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Mark D. Ellison 738 Huffine Manor Cir. Franklin, TN 37067 615-589-9895 mark.d.ellison@vanderbilt.edu
Education
2013–2017: Ph.D. candidate, Vanderbilt University, Graduate Department of Religion
Major: Early Christianity. Minor: Early Christian/Late Antique Art and Material Culture
Advisor: Prof. Robin Margaret Jensen
Dissertation working title: Visualizing Christian Marriage in the Roman World
Defense scheduled: February 10, 2017; anticipated graduation: May 12, 2017
2016: M.A., Religion, Vanderbilt University
2003–2004: study of New Testament Greek, St. Petersburg Theological Seminary (St. Petersburg, FL)
2003: M.A., Religious Studies (Bible and Archaeology track), University of South Florida
Advisor: Prof. James F. Strange
Thesis: Encountering the Shepherd of Dura: A Re-Examination of the Good Shepherd in Early Christian Art and Texts
1998: M.Ed., Educational Leadership and Foundations, Brigham Young University
1990: B.A., English, Brigham Young University
Publications
Jensen, Robin Margaret, and Mark D. Ellison, editors. The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art. London and
New York: Routledge [forthcoming, 2018].
“Marriage: Visual Art.” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception [forthcoming, 2017].
“Adam in the New Testament.” BibleOdyssey.com, April 29, 2016. Online:
http://www.bibleodyssey.com/people/related-articles/adam-in-the-new-testament.aspx
Publication Projects in Process
“Adam and Eve’s Labors and Marriage on Early Christian Sarcophagi.” Studies in Iconography. Journal editors have
requested a revision and resubmission by Dec. 31, 2016, with prospects for publication in the 2018 volume.
“Lay Self-Representation and the Christianization of Roman Private Life” [working title]. In The Routledge Handbook
of Early Christian Art. London and New York: Routledge [forthcoming, 2018].
“The Communion of the Apostles and the Theophany of Isaiah: Visual and Literary Themes in the Syriac Eucharistic
Tradition.” Development of a Syriac Christianity seminar paper (spring 2015) and a paper delivered at the regional
meeting of ASOR Southeast (American Schools of Oriental Research) / Southeast Commission for the Study of
Religion, Atlanta, GA, Mar. 6, 2016; working towards submission to Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies.
“Family and Marriage in the New Testament.” In New Testament History, Culture, and Society, edited by Lincoln
Blumell [forthcoming, 2018].
“Sarcophagus.” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, volumes on visual art [forthcoming, due Spring 2017].
Up Close and Personal: Intimate Devotions and Everyday Objects in Late Antiquity. Vanderbilt University Fine Arts
Gallery, May 7–September 4, 2015. Nine catalog entries on individual oil lamps. University-produced exhibition
guide; revision and broader publication being considered.
Mark Ellison CV: 2
Employment and Teaching Experience
2016: Adjunct Instructor, Department of Ancient Scripture, Brigham Young University
2014–15: Teaching Associate, Vanderbilt University
Courses taught:
Fall 2015: REL 6700 Formation of Christian Traditions, with Dr. David A. Michelson
Spring 2015: DIV 2750 The History of Religion in America, with Dr. James Hudnut-Beumler
Fall 2014: HART 207/DIV 2712 The Art of Pagans, Christians, and Jews, with Dr. Robin Margaret Jensen
2014–2016: Historical Studies Bibliographer, Vanderbilt Divinity Library
2013–14: Research Assistant, Vanderbilt University Graduate Department of Religion
1990–2013: LDS Seminaries & Institutes of Religion
Taught secondary and post-secondary students in religious education settings, trained and supervised volunteer teachers,
worked in instructional design developing teaching materials.
Professional Service
2014–2016: Peer reviewer for Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center journal Religious Educator, BYU
Maxwell Institute journal Studies in the Bible and Antiquity, and BYU Student Symposium.
2014–15: Co-convener with Drs. Robin Margaret Jensen and David A. Michelson, Seminar on Religion, Society, and
Culture in Late Antiquity, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University.
2014: Co-organizer of conference on Religion in Late Antique Culture and Society (ReLACS), Vanderbilt University.
Conference Presentations
“Christus Pronubus Stephanophorus: A Case Study on Lay Self-Representation and the Christianization of Roman
Private Life.” Regional Late Antiquity Consortium, University of Kentucky, October 21, 2016.
“Posthumous Spousal Reunion in Early Christian Art and Texts.” North American Patristics Society annual meeting,
section on afterlife in early Christianity, Chicago, IL, May 27, 2016. Winner of graduate student paper award.
