Joseph Emanuel SANZO

Current Position

• Associate Professor, History of Religions, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Asian and North African Studies

Selected Grants and Fellowships

• 2020–2025: European Research Council (ERC), Starting Grant (EJCM-851466).
• 2018–2020: WIRL Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND fellowship, Institute of Advanced Study, The University of Warwick. 
• 2015–2018: Postdoctoral Fellowship, "Distant Worlds: Munich Graduate School for Ancient Studies," Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
• 2013–2015: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
• 2012–2013: Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles.

Selected Education

• 2012: Ph.D., History, University of California, Los Angeles
• 2008: M.A., History, University of California, Los Angeles
• 2001: B.A., Religious Studies, Concordia University, Irvine

Conferences and Panels Organized

• 2016: (with Olivier Dufault) Inscribing Power in Antiquity, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, October 20-23.
• 2014: (with Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony and Flavia Ruani), Books of Threats and Threating Books: Perceptions of "Threat" in Late Antique Book Culture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, May 26-27.
• 2014: (with Megan Nutzman, Walter Shandruck, and Kassandra Jackson), Ancient Amulets: Language and Artifact. American Philological Association (now Society for Classical Studies), January.
• 2012: (with Ra'anan Boustan and Jacco Dieleman), Authoritative Traditions and Ritual Power in the Ancient World, University of California, Los Angeles, October 22.