Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at St. Michael's College. She teaches courses there in Early Christianity, Eastern Orthodoxy, Hagiography, Muslims and Christians in the Byzantine World, and Syriac. Her research focuses on Syriac Hagiography, and she is currently finishing her book entitled Syriac Missionary Legends. She is an associate director of the Syriac Research Portal, and while at ISAW she will be preparing a database for Syriac saints' lives.