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Kyle Smith, winner of the University of Toronto’s inaugural Early Career Teaching Award, is a professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga. His undergraduate teaching includes courses on martyrdom in the ancient world, women's gender in early medieval Christianity, and religious cultural history at Christmas. At the St. George campus, Smith holds graduate appointments in the Department of Study of Religion and the Centre for Medieval Studies. He regularly offers graduate seminars on martyrdom and asceticism in early Christianity. Smith's research focuses primarily on the history of Christianity in Roman Mesopotamia and Sasanian Persia, with a particular emphasis on the fourth to sixth centuries. He has edited and translated Christian martyrdom narratives in Syriac (a dialect of Aramaic) and published a detailed study of Roman emperor Constantine and Christians in Persia. His recent book, 'Cult Dead: A Brief History of Christianity', published by the University of California Press in the fall of 2022, is written for a general audience and spans from Roman antiquity to medieval England and the Protestant Reformation, narrating the story of the world’s widespread religion steeped in the memory of martyrs. Currently, Smith is working on a new biography of St. Nicholas.
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