Heather Curtis is the Warren S. Woodbridge Professor of Comparative Religion and Director of the Center for the Humanities at Tufts, where she also holds appointments in the Department of History and the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora. Professor Curtis earned her doctorate in the History of Christianity and American Religion at Harvard University. Her research explores how Christians have responded to humanitarian disasters, economic crises, disease and disability, and racial injustice. She has also published widely on the connections between religion and empire, the global expansion of pentecostalism, religion and science, and Christian spirituality. On this trip, she will discuss the spread of Christianity across and beyond the Mediterranean world, and the history of Christian spirituality.