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April D. DeConick

Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity since 2006

Chair of the Department of Religion at Rice University since 2013

Figure Foundation Book Award for The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion From Antiquity to Today (New York: Columbia University Press 2016)

Grant Recipient with James McGrath and Charles Häberl, National Endowment for the Humanities, The Mandaean Book of John: Critical Edition, Translation, and Commentary, 2012-14

Executive Editor of GNOSIS: Journal of Gnostic Studies (Leiden: Brill) since 2015

Editorial Board of Journal of the American Academy of Religion (Oxford: Oxford University Press) since 2019

Editorial Board for Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies (Leiden: Brill) since 2008

Grant recipient and Faculty Leader of Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Research Seminar, Emerging Religions 2017-2019

Chair, Society of Biblical Literature, Committee for the Status of Women in the Profession, 2016-2018

Research Fellow in the Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious 2014-2015

Associate Editor for Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks on Religion, ten-volumes, 2016

Faculty in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Rice University, since 2006

Grant recipient and Faculty Leader of Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Research Seminar, Mapping Death, 2010-2012

Associate Editor for Vigiliae Christianae, Journal and Monograph series (Leiden: Brill) 2014-2015

Co-chair of Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Section, Society of Biblical Literature, since 2012

Founding Chair and Member of Steering Committee of Mysticism, Esotericism and Gnosticism in Antiquity Section, Society of Biblical Literature since 1996

Member of Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession, Society of Biblical Literature, since 2012

Founder of the Cognition and Culture in the Humanities Workshop, Rice University, 2011-2013

29th Annual Loy Witherspoon Lecturer, University of North Carolina 2013

Centennial Lecturer for Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan 2012

Edgar and Dorothy Davidson Annual Lecturer, Carleton University 2009

Member of Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society since 2002

Member of Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society since 1988

Affiliated with the Society of Biblical Literature since 1987

Affiliated with the International Association for Coptic Studies since 2006

Affiliated with the North American Patristics Society since 2006

Affiliated with the American Academy of Religion since 2007

Affiliated with the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism since 2016

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