Graduate Student Mary Grace DuPree on Track for Ordination to Priesthood in Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta

Mary Grace DuPree, a doctoral student in history, was recently accepted as postulant for ordination to the priesthood in the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta. DuPree is an Ancient History student whose research centers on the intersections of history, religion, and art history. Her dissertation, titled “Faces of David: Late Antique and Medieval David Cycles in East and West,” analyzes the story of the Biblical King David as told in visual narrative in Coptic, Byzantine, Western Medieval and Crusader art.