Olga Solovieva received her doctoral degree from Syracuse University in 2009. Her dissertation focused on Christian ascetic tradition in Late Antiquity; it was awarded a Graduate School Doctoral Prize for the best dissertation in humanities. Olga is an assistant professor in the Religious Studies program at Union College. She teaches courses in comparative religion, mysticism, religious perspectives on death and immortality, and religion and sexuality. Her current research integrates her interests in the history of late ancient Christian asceticism and mysticism and contemporary religious practice and spirituality.
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