Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent (PhD, Brown University, 2009) is a scholar of Syriac studies and early Christianity, with special interests in hagiography and sacred narrative. She is the author of Missionary Stories and the Formation of the Syriac Churches (University of California Press, 2015). She co-authored with Kyle R. Smith The History of Mar Behnam and Sarah: Martyrdom and Monasticism in Medieval Iraq (Gorgias Press, 2018). She is the co-editor of The Gateway to the Syriac Saints, a two-volume digital database on Syriac saints (Qadishe: http://syriaca.org/q/index.html) and their Lives (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriac Electronica: http://syriaca.org/bhse/index.html), published in 2016 with www.syriaca.org, an online reference portal for Syriac studies.