African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures
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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
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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 |