Daniel L. Schwartz is Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University. He directs of Syriaca.org, a linked-open data project dedicated to advancing scholarship in the field of Syriac Studies and to preserving Syriac cultural heritage. He is the editor of Syriaca.org’s SPEAR: Syriac Persons, Events, and Relations, an online prosopographical research tool, and the co-editor of the Syriac Taxonomy, a domain ontology for Syriac Studies. He is the author of Paideia and Cult: Christian Initiation in Theodore of Mopsuestia and the editor, with Neil McLynn and Arietta Papaconstantinou, of Conversion in Late Antiquity: Christianity, Islam, and Beyond.