Daniel Caner

Daniel F. Caner is Associate Professor in History and Classics at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, where he has been since receiving his Ph.D. in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology in 1999 from the University of California, Berkeley. Specializing in the social and religious history of late antiquity, his work has dealt primarily with ideals and challenges connected to the rise of Christian monasticism in the Roman world, as exemplified by his books Wandering, Begging Monks: Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of Monasticism in Late Antiquity (Berkeley 2002) and History and Historiography from the Late Antique Sinai (Liverpool 2010). In 2004-2005 he was a Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington D.C. and in 2007 was a Visiting Scholar at Hebrew University’s Institute for Advanced Study, positions that were devoted to studying aspects of religious wealth and gift-giving in the Late Roman East. At the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World he will be writing a comprehensive book on the subject entitled The Rich and the Pure: Christian Gifts and Religious Society in Early Byzantium.