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Juliette Day is a Senior University Lecturer in Church History at the University of Helsinki and holds additional roles as Senior Research Fellow in Christian Liturgy at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, and Senior Research Fellow at Yale University's Institute for Sacred Music (2016–2017). She earned her PhD from King's College London and has held academic positions at institutions including the University of Wales, Lampeter, and Sarum College. Her research focuses on liturgical history, particularly the interplay between text, ritual, space, and materiality in late antique and early medieval contexts.
Education: PhD in Theology (2003), King’s College London. Key research areas include early Christian baptismal rites, sensory experience in liturgy, and material culture. She has published extensively, including monographs like The Baptismal Liturgy of Jerusalem (2007) and Hearing our Prayers (2024).
Day’s work emphasizes methodological innovation, bridging liturgical studies with ritual studies and sensory analysis. Recent projects include studies on early Christian baptisteries in the Levant and Baroque pulpits in Finland. She supervises doctoral theses in liturgical history and teaches courses such as Prayer and Worship in the Early Church and The Senses in Christian History.
- Editorial roles: Founding editor of Anaphora, editorial board member for Studia Liturgica and Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity.
- Awards: Teacher of the Year (2014, Theology Faculty student association).
- Collaborations: Centre for Early Medieval Studies (Masaryk University), Materiality of Devotion project (Lisbon Nova University).
Her research actively engages contemporary liturgical practices, advising the Finnish Lutheran Church’s Worship Office and contributing to liturgical reforms in the Church in Wales and Church of England.
