Kristina Sessa is

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of History at

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. She is an expert on the cultural history of the

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and early

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world from ca. 300-700 CE.

Education

Sessa was awarded an A.B. in Religion from Princeton University in 1992, and a Masters in Medieval History from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

(1996). She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003. Her thesis was entitled ''The Household and the Bishop: Establishing Episcopal Authority in Late Antique Rome''.

Career

Sessa was Assistant Professor of Ancient Mediterranean History at

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2003–06. She joined the Department of History at Ohio State University as associate professor in 2007. Sessa was awarded the 2006 Graves Award for her project 'Fighting for Christ and Rome: Christianity and the Culture of War in Late Antiquity (300-600 CE)'. She was a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome (2001–02) and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University (2006–07). She was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Late Antiquity at Manchester University. She received an ACLS Fellowship for her project, 'The Church at War in Late Antiquity, 350-700 CE'. With Ra’anan Boustan, she edits the journal ''Studies in Late Antiquity'' for the University of California Press.

Selected bibliography

* ''The Formation of Papal Authority in Late Antique Italy: Roman Bishops and the Domestic Sphere'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) * (co-editor with Jonathan J. Arnold and Michael Shane Bjornlie) ''A Companion to Ostrogothic Italy'' (Ledien: Brill, 2016) * ''Daily Life in Late Antiquity'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018)

External links

* Byzantium and Friends Podcast: https://www.medievalists.net/2020/09/environmental-history-kristina-sessa/ * Lecture, 'The Justinianic Plague and the End of Antiquity? Recent Research and New Directions', Center for Medieval Studies, Minnesota: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AQPsZY44Mw

References

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