“Two Rhipidia and Two Pendants: Public and Private Material Expressions of Isaiah’s Theophany in the Syriac
Eucharistic Tradition.” Regional meeting of ASOR Southeast (American Schools of Oriental Research) / Southeast
Commission for the Study of Religion, Atlanta, GA, Mar. 6, 2016.
“Adam and Eve’s Labors and Marriage Ideals in Early Christian Relief Sculpture.” Society of Biblical Literature
Annual Meeting, section on Archaeology of Religion in the Roman World, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 21, 2015.
“‘Joined’ in Life and Death: Marriage, Identity, and the Sarcophagus of Catervius and Severina.” Society of Biblical
Literature Annual Meeting, section on Art and Religion in Antiquity, San Diego, CA, Nov. 22, 2014.
“Using DIMLI to Create a Digital Catalog of Early Christian Sarcophagi.” Parthenon Lectures in Archeology: New
Techniques for Age-Old Questions, VRA Conference, Vanderbilt University, Oct. 16, 2014.
“The Sea Monster Kētos as Jonah’s ‘Great Fish’ in Early Christian Art.” Brown University Religious Studies Graduate
Student Conference: Beasts, Monsters, and the Fantastic in Religious Imagination, Mar. 1, 2014.
“Work and Glory: Jesus in Early Christian and Latter-day Saint Art.” Association for Mormon Letters Conference on
Depictions of Christ in LDS Literature, Film, and Art, Utah Valley University, Mar. 30, 2013.
Other Selected Lectures and Presentations
“Religion and Late Antique Material Culture.” Guest lecture and Art Gallery tours, DIV 6700 Formation of Christian
Traditions, Vanderbilt University, under direction of Dr. David Michelson, August 26–28, 2015.
Mark Ellison CV: 3 “19th Century Responses to the Challenges of Evolution and Higher Criticism.” Guest lecture, DIV 2750 History of
Religion in America, Vanderbilt University, under direction of Dr. James Hudnut-Beumler, Feb. 25, 2015.
“Theory and Method in the Study of Early Christian Art: Two Case Studies.” Guest lecture, HART 207/DIV 2712 The
Art of Pagans, Christians, and Jews, Vanderbilt University, under direction of Dr. Robin Margaret Jensen, October 6,
2014.
“Understanding Paul’s Epistle to the Romans” (4-lecture series), “The Four Gospels in One Week” (4-lecture series),
Brigham Young University Education Week, Summer 2012
“Understanding Paul’s Epistle to the Romans” (3-lecture series), “Archaeology and Early Christianity” (3-lecture
series), Brigham Young University—Idaho, Education Week, Summer 2012.
“Paul and James on Faith and Works.” LDS Seminaries and Institutes of Religion Scripture Forum, June 13, 2012.
“T. R. W. Longstaff’s Evidence of Conflation in Mark, the Synoptic Problem, and the Historical Jesus,” “Birger
Gerhardsson’s Memory and Manuscript: Oral Tradition and Written Transmission in Rabbinic Judaism and Early
Christianity and Tradition and Transmission in Early Christianity,” “Archaeology Field Work and the Bethsaida
Excavations Project,” guest lectures in undergraduate New Testament course taught by Prof. James F. Strange
University of South Florida, Fall 2002.
“Modern Latter-day Saint Practice and Belief,” Guest lecture / Question and Answer session, University of South
Florida, Mormonism in America course taught by Dr. Danny Jorgensen (several occasions, 1999–2003)
“The Setting and Sacrament of the Christian Community,” 31st Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, Brigham Young
University, Fall 2002.
Scholarships, Awards, and Grants
May 2016: Graduate Student Paper Award, North American Patristics Society, Annual Meeting
April 2016: Brigham Young University Religious Education Dissertation Grant
Fall 2015: Research Grant, Nibley Fellowship Program, Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham
Young University
Summer 2015: Summer Research Grant, Graduate Department of Religion, Vanderbilt University
2014–2015: Nibley Fellowship Graduate Stipend and Research Travel Grant, Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious
Scholarship, Brigham Young University
2013–2014: Nibley Fellowship, Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University
2013–2018: Harold Stirling Vanderbilt Honors Fellowship, Vanderbilt University Graduate School
2013–2018: Vanderbilt University Graduate Department of Religion Scholarship
2000–2003: Invited to membership in Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Travel Study Highlights
2016: Dissertation research in France: Paris, Lyons, Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Aire-sur-l’Adour
2015: Dissertation research in Italy: Rome, Naples, Pompeii, Tolentino, Ancona, Ravenna, Venice, Milan, Siena, Ostia
Antica
2009: Travel study: Germany, Czech Republic, Poland
2001: Archaeology field work, field school, and site visits: Bethsaida Excavations Project, Israel/University of
Nebraska at Omaha
1999: Travel study: Rome, Egypt, Israel
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