Faculty

African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures (AMESALL)

Charles Häberl (Phd, Harvard University)
Middle Eastern languages and literatures (including Arabic and Aramaic), folklore, and minorities in the Middle East; palaeography, epigraphy, the history of religions; and documentary linguistics

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Art History

Erik Thunø (PhD, Johns Hopkins) 
The "image" in medieval art; late medieval painting and mosaics.		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tamara Sears (PhD, University of Pennsylvania)
South Asian art and architecture; Colonial historiography; Landscape studies; Environmental approaches to art history; Transregional studies		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Laura Weigert (PhD, Northwestern) 
Northern Renaissance Art		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Asian Languages and Cultures

Jessey Choo (PhD, Princeton)
Medieval Chinese culture and religion, history of medicine and the body, women and gender.		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Wendy Swartz (PhD, California at Los Angeles)
Medieval Chinese poetry and literary criticism and theory between the 3rd to 10th centuries.		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Haruko Wakabayashi (PhD, Princeton)
Medieval Japanese culture and religion, use of visual materials in historical studies, medieval perceptions of disasters.		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Classics

T. Corey Brennan (PhD, Harvard)
Roman political history, social history of classical antiquity.		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Serena Connolly (PhD, Yale)
Roman history, especially late Roman social, political, and legal history; non-elite Latin literature.		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

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.		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Sarah Novacich (PhD, Yale)
Medieval literature, especially drama and poetry; religion; gender; archival theory.		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Larry Scanlon (PhD, Johns Hopkins)
Medieval literature, gender and sexuality, multiculturalism, cultural theory, pedagogy and composition theory.		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

French

Francois Cornilliat (Doctorat d'Etat, Paris III)
Sixteenth century literature, poetics and rhetoric.		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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.		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

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.		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Anthony DiBattista (PhD, Rutgers)
Development of urban cultures in Italian cities during the Middle Ages. 		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Samantha Kelly (PhD, Northwestern)
Medieval and Renaissance Italy, late medieval and early modern political and intellectual history.		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
James P. Masschaele (PhD, Toronto)
Social and economic history, medieval England, commerce, peasant culture.		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Mayte Green-Mercado (Rutgers Newark)
Islamic Civilization, Islamic history in Spain and North Africa, and early modern Mediterranean history.		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Stephen W. Reinert (PhD, California at Los Angeles)
Comparative medieval history, fourteenth & fifteenth centuries, focusing on Byzantium, Burgundy, & the early Ottoman empire.		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Nükhet Varlik (PhD, University of Chicago)
Ottoman Empire, early modern Mediterranean, history of medicine (Rutgers-Newark)		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Italian

David R. Marsh (PhD, Harvard)
Classical tradition in Italian humanism from Petrarch to Vico, with special emphasis on dialogue and fable.		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Alessandro Vettori (Dott. in Lettere, Florence; PhD, Yale)
Thirteenth-century Italian literature, especially Dante & Franciscan authors.		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Laura S. White (PhD, U. California at Los Angeles)
Italian Renaissance theater, epic, early medieval literature.		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Jewish Studies

Paola Tartakoff (PhD, Columbia)
Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula, medieval heresy and inquisitions.		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Azzan Yadin-Israel (PhD, University of California Berkeley)
Rabbinic legal hermeneutics; origins of midrash; biblical interpretation.		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Librarians

James Niessen
World History Librarian (Alexander Library)

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Philosophy

Brian Leftow (PhD, Yale)
Medieval Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Political Science

Peter Dennis Bathory (PhD, Harvard)
Medieval political theory, leadership and statecraft, Augustine.		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Religion

Tia Kolbaba (PhD, Toronto)
Early Christianity, medieval orthodoxy, Byzantine perceptions of western medieval religion and culture.		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Emma J. Wasserman (PhD, Yale)
New Testament, religions of the Greco-Roman world, Second Temple Judaism		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Diane Shane Fruchtman (PhD, Indiana University)
History of Christianity, Medieval Christianity		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Spanish & Portuguese

Dámaris Otero-Torres (PhD, University of California, San Diego)
Golden Age women writers		 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.