Aaron Hollander

Dr. Aaron T. Hollander is Executive Director of Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute, Editor of Ecumenical Trends, and Adjunct Faculty in Theology at Fordham University. He is a scholar of theology and culture with his PhD from the University of Chicago. He serves on the steering committee of the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network and the summer faculty of the Centro Pro Unione in Rome; from 2022-2024 he served a term as President of the North American Academy of Ecumenists. His research focuses on the lived dynamics of ecumenical and interreligious conflict, the aesthetic texture and political power of holiness, and the circulation of theological understanding beyond explicitly religious settings. His first book, Saint George Liberator: Hagiography as Resistance in the Modern Mediterranean (Fordham UP, 2026), is a historical-ethnographic study of Orthodox Christian hagiography amidst cultural and political domination. His second book, an edited volume entitled Saints in Divided Societies, is forthcoming in 2027.