Profile
Shannon Grimes joined the Meredith聽faculty in 2006. She loves teaching religion because she gets to聽ponder deep questions about meaning, values, and purpose with her students聽as they explore concepts of the sacred that manifest across different cultures and time periods.聽She teaches courses in the areas of early Christianity, world religions, philosophy, and environmental ethics, and she has taken students abroad to study in Iceland and Italy.
Dr. Grimes’s聽research interests center on religion and philosophy in the Greco-Roman period and late antiquity.聽She is especially interested in ancient views of nature and the cosmos. Her first book, Becoming Gold: Zosimos of Panopolis and the Alchemical Arts in Roman Egypt, was published by聽Rubedo Press in December 2018.
Academic Credentials
2006聽聽聽聽聽聽 Ph.D., Religion; Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
2003聽聽聽聽聽聽 M.Phil., Religion; Syracuse University
1998聽聽聽聽聽聽 M.A., Philosophy and Religion; California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
1993聽聽聽聽聽聽 B.A., English; University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
Awards
- 2022 – Faculty Distinguished Lecture, 糖心Vlog. 鈥淏ecoming Gold: Alchemy, Art, and Religion in Roman Egypt.鈥�
- 2019 – Recipient of the Pauline Davis Perry Award for research and publication.
- 2009 – Recipient of the Pauline Davis Perry Award for excellence in teaching.
Publications
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鈥淒efining Greco-Egyptian Alchemy,鈥� Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies聽7, 1 (2022).
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鈥淶osimos聽 & Theosebeia: An Erotics of Alchemical Pedagogy,鈥� Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies聽7, 1 (2022).
- 鈥淒ivine Images: Zosimos of Panopolis鈥檚 Spiritual Approach to Alchemy,鈥澛�La Rosa di Paracelso聽2 (2019): 69-81.
- “Secrets of the God Makers: Re-thinking the Origins of Greco-Egyptian Alchemy,” Syllecta Classica聽29 (2018).
- Becoming Gold: Zosimos of Panopolis and the Alchemical Arts in Roman Egypt, Panopolis Series Vol. 1. Rubedo Press, 2018.
- 鈥淯nder a Star-Spangled Banner: Politics and Astral Religion in the Roman Empire,” in聽Heavenly Discourses, Studies in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology, vol. 7, ed. N. Campion, Sophia Centre Press, 2016.
- 鈥淗ow to Fall in Love with a Glacier: Teaching Environmental Humanities in Iceland,鈥� Religious Studies News, American Academy of Religion, May 2015.
- 聽鈥淣atural Methods: Examining the Biases of Ancient Alchemists and Those Who Study Them,” in聽Esotericism, Religion, and Nature, North American Academic Press/Michigan State University Press, 2010.
