Rachel Abdoler awarded Fulbright-Hays fellowship
Rachel Abdoler has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) fellowship to support her research on thirteenth-century Coptic author’s interpretation of the passion of Christ and its background of Arabic Christian and Islamic writing. Her dissertation is titled Between Defense and Devotion: Butrus al-Sadamanti's Tafsir on the Passion of Christ in its Thirteenth Century Copto-Islamic Milieu. The award will underwrite six months of research work in the fall and winter of 2025-26 in the collections of the Vatican library in Rome and a library in Cairo, Egypt, on Christian texts written in Arabic. Abdoler is a DDH Scholar and a PhD candidate in the History of Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity School.