April D. DeConick
April deconick 2017
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
Executive Editor of GNOSIS: Journal of Gnostic Studies (Leiden: Brill) since 2015
Grant recipient and Faculty Leader of Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Research Seminar, Emerging Religions 2017-2018
Chair, Society of Biblical Literature, Committee for the Status of Women in the Profession, since 2016
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
Member of Editorial Board for Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies (Leiden: Brill) since 2008
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 2017
- Alumni Dinner
- Ancient New Age
- Apocalypticism
- Apocrypha
- Ask April
- Bible and Brain
- Book Note
- Christian Origins
- CNN Spotlights
- Codex Judas Conference
- Codex Judas Papers
- Cognitive frames
- Cognitive Historicism
- Cognitive Round Up
- Cognitive science and religion
- Comparativism
- Death in Antiquity
- Dialogue of the Savior
- Easter in Memory of Her
- Easter In Memory of Her
- Egyptian art
- Egyptian burials
- Esotericism
- Events
- Fiction
- Finding Jesus
- Flavia Sophe
- Forgeries
- Gnostic America Conference
- Gnostic Counterculture
- Gnostic Film Festival
- Gnostic New Age
- Gnosticism
- Gospel of Jesus' Wife
- Gospel of John
- Gospel of Judas
- Gospel of Philip
- Gospel of Thomas
- Graduate Program at Rice
- Graduate Student News
- Hidden Histories of God
- Historical Jesus
- History of the Hidden God
- Holy Misogyny
- Human Memory
- Humanities
- Humanities and Technology
- In the News
- Jesus' Death
- Jewish Pseudepigrapha
- John 8:44
- Lead Tablets
- Mandaeism
- Manichaeism
- Mapp
- Mapping Death
- Married Jesus
- Mell
- Mellon Seminar Reflection
- Method
- Methods and Approaches
- Mystery Religions
- Mysticism
- Nag Hammadi
- New Age
- Numinalism
- Obituaries
- Orthodoxy and Heresy
- Paul
- Pseudepigrapha
- Publications
- Reality
- Religion and technology
- Religion as art
- Religious experience
- Revelation
- Rice Religious Studies Department
- Rome
- Science and religion
- Sculpture
- Sethianism
- Sexism
- Society of Biblical Literature
- Tchacos Codex
- Textbooks
- The Thirteenth Apostle
- Tombstone
- Transcendent
- Transgression
- Transnuminalism
- Transpower of the Book
- Transreligionism
- Transtheism
- Transuniversalism
- Travel
- Valentinianism
- Visions
- Weekly Apocryphote
- World Religions
- Zostrianos