Conversation with Scott Johnson
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Scott Johnson
Associate Professor of Classics and Letters
Joseph F. Paxton Presidential Professor
University of Oklahoma
Scott Johnson is a historian of late antique literature and culture. He teaches a range of classes on Greek and classical culture, including a survey course on his field of specialty called "From Rome to Baghdad: The World of Late Antiquity." His research interests include multilingualism in the Christian east, Syriac language and literature, and the organization of knowledge in the ancient and medieval worlds. Dr. Johnson studied Classics at Vandebilt, received his D.Phil. in Classics from Oxford and currently holds a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2018-2019).
This Conversation precedes Dr. Johnson's Arts of Asia lecture on Silk Road Christianity from Syria to Xi'an.
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