Dr. Erica Ferg is an associate professor of Religious Studies at Regis University in Denver, Colorado. She teaches courses on Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Mediterranean religious history, and religious studies theories and methods. Her doctorate is in the Study of Religion, and her area of specialization is Eastern Mediterranean comparative religious history. Erica’s research focuses on Mediterranean comparative religion, religious texts, comparative linguistics, and archaeoastronomy. Prior to academia, she was a Persian linguist in the United States Air Force. Erica's first book, Geography, Religion, Gods, and Saints in the Eastern Mediterranean, was published in paperback in January 2022 by Routledge. Erica currently is at work on a second book project, titled Starry Nights: A Celestial History of Religion in the Mediterranean.