Dr Rachel Yuen-Collingridge is the Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Early Christianity in the Department of Ancient History. She received her PhD (Historical Lexicology and the Origins of Philosophy: Herodotus' use of philosophein, sophistes and cognates) from Macquarie University in the Department of Ancient History. She has taught ancient history at Macquarie University, UNSW, University of New England and as a guest lecturer at ANU.

She works on several papyrological projects focused on scribal practice, reception, readers and canonicity, as well as a range of topics concerned with the history and development of ancient history as a disciple. She has worked on the ARC funded projects 'Knowledge Transfer and administrative professionalism in a pre-typographic society' and 'Papyri from the Rise of Christianity in Egypt'.

She is engaged in interdisciplinary work on intersubjectivity, memory, and cognition. She has been teaching and working on cultural heritage for many years. At present she is working on a Chicago project to re-edition of the Greek Magical Papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt, a Macquarie project (with Ass. Prof. Choat) to investigate the social context and production of papyrus forgeries, as well as her postdoctoral project, 'Authority and Artefact: Magic, scripture and administration in papyrus manuscripts from Graeco-Roman Egypt'.

With Associate Professor Malcolm Choat, she runs the interdisciplinary seminar series, Markers of Authenticity, within the Department of Ancient History. She is a founding member of the society for Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies.