Dossey received her PhD from Harvard University in 1998. Her doctoral thesis was entitled Christians and Romans: Aspiration, Assimilation, and Conflict in the North African Countryside.[1]
Research
Dossey published Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa in 2010 with the University of California Press.[2] The work was described by David L. Stone as 'a truly interdisciplinary and multi-scalar study' with 'a powerful thesis'.[3] She has published on gender, religion, and the history of sleep in late antiquity.
Bibliography
“Wife Beating and Manliness in Late Antiquity.” Past & Present (2008) 3-40
Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa (California: University of California Press, 2010)
'Exegesis and dissent in Byzantine North Africa', North Africa Under Byzantium and Early Islam, ed. by Susan T. Stevens and Jonathan Conant (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2016)
'Watchful Greeks and Lazy Romans: Disciplining Sleep in Late Antiquity', Journal of Early Christian Studies 21, 2013 (2) 209-239
'Night in the Big City: Temporal Patterns in Antioch and Constantinople as Revealed by Chrysostom’s Sermons', Revisioning John Chrysostom (Leiden: Brill, 2019)