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Medieval History
The graduate program in medieval history is committed to providing a rigorous and broad training in a cooperative atmosphere. The faculty, many of whom adopt an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of the middle ages, works closely with students to foster a supportive learning environment. We also encourage students to apply for external fellowships (with considerable success), to give scholarly conference papers, and to publish some of their research before completing their degree. Most students by their second or third year of PhD work (after taking a pedagogy seminar) are able to assume sole responsibility for teaching one of the introductory history courses in European or medieval history. MA graduates at Fordham have gone on to a variety of careers, including high-school teaching, law school, business school, and newspaper journalism.
Faculty
Richard Gyug: medieval liturgy, religion and society, codicology, Spain and Italy
Maryanne Kowaleski: medieval women, family, towns, maritime history, Britain
Anne Mannion: medieval monasticism and institutional history
Wolfgang Mueller: medieval law, institutions, and the church, Germany and Italy
Nicolas Paul: medieval nobility, historiography and memory, Crusades, Angevin Empire and medieval France.
The Center for Medieval Studies
The Center for Medieval Studies includes 30 faculty in its eight participating departments. The Center aims to foster a lively intellectual and social community of medievalists at Fordham by sponsoring a lecture series, annual conference, newsletter, bibliographical and pedagogical websites, and regular social gatherings. The Center’s specific programs for graduate students include team-taught interdisciplinary graduate courses, workshops on professionalization and pedagogy, medieval language reading groups, two annual essay prizes, and a graduate student directory, among other activities.
Graduate Students
Fordham has one of the largest and most active communities of medieval graduate students in the country. There are about fifteen to twenty students enrolled in MA or PhD programs in medieval history at Fordham, as well as over fifty other medievalists in MA and PhD programs in Classics, English, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, and Theology. All are encouraged to take full advantage of the resources available to medievalists in New York City, including the NYC Medieval Studies Doctoral Consortium.
After taking a seminar in pedagogy, graduate students are able to gain considerable teaching experience by taking complete responsibility for teaching one of the History “core” courses, such as The West from the Enlightenment to the Present and Introduction to Medieval History. Students are also encouraged to give papers at scholarly conferences and to publish their research in scholarly venues. Many have also been successful in winning prestigious awards such as Fulbright Scholarships, Mellon Foundation grants, dissertation fellowships from the Medieval Academy and National Conference of British Studies, travel grants from the American Historical Society, the Bibliographical Society of America and the Medieval Academy, and fellowships taking them to the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, the Folger Library, the Huntingdon Library, and the Vatican Film Library in St Louis, among others.
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