African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures
Charles Häberl (Phd, Harvard University) |
Art History
Erik Thunø (PhD, Johns Hopkins) The "image" in medieval art; late medieval painting and mosaics. |
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Tamara Sears (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) South Asian art and architecture; Colonial historiography; Landscape studies; Environmental approaches to art history; Transregional studies |
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Laura Weigert (PhD, Northwestern) Northern Renaissance Art |
Asian Languages and Cultures
Jessey Choo (PhD, Princeton) Medieval Chinese culture and religion, history of medicine and the body, women and gender. |
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Wendy Swartz (PhD, California at Los Angeles) Medieval Chinese poetry and literary criticism and theory between the 3rd to 10th centuries. |
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Haruko Wakabayashi (PhD, Princeton) Medieval Japanese culture and religion, use of visual materials in historical studies, medieval perceptions of disasters. |
Classics
T. Corey Brennan (PhD, Harvard) Roman political history, social history of classical antiquity. |
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Serena Connolly (PhD, Yale) Roman history, especially late Roman social, political, and legal history; non-elite Latin literature. |
English Literature
Stacy Klein (PhD, Ohio State) Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, gender and feminist theory, Old and Middle English hagiography, queenship, literary representations of women and their relationship to social practice. |
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Sarah Novacich (PhD, Yale) Medieval literature, especially drama and poetry; religion; gender; archival theory. |
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Larry Scanlon (PhD, Johns Hopkins) Medieval literature, gender and sexuality, multiculturalism, cultural theory, pedagogy and composition theory. |
French
Francois Cornilliat (Doctorat d'Etat, Paris III) Sixteenth century literature, poetics and rhetoric. |
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Ana Pairet-Vinas (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) Fourteenth and fifteenth century narrative and lyric; history of the French, Occitan, and Catalan languages; poetics of metamorphosis in medieval culture. |
History
Leah DeVun (PhD, Columbia) History of science and history of gender, sex, and sexuality in medieval and early modern Europe, and the legacy of this history in the modern world. |
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Anthony DiBattista (PhD, Rutgers) Development of urban cultures in Italian cities during the Middle Ages. |
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Samantha Kelly (PhD, Northwestern) Medieval and Renaissance Italy, late medieval and early modern political and intellectual history. |
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James P. Masschaele (PhD, Toronto) Social and economic history, medieval England, commerce, peasant culture. |
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Mayte Green-Mercado (Rutgers Newark) Islamic Civilization, Islamic history in Spain and North Africa, and early modern Mediterranean history. |
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Stephen W. Reinert (PhD, California at Los Angeles) Comparative medieval history, fourteenth & fifteenth centuries, focusing on Byzantium, Burgundy, & the early Ottoman empire. |
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Nükhet Varlik (PhD, University of Chicago) Ottoman Empire, early modern Mediterranean, history of medicine (Rutgers-Newark) |
Italian
David R. Marsh (PhD, Harvard) Classical tradition in Italian humanism from Petrarch to Vico, with special emphasis on dialogue and fable. |
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Alessandro Vettori (Dott. in Lettere, Florence; PhD, Yale) Thirteenth-century Italian literature, especially Dante & Franciscan authors. |
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Laura S. White (PhD, U. California at Los Angeles) Italian Renaissance theater, epic, early medieval literature. |
Jewish Studies
Paola Tartakoff (PhD, Columbia) Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula, medieval heresy and inquisitions. |
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Gary A. Rendsburg (PhD, M.A. New York University) The literature of the Bible; The history of ancient Israel; The historical development of the Hebrew language; The relationship between ancient Egypt and ancient Israel; Dead Sea Scrolls; Post-Biblical Judaism; Medieval Hebrew manuscripts |
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Azzan Yadin-Israel (PhD, University of California Berkeley) Rabbinic legal hermeneutics; origins of midrash; biblical interpretation. |
Librarians
James Niessen |
Philosophy
Brian Leftow (PhD, Yale) Medieval Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion |
Political Science
Peter Dennis Bathory (PhD, Harvard) Medieval political theory, leadership and statecraft, Augustine. |
Religion
Tia Kolbaba (PhD, Toronto) Early Christianity, medieval orthodoxy, Byzantine perceptions of western medieval religion and culture. |
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Emma J. Wasserman (PhD, Yale) New Testament, religions of the Greco-Roman world, Second Temple Judaism |
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Diane Shane Fruchtman (PhD, Indiana University) History of Christianity, Medieval Christianity |
Spanish & Portuguese
Dámaris Otero-Torres (PhD, University of California, San Diego) Golden Age women writers |