David A Heayn
I am a doctoral candidate in early Islamic, Byzantine and late antique/medieval History at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. My Minor field is in Ancient History. I received my Bachelor's and Masters degrees are from Villanova University in History in 2007/2009 (Major Field: Mediterranean from Antiquity to Modern Era; Minor Field: Modern Middle East). My MPhil is from the CUNY Graduate Center in Medieval History.
Recent publication: “Urban Violence in Fifth Century Antioch: Riot Culture and Dynamics in Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean Cities,” CONCEPT: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Graduate Studies (2009).
My research has ranged from the apotropaic nature of 7th-9th century pseudo-Arabic inscriptions in their relation to artistic motifs of abundance on Syro-Egyptian silks to the dual processes of the formation of religious identity and socio-cultural gender norms in 12th century western Europe.
Other research include:
“Urban Violence in Fifth Century Antioch: Riot Culture and Dynamics in Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean Cities" attempts to update conceptual models of popular violence through the perspectives provided by the sociology and anthropology of religion as well as psychological models related to group dynamics and mob mentalities.
"Emperor and Ecclesia", concerning the evolution of Ecclesiastical History from the 4th to 6th century, concentrating particularly on the socio-religious and political theory of the HE of Evagrius Scholasticus.
"The State of the ‘No Man’s Land’: A Reinterpretation of 7th and 8th century Cilicia and Isauria" is my most recent research which argues for a necessary revaluation of our conceptualization of the Byzantine/Islamic frontier taking into account a combination of the material and literary evidence concerning the 'no mans land' of Cilicia and Isauria from the 7th through 9th centuries.
My dissertation topic concerns the nature of Byzantine Monasticism, its internal dynamics and its interaction within other monastic/ascetic traditions in the region.
My research interests in general cover a broad swath of time roughly within the confines of Late Antiquity, encompassing Late Roman/ Early Byzantine/ Early Medieval and the Early Islamic periods from the heyday of Roman imperium to the disintegration of the Islamic caliphate. In geographic terms I focus on the Eastern Mediterranean, particularly the Levant but I am continuously lured elsewhere with significant interests in southern Arabia, the Transcaucasus, and North Africa and even Iberia.
While my degrees are in History and my undergraduate minors were in both Philosophy and Classical Studies.
The thematic concentration of my work is in the socio-cultural and religious conflicts and syncretisms of transitional regions and periods.
As may be readily apparent my interests have a broad range but I am primarily interested in the Byz-lamic socio-cultural interaction in the 7th through 9th centuries.
Supervisors: Eric Ivison
Recent publication: “Urban Violence in Fifth Century Antioch: Riot Culture and Dynamics in Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean Cities,” CONCEPT: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Graduate Studies (2009).
My research has ranged from the apotropaic nature of 7th-9th century pseudo-Arabic inscriptions in their relation to artistic motifs of abundance on Syro-Egyptian silks to the dual processes of the formation of religious identity and socio-cultural gender norms in 12th century western Europe.
Other research include:
“Urban Violence in Fifth Century Antioch: Riot Culture and Dynamics in Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean Cities" attempts to update conceptual models of popular violence through the perspectives provided by the sociology and anthropology of religion as well as psychological models related to group dynamics and mob mentalities.
"Emperor and Ecclesia", concerning the evolution of Ecclesiastical History from the 4th to 6th century, concentrating particularly on the socio-religious and political theory of the HE of Evagrius Scholasticus.
"The State of the ‘No Man’s Land’: A Reinterpretation of 7th and 8th century Cilicia and Isauria" is my most recent research which argues for a necessary revaluation of our conceptualization of the Byzantine/Islamic frontier taking into account a combination of the material and literary evidence concerning the 'no mans land' of Cilicia and Isauria from the 7th through 9th centuries.
My dissertation topic concerns the nature of Byzantine Monasticism, its internal dynamics and its interaction within other monastic/ascetic traditions in the region.
My research interests in general cover a broad swath of time roughly within the confines of Late Antiquity, encompassing Late Roman/ Early Byzantine/ Early Medieval and the Early Islamic periods from the heyday of Roman imperium to the disintegration of the Islamic caliphate. In geographic terms I focus on the Eastern Mediterranean, particularly the Levant but I am continuously lured elsewhere with significant interests in southern Arabia, the Transcaucasus, and North Africa and even Iberia.
While my degrees are in History and my undergraduate minors were in both Philosophy and Classical Studies.
The thematic concentration of my work is in the socio-cultural and religious conflicts and syncretisms of transitional regions and periods.
As may be readily apparent my interests have a broad range but I am primarily interested in the Byz-lamic socio-cultural interaction in the 7th through 9th centuries.
Supervisors: Eric Ivison
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