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	Graduate Studies Masters Degree · MA Theses·Doctoral Certificate · Doctoral Dissertations · Doctoral Consortium · Financial Aid · Graduate Essay Prize · Graduate Student Assn · Workshops Known for its excellence in diverse fields of medieval research, Fordham University offers the master of arts degree in medieval studies and a doctoral-level medieval concentration. Fordham's intimate size and tradition of devotion to teaching offers students an intellectual climate in which faculty members, well-known and active in the scholarly community, encourage and support students in their academic pursuits. The University offers graduate assistantships and fellowships to a limited number of students. The program is administered through its Director and through the Center for Medieval Studies, located at the Rose Hill campus. The Center houses a small library and discussion area available to students. The main University library is especially strong in its medieval holdings. Fordham's location in New York City affords easy access to other major libraries (such as the Pierpont Morgan and the New York Public Library), museums (for example, The Cloisters and the Metropolitan Museum of Art), and other institutions of higher learning. A University-operated campus shuttle makes regular trips between the Lincoln Center and Rose Hill campuses throughout the day and evening. The Center supports the exchange of views and information through its annual conferences and speakers series. Fordham faculty are also invited to address colleagues and students informally, and graduate students have also presented lectures. Selected Areas in Medieval Studies Medieval English, Latin, German and Romance Languages Medieval Ecclesiastical and Intellectual History Medieval Mysticism Patristic Studies Medieval Art History Medieval Scholarly Editing, Manuscript Studies and Paleography Women in Medieval History, Art, and Literature Spanish, Italian, French, and English Medieval History Monasticism and Scholasticism The Master of Arts Degree in Medieval Studies The master's degree appeals to those interested in a broader spectrum of medieval subjects than is available within a specific discipline. Its 30-credit requirement allows the serious student to complete course work in one year of full-time study. Requirements for admission to the MA program are those of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: a bachelor's degree from an accredited American or foreign university; the Graduate Record Examination (General Aptitude Test); and, for foreign students, an English proficiency examination such as TOEFL. The curriculum for the master of arts degree comprises courses designed especially for the program, as well as a wide variety of offerings in the graduate wings of participating departments. The special program courses are typically interdisciplinary, bringing together two or more subjects or approaches in order to present to students the integrated approach of medieval studies. Students are required to take two of these courses (those with a MVST prefix), one medieval history course, and two courses in each of two additional disciplines or thematic fields (such as art and music history, Latin and Romance literatures, English literature, history, manuscript studies, philosophy, theology, and women and gender). Two medieval courses can be taken as electives. Latin and a second foreign language are strongly recommended. Upon completion of course work, master's candidates may choose to take a comprehensive examination or write a thesis. Those electing to pass the examination must have given evidence in a graduate-level course of their ability to write a developed paper. Recent Masters' Theses in Medieval Studies A Troubadour As Historian: Philip of Novara and the Reframing of the Pullani in the Thriteenth Century Romance World By Christopher Rose (2012) Mentor: Nicholas Paul Reader: Thomas O'Donnell "Contre Nature": The Rhetorical Uses of Queerness in the Works of Christine de Pizan By Allen Strouse (2012) Mentor: Susan Dudash Reader: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne *Producing and Perceiving Piety: The Senses and Performance in Clemence of Barking's The Life of Saint Catherine* and Related Texts By Sarah Townsend (2012) Mentor: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne Reader: Thomas O'Donnell "To do the to be wyten as well in Englande": Robert Wyer and the Anglicization of Christine de Pizan's Epistle of Othea By Caitlin Barr (2012) Mentor: Erick Kelemen Reader: Susan Dudash "Sey this": Unpublished Latin Charms in Plimpton Add. MS 02 By Marjorie Harrington (2011) Mentor: Susanne Hafner Reader: Patrick Hornbeck Lay and Ecclesiastical Powers and the Literature of the Court of Matilda, Countess of Tuscany: John of Mantua's Commentary on the Song of Songs By William Little (2011) Mentor: Nicholas Paul Reader: Richard Gyug The Economy of Devotion: The Parish of Tilney, All Saints, Norfolk By Alexandra Christine Plante (2011) Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski Reader: Mary Erler Epistolae duorum amantium: A Reconsideration of the Purpose of Writing** By Hannah Behrens (2011) Mentor: Richard Gyug Reader: Wolfgang Mueller Paul Albar’s Apocalyptic Theology in the Indiculus Luminosus By Margaret Gurewitz (2010) Mentor: Richard Gyug Reader: George Demacopoulos Ambiguous Locations: Displacement, Multilocationality and Eschatology in Victricius’ De laude sanctorum By Nicholas Laccetti (2010) Mentor: Richard Gyug Reader: Franklin Harkins In Chase of Virtue: Morgan Library M.1044 and the Redemption of Aristocratic Hunting By Kathryn Treadway (2010) Mentor: Susanne Hafner Reader: Nina Rowe Dispute Processing in Béroul's Tristran and Yseut By Paul Poppleton (2010) Mentor: Wolfgang Mueller Reader: Richard Gyug *Further Thoughts on a Roll Manuscript of the Fifteen Oes* of St. Bridget: A Critical Treatment of Plimpton Addition MS 04 By Peter Matthew-Sorensen Slonina, I (2009) Mentor: Susanne Hafner Reader: Richard Gyug London Arms and Armor-Makers in the Fourteenth Century: A Portrait of a Medieval Industrial Sector By Richard P. Hresko (2009) Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski Reader: Nicholas Paul Corruption as a Social, Political, and Religious Concept in the Later Roman Legal Codes By Kevin Mallon (2009) Mentor: Nicholas Paul Reader: Richard Gyug This Hero Has Been Edited for Content: Alterations to the Agency of the Anglo-Saxon Judas By Adele Metrakos-Ramadanis (2009) Mentor: Martin Chase, S.J. Reader: Suzanne Yeager The Importation of Books into London, 1450-1540 By Yvonne Rode (2009) Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski Reader: Mary C. Erler Wealth and Status in Pre-Plague London: A Prosopography of the 1319 Lay Subsidy Taxpayers** By Anna M. Moscatiello (2009) Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski Reader: Nicholas Paul Perspectives on Revenancy in the Twelfth Century: Tales of the Living Dead in William of Newburgh's Historia Rerum Anglicarium and Walter Map's De Nugis Curialium By Christine James (2008) Mentor: Richard Gyug Reader: Nicholas Paul *The Virtue of Good Taste: A Translation of Antonio Roselli's De Ornatu Mulierum* with Historical and Historiographical Commentary By M. Christina Bruno (2008) Mentor: Wolfgang Mueller Reader: Richard Gyug Christian Chic and Roman Refinement: The Fourth Century Romano-British Villa Mosaics at Hinton St. Mary** By Lauren Teresa (2008) Mentor: Kim Bowes Reader: Maryanne Kowaleski "Because it contains nothing but the truth": Issues of Truth and Authenticity in The Travels of Marco Polo and The Travels of John Mandeville By Rachel Liptak (2007) Mentor: Suzanne Yeager Reader: Richard Gyug A Call for Paving: Pavage Grants and the Development of Street Paving in Medieval England By Edward Harvey (2007) Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski Reader: Richard Gyug The Good, the Bad and the Oral: A Re-reading of the Glosses of Caedmon's Hymn By James Manning (2007) Mentor: Martin