My writing, research, and presentations focus on two main areas. I have published extensively in Christian origins and ancient history with a focus on travel and itinerancy, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and politics.

More recent work approaches online learning, pedagogy, and faculty development, with an eye toward intersections with critical theory.

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Transient Apostle: Paul, Travel, and the Rhetoric of Empire. Synkrisis: Yale University Press, 2013.

In a significant reevaluation of Paul’s place in the early Christian story, Timothy Luckritz Marquis explores the theme of travel in the apostle’s correspondence. He casts Paul’s rhetorical strategies against the background of Augustus’s age, when Rome’s wealth depended on conquests abroad, the international commerce they facilitated, and the incursion of foreign customs and peoples they brought about. In so doing, Luckritz Marquis provides an explanation for how Paul created, maintained, and expanded his local communities in the larger, international Jesus movement and shows how Paul was a product of the material forces of his day.

“This is the single most sophisticated book on Paul to be written within the paradigms of contemporary critical thought. By integrating its extensive, erudite, and compelling citations of the Greco-Roman world in which Paul was writing with post-colonial and post-Marxist thinking, it makes real progress in understanding Paul’s letters.”—Daniel Boyarin

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recent articles and essays

“Dionysus, Disidentification, and Wandering Pauline Epiphanies.” In Bodies on the Verge: Queering Pauline Epistles, ed. Joseph A. Marchal. Semeia Studies; Atlanta, SBL Press, 2019, 191-208. Previews at Google Books.

“The General Epistles and Hebrews.” In The Oxford Handbook on New Testament Gender and Sexuality. Edited by Benjamin Dunning. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 333-48. Previews at Google Books.

(with Brianne Jackson and James Fowlkes.) “Learn to Learn: Formative Assessment of Online Course Quality and Student Higher-Order Learning.” E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education. Edited by S. Carliner. New Orleans: AACE, 2019. 452-456.

“Book Note: Journeys in the Roman East.” Ancient Jew Review, December 3, 2018.

“Movement, Performance, and Choice in Earliest Christianity.” Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 72.2 (2018): 163-74.