Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Ferrum College
Eric M. Vanden Eykel is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Ferrum College in Virginia. His area of research is early Christian Apocryphal Literature, with a special focus on texts and traditions about the infancies and childhoods of Jesus and Mary, his mother. He is the author of The Magi: Who They Were, How They've Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate, published by Fortress Press.
Experience
2020–present
Associate Professor of Religion, Ferrum College
2014–2020
Assistant Professor of Religion, Ferrum College
Education
2014
Marquette University, PhD
2009
Marquette University, MA
2006
Emory University, MDiv
2003
Southern Methodist University, BA
Professional Memberships
Society of Biblical Literature
North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature