graduate students
Hagar BarakHistory |
Tom BoeveHistory Advisors: |
CAROLANN BUFFMusic |
Laurel BYRNESEnglish Advisor: D. Vance Smith Interests: Medieval English mystics and psychological theory. |
Mary Marshall CampbellGerman Advisor: Sara S. Poor Interests: High and late Medieval German literature; legal history; law and literature; relics; modes of proof; gender studies; figurations of the Devil. Dissertation Title: "Where the Truth Lies: Changing Modes of Proof in Medieval German Literature around 1200" |
THOMAS CARLSONHistory Advisor: Peter Brown Interests: Medieval Europe and the Middle East; social diversity; religious minorities; "conceptual communities" (the conceptual dimension of social life); varying definitions of Christianity, Orthodoxy, etc.; Syriac Christianity; Armenian Christianity; Syriac and Armenian literature, hagiography, theology, and poetry; ecclesiastical schisms. Dissertation Title: "Christians in Fifteenth-Century Iraq: The Church of the East as a Conceptual Community" |
Zachary ChitwoodHistory Advisor: John Haldon Interests: Legal history; history and transmission of Roman and Byzantine law; canon law; Byzantine jurisprudence and legal thought; Byzantine history. Dissertation Title: "Byzantine Legal Culture under the Macedonian Emperors" |
Frederic ClarkHistory |
Andrew CollingsHistory Advisor: William Jordan Interests: High medieval France, Britain, and Spain; early-modern Spanish Empire; inquisition; magic, heresy, and witchcraft; the medieval heritage of early colonial New Spain; persecution, holy war, and redemptive violence. |
Matthew Field
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Mark de GrohHistory Interests: Ottoman and Byzantine History. |
BIBIANA GATTOZZIMusic Interests: Music history; early Music; later medieval Italy; Beneventan chant, Gregorian chant, and liturgy; location and the cultural contexts of musical genres, repertoires, and performance practices. |
Brianna GustafsonHistory Advisor: William Chester Jordan Research Interests: Europe in the High Middle Ages; hagiography and the cult of the saints; rural economies and social relationships; monasticism and reform; charity; disease and healing. |
JAMIE L. GREENBERGMusic |
Hannah Hunter-ParkerGerman Advisor: Sara S. Poor Interests: Late medieval and early modern Germanic cultures; Artusepik and courtly romance; reading practices; text-image space in manuscripts; media and meaning; nineteenth- and twentieth-century receptions of medieval culture. |
Rebecca JohnsonHistory Advisor: William C. Jordan Interests: Late medieval and early modern Mediterranean Europe; medieval medicine and healing; magic and divination; ghosts, purgatory, and the afterlife; medieval notions of madness, possession and exorcism; popular religion and the cult of the saints; healing in religious contexts; pregnancy and childbirth. |
Sarah M. KampbellHistory Advisor: John F. Haldon Interests: Late antique, Byzantine and eastern Mediterranean trade, shipping, and economy; shipwreck archaeology. Dissertation Title: “The Economy of Conflict: How East Mediterranean Trade Adapted to Changes in Rules, Allegiances and Demographics in the 10th - 12th Centuries AD" |
Alana KingGerman Advisor: Sara Poor Interests: Mysticism, negative theology, medievalism, medieval and early modern historiography, philology. Dissertation Title: "Mysticism and Confessional Conflict in Post-Reformation Germany: The Mystical Theology of Valentin Weigel (1533-1588)" |
Jordan KirkComparative Literature Advisor: Daniel Heller-Roazen |
Leah KlementComparative Literature |
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 |
John LansdowneArt and Archaeology Advisor: Nino Zchomelidse Interests: Medieval Mediterranean (Venice, Tuscany, Constantinople, Jerusalem); Byzantine, Judaic, and Islamic prototypes for art and architecture in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy; Latins in the East; Byzantium in the West; spolia; relics; the "New Jerusalem." |
Meg LejaHistory Advisor: Helmut Reitmitz Interests: European history from Late Antiquity to the High Middle Ages, with a focus on the Carolingian period; the history of medicine and the body; gender studies. |
Andrew LemonSComparatiave Literature |
Ross LernerEnglish Advisors: Jeff Dolven, Daniel Heller-Roazen, D Vance Smith, Nigel Smith Interests: Medieval and early modern european literature (particularly lyric and epic poetry, allegory, and drama in English; history of religion and theology; history of philosophy; radical politics; fanaticism; punishment and incarceration. |
Molly LesterHistory Advisor: Helmut Reimitz Interests: Late Antique and Early Medieval Europe; the post-Roman West; late antique and early medieval Christianity; religious identity and memory; heresy and orthodoxy; eastern and western Arianism; Visigothic Iberia; the early medieval chronicle tradition; early medieval church councils and canon law in the West |
Nicholas MarinidesHistory Advisor: Peter Brown, John Haldon Interests: Byzantine Empire, religious history; especially lay piety, history of monasticism, Christological controversies, canon and civil law, religion in relation to ethnicity and culture; also Christianity in the Arab world, modern Greek history and religion. Dissertation Title: “Lay Piety in Byzantium, ca. 600-850” |
Hartley MillerFrench and Italian Advisors: Sarah Kay, Daniel Heller-Roazen, Simone Marchesi Interests: Scenes of instruction in 12th- and 13th-century French and Occitan literature; arts of grammar, rhetoric, and poetry; medieval literacy and reading practice; madness, constructions of gender, marriage, and courtly society in medieval literature. |
Lee MordechaiHistory Advisor: John Haldon Interests: Late antique and early medieval Byzantium; society and culture; ceremonial and imperial propaganda; dreams and healing; popular religion. |
John MoreauFrench and Italian |
Melissa PankakeEnglish Interests: chivalric romance and identity; Anglo-Saxon language and poetry; penitential practices, pilgrimage, and crusade; ecclesiastical history; orthodoxy and heresy; oral tradition, texts, and constructions of authority. |
Jenna PhillipsHistory Advisor: William Chester Jordan Interests: High Middle Ages; the thirteenth-century French conquest of the Kingdom of Sicily and Flanders; French and Italian trouvères; the uses of music, oral tradition and folklore in periods of occupation and revolt; rural society; forests and forest clearance; attitudes towards the natural world during the renaissance of the twelfth century. |
Randall PippengerHistory Advisor: William C. Jordan Interests: High Middle Ages; twelfth- and thirteenth-century England and France; rural history; medieval law; Church and monasticism; heresy and popular religion; religious violence and persecution; inquisition. |
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 Title: "Domenico Cavalca, O.P. (1270c-1342), lay piety and vernacular hagiography in late medieval Italy" |
Joseph RicciHistory Advisors: John Haldon, Peter Brown Interests: Late antiquity; the steppe in the ancient and medieval worlds; steppe empires; Roman diplomatic and military contact with foreign peoples (barbarians); the Roman Balkans; late Roman state, society, and military; eastern Roman empire; Byzantine history until 1204; the early Slavs; Roman imperial ideology. |
Christian SahnerHistory Advisors: Peter Brown, Michael Cook Interests: Early Islamic history, late antiquity, relations between Muslims and Christians, history and politics of the modern Middle East, sectarianism, state formation Dissertation: "Martyrdom, Memory, and the Creation of a Minority: Christian Saints in the Early Islamic World" |
Charles SamuelsonFrench and Italian |
Jaqueline P. SturmArt & Archaeology Advisor: Nino Zchomelidse Interests: Late Antique and Early Medieval art and architecture in the Mediterranean; development of church architecture; architecture of power; development of Christian art in general; the tetrarchy as a political system; the reigns of Constantine the Great and Justinian; transitions from pagan antiquity to the Christian Middle Ages; areas of cultural overlap (pagan/Christian/Jewish/Muslim); concepts of pilgrimage; pictorial development of the Mass of St. Gregory. |
Troy TiceHistory Advisor: William Chester Jordan Interests: Cultural, social, intellectual and religious history of High Medieval Europe, esp. France; universities and learning; law and rulership; the interstices between popular and learned religion; mysticism; ghosts and the afterlife; sacramental theology. |
Ian S. WardHistory Advisor: Hemut Reimitz Interests: The early middle ages in western and northern Europe: ethnicity, identity, difference, and elite culture; ethnogenesis/ethnonemesis; military technology and demography; cultural transmission and memory; frontiers and peripheries. |
Luke YarbroughNear Eastern Studies Adviser: Michael Cook Interests: Intellectual, political and social history of Early and Medieval Islam. His dissertation traces the genesis and development of discourses on the (il)legality of non-Muslim government officials. |
Eliza ZingesserFrench and Italian Adviser: Sarah Kay (New York University) Interests: Medieval French and Occitan literature; history of the book. Dissertation Title: "French Troubadours: Assimilating Occitan Literature in Northern France (1200-1400)" |