Nathanael Andrade is the history chair at Binghamton University (SUNY). He received his PhD in Greek and Roman history and has published extensively on the Roman and later Roman Near East, along with other topics. His books include Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World (Cambridge University Press, 2013); The Journey of Christianity to India in Late Antiquity: Networks and the Movement of Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2018); and Zenobia: Shooting Star of Palmyra (Oxford University Press, 2018), and The Journey of Christianity to India in Late Antiquity (2021)