Alexander J. Mazur
Alexander J. Mazur (b. 1969, d. August 2016; also known as Zeke Mazur) was an American scholar specializing in Neoplatonism, Gnosticism, and mysticism. Mazur is noted for his work on the relationship between Neoplatonism and Gnosticism. Education and career. Mazur majored in Philosophy and Classical Studies with a minor in Religion at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, graduating "summa cum laude" with a B.A. in June 1999. He then attended the University of Chicago for his graduate studies, where he obtained his M.A. in May 2002 and graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago  in August 2010. His doctoral thesis, "The Platonizing Sethian Gnostic background of Plotinus' mysticism", was supervised by Michael Sells, Kevin Corrigan, and John D. Turner. Afterwards, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Université Laval. Mazur died in August 2016. His book "The Platonizing Sethian background of Plotinus's mysticism" was published posthumously by Brill in 2021. Published articles. A selection of Mazur's published articles: