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Ines Angeli Murzaku
murzakui[at]shu.edu
Dr. Murzaku is an Associate Professor of Church History at Seton Hall University. Dr. Murzaku specializes in Ecclesiastical History, Medieval and Modern periods, especially Byzantine and Catholic Church History. In the past two years she has held several visiting appointments with the University of Bologna and the University of Calabria in Italy.
Dr. Murzaku's first book Catholicism, Culture and Conversion: The History of the Jesuits in Albania (1841-1946) was published by Orientalia Christiana Analecta. She is the general editor and contributor of Quo Vadis Eastern Europe? Religion, State and Society after Communism, forthcoming by the University of Bologna, Longo Editore in April 2008. The volume analyzes the radically changed religious situation in the former communist countries as well as explores the future religious co-existence in the area. In 2009, Dr. Murzaku is anticipating a monograph the Greek Monks at the Gates of Rome that details the history of the Greek Abbey of St. Nilus in Grottaferrata in Rome and that contributes to the Byzantine studies and illuminates certain aspects of Greek-Latin interactions in Southern Italy.
Aside from her ASN duties as a VP, Dr. Murzaku an executive board member of Christians Associated for Relationships with Eastern Europe (CAREE). She is also on the editorial advisory boards of the Bolletino della Badia Greca di Grottaferrata(Religion in Eastern Europe and Sociological Analysis scholarly journals).