Dr. Jessica van 't Westeinde

• 'Grounds for combat or conciliation: ecumenical councils between Nicaea and Chalcedon,' subproject of Project 9: Councils and Conflicts. Trouble Shooting and Shooting Trouble in Late Antiquity (PIs Stefan Rebenich and Katharina Heyden), IFK Religious Conflicts and Coping Strategies
• Jews and the City: A History of Jewish Urban Life in the (later) Roman Empire (independent research project conducted at the universities of Aarhus and Tuebingen (2 appointments)) 
• Perception of Landscape and Sanctuaries in Hellenistic Literature (Polybius), at SFB 1266 TP E3 (PI Annette Haug), Institut für klassische Archäologie, University of Kiel
• Jerome of Stridon: social networks, relations with Roman aristocrats (PhD project; supervisors Lewis Ayres and Carol Harrison), various approaches that mostly focus on socio-economic history since (everlasting ongoing research)

since 2023
Research Fellow, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn

January–March 2024
Research Visit/Visiting Research Fellow University of Exeter

2018–2022                             
Junior Research Fellow, IFK Religious Conflicts and Coping Strategies, University of Bern, Switzerland

2018–2020 
Excellence Junior Research Fellow, Department of Ancient History, University of Tuebingen, Germany

2017–2018                              
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, SFB 1266 TP E3, Institut für klassische Archäologie, University of Kiel, Germany

2016–2017                              
Lecturer, Lehrstuhl für Neues Testament I, Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät, University of Tuebingen, Germany

2016–2017                              
Teach @ Tuebingen Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institut für antikes Judentum und hellenistische Religionsgeschichte, University of Tuebingen, Germany

2016                           
Visiting Research Fellow, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark

2013–2015                              
Teaching Assistant, Department of Theology and Religion, University of Durham, UK

2012–2014                              
Research Assistant, Department of Theology and Religion, University of Durham, UK

• Editorial Board Encounters between Judaism and Christianity, Brill-Schoeningh
• Steering Committee ‘Religious Competition in Late Antiquity’ (SBL)
• European Association for Jewish Studies
• North American Patristics Society
• Society of Biblical Literature
• American Academy of Religion

Monographs

• Forthcoming. Spaced-Out Bishops. Manifestations of Spatial Agency at the Ecumenical Councils of the Fifth Century.
• 2021. Roman Nobilitas in Jerome’s Letters. Roman Values and Christian Asceticism for Socialites. STAC 127. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

Edited Journals and Volumes

• Forthcoming. 2022. As editor. Et al. Jews and the City. Shared Urban Spatiality in Late Antique Judaism. Thematic journal issue.
• 2022. As editor. With A. Cain and M. Kraus. New Paradigms in the Study of Jerome. Studia Patristica. Leuven: Peeters.

Articles and Chapters (peer-reviewed)

• Forthcoming. "Rendering Visible the Invisible: Servants and Slave-Girls in Late Antique Christianity." In Women and Gender in the Post-Roman Kingdoms, edited by M. Kahlos and E. Fournier. CELAMA. Turnhout: Brepols.
• Forthcoming. "Publish or Perish: Jerome’s Authorial Distributions in '‘Exile.'" In Authorial Publication from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance, edited by S. Niskanen and V. Rovere. Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia. Turnhout: Brepols.
• Forthcoming. "The Creation of Pelagianism: Jerome." In The Oxford Handbook to the Pelagian Controversy, edited by A. Dupont, G. Malavasi, and B. Matz. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Forthcoming. "Jerome on Biblical Sites and Sightseeing." In Hieronymus und die Bibel: Schriften – Texte - Kontexte, edited by O. Schaaf and B. Feichtinger. Berlin: De Gruyter. 
• Forthcoming. "The money in monastery: toward an analysis of the competition between Jerome’s and Rufinus’ monasteries from an economic perspective." In Journal of Religious Competition in Late Antiquity.
• Forthcoming. "Johannes Munck." In Biographisch-Bibliographisch Kirchenlexikon. Nordhausen: Verlag Bautz.
• 2022. "Miles Make the Mind. Jerome on Travel, Learning, and Knowledge Exchange." In Mediterranean Flows: People, Ideas, and Objects in Motion, edited by E. Mataix Ferrándiz and A. Usacheva, 180–210. CAMA. Leiden: Brill.
• 2022. "Religious Minorities in Late Roman Italy: Jewish city-dwellers and their non-Jewish neighbours." In Late Roman Italy – Imperium to Regnum (c. 250–500 CE), edited by J. W. P. Wijnendaele, 384–408. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• 2021. "...the sails were set and the strokes of the rowers carried the vessel into the deep (Ep. 108.6). A preliminary study of travel and perception in Jerome’s writings." In NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 75(2): 251–273. 
• 2021. "Creating an archive of the past to claim history. A case study of the Third Ecumenical Council of Ephesus (431 CE)." In Claiming History. The Role of Historical Reasoning in Religious Conflicts, edited by K. Heyden and A. Brändli, 87–109. Bibliotheca Helvetica 39. Basel: Schwabe. 
• 2021. "Sacerdotalisation and early Jewish mystical elements in the Greek Testament of Lev." In Les écrits mystiques des Hekhalot et la ‘sacerdotalisation’ dans le judaïsme ancient, Colloque international à l’Université de Lausanne du 26 au 28 octobre 2015, edited by D. Hamidovic, S. C. Mimouni, and L. Painchaud, 217– 246. Judaïsme antique et origines du christianisme 22. Turnhout: Brepols.
• 2020. "Urban sacred spaces: interaction in the neighbourhoods of Roman Dura Europos." In RRE 6: 181–205.
• 2020. "Roman Awe for Hellenistic Sanctuaries." In Hellenistic Architecture and Human Action, edited by A. Müller and A. Haug, 151–165. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
• 2019. "Liberating Levi: a cultural evolutionary approach to Aramaic and Greek Levi beyond denominational essentialism." In We and They. Decolonizing Greco-Roman and Biblical Antiquities.
• 2018. "Not that far from a madding crowd: Jerome 'exiled' in Bethlehem." In Mobility and Exile at the End of Antiquity, edited by J. Ulrich, D. Rohmann, J. Hillner, and M. Vallejo Girvés, 229–245. ECCA. Frankfurt/M: Peter Lang.
• 2017. "Jerome and the Christianus perfectus: a transformed Roman noble man?" In Studia Patristica 97: 17–36. 
• 2016. "Teach and Transform: education and (re)constructing identity in Jerome’s letters." In Studia Patristica 74: 223–237. 
• 2016. "Questioning Authority: Christian education leading to lay participation in doctrinal debates." In Tradition and Transformation. Dissent and Consent in the Mediterranean, edited by M. Mitrea, 92–114. Kiel: Solivagus.