project, The Formation of Islam.

Marta Szada for the evidence from the Iberian peninsula, who is completing a doctoral thesis at the University of Warsaw, where she is also involved in the ‘Presbyters in the Late Antique West’ project.

Marijana Vuković, for the evidence of Latin calendars, who completed a doctorate at the Central European University in 2015, and then worked on the Oslo-based NRC project ‘Tiny Voices from the Past’, where she earned a second doctorate in 2018.

Katarzyna Wojtalik for evidence in Latin, primarily from Gaul, who is currently completing a doctoral thesis at the University of Warsaw.

The Project Administrator is Briony Truscott.

The Database Designer and Manager is Jeremy Worth, ICT Manager of the School of Archaeology, Oxford University.