Chase, S.J. Reader: Mary Ramsey *Entering a Community of Consumption: Christian Identity and the Perception of “Jewishness” in the Cloisters Crucifixion Group* Altarpiece** By Sarah Celentano (2007) Mentor: Nina Rowe Reader: Richard Gyug An Apology for the Plimpton MS 284, Fragments of the Roman de la Rose By Julie Fifelski (2007) Mentor: Nina Rowe Reader: Richard Gyug "That They May Return to Their Former Works.” Reform of the Catholic Church Through the Renewal of Traditional Catholic Practices According to Blessed Pierre Favre, S.J. (1506-1546) By J. Patrick Hough, S.J. (2006) Mentor: Richard Gyug Reader: Mark Lewis, S.J. Bishops Kings and Kin: Canon Law in Gregory of Tours’ History By Jessie Spressart (2006) Mentor: Wolfgang Mueller Reader: Richard Gyug Aquinas and Bonaventure: Two Medieval Theories of Divine Simplicity By John Peter Spear (2006) Mentor: Christopher Cullen, S.J. Reader: Joseph Koterski, S.J. The Unity of Augustine’s Search for True Happiness in The Confessions By Kevin Lynam (2006) Mentor: Christopher Cullen, S.J. Reader: Joseph Koterski, S.J. Bastards or Princes? Hidden Illegitimacy in the Portraits of Anthony of Burgundy and Francisco d’Este By Carolyn Salter (2006) Mentor: Richard Gyug Reader: Libby Parker The Reputation of Joanna I of Naples By Ann Aisha Qureshi (2006) Mentor: Daniel Smail Reader: Richard Gyug The Tangibility of Talk: Witness Testimony in the Canonization Proceeding of Peter of Luxembourg By Kristin Uscinski (2006) Mentor: Daniel Smail Reader: Richard Gyug Bringing Home the Passion of Christ: Eleventh-Century French Copies of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre By Kristin Canzano (2005) Mentor: Kim Bowes Reader: Nina Rowe The Early Christian Sarcophagus: Christian Storytelling on a Pagan Stage By Heather Burns (2005) Mentor: Kim Bowes Reader: Nina Rowe Reading a Saint: The Case of St. Juliana of the Katherine Group By Dawn Ritchotte (2005) Mentor: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne Reader: Katherine Little The Word Incarnate and the Textual Authority of Women By Morgan Franck (2005) Mentor: Mary Erler Reader: Marilyn Oliva The Late Medieval German Pieta in Context By Mary Halbach (2004) Mentor: Elizabeth Parker Reader: Nina Rowe Sudden and Un-Glorified: Late Medieval Manuscript Evidence of the Obsession with Death By Jordan Rosana (2004) Mentor: Richard Gyug Reader: Wolfgang Mueller Prelate, Lady, Jew: Two Letters Connecting Three Groups in Thirteenth-Century England By Andrea Allison Lankin (2003) Mentor: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne Reader: Joseph Pearson John of Gaunt's Urban Affinity in Fourteenth-Century Norfolk By Louisa P. Wilson Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski Reader: Marilyn Oliva History and Romance in Paris, Biblioteque Nationale, f. fr. 1450 By Denise Lynn Griggs Mentor: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne Reader: Thelma Fenster Sex, Status, and Society: Gendered Morality in the Fifteenth-Century Diocese of Salisbury By Katharine Brown (2003) Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski Reader: Marilyn Oliva The Crib of Their Lord: Beguines, Mendicants, and Devotion in Fifteenth-Century Flanders By Maureen E. Horgan (2002) Mentor: Elizabeth Parker Reader: Martin Chase, S.J. Peace, War, and Murder: Pre- to Post-Conquest Literary Women and Violence By Kimberly Benard (2002) Mentor: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne Reader: Martin Chase, S.J. The Influence of and Legacy of the Spiritual Martyrdom of St. Columba of Iona By Jennifer Scully (2002) Mentor: Richard Gyug Reader: Joseph Lienhard, S.J. Foundress, Lover and Widow: Representations of Dido from Antiquity through the Middle Ages By Abigail J. Weinberg (2002) Mentor: Thelma Fenster Reader: John R. Clark Saints and the Social Order: An Examination of Alexander Barclay's 'Life of St. George' By Melissa Gallup (2001) Mentor: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne Reader: Mary Erler Emendations and Analyses of Oresme, Thabit, and Sacrobosco