Leslie Dossey

Leslie Dossey is a historian specialising in late antique north Africa. She is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago.

Education

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.

Research

Dossey published Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa in 2010 with the University of California Press. The work was described by David L. Stone as 'a truly interdisciplinary and multi-scalar study' with 'a powerful thesis'. She has published on gender, religion, and the history of sleep in late antiquity.