Giorgia Nicosia is a Post-doctoral researcher at the History Department at Ghent University. She studied Classics at Siena and Padua Universities, where she earned respectively her B.A. (2017) and M.A. degrees (2019). During her M.A., she trained in Syriac studies and History of Christianity, and focused her interest mainly on the translating strategies of Greek texts into Syriac. In 2024, she earned her PhD degree in History and religious studies from Ghent University and the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE, Paris). Her thesis addressed Syriac historiographical excerpt collections coming from miaphysite milieus, with a manifold purpose: not only did she study the material composition of such collections and their relationship with Greek antecedents, but she also sought to understand if and how these collections influenced the process underlying the formation of the Miaphysite identity.
Currently, she is carrying out the FWO-project entitled: Setting boundaries. Purity in 4th-9th c. Syriac Christianity and its interreligious context. The main goal of the project is to analyze for the first time (im)purity language and discourses in Syriac sources written in the 4th-9th c., to highlight the specificities of Syriac Christianity vis-à-vis other ancient strands. In particular, it studies how (im)purity discourses were used in inter- and intra-confessional debates.