in Beinecke MS. 335 By Kristina Bohl (2001) Mentor: H. Wayne Storey Reader: Dominic Balestra Pierpont Morgan Library MS M4 and Magdalene College, Cambridge MS Pepys 2011: The Scribe in Fifteenth-Century Vernacular Manuscript Production By Joanne Filippone (2001) Mentor: Mary Erler Reader: Elizabeth Parker Reflections of Architecture and Religion in the Late Fourteenth Century Poem Patience By Theresa O. Fleming (2001) Mentor: Mary Erler Reader: Maryanne Kowaleski Love Bound by Doctrine: Andreas Capellanus and the Codification of Romance By Annika Farber (2001) Mentor: John Clark Reader: Thelma Fenster Reflections of Cultural Attitudes in Didactic Techniques: The Stratification of Glosses in Beinecke MS. 332 By Janine Larmon Peterson (2001) Mentor: H. Wayne Storey Reader: M. Michele Mulchahy *Heaven, Earth, and the Terra Sancti Benedicti: Miracles in the Dialogi de Miraculis Sancti Benedicti* by Desiderius of Montecassino By Julian Hendrix (2001) Mentor: Richard Gyug Reader: Wolfgang Mueller Labourers Asserting Themselves: Labour Mobility in Post-Black Death Lincolnshire** By Daniel Bornstein (2000) Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski Reader: Daniel Smail Conversio Militum: Knightly Piety in the Life and Letters of St. Bernard By Jason Teves (2000) Mentor: Richard Gyug Reader: Anne Mannion Pierpont Morgan Library MS. 487: A Multi-Generational Family Book of Hours By Christine Clark (2000) Mentor: H. Wayne Storey Reader: Elizabeth Clarke A Liturgical Crib and Women's Spirituality in Fifteenth-Century Louvain By Kimberly Samuels (2000) Mentor: Elizabeth Parker Reader: Maryanne Kowaleski Jousts of War: Chivalric Ritual on the Battlefield By Rebecca Slitt (2000) Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski Reader: Dan Smail Language Studies in the Curricular Reform of Roger Bacon By George Pehrson (1999) Mentor: Louis Pascoe, S.J. Reader: Richard Gyug Wonders of the East: A Translation of Cotton Vitellius A.xv Text with Commentary By Damian Fleming (1999) Mentor: John Kezel Reader: Martin Chase, S.J. Tradition and Innovation: Language and Procedure in the Disputing Activity of Bernard of Clairvaux By Michael Morbach (1999) Mentor: Daniel Smail Reader: John Clark The Audiences of Middle English Romances By Katrin Sjursen (1999) Mentor: Richard Horvath Reader: Thelma Fenster Context and Anthology: The MS Banco Rari 217 and Thirteenth-Century Italian Lyric By Rob Vosburgh (1999) Mentor: H. Wayne Storey Reader: Attilo Motta New York Public Library De Ricci ms. 60: The Production, Provenance and Use of a Late Medieval Book of Hours By Heather A. Wightman (1999) Mentor: H. Wayne Storey Reader: Elizabeth Clarke The Tomb of Ansurez: Its Cluniac Iconography Reconsidered By Michael S. Carlin (1998) Mentor: Joel Herschman Reader: Elizabeth Parker Ramwold's Reform: The Customary of St. Emmeram and the Gorze Movement By Steven A. Schoenig (1998) Mentor: Richard Gyug Reader: Louis B. Pascoe Morgan M. 538 and the Use of the Vernacular in a 16th-Century Book of Hours By Katherine Yeska (1998) Mentor: H. Wayne Storey Reader: John Clark A Gendered Reading of the Medieval Romance: The Masculine Identity in Chretien, Malory, and Gawaine By Ilan Mitchell-Smith (1998) Mentor: Richard Horvath Reader: Jennifer Goodman Punctuation Systems in the Codex Egberti By Andrew Barron Holmgren (1997) Mentor: H. Wayne Storey Reader: John Clark Chaos and Order in Landulph Senior's Historiae Mediolanensis By Suzanne Gillespie (1997) Mentor: Richard Gyug Reader: Daniel Smail The Manuscript Culture of Bodley 130 By Sarah Hull (1997) Mentor: H. Wayne Storey Reader: John Clark Categories of Description in the Liber Sancti Jacobi By Suzanne J. Clune (1997) Mentor: Daniel Smail Reader: H. Wayne Storey The St. Martial Trope Repertory: Sources in Historical Context By Laura Morreale (1996) Mentor: Richard Gyug Reader: H. Wayne Storey The Tin Industry of Early Fourteenth-Century Cornwall: Miners, Merchants, and Entrepreneurs By Brian Klinzing (1996) Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski