Daniel L. Schwartz

Daniel L. Schwartz is Associate Professor of History. His research lies at the intersection of Roman History, History of Religion, Digital Humanities, and Cultural Heritage Informatics with a particular focus on the literature and culture in the Syriac language. Syriac is a dialect of Aramaic that flourished in the Middle East from the third to the ninth centuries C.E. and continues to be used by communities throughout the Middle East and India today. Dr. Schwartz directs Syriaca.org (http://syriaca.org), a linked-open data project dedicated to advancing scholarship in the field of Syriac Studies and to preserving Syriac cultural heritage. He is also the general editor of SPEAR: Syriac Persons, Events, and Relations (http://spear-prosop.org), an online prosopographical research tool; and the co-editor of the Syriac Taxonomy, a domain ontology for Syriac Studies. He is the author of Paideia and Cult: Christian Initiation in Theodore of Mopsuestia and the editor (with Arietta Papaconstantinou and Neil McLynn) of Conversion in Late Antiquity: Christianity, Islam, and Beyond. He has also published articles and book chapters on Digital History and religious conversion and religious violence in Late Antiquity. 

Areas of Speciality

• Late Antiquity/Early Middle Ages