Joel Walker
Associate Professor: Late Antiquity, Byzantium, Early Middle Ages
jwalker@u.washington.edu
Education
Ph.D. Princeton University, 1998.
Selected Bibliography
The Legend of Mar Qardagh: Narrative and Christian Heroism in Late Antique Iraq . Transformation of the Classical Heritage 40. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2006.
Editor, with Scott Noegel and Brannon Wheeler, Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World. Magic in History series. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. Co-author of book’s Introduction, pp. 1-17.
“The Legacy of Mesopotamia in Late Antique Iraq: The Christian Martyr Shrine at Melqi (Neo-Assyrian Milqia,” ARAM: The Journal of Syro-Mesopotamian Studies 18-19 (2006-2007): 471-96.
“Against the Eternity of the Stars: Disputation and Christian Philosophy in Late Antique Iraq,” in La Persia e Bizanzio, ed. G. Gnoli et A. Panaino ( Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 2004), 518-35.
“The Limits of Late Antiquity: Philosophy between Rome and Iran,” Ancient World 33 (2002): 45-69.
“The Tahirler Report ( Beypazari Province): Preliminary Report for 2001 Season,” Arastirma Sonuçalari Toplantisi 21 (2003): 101-10.
Work in Progress
Ascetic Literacy: Books and Readers in the Christian Middle East, ca. 500-1286 C.E.
A monograph exploring the diverse uses of books, manuscript production and distribution, libraries, and theories of reading in the monastic communities of the Syrian Christian world extending from Egypt to Central Asia.
The Acts of St. George of Izla: Translation and Commentary
Translation, historical introduction, and commentary on the Life of George of Izla by Babai the Great (†628), political and spiritual leader of the Church of the East on the eve of the Islamic conquest of Iraq.
Archaeological Field Work
Field Director, The Tahirler Project (1997-98, 2000- )
This is a multi-year project investigating the history and archaeology
of western Galatia in northwestern Turkey. Field research for the project
has identified a series of rural, late Roman and Byzantine sites associated
with the Roman highway that traversed Galatia en route from Constantinople
to Ankara (Ancyra). The project integrates archaeological reconnaissance
with the stude of literary sources associated with the local Christian
holy man and bishop, St. Theodore of Sykeon (ca. 550-613 CE).
Trench supervisor, Aqaba, Jordan, May-June, 1994, North Carolina State
Roman Aqaba Project. Excavated mud-brick domestic complex of early Byzantine
period.
Excavator, Bliesbrück, Lorraine, France, July, 1993. Excavation
of a Gallo-Roman town under sponsorship of the French Ministry of Culture.
Archaeology intern, Malheur National Wildlife Resere, Princeton, Oregon,
USA, June-August, 1991, Survey and excavation of Northern Paiute village
site.
Archaeology Field School, University of Texas at Austin Metaponto Project,
Crotone, Italy, June-August, 1990. Excavation of Neolithic agricultural
site.
Excavator, Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Würtemberg, Tübingen, Germany,
July, 1989. Excavation of pit houses from an early medieval village.
Independent travel and study of archaeological sites, especially Roman
and Byzantine, in Europe (1989-93), North Africa (1992), Jordan and Syria
(1994), Turkey (1994, 1996-2002), and the former Yugoslavia (2003-2004).
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