Medieval Studies Faculty

Michelle Armstrong-Partida

Department of History

RESARCH INTERESTS: Medieval Europe and the premodern Mediterranean, social history, Gender, Sexuality & Women's history, violence, Christian-Muslim-Jewish relations

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C. Jean Campbell 

Art History Department

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Vernacular poetics and the visual arts in late medieval and Renaissance Italy, imitati ve practice and the knowledge cultures of the early Renaissance, portraiture and biographical fiction

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Vincent Cornell

Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies (MESAS) Department

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Islamic thought, doctrinal and Social history of Sufism, political philosophy

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Rkia Cornell

Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies (MESAS) Department 

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Qur'anic exegesis, women in Islam, translation work and language pedagogy

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María M. Carrión

Department of Comparative Literature

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Early modern studies, Andalusi cultures, architecture and mysticism, theater and the law, early modern science, Caribbean literature and culture, performance theory

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Kevin Corrigan

Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies (MESAS) Department

RESAERCH INTERESTS: Classics, Philosophy, Religion, Patristics, Literature, Theory

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Judith Evans Grubbs

History Department

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Roman imperial history, Late antiquity, Roman slavery, Roman law, women and the family in antiquity, relationship between Rome and the provinces

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Barbara Lawatsch-Melton

Department of Classics

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Classical reception in late antiquity, early modern Europe, and British North America

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Roxani Margariti

Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies (MESAS) Department

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Middle Eastern social and economic history, maritime history and archaeology, material culture, urban studies

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James Morey

English Department

RESARCH INTERESTS: The medieval vernacular Bible; popular medieval religious literature; Latin Biblical commentaries; Dante

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Craig Perry

Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies (MESAS) Department/Tam Institute for Jewish Studies

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Middle Eastern social history, Jewish history, history of slavery, Jewish-Muslim relations

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Elizabeth Pastan

Art History Department

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Medieval art and architecture, Medieval stained glass, monumental pictorial cycles, issues of text and image, the Cult of Relics, medievalism

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Philip Reynolds

Candler School of Theology

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Western Christian thought A.D. 400-1400; scholasticism; Bonaventure and Aquinas; mystical theology; appropriation of philosophy in medieval theology; marriage in the medieval church; cannon law

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Sharon Strocchia 

History Department

RESEARCH INTERESTS: social and cultural history of Renaissance Italy, gender and sexuality in early modern Europe, health and medicine in the premodern world

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Eric Varner

Art History Department

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Roman portrait sculpture, Imperial iconography, Roman women, monuments and topography of ancient Rome