Jonathan Henry
Princeton University, Humanities, Adjunct
- History of Religion, Manichaeism, Mandaeism, Christian Origins, Jewish Studies, Qumranic Studies, and 85 moreNew Testament, New Testament and Christian Origins, Early Christianity, Early Christian Apocryphal Literature, Syriac Studies, Syriac Christianity, Atheism, Jewish History, Second Temple Judaism, Apocrypha/Pseudepigrapha, Medieval illuminated manuscripts, Rabbinics, Rabbinic Literature, Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East, Hebrew Bible, Biblical Theology, Greek Patristics, Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics, Early Christian Papyri and Inscriptions, History of Reception of Biblical Texts, Jewish War 66 73. AD, Qumran, The Dead Sea Scrolls, Ancient Judea, Sectarian Literature of Ancient Judah, Zoroastrianism, Gnosticism, Manicheanism, Jewish Mysticism/Kababalah, Early Medieval Ireland, Early Christian Ireland, Early Irish Poets, Old and Middle Irish Literature, Early Irish Politics, Pre historic Europe, Celtic Languages, Roman Britain and Gaul, History of Judaism In Antiquity, Bible, Greco-Roman World, History of Religions, Talmud, Midrash, Tanach, History, Jewish Thought, Turfan Texts, Silk Road Studies, Dunhuang manuscripts, Graeco-Roman clubs and associations, Demonology, Liturgical Studies, Patristics, History of Christianity, Late Antiquity, Cultural Memory, Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Breathwork, Breathing Techniques, User Experience (UX), User Experience Design, Usability and user experience, User eXperience, User Experience Research, Long-term user experience, Design, User Experience, Innovation, User Experience, HCI, Personal Construct Theory, User Experience Learning, User Experience Playful Persuasion, Multi Sensory Experience of Architecture End User, Photographic Digitization and the User Experience, User Experience Evaluation, User Experience Social Networks, User Experience, Emotion, User Experience Frames (UX Frames), User Experience (UX)Industrial, User Experience Management, Usabiltiy and User Experience, User Experience Constituents, End User Experience of Unbuilt Architecture, User Experience Criticism, Integrating Agile and User Experience, UX Research, and UI/UX Researchedit
- Jonathan Henry is an educator, designer, and researcher. Henry currently works at Princeton University as a visiting professor, and serves as web content manager and UX researcher for various globally distributed educational products. ... moreJonathan Henry is an educator, designer, and researcher.
Henry currently works at Princeton University as a visiting professor, and serves as web content manager and UX researcher for various globally distributed educational products.
He earned his PhD from Princeton University in 2020.
Henry’s recent research has included election policy analysis for the watchdog organization Common Cause, where he delivered an impact report titled “The Paid Jailer.” This mixed-methods generative research contributed greater definition to the nebulous ethical standards that govern elected county officials. Discoveries and recommendations were grounded in data from such disparate sources as county contract lists, campaign finance reports, and dozens of user/stakeholder interviews. The final collaborative publication received energetic attention from reform advocates, policymakers, and grassroots organizers across the United States. This release was further reinforced by media attention, webinars, and an accompanying web database of ethically questionable campaign contributions. This year-long research project was funded by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
Henry’s dissertation at Princeton centered on the evolution of religious institutions and apparatuses in late antique Europe and the broader Roman Mediterranean. Through the analysis of written and material sources, his research explored how religious groups receive and attenuate cultural influences to deconstruct and reconstruct bureaucratic structures. Data collected from site visits in 9 countries and sources from 12 languages yielded paradigm shifting insights into the gendered, ethnic, and political aspects of therapeutic modalities that became subsumed under the umbrella of “exorcism.” This research is being thoroughly revised for general reading audiences who are interested in the roots of antisemitism, questions of gender in deeply religious contexts, and the implications of metaphorical constructs that govern interconnected communities.
He has also written and presented extensively on the fluid dynamics of “text,” particularly in literature composed before the printing press, with implications for the fluid dynamics of “text” in contemporary digital formats. Using samples from late antiquity and the medieval era, Henry has demonstrated the complex history of ostensibly unified texts. For this research, he has used innovative methods within the fields of epigraphy, papyrology, and material philology.
Henry is an award-winning teacher at Princeton University and has received excellent feedback for his approach to pedagogy. He has completed training and certification in inclusive, student-centered pedagogy; racial equity; mindful leadership in teaching; trauma-informed approaches, and more. He actively mentors students through Princeton’s GradFutures Mentor Collective.edit
Research Interests: Gnosticism, Jewish Mysticism, Early Christianity, History Of The Bible/Biblical Canon, Early Christian Apocryphal Literature, and 10 moreApocrypha/Pseudepigrapha, Historical Jesus, Judaism, New Testament and Archaeology, Material Culture and Religioin, Theories of Religiion and Culture, Ethiopian Christianity, Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity, Jewish and Christian Apocryphal Texts, and Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism
Review of Chris Nighman, Joel Kalvesmaki, et al. Chrysostomus Latinus in Iohannem Online (CLIO)