Reader: Danial Smail The Dyestuffs Trade of Fifteenth-Century Southampton By Claire E. Suplee (1995) Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski Reader: John Clark Stavelot Triptych: A Medieval Art Object in its Liturgical and Spiritual Contexts By Lawrence P. Milliken (1995) Mentor: Elizabeth Clarke Reader: Ewert Cousins Margery Kempe's Familial Suffering: Earthly and Spiritual By Claudine Gandolfi (1995) Mentor: Mary C. Erler Reader: John Clark Empress Matilda: A Case Study in Female Rulership in the Twelfth Century By Laura L. Gathagan (1994) Mentor: Vincent J. Gorman Reader: H. Wayne Storey Gender, Marriage and Ale Brewing in Small Town and Village Communities in the East Midlands 1287-1312 By Kevin Larkin (1994) Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski *The Ethic of Intention of Abelard's Ethica* and Its Influence on Concepts of Pure Love in his Romance with Heloise By Dave Burokas (1994) Mentor: Deal Hudson St. Augustine and the Angels By Louis DiGiorno (1994) Mentor: Deal Hudon O Flore Aulorita: A Study of the Narrative Sequence of the Last Days of the Virgin in Duccio's Maesta By Pamela Shoemaker (1993) Mentor: Joel Herschman Reader: Ewert Cousins Grosseteste and the Grisaille of Lincoln Cathedral By Holly Hager-Gilbert (1993) Mentor: Ewert Cousins Following in the Footsteps of Christ: Humility and Grace in Dante and Giotto By Susan Harper (1993) Mentor: Ewert Cousins Western Art and the Icon: Abstraction, Naturalism, and Symbolism By Malgorzata Urbanek (1992) Mentor: Ewert Cousins The Doctoral Certificate in Medieval Studies Medieval Studies is an interdisciplinary program that offers students the opportunity to broaden their knowledge of the Middle Ages and to integrate in a coherent whole various facets of medieval civilization. While stressing the importance of obtaining a thorough grounding in one of the medieval disciplines, the program also encourages students to pursue additional studies in medieval subjects outside the major field. Students who have already been accepted to a doctoral program in one of the participating doctoral departments at Fordham (Classics, English, History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Theology) are eligible to apply to the Director of the Center for Medieval Studies for admission to the Medieval Studies doctoral concentration. Upon acceptance, the candidate must complete the following requirements: Four graduate-level courses** selected from among the medieval course offerings of the Medieval Studies program and the Center’s participating departments. The courses should be chosen to create two minor fields (two courses in each field), both of which must be outside the student's own doctoral department. A minor field may be disciplinary (for example, two courses offered by one department) or thematic (for example, Manuscript Studies, Medieval Art, Medieval Italian Literature, Medieval Liturgy, Medieval Mysticism and Spirituality, Medieval Women, Monasticism, Old French, Scholastic Thought, etc.). Students who have completed an MA in Medieval Studies at Fordham may count two of their MA courses towards the doctoral concentration. A course in Latin Paleography. A reading knowledge of Latin (or Greek where appropriate). A reading knowledge of two vernacular languages (other than English). Upon completion of all course and language requirements, the student must pass comprehensive exams in the two minor fields. The assessment of reading knowledge in a foreign language follows the guidelines set out by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The comprehensive exams in the minor fields generally consist of a three-hour written exam for each field, with questions set and marked by the student's instructors in the minor field courses. In doctoral departments which allow students to choose a minor field outside the department, candidates for the doctoral certificate may opt to take one of the minor fields according to the guidelines of the home department (for example, an oral exam if the