Medieval Studies Faculty
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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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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Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies (MESAS) Department
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Islamic thought, doctrinal and Social history of Sufism, political philosophy
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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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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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Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies (MESAS) Department
RESAERCH INTERESTS: Classics, Philosophy, Religion, Patristics, Literature, Theory
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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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Department of Classics
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Classical reception in late antiquity, early modern Europe, and British North America
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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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English Department
RESARCH INTERESTS: The medieval vernacular Bible; popular medieval religious literature; Latin Biblical commentaries; Dante
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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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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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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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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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Art History Department
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Roman portrait sculpture, Imperial iconography, Roman women, monuments and topography of ancient Rome