Visitor Relations Assistant
In his role as a visitor relations assistant, Kenyon Davenport greets and assists visitors to the Chapel. He comes to the Chapel after a career as an educator in the field of history. A significant portion of his graduate research on the sources of a twelfth-century English cosmological treatise was at Duke, where, under the watchful eye of an armed guard, he read the fifteenth-century Latin version of the Introductorium of Abū Ma’šar, an eighth-century Persian astrologer. He finds his undergraduate design degree as well as his medieval master’s degree enhancing his appreciation of the structure of Duke Chapel. In addition to serving at the Chapel as a visitor relations assistant, he is also a Chapel docent and a member of the Congregation at Duke Chapel. To all of those roles, he brings the experience of his travels in Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia. In his spare moments, he enjoys continuing his study of Roman hydraulics and mosaic work, Gothic cathedral architecture, animal theology, and philosophical idealism.