Guillermo Menéndez Sánchez is a FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellow at the History Department at Ghent University. He studied History at the University of Oviedo (Spain), where he earned his B.A. (2015). He studied Ancient History at the Ca’Foscari University of Venice (Italy), where he earned his M.A. (2018).
He completed his Ph.D (2022) with the PhD project: "The 6th Century Anti-Manichaean Polemic in the Light of the Main Sources of Greek Language: Tradition, Interpretation, Innovation," jointly supervised by the University of Padua, Italy, (supervisor: Vittorio Berti) and the École Pratique des Hautes Études, France (supervisor: Madeleine Scopello).
He is currently a FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University (2024-2027) with the project 'Coexistence, Conflict, Persecution: The Revival and Extinction of Manichaeism in the Eastern Mediterranean World.'
Guillermo’s main research interests include Late Antiquity, History of Early Christianity, History of Gnosticism, and Byzantine History. In particular, he is interested in the History of Manichaeism, and the legacy that this religious group left in the society and culture of the Mediterranean world.
