Ashley M. Purpura

Ashley Purpura teaches courses on past and present religious sources, traditions, and cultural expressions. Her research focuses the history of Orthodox Christian thought and practice and its contemporary engagement.

She is the author of Women in the Orthodox Tradition: Feminism, Theology, and Equality (University of Notre Dame Press, 2025) and God, Hierarchy, and Power: Orthodox Theologies of Authority from Byzantium (Fordham University Press, 2018). She is also co-editor of Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality (Fordham University Press, 2022) and Rethinking Gender in Orthodox Christianity (Wipf and Stock, 2023).

For 2024-2029, she has been appointed as a McDonald Senior Distinguished Fellow through the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University.