Andrew Durdin
Assistant Professor of Religion
Contact Information
Religions of Western Antiquity
Faculty
Office Location
M09 Dodd Hall
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Andrew Durdin (Ph.D., University of Chicago, History of Religions) studies the religions of the ancient Mediterranean, specializing in Roman religion, magic, early Christianity, and the historiography of ancient religion.
His first book, Beyond Magic in the Roman World: Reconstructing Cultural Alterity and Ritual Deviance (Cambridge University Press, 2026), pushes past the problematic category of “ancient magic” to develop a more historically nuanced account of how Romans conceptualized cultural alterity and ritual deviance.
Durdin teaches courses on world religions, Greek and Roman religions, the New Testament, and early Christianity, as well as graduate seminars on theory, method, and pedagogy in the academic study of religion.
Research Interests
Religions of the Roman Empire
Magic
Theory and Method in the Study of Religion
