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11 Mar 09

Acadadia: Busy Quarter

If you pay attention to my blog at all, you may have noticed the recent silence. Never in my life have I had such a full overflowing plate of responsibilities. I mentioned in my earlier post on my experience of acadadia that I had to put some academic responsibilities from the fall quarter on hold [...]

5 Comments Posted in acadadia, courses, ucla by Patrick George McCullough
7 Oct 08

Christians Writing about Judaism (with Bias)

This past Monday, I gave my first oral presentation (my first assignment!) of my doctoral career at UCLA. For our class on “Jews, Gentiles, and Christians in the Roman World,” taught by Ra’anan Boustan, we first covered the historiography of how Christian writers have treated Judaism throughout the millennia. The major works that I presented [...]

0 Comments Posted in anti-judaism, anti-semitism, apologetics, bias, classes, jewish-christian relations, judaism, scholarship, ucla by Patrick George McCullough
23 Sep 08

Oriented

Yesterday, the incoming graduate students in UCLA’s Department of History were officially welcomed with an orientation and reception. The experience actually made me feel like I’m quite ahead of the game. During the 90 minutes or so of orientation presentations, I actually didn’t learn all that much. I have been eager to learn about the [...]

4 Comments Posted in bartchy, classes, doctoral program, graduate studies, orientation, ucla by Patrick George McCullough
2 Aug 08

Scored a Readership: History of Early Christians

Today I have learned that I will be the reader for Prof. Scott Bartchy’s course, “History of the Early Christians“. The reader at UCLA is basically a grader. I’ll be grading the mid-terms and finals. Actually, I’ll be both enrolled in the course and grading it. Obviously, I won’t be grading my own work!
I graded [...]

3 Comments Posted in classes, grading, ucla by Patrick George McCullough
28 Jul 08

Transitions: Becoming a(n) (academic) dad

Perhaps the reason that I have been so silent on my blog lately has been the monumental transitions in my life. At the top of that list is my coming fatherhood. My wife and I are expecting a baby boy, born in early December. Advent will have tremendous meaning for us this year!
Besides thinking about [...]

0 Comments Posted in blogging, classes, fatherhood, ucla by Patrick George McCullough
12 Mar 08

I'm goin' to UCLA!

I am pleased to report that I have been offered admission into the Ph.D. program in UCLA’s Department of History, to work under Scott Bartchy, and I have accepted the offer! The specialty is technically called “History of Religions,” but I will mostly be concentrating on Christian origins (especially the New Testament, but also beyond). [...]

15 Comments Posted in PhD, bartchy, career, doctoral applications, doctoral programs, history, ucla by Patrick George McCullough

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