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faculty
Crystal Lubinsky, PhD
Assistant Teaching Professor / Director of Religious Studies Program
History
Education
2012 | University of Edinburgh, New College, UK | PhD Ecclesiastical History |
2002 | New York University | MA in Religious Studies |
2000 | University of North Carolina at Wilmington | BA History and Religion & Philosophy |
Teaching
- Religious Studies
- History of Christianity
- Mythology - Scripture as Literature/History
- Ancient History
- Gender / Sexual Issues in Mediterranean
Courses
Investigation of important North American contributions to human civilization, from Jazz and the airplane, to nuclear weapons and Cheese Wiz, to individual rights, the written constitution and the democratic republic. Topics could include Coming Down with the Blues; building the car, or the plane, Hollywood and the Invention of mass cinema; from inalienable rights to human rights; the Long 1960s as Cultural Revolution. May be repeated with change of content.
Study under the supervision of a faculty member in an area not otherwise part of the discipline's course offerings. Conditions and hours to be arranged.
Introduction to the academic interdisciplinary study of religion, including the basic concepts and methodologies employed in understanding religion and interpreting religious beliefs, practices and artifacts. Topics covered may include historical and contemporary debates on religious issues, morality, the sacred and the profane and related themes.
Offered as needed to introduce historical and/or current topics or themes in Religious Studies, engaged at an advanced level. The specific topic is stated when the course is scheduled. May be repeated with change of content.
Research
Research interests
- Monasticism
- Saints - Hagiography
- Sexuality
- Ancient Mediterranean Cultures
- Christian History
Select publications
- Crystal Lynn Lubinsky
Studia Traditionis Theologiae
Removing Masculine Layers to Reveal a Holy Womanhood: The Female Transvestite Monks of Late Antique Eastern Christianity., 13 - Crystal Lynn Lubinsky (2013).
Re-reading Masculinity in Christian Greco-Roman Culture through Ambrose and the Female Transvestite Monk, Matrona of Perge.
Studia Patristica, 69, 51-66.