Luis Josue Sales,
Assistant Professor and Chair of Religious Studies
Biography
I am a native of Mexico City who specializes in premodern African, Asian, and eastern European Christianities. I largely apply postcolonial and queer theoretical approaches to my scholarship and integrate them into my teaching. My interests center on the construction of premodern Christian identities, particularly at the intersection of sexual, religious, and ethnic difference.
Academic History
- PhD-Fordham University (Early/Medieval Christianity)
- ThM-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology (Early Christianity)
- MTS-Boston College (Early Christianity)
- MA-Wheaton College (Systematic and Historical Theology)
- BA-Wheaton College (English, Political Science)
Academic Focus
Premodern Christianity
Sex and Gender in Early/Medieval Christianity
Ancient Native African Christianities (Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia)
Medieval Roman Empire
Early Christian-Muslim Relations
Postcolonial/Queer Theory
Interests
Cooking (mostly Mexican, Spanish, Italian, Russian)
Courses Taught
- Feminist Interpretations of the Bible
- Intro to Early Christianities
- Queer African Christianities
- Early Christian-Muslim Relations
- Jesus, Paul, and Early Christian Sexualities
- Eros and Sex: Antiquity and Byzantium
- Precolonial African Christian Spiritualities
- CORE III: Ethics, Truth, and Postmodern Metaphysics
Selected Research and Publications
- Sal茅s, Luis J. 鈥淪ystems Intelligence and Byzantine Domestic Violence: The Life of Matrona of Perge as a Case Study,鈥� in Studia Patristica (forthcoming, 2021).
- Sal茅s, Luis J. 鈥淭o Kill a Matriarchy: Mak蓹dda, Queen of Ethiopia and the Specter of Pauline Androprimacy in the K蓹br盲 N盲g盲艣t,鈥� in African Journal of Gender and Religion (forthcoming, 2021).
- Sal茅s, Luis J. 鈥淨ueerly Christified Bodies: Women Martyrs, Christification, and the Compulsory Masculinisation Thesis,鈥� in The Journal of Early Christian History (forthcoming, 2021).
- Sal茅s, Luis J. 鈥淭he Other Other Life of Maximos the Confessor: A Reevaluation of the Syriac and Greek Lives and the Case for His Alexandrian Origin,鈥� in The Journal of Late Antiquity 13.2 (forthcoming, 2020).
- Sal茅s, Luis J. 鈥淕alatians 3:28 and the Ordination of Women in Second-Century Pauline Churches,鈥� in Women and Ordination in the Orthodox Church: Explorations in Theology and Practice. Elena Narinskaya and Gabrielle Thomas, eds. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books (2020): 58鈥�76.