Associate Professor of Religion Robert Royalty was an invited External Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center at Stanford University in 2006. During that time he gave several invited presentations: "Difference, Dissidents, and Heresy in the early Roman Empire." Department of History at Stanford University, June 1, 2006; "The Gospel of Judas-A Revolutionary Text?" at Stanford Continuing Studies Program, May 9, 2006; and "The History of Heresy and the Origin of Christianity," at the Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University, March 9, 2006.