I received my PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Toronto in 2010 and my MA in Religion and Culture from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1998; currently I am completing a Master Universitario program at the Pontifical University of Saint Anselm (Rome). In 1995 and 1997 I worked on archaeological sites (Iron Age, Roman period, early Islamic period) in Jordan.

During the years 2011-2013 I was an assistant professor in the Department of Religion and Culture here at Laurier.

On the one hand, I am intrigued especially by New Testament studies and Christian origins. On the other hand, I am most fascinated by Gandhian studies, as well as Christianity and reception of the Bible in India, past and present.

• Donald F. Morgenson Award for Teaching Excellence (2020).
• Frank W. Beare Award for Outstanding Book in the areas of Christian Origins, Post-Biblical Judaism and/or Greco-Roman Religions (2014).
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (2001).

Although I am contract teaching faculty, I would be delighted to supervise students, where permitted, in the areas of biblical studies (historical criticism, reception history); the history of Christianity; Christianity in India; and the study of Mahatma Gandhi.

• Damm, Alex, ed. Religions and Education in Antiquity: Studies in Honour of Michel Desjardins;
• Damm, Alex. "Gandhi and the Parable of the Prodigal Son," Biblical Interpretation (forthcoming);
• Damm, Alex. "Rhetorical Modes of Transformation in the Synoptic Gospels," in The Oxford Companion to the Synoptic Gospels (forthcoming)
• Damm, Alex, ed. Gandhi in a Canadian Context: Relationships between Mahatma Gandhi and Canada (2016).
• Damm, Alex. “Gandhi’s Understanding of Canada,” in Gandhi in a Canadian Context (2016).
• Damm, Alex. “A Rhetorical-Critical Assessment of Luke’s Use of the Elijah-Elisha Narrative,” in The Elijah-Elisha Narrative in the Composition of Luke (2014).
• Damm, Alex. Ancient Rhetoric and the Synoptic Problem: Clarifying Markan Priority (2013).
• Damm, Alex. “Ornatus: An Application of Rhetoric to the Synoptic Problem,” Novum Testamentum (2003).