Current Students
Georgina Blackwell Interests: formation of music within the liturgy, development of musical notation in manuscripts.
Spencer Goldrich Interests: Middle English Romance and Hagiography, Fabliau, Boccaccio's relationship with Chaucer and Dante, and the intersections of humor, posthumanism, and disability in high and late Medieval Literature
A.C. Hicks Interests: political, religious and intellectual history of the early medieval period, as well as cross-cultural exchange between Christian and Muslim communities in Sicily and the Eastern Mediterranean during the High Middle Ages
Jacob W. LeMaster Interests: materiality and history, hagiography and the cult of saints, translatio imperii et studii and historical turns, reception of the relics of St. George north of the Alps, reappropriation of imperial aesthetics by political actors, later Carolingian historical, monastic, liturgical, architectural, and religious practices near Lake Constance.
Joshua Leonard Interests: political, religious, and intellectual history of the high and late Middle Ages, particularly how heresy developed and was redefined under Pope John XXII, and especially how the Church responded to lay spiritual movements in Western Europe.
Brian Vasquez Interests: the religious, intellectual, and cultural exchanges between Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Medieval Spain, known as Al-Andalus
