Ashley Pupura

CLA Profile

Director // WGSS // LGBTQ // CDIS // SIS
Associate Professor // Religious Studies // SIS
Affiliated Faculty // Jewish Studies // SIS
Affiliated Faculty // Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies // SIS

Books

• Purpura, Ashley Purpura. Women in the Orthodox Tradition: Feminism, Theology, and Equality. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2025.
• Purpura, Ashley,  Thomas Arentzen, and Susan Ashbrook Harvey (eds.). Rethinking Gender in Orthodox Christianity. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications/Wipf and Stock, 2023.
• Arentzen, Thomas, Ashley Purpura, and Aristotle Papanikolaou (eds.). Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality. New York: Fordham University Press, 2022.

Articles

• Purpura, Ashley. “Liturgical Name-Calling: Otherness and the Akathistos Hymn.” Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies 7, no. 1-2 (2025): 19-41.

Awards / Honors

• Appointed as a McDonald Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University for the 2024-2029.