Spotlight On: Visiting Research Scholar Daniel Caner
Daniel Caner is one of nine new visiting research scholars at ISAW for 2011-12. Dr. Caner’s home institution is the University of Connecticut, Storrs where he is Associate Professor in History and Classics. He specializes in the social and religious history of late antiquity, more specifically Christian monasticism in the Roman World. Recently his focus has centered on the complex issues of gift-giving and religious wealth. At ISAW he is working on a book entitled The Rich and the Pure: Christian Gifts and Religious Society in Early Byzantium. He will be giving the first Visiting Research Scholar Lecture of the year on Tuesday, October 4th at 6pm on “Christian Wealth and the Challenge of Charity in Early Byzantium.” For more information on Dr. Caner and his upcoming lecture, visit http://isaw.nyu.edu/events/visiting-research-scholar-lecture.
