Aaron Hollander

Dr. Aaron T. Hollander is Associate Director of Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute, Editor of Ecumenical Trends, and Adjunct Faculty in Theology at Fordham University. He serves on the steering committee of the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network and on the faculty of the Summer Course in Ecumenism at the Centro Pro Unione in Rome; he was also President of the North American Academy of Ecumenists from 2022-2024. He is a scholar of ecumenical theology and lived religion, with his PhD from the University of Chicago (2018). His research foci include the lived dynamics of ecumenical/interreligious conflict and coexistence, the aesthetic texture and political power of holiness (particularly in Orthodox Christianity), and the circulation of theological understanding beyond explicitly religious settings. His first book, forthcoming from Fordham University Press (2025), is entitled Saint George Liberator: Hagiography and Resistance in the Modern Mediterranean.