Lloyd International Honors College

Dr. Derek Krueger

Religious Studies

A historian of Christian culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantium, Professor Krueger has written extensively about the practice of Christianity in the pre-modern Eastern Mediterranean. He studies saints’ lives as a literary genre, the history of monasticism, the everyday religion of lay Christians, the reception of the Bible, Christian art and material culture, Christian ritual practices, and Orthodox Christian hymns. He is the author of three books, and the editor of three others. He’s published over forty essays on various topics.

He received his AB from Amherst College in 1985 and his PhD from Princeton University in 1991. He has taught at UNCG since then, and served as Department Head from 2004 to 2010. He’s been cross-appointed in Women’s and Gender Studies since 2009.

His research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ; the American Council of Learned Societies; the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem; the European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS); and the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies in Washington, D.C.

He served as President of the Byzantine Studies Association of North America, 2011-13, is Chair of the United States National Committee for Byzantine Studies (2016-21), and currently serves as a Senior Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks.

He is working concurrently on two projects. The first explores how the culture of monasticism in Byzantium produced ideas about masculinity, gender, sexuality, and friendship. The second explores the history of Byzantine Christian hymns, composers, and singers.