student is doing a PhD in History). Minor field exams will normally be graded high pass, pass, or fail. Students who fail one or more of the minor field exams are allowed to retake each exam once, normally within one calendar year of the first attempt. Upon the successful completion of these requirements and a successful defense of a dissertation written under a mentor from the major department, the student will receive the Doctoral Certificate in Medieval Studies at Commencement ceremonies when the PhD is awarded. Recent PhD Dissertations on Medieval Topics 'De novo modo': The Birth of Fashion in the Middle Ages By Laurel A. Wilson (2010) Ph.D. Dissertation - History Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski Penitential Reform and Canon Law in Piers Plowman B and C Texts By Arvind Thomas (2010) Ph.D. Dissertation - English Mentor: Eve Keller The Mystical Daydream: Fictive Being and the Motive of Evil By Kirk G. Kanzelberger (2010) Ph.D. Dissertation - Philosophy Mentor: Joseph Koterski, SJ 'Carving Nature at its Joints': The Platonic Method of Division in Plato, Aristotle, and their Neoplatonic Commentators By Gary Gabor (2010) Ph.D. Dissertation - Philosophy Mentor: Dana Miller Creating the Medieval Reader: Old Media, New Media, and Textual Interactivity, 1380-1500 By Heather Blatt (2010) Ph.D. Dissertation - English Mentor: Mary Erler Virtuous Vengeance: Anti-Judaism and Christian Piety in Medieval England By Maija Birenbaum (2010) Ph.D. Dissertation - English Mentor: Mary Erler Mothers of Exile: Gender and Identity in Medieval Narratives of Foundation By Rebecca June (2010) Ph.D. Dissertation - English Mentor: Katherine Little Justice, Jurisdiction, and Choice: The Fifteenth-Century Church Court of Carpentras By Elizabeth Hardman (2010) Ph.D. Dissertation - History Mentor: Daniel Smail A Matter of Time: Church, Civic Administration, and the Idea of the Hour in Medieval France By Kenneth Mondschein (2010) Ph.D. Dissertation - History Mentor: Richard Gyug Politics and Emotion in Thirteenth-Century Iberia By Jennifer M. Speed (2009) Ph.D. Dissertation – History Mentor: Daniel Smail Philipp Melanchthon and the Cappadocians: The Reception of Greek Patristic Soures in the Sixteenth Century By H. Ashley Hall (2009) Ph.D. Dissertation – Theology Mentor: Joseph Lienhard, S.J. Intellectus and Induction: Three Aristotelian Commentators on the cognition of first Principles, Including an Original Translation of John Buridan's Quaestiones in Duos Aristotilis Libros Posteriorum Analyticorum By Ariane E. Economos (2009) Ph.D. Dissertation – Philosophy Mentor: Gyula Klima Spaces and Practices of Religious Reclusion in Medieval Studies By Allison Diane Clark (2009) Ph.D. Dissertation – History Mentor: Richard Gyug A Reappraisal of the Christology of St. Justin Martyr By Carl F. Baechle (2009) Ph.D. Dissertation – Theology Mentor: Joseph Lienhard, S.J. A Philological and Theological Analysis of the Ancient Latin Translations of the Vita Antonii By Lois Gandt (2008) Ph.D. Dissertation – Theology Mentor: Joseph Lienhard, S.J. Aristocratic Male Friendship in the Anglo-Norman World By Rebecca Slitt (2008) Ph.D. Dissertation – History Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski The Foundation of Universal and Necessary Propositions in Select Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas By James Stone (2008) Ph.D. Dissertation – Philosophy Mentor: Joseph Koterski, S.J. Aquinas, God, and Ontotheology By Joseph G. Trabbic (2008) Ph.D. Dissertation – Philosophy Mentor: Joseph Koterski, S.J. A Philological and Theological Analysis of the Ancient Latin Translations of the Vita Antonii By Lois Gandt (2008) Ph.D. Dissertation – Theology Mentor: Joseph Lienhard, S.J. Aristocratic Male Friendship in the Anglo-Norman World By Rebecca Slitt (2008) Ph.D. Dissertation – History Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski The Foundation of Universal and Necessary Propositions in Select Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas By James Stone (2008) Ph.D. Dissertation – Philosophy Mentor: Joseph Koterski, S.J. Aquinas, God, and Ontotheology By Joseph G. Trabbic (2008) Ph.D. Dissertation – Philosophy Mentor: Joseph Koterski, S.J. Damsels in Distress or Partners in Crime? The Abduction of Women in Medieval England By Caroline Dunn (2007) Ph.D. Dissertation - History Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski Alexander Neckman's Encyclopedias: Work at a Juncture-Point in Medieval Intellectual and Social History By Tomas Zahora (2007) Ph.D. Dissertation – History Mentor: Richard Gyug Prosper of Aquitaine: A Study of His Life and Works By Alexander Hwang (2006) Ph.D. Dissertation – Theology Mentor: Joseph Lienhard, S.J. Prime Matter According to St. Thomas Aquinas By Matthew Kent (2006) Ph.D. Dissertation – Philosophy Mentor: Joseph Koterski, S.J. The Use of Maximus the Confessor's Writing on the Filoque at the Council of Ferrara-Florence By A. Edward Siecienski (2006) Ph.D. Dissertation – Theology Mentor: Joseph Lienhard, S.J. St. Thomas Aquinas's Confrontation with Neoplatonic Thought in Three Commentaries and in the Treatise on Separate Substances By John Stefancyk (2006) Ph.D. Dissertation - Philosophy Mentor: Joseph Koterski, S.J. Social Resources and Institutional Change in the Dominican Province of Aragon By Michael Vargas (2006) Ph.D. Dissertation - History Mentor: Richard Gyug Of Ministers and Mistresses: Henry Bradshaw's Abbesses and the Hagiography of the Household By Christina Carlson (2005) Ph.D. Dissertation - English Mentor: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne Libido Dominandi: Augustine’s Geneaology of a Fallen World By Brian Harding (2005) Ph.D. Dissertation – Philosophy Monarchy and Military Practice During the Reign of Alfonso XI (1312-1350) By Nicolas Agrait (2003) Ph.D. Dissertation - History Mentor: Joseph O'Callaghan Urban Lordship in England: Lay Seigneurs in the West Midlands and Welsh March, 1066 - 1348 By Steven Spishak (2003) Ph.D. Dissertation - History Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski St. Elizabeth of Hungary and the Franciscan Tradition By Lori Pieper (2002) Ph.D. Dissertation - History Mentor: Richard Gyug Aquinas and the Free Will Defense By W. Grant (2002) Ph.D. Dissertation - Philosophy Mentor: Brian Davies Aquinas on Human Survival After Death By Silas Langley (2002) Ph.D. Dissertation - Philosophy Mentor: Brian Davies, O.P. Hospitality, Conviviality, and the English Gentry: Social Networks of the Landed Elite in Late Medieval Suffolk By Elizabeth Kunz (2001) Ph.D. Dissertation - History Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski The Power of Liturgy and the Liturgies of Power in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries By Louis I. Hamilton (2000) Ph.D. Dissertation - History Mentor: Richard Gyug Social Commentary in the Works of Theodulf of Orleans: A Study of Carolingian Humanism By June-Ann T. Greeley (2001) Ph.D. Dissertation - Classics Mentor: John Clark The Fontalis Plenitudo in Bonaventure as a Symbol for His Metaphysics By Janet Kvamme (2000) Ph.D. Dissertation - Theology Mentor: Ewert Cousins Lyrical Dialectic as Historiographical Discourse in the Italian Dialogues of Giordano Bruni By Gilmar Visoni (2000) Ph.D. Dissertation - History Mentors: W. David Myers; H. Wayne Storey The Heart of Christ at Helfta By Paul Zarowny (2000) Ph.D. Dissertation - Theology Mentor: Ewert Cousins Transformation in the Thoughts of Martin Luther By Peter Breitsch (2000) Ph.D. Dissertation - History Mentor: Louis Pascoe, S.J. Sanctifying the World: Ritual Blessing and Lay Piety in Medieval Religion and Culture By Derek Rivard (2000) Ph.D. Dissertation - History Mentor: Richard Gyug A Medieval Maritime Community in England: The Ancient Town of Winchelsea and the Cinque Ports By David Sylvester (2000) Ph.D. Dissertation - History Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski The Doctrine of Transcendentals in Thomas Aquinas and Meister Eckhart By Robert Dobie (2000) Ph. D. Dissertation - Philosophy Mentor: Joseph