Kim Haines-Eitzen (NHC Fellow, 2024–25)

Kim Haines-Eitzen is the Hendrix Memorial Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University. She received her PhD in ancient Mediterranean religions from the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a scholar of early Christianity and early Judaism, she has written widely on ancient scribal practices, gender and sexuality, and, more recently, on the soundscapes of late ancient monasticism. She is the author of Guardians of Letters: Literacy, Power, and the Transmitters of Early Christian Literature (Oxford, 2000), The Gendered Palimpsest: Women, Writing, and Representation in Early Christianity (Oxford, 2011), Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks and What It Can Teach Us (Princeton, 2022), and the forthcoming The Gospel of John: A Biography, which will appear in Princeton’s Lives of Great Religious Books series. Haines-Eitzen’s media presence includes writing for The Conversation and The Huffington Post and other outlets, numerous interviews for radio programs and podcasts, and leading workshops on topics related to her research.

Selected Publications

• Haines-Eitzen, Kim. Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks and What It Can Teach Us. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022.
• Haines-Eitzen, Kim. The Gendered Palimpsest: Women, Writing, and Representation in Early Christianity. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011.
• Haines-Eitzen, Kim. Guardians of Letters: Literacy, Power, and the Transmitters of Early Christian Literature. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2000.