Kayla (Durcholz) Dang received her PhD from Yale University in 2022. She is primarily interested in the transmission of religion, especially the in the context of Iran in Late Antiquity. Her research focuses on the continuity of the Zoroastrian priesthood from the Sasanian period into the Islamic period, and specifically the religious institutions that provide the framework for such transmission. Therefore she studies practices of religious education, textual composition and compilation, manuscript traditions, as well as the socio-political history of the priests themselves, utilizing sources in a variety of languages including Middle Persian, Parthian, Armenian, Arabic, and Syriac.