Mina Moon-Black

I am a Classicist.

I am currently completing my sixth and final year at Duke University's Classical Studies Ph.D. program. 

My focus is on the literatures and cultures that appeared at the end of the Roman Empire, often in their relationships to earlier periods of antiquity. In my work, I investigate the cross-cultural interactions between Christian groups and various non-Christian cultural groups, primarily the last adherents to Greco-Roman polytheism. My dissertation does this by analyzing the various ways Christian historians between the fourth and tenth centuries CE narrativize the reign of the last Roman emperor not to be a Christian, Julian (r. 361-363 CE), known as "Julian the Apostate."