My name is Marta Szada and I am a historian and a classicist focusing on Late Antiquity. In 2020, I defended my doctoral thesis at the University of Warsaw on religious conversions between Nicene („Catholic”) and Homoian („Arian”) Christianity in the Roman successor kingdoms in the West. The same year I joined the Department of Classical Studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland).
I worked on projects concerned with the cult of saints and hagiographic literature and the history of the clergy in late antiquity. In addition to church history, doctrinal disputes and religious practices in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, I am also interested in intellectual history and book history in the ancient world. Currently, I am realising a new project Networks of Book Circulation and the Making of Reading Communities in Late Antiquity.
My Academic Path
2008–2011
Undergraduate Studies
BA studies in the College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Humanities, University of Warsaw, in Classical Philology and History.
Bachelor degree in Classical Philology.
2011–2014
Graduate Studies
MA studies in History and Classical Philology, University of Warsaw
Master thesis in History (2015): “The Saint and the World. The Ideal of Sanctity of Merovingian Queens” (in Polish)
Master thesis in Classical Philology (2013): “Basil of Caesarea’s Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek Literature. Introduction, translation, and commentary” (in Polish)
2014–2020
Doctoral Studies
PhD candidate at the Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw
Thesis title: “Conversions between Nicene and Homoian Christianity in the Post-Roman Successor Kingdoms from the Fifth to the Seventh Century”.
The researcher in the „Presbyters in the Late Antique West Project” (2014–2019) and the „Cult of Saints Project” (2018–2019).
2020–Now
Academic position at NCU, Toruń
Reasearch-and-teaching assistant (2020-2023) and now Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland).