John DeVoy is a first-year PhD student interested in the peripheral regions of the Early Byzantine world and their representation of local heterodoxy versus imperial orthodoxy through miniatures, wall paintings, and icons. He is also interested in the influence these peripheral communities exerted across the Silk Road, particularly in the context of Manichaeism and so-called 'Gnostic' movements. John received his BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford in 2017, a MTS in the History of Eastern Christianity from Harvard University in 2019, and a MPhil from the University of Cambridge in Medieval History in 2022, where he wrote his dissertation on Byzantine anti-Persian polemics. John's primary research languages are Greek and Coptic, and more recently he has started working with Classical Armenian texts.