Leslie Dossey
	Title:	Associate Professor
	Office:	Crown Center 533
	Phone:	773.508.3664
	E-mail:	ldossey@luc.edu

Personal Information

Degree:
Ph.D., Harvard University

Specialization:
Ancient History

Research Interests:

• Social and cultural history of late antiquity
• Material culture
• Patristic sermons and exegesis

Publications:

"The social space of North African asceticism." In H. Dey - E. Fentress (eds.), Western Monasticism ante litteram: The Spaces of Monastic Observance in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Disciplina monastica. Turhout, Brepols, forthcoming.

Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa.  University of California Press, forthcoming, 2010.

"Wife Beating and Manliness in Late Antiquity." Past & Present 199, 2008: 3-40.

"The End of Vandal Africa: An Arian Commentary on Job and its Historical Context," Journal of Theological Studies, 2003.

"Judicial violence and the ecclesiastical courts in late antique North Africa." In The Transformation of Law and Society in Late Antiquity. Edited by Ralph Mathisen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

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