Medieval: Faculty
Rachel Fulton Ph.D. Columbia University, 1994. Associate Professor of Medieval History. History of Christianity; medieval European cultural, religious and intellectual history; liturgy and prayer; devotion to the Virgin Mary and Christ; scriptural exegesis and hermeneutics; warfare; travel and intercultural contact; history of emotion.
Richard Hellie Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1965. Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Russian History Russian history; Muscovite social, economic, and legal history.
Walter Kaegi
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1965. Professor of Byzantine History, Committee
on the Ancient Mediterranean World; voting member, Oriental Institute.
Byzantine and late Roman political, social, military and religious structure;
historiography; European military history and strategy; Byzantino-Islamic
history.
Jonathan Lyon PhD., University of Notre Dame, 2005. Assistant Professor Medieval History and the College. Medieval European Political and Social History; History of the Family; the European Nobility; Medieval Germany and the Holy Roman Empire.
David Nirenberg Ph.D. Princeton University, 1992. Professor of Medieval History and Social Thought. Christians, Jews, and Muslims in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean; Medieval ideas about communication, exchange, and social relations.
Noel Swerdlow Ph.D. Yale University, 1968. Professor of History and of Astronomy and Astrophysics. History of the exact sciences, particularly astronomy, from antiquity through the seventeenth century.
John Woods Ph.D. Princeton University, 1974. Professor of Iranian and Central Asian History, and of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. State formation and economic history in the pre-modern Islamic Middle East and Central Asia.
History faculty teaching in Early Modern European and Middle Eastern and Islamic history often incorporate medieval materials into their courses. Constantin Fasolt regularly offers seminars in medieval and early modern political thought, and Cornell Fleischer teaches courses in the medieval and early modern history of the Ottoman empire.
Affiliated Faculty
European Studies
Michael Allen (Classical Languages and Literatures) Frechulf of Lisieux; medieval Latin historiography and poetry; Latin literature of the Middle Ages; Latin paleography.
David Bevington (English Language and Literature) Early English, Stuart, and Tudor drama, esp. Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson; ancient Greek literature and drama; opera and literature.
Paolo Cherchi (Romance Languages and Literatures) Medieval; late Italian Renaissance; Baroque Italian literature; Old Provençal and medieval Latin; Spanish medieval and eighteenth-century literature; fiction writing.
Frederick de Armas (Romance Languages and Literatures) Golden Age literature; myth and theater; Cervantes and Italian Renaissance art; the Hermetic tradition; the art of memory and the "occult" sciences in the Renaissance.
Peter Dembowski (Romance Languages and Literatures) Medieval French and Provençal literature; textual criticism; historical Romance linguistics.
R.H. Helmholz (Law School) Law of property; natural resources law; legal history, particularly the relevance of Roman and canon laws to the development of the common law.
Samuel Jaffee (Germanic Studies) Humanism, rhetoric, and philology in the development from premodernity, through modernity, to postmodernity.
Robert Kendrick (Music) Music of early modern Europe and its intersections with religion, politics, gender, urban culture, and fine arts.
Armando Maggi (Romance Languages and Literatures) Early modern Italian literature; literature of mysticism; twentieth-century Portuguese literature; gender studies.
Bernard McGinn (Divinity School) History of Christianity; history of Christian thought, primarily in the medieval period; apocalyptic thought; spirituality and mysticism.
J. Mark Miller (English Language and Literature) Middle English literature; sex, sexuality, and gender in the Middle Ages; critical theory; ethical theory.
Michael Murrin (English Language and Literature, and Comparative Literature) Renaissance poetry; romance and epic; history of criticism.
John Padgett (Political Science) American politics; organizational theory; mathematical models; and public policy; "Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434".
Lucy Pick (Divinity School) Medieval religious thought and praxis; Christian, Jewish, and Muslim relations; gender, politics, and religion in medieval Spain.
Don Michael Randel (Music) Mozarabic chant; 15th-century chansons; Arabic music theory; Panamanian folk music.
Anne Walters Robertson (Music) French medieval liturgical music, ceremony, and architecture; Guillaume de Machaut and the Ars Nova; music and mysticism; 20th-century French music.
Jay Schleusener (English Language and Literature) Middle English literature; ideas of ethics and conduct in early English poetry, esp. in the Canterbury Tales; critical theory.
Linda Seidel (Art History) Medieval art and art historical methodology; current interests center on the relation between art and society in Europe in the later Middle Ages, in the art of the West, and on the theoretical assumptions behind art historical practices.
Joel Snyder (Art History, and Jewish Studies) History of photography; theory of photography and film; history and theory of perspective, medieval and Renaissance theory of vision; critical theory, aesthetics and the theory of representation.
Christina von Nolcken (English Language and Literature) Old and Middle English language and literature; editing Middle English Texts from manuscript; English devotional prose (1350-1450).
Elissa Weaver (Romance Languages and Literatures) Italian Renaissance literature and literary theory; women's literature and culture in the early modern period, especially convent theater; textual criticism, rhetoric, and prosody.
Jewish Studies
Michael Fishbane (Divinity School) Ancient Near East and biblical studies; rabbinics; the history of Jewish interpretation, Jewish mysticism, and modern Jewish thought.
Norman Golb (Oriental Institute, and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures) History of the Jews; Judaeo-Arabic studies; Hebrew manuscript study (particularly Dead Sea Scrolls and Cairo Genizah MSS).
Joel Kraemer (Divinity School) Cultural transmission of the intellectual heritage of Greek antiquity to the worlds of Islamicate civilization; Maimonides' life and works in their Islamic context; Jewish women in the world of Islam.
Ralph Lerner (Olin Center, and Committee on Social Thought) Medieval political philosophy, Moses Maimonides, Averroes; modern political philosophy.
Josef Stern (Philosophy) Moses Maimonides; epistemology and metaphysics (such as skepticism and free will); Islamic and Latin medieval philosophy; philosophy of religion, logic, and philosophy of art.
Byzantine, Eastern European, and Russian Studies
Campbell Grey (Classical Languages and Literatures, and History)
David Martinez (Classical Languages and Literatures) Greek papyrology and paleography; Greek language; Hellenistic authors; early Christian literature.
Norman Ingham (Slavic Languages and Literatures) Medieval Russian and Slavic literature and culture.
Margaret Mitchell (Divinity School, and New Testament and Early Christian Literature) Pauline letters and the history of Pauline interpretation in the early church; the history of New Testament lexicography and its influence on exegesis; ancient epistolography and rhetoric.
Robert Nelson (Art History) Art of the during the Middle Ages, especially that of Byzantine Empire; history and theory of art history.
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Muzaffar Alam (South Asian Languages and Civilizations) Urdu and Indian Persian literature; history of late medieval and early modern northern India.
Robert Dankoff (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) Ottoman Literature, Turcology.
Fred Donner (Oriental Institute, and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) Origins of Islam; tribal and nomadic society; early Islamic history; Arabic-Islamic historiography; Islamic law.
Wadad Kadi (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) Islamic political thought; Islamic theology and heresiography; Qur'an and Arabic literature; Islamic civilization in the 4th/10th Century; biographical literature; Arabic manuscripts and papyri.
Heshmat Moayyad (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) Classical Persian literature; modern Persian literature; medieval Persian mystics; 19th-20th century Persian culture.
Donald Whitcomb (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) Islamic archaeology; urbanism and urbanization; interregional trade, Egypt, Iran, Syria and Jordan.