Koterski, S.J. Inter-University Doctoral Consortium Fordham University is a member of the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium (IUDC) which allows doctoral students who have completed at least one year of full time study toward the Ph.D to take graduate courses at participating universities in the New York metropolitan area. IUDC members include the City University of New York Graduate Center (CUNY), Columbia University, New York University, and the New School for Social Research, Princeton University, Rutgers University, and the State University of New York, Stony Brook (SUNY). Students in doctoral programs at the above schools may cross-register for courses offered at any of these institutions, use their libraries, and consult with their faculty while enrolled in those courses, thereby expanding their course options and research opportunities. Access to these courses depends on space being available, the approval of the instructor, approval of the GSAS associate dean, and approval of the departmental chair or program director. To register for courses, complete the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium Registration Form, obtain the required signatures, and register for ZZGA0920 (consortium registration). More information about the consortium and contacts at host schools can be found on the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium website. Financial Aid Graduate assistantships and fellowships, funded at competitive levels with stipend awards ranging from $18,500 to $23,000, are available to all applicants to graduate departments on a merit basis. Graduate assistantships include full tuition for one calendar year and a stipend (around $18,500) for nine months in return for working for the department or another academic unit for around 15 hours a week. Fellowships include higher stipends. The Joseph P. Fitzpatrick, S.J. Doctoral Fellowship Program offer generously funded awards to exceptionally qualified minority students seeking the doctoral degree. Those enrolled in the Medieval Studies Doctoral Certificate program are also eligible to apply for a Senior Teaching Fellowship. Graduate Essay Prizes The Center for Medieval Studies offers two prizes each year for essays written on a medieval topic in a graduate course offered by one of the participating departments; winners receive a book or cash prize and a certificate in recognition of their achievement. *The First Year Graduate Essay Prize in Medieval Studies:* The author of the essay must be a graduate student in his or her first year of study at Fordham in the academic year. Nominated papers must be no longer than 25 pages and written for a graduate course in one of our participating departments, on a medieval topic. One copy of the essay should be submitted to the Director of Medieval Studies, along with a letter of nomination by a faculty member. *The Joseph O'Callaghan Graduate Essay Prize in Medieval Studies:* The author of the essay should be a graduate student at Fordham University. Nominated papers can be of any length, but should have been written for a graduate course in one of the participating departments, on a medieval topic. One copy of the essay should be submitted to the Director of Medieval Studies, along with a letter of nomination by a faculty member. Graduate Student Association Another resource available to all graduate students at fordham is the Graduate Student Association (GSA). The GSA is a student-run organization dedicated to promoting academic excellence and student solidarity among the departments of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Your GSA representative is responsible for helping students obtain funding for conferences or other projects, orienting incoming students, and organizing social events. Please feel free to contact your GSA representative if you have any questions about the Medieval Studies program or the GSA. Current Representative: Email: Workshops The Center organizes several workshops each year which focus on professional development. