He studies the cultural and intellectual history of the eastern Mediterranean and Near East, 500-1100 CE, with a special focus on how and why ancient Greek scientific texts were translated into Syriac and Arabic. His current book project investigates competing narratives of ownership over the ancient Greek past in eighth- through tenth-century Iraq. Between Christians and Muslims, Arabs and non-Arabs, who could rightfully claim to possess the legacies of the likes of Aristotle and Galen? Dr. Connelly received his PhD in Classical Philology from Harvard University in 2016 and has previously served as an American Council of Learned Societies Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ohio State University.