graduate students
Asad AhmedNear Eastern Studies Early Islamic History (Dissertation Title: “Between the Acts: Hijazi Elites and the Internal Politics of the Umayyad Empire”); Graeco-Arabica; Islamic Philosophy and Theology, classical Arabic poetry and poetics. Advisors: |
Jennifer-Kate BarrettEnglish Advisors: |
Katherine BrownFrench and Italian Old French Fabliaux, Chaucer, and Boccaccio Advisors: François Rigolot |
Tom BoeveHistory Advisors: |
Jelena BogdanovicArt & Archaeology Emotionally, aesthetically, and, hopefully, scholarly as well, generally interested in Medieval Studies – Byzantine, Western Medieval, Islamic – and related spiritual and material expressions. Specific focus area rooted in Byzantine art and architecture and various topics on death during the Middle Ages – pilgrimages, cult places, burial practices, and their reflection upon architecture and art, with particular emphasis on topography of burials and their architectural setting. Advisors: Slobodan Ćurčić |
Nicola CamerlenghiArt & Archaeology I am currently in Rome at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, researching and writing thanks to a Kress Foundation Fellowship. Advisor: Slobodan Ćurčić |
Mary CampbellDepartment of German |
Zachary ChitwoodHistory Interests: Byzantine History (500-1200) and Near Eastern Christianity. |
Michelle GarceauHistory Advisors: William Jordan |
Erica GillesHistory Advisors: William Jordan |
Mark de GrohHistory Interests: Ottoman and Byzantine History. |
Russell HopleyNear Eastern Studies Thesis topic is Almoravid administration of Islamic Spain (late 11th /early 12th centuries). Secondary interests include medieval Arabic poetics, rhetoric, and grammatical theory. Advisors: |
Joshua HolscherFrench and Italian Interests: Currently, the intersection of 13th-14th Century French Literature and Music. |
Aaron HostetterEnglish Advisors: |
Hannah R. JohnsonEnglish Advisors: Vance Smith, Michael Wood (English) |
Sarah M. KampbellHistory Interests: Late Antique Economy and Trade, ship iconography. |
Alana KingDepartment of German |
Jamie KreinerHistory Interests: Liturgy, hagiography, monasticism, law, rulership, and pigs. |
Chris KurpiewskiHistory Advisor: William Jordan Interests: Medieval social history; religious practices and literature of the late Middle Ages; crusades; mystical theology, learned magic, heresy; and the transition from late antiquity in the early Byzantine Empire |
Enric Mallorqui-RuscalledaDepartment of Spanish and Portuguese General Research Interests: Medieval (Latin, Spanish and Catalan) and Early Modern Iberian Literature and Culture (Transatlantic Literature of the XVI and XVII Centuries); Critical-theoretical and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature (Game Theory, New Medievalism and New Philology, Phenomenology of Reading); Comparative Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature and Culture; Neo-Latin Literature; History of the Book and History of Reading, Paleography, Codicology, Manuscript Studies, Bibliography, Textual Criticism; 20th Century Catalan and Spanish Literature. |
Intisar A RabbNear Eastern Studies Interests: Islamic legal interpretation (specifically, on legal maxims) beginning in the 7th century. |
Harold RamdassEnglish Advisors: John Fleming, Vance Smith |
Manu RadhakrishnanHistory Advisors: William C. Jordan, Peter Brown, Anthony Grafton Interests: Mediterranean cultural history, Western Europe and Byzantium in late antiquity and the middle ages, history of Christianity, medieval Islamic Architecture, early modern print culture. Dissertation Topic: "Domenico Cavalca, O.P. (1270c-1342), lay piety and vernacular hagiography in late medieval Italy" |
Emily SnowMusic Dissertation Title: "The Lady of Sorrows: Music, Devotion, and Politics in the Burgundian Netherlands" Advisors: Rob Wegman and Peter Jeffery |
Surbhi SharmaComparative Literature Advisors: Daniel Heller-Roazen (Comp Lit), Robert Hollander (French/Italian), John Fleming (English) |
Uriel SimonsohnNear Eastern Studies Interests: Interfaith relations within Islam in medieval times. Advisors: |
Stefan Vander ElstComparative Literature Advisors: John Fleming (English), Janet Martin (Classics) |
Sinda VanderpoolFrench & Italian Primary specialty in Renaissance Studies. My dissertation is on Marguerite de Navarre (early 16th). Specifically in the medieval period I am studying women’s voice and expression of religious belief. Advisors: |
Sonia VelazquezSpanish & Portuguese Advisors: |
Wesley YuEnglish Old and Middle English literature; medieval rhetoric, poetics. Advisors: John Fleming, Vance Smith, Kathleen Davis |
Eliza ZingesserFrench and Italian Interests: Music and poetry in the late Middle Ages. |