Susan Ashbrook Harvey

Susan Ashbrook Harvey (born 1953) is the Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence and the Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith Professor of History and Religion at Brown University. She specializes in late antique and Byzantine Christianity, with Syriac studies as her particular focus.

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 * The study of religion opens the human capacity for beauty, meaning, and an awareness of something more than ourselves.

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 * Susan Harvey has almost single-handedly established an entire sub-field of studies on women and gender in the Syrian Orient.