Students
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Current Ph.D.
Colleen Farrell
Medieval Studies
Dissertation title: "St. Anne and the Metaphor of Motherhood At Chartres in the Early
Thirteenth Century: the Liturgical and Visual Evidence"
Advisor: Paul Freedman
Samantha Katz
Medieval Studies
Dissertation title: "Bearing Pain, Bearing Faith: Childbirth and the Sanctity of the Female
Body in Late Medieval English Literature"
Advisor: Alastair Minnis
Carl Pyrdum
Medieval Studies
Dissertation title: "Before Arthur: Uther’s Generation in the Arthurian of England, France, and Germany"
Advisor: Alastair Minnis
Katherine Hindley
Medieval Studies
Anne Schindel
Medieval Studies
Aaron Vanides
Medieval Studies
Elizabeth Walgenbach
Medieval Studies
Current M. Phil
Elizabeth Anderson
Religious Studies
Shannon Beddingfield
English
Greg Bryda
History of Art
Elizabeth Hebbard
French
Hadi Jorati
Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
James Knabe
English
Christopher Platts
History of Art
Madeleine Saraceni
English
Joseph Stadolnik
English
Eric Weiskott
English
Ph.D Alumni
Juan Camilo Gomez-Rivas
Ph.D.'07 Medieval Studies
Dissertation title: "Muslim Jurists under the Almoravids"
Advisor: Paul Freedman
Ph.D. December 2009
Eric Knibbs
Ph.D.'09 Medieval Studies
Dissertation title: "The Origins of the Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen"
Advisor: Anders Winroth
Ph.D. May 2009
Brian Noell
Ph.D. '06 Medieval Studies
Dissertation title: Applied Science: Technologies of Learning and Cistercian Politics in the Central Middle Ages
Advisor: Margot Fassler
Iris Mueller
Dissertation Title: Konrad of Ammenhausen’s “Chess-Book”: A case of Late Medieval Book Production and Readership
Advisor: Margot Fassler
Ph.d : May 2005
Thomas McKenna
Dissertation title: Delight in the Cross: The Beautiful, the Agreeable, and the Good in St. Bonaventure’s Spiritual Treaties
Advisor: Marilyn McCord Adams
Ph.D. May 2004
Candace Gregory
Dissertation Title: The Geography of Dissent Lollardy, Popular Religion, and Church Reform in Late
Medieval York
Advisor: Roland Greer
Ph.D. December 2003
Howard Miller
Dissertation title: According to Christian Sunna: Mozarabic Notarial Culture Toledo
Advisor: Paul Freedman
Ph.D. December 2003
Laura Williams
Dissertation title: Carolingian Script at Luxeuil in the Ninth Century
Advisor: Paul Freedman
Ph.D. May 2003
Nicola Masciandaro
Dissertation title: The Voice of the Hammer: Work in Medieval English Literature
Ph.D. May 2002
Bobbi Sutherland
Ph.D.'09 Medieval Studies
Advisor: Paul Freedman
Ph.D. May 2009
M.Phil Alumni
Jonathan Cayer
(French)
Irina Dumitrescu
(English)
Advisor: Roberta Frank
E-Ching NG
(Linquistics)
Marc Elder
(Religious Studies)
Valija Evalds
(History of Art)
Denis Ferhatovic
(English)
Advisor: Roberta Frank
Dana Goldblatt
(English)
Dissertation title: Forming “Character” and Building the Polity in Arthurian, Allegorical and Saga Literature
Advisor: Lee Patterson & Roberta Frank
Margaret Hadley
(History of Art)
Nienke Christine Venderbosch
English
Scott Hiley
(French)
Junius Johnson
(Religious Studies)
Andrew Kraebel
English
Shialing Kwa
(Spanish & Portuguese)
Advisor: Maria Rosa Menocal
Dissertation title: Contextualizing "El Conde Lucanor": Betrayal and Fidelity in the Life And Literature of Don Juan Manuel
Laura Miles
English
Kazuyo Murata
(Religious Studies)
Advisor: Gerard Böwering
Christiane Nockels
(History of Medicine & Science)
Dissertation Title: A Survey of Late Medieval Plague Tracts
Advisor: Paul Freedman
Sarah Novacich
English
Erin Tremblay Ponnou-Delaffon
(French0
Jenny Sisk
(English)
Dissertation Title: Hagiography and Religious Controversy: the Literary Uses of Sanctity In Ricardian and Lancastrian England
Advisor: Lee Patterson
Ryan Szpiech
(Spanish)
Dissertation Title: From Testimonia to Testimony: Argument and Authority in the Mostrador de justicia of Abner of Burgos/Alfonso de Valladolid
Advisor: Maria Rosa Menocal
Matthew Vernon
English
Matt Wranovix
(History)
Dissertation Title: Parish Priests and their Books in the Fifteenth-Century Diocese of Eichstaett
Advisor: Paul Freedman
Jordan Zweck
(English)
Dissertation Title: "Letters from Heaven in the British Isles, 800-1500"
Advisor: Roberta Frank
