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Institute scholars lead diverse research projects, partnering with major national and international funding bodies and collaborators.
An internationally collaborative, five-year project that integrates historical, literary, and theological inquiry into the multi-faceted reality of human flourishing in ancient Christianity.
Drawing on original and classic sources, this international project explores understandings of catholicity, taking as its starting point the ressourcement theologians of the early and mid-twentieth century.
An ARC Linkage Project (2023-26), with ACU researchers Professor Susan Broomhall, Dr Kristie Flannery, Dr Killian Quigley, and PhD students Dondy Ramos III, Michael Reidy and Sumera Saleem. Examines, among other aspects, the role of religion and faith practices in the Dutch East India Company.
A Swedish Research Council Research Environment Grant (2024-29), with Professor Susan Broomhall, and Professors Lisa Hellman and Svante Norrhem (Lund University), Professor James Daybell (Plymouth University). Explores experiences of separation across European and East Asian cultures, including spiritual and faith practices across the worlds of the living and dead.
An ARC Discovery Project with ACU researchers Associate Professor Kylie Crabbe and Dr Sarah Gador-Whyte. Night Vision aims to create a new history of wakeful nighttime activities in the late ancient world by combining study of material remains (e.g. lighting and timekeeping technologies) with literary descriptions of what humans do at night.
An ARC Discovery Project with ACU researchers Dr Michael Hanaghan; Associate Professor Stephen Carlson. This project offers the first holistic assessment of translation in Late Antiquity, a critically important cultural transformation on par with the introduction of the printing press. It will explore who translated texts, when and why, when the norms for modern European literary analysis were set. It aims to uncover how new translations communicated and shaped knowledge while developing distinct social, political, and cultural groups.
This project aims to compare, for the first time, ancient language education across world cultures with ‘classical’ literatures. It expects to illumine the purpose and value of classical language education in Chinese, Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit historically and within global education systems today by comparing pedagogic ideals and practices across times and cultures. It aims to test the potential of inclusive classical language learning to boost educational outcomes for disadvantaged students. Other expected outcomes include two books, scholarly articles, education policy reports, and PhD student training. This should strengthen intercultural understanding and benefit school students, educators, policy makers, and the wider public.
Hermeneutics and Transcendence: Toward a Synthesis
Spiritual Understanding in a Secular Age
Texts, Traditions, and Early Christian Identities
Modes of Knowing and the Ordering of Knowledge in Early Christianity
The Ancient Today: Living Traditions of Classical Language Education
The Vandal Renaissance: Latin Literature in Post-Roman Africa (435-534CE)
Redeeming autonomy: Agency, vulnerability, and relationality
Atheism and Christianity: Moving past polemic
Religious Belief and Social Cohesion: Cyril of Alexandria's Contra Iulianum
Matthew Crawford, in collaboration with Ca' Foscari University of Venice