Adam DeSchriver is a PhD student in the Classical Near East specialization. He works on the social, intellectual, and religious history of late antique and early medieval southwest Asia. More specifically, his research focuses on the history of monotheism in the Arabian Peninsula during late antiquity, and on narrative representations of pre-Islamic Arabian monotheism in the sīra-maghāzī and akhbār corpora. Adam holds MA degrees from the University of Chicago (Divinity/Religious Studies) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies) where he was a Fulbright MA fellow during the 2021-2022 academic year. He earned a BA from the University of Rochester (Religious Studies) and a BM from the Eastman School of Music (Applied Music, Clarinet).