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ADVISORY COMMITTEEKAREN KING Karen L. King is the Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Harvard Divinity School. Born in rural Montana, she took her BA with honors in religious studies at the University of Montana, Missoula. She completed her PhD in history of religions at Brown University. She also studied in Berlin at the Free University (West) and with the Koptisch-Gnostische Arbeitskreis (Coptic-Gnostic Working Group) at Humboldt University (East). After completing her doctorate, she taught for 14 years at Occidental College in Los Angeles, before moving to her current position at Harvard. Trained in comparative religions and historical studies, her teaching and research specialties in the history of Christianity lie in women's studies, orthodoxy and heresy, and the Nag Hammadi literature. Her publications include The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle; What is Gnosticism?; Revelation of the Unknowable God; Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism (ed.); and Women and Goddess Traditions in Antiquity and Today (ed.). Her particular theoretical interests focus on the sociology of religious identity formation, discourses of normativity (orthodoxy and heresy), and gender studies. She is the recipient of awards for excellence in teaching and research, and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst, the Howard Foundation, the Graves Foundation, the Irvine Foundation, and Harvard University. Her professional associations include membership in the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Biblical Literature, Westar Institute, International Association for Coptic Studies, and Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.
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