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Peninah Wolpo

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Ancient History


Graduate Student
B.A. University of New Mexico; M.A. University of New Mexico

Office: HSSB 3231
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Advisor: Elizabeth DePalma Digeser
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Continuing with a borderland approach to narrative and the construction of identity, begun in her M. A. thesis, Peninah is continuing with her work investigating the competing symbolic systems of thought in the late antique period. Staying within a borderlands approach, her current research will focus on the advent of asceticism as a means to power, the competition for power between Roman and Christian symbolic forms, and the mobilization of urban populations for ideological purposes through the intentional use of rhetoric.

Conferences

  • “Post-Colonial Dream? The Dream of the Rood, Beowulf, and Acculturation in Anglo-Saxon England”
    Presented at the Medieval Students Association Colloquium at the University of New Mexico, 2008
  • “Pelagius and Augustine: Separate Understandings of Empire”
    Presented at Vagantes, at the Ohio State University, 2009
  • “Holy Men and Contested Ground: Innovations and Intellectual Frontiers”
    Presented at the first International Graduate Student Conference on Ancient Borderlands, at UCSB 2009
  • “Pelagius, Augustine, and the Formation of Imperial Identity”
    Presented at the National Patristics Conference in Chicago, 2009
  • "Organic Cities and Man-Made Cultures"
    Presented at the Geographies of Place and Space Conference, at UCSB 2011