Daniel Caner grew up in Newton, Massachusetts. In 1986 he graduated magna
cum laude in Classics from Princeton University. Thereafter he spent four
years working in Greece, Antarctica, and Boston. He received his Ph.D. in
1998 from from the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate Group in
Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology. In 1999 he came to the
University of Connecticut, where he holds a joint position as assistant
professor in the History department and in the Modern and Classical
Languages department. He spent 2004-2005 as a Fellow in Byzantine Studies at
Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., working on early Christian ideals of
charity and gift-giving.
2004. "Sinai Pilgrimage and Ascetic Romance: Pseudo-Nilus's Narrationes
in Context." In L. Ellis and F.L. Kidner, eds., Travel, Communication and
Geography in Late Antiquity: Sacred and Profane. Ashgate, 135-47.
2002. Wandering, Begging Monks: Spiritual Authority and the Promotion of
Monasticism in Late Antiquity. Transformation of the Classical Heritage 33. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California.
2000. "Notions of Strict Discipline and Apostolic Tradition in Early
Definitions of Orthodox Monasticism." in Orthodoxie, Christianisme,
Histoire/ Orthodoxy, Christianity, History, ed. Susanna Elm, Éric Rebillard
and Antonella Romano, pp.23-34. Rome: École française de Rome.
2000. "Nilus of Ancyra and the Promotion of a Monastic Elite." Arethusa 33:401-410.
1997. "The Practice and Prohibition of Self-Castration in Early
Christianity." Vigiliae Christianae 51:396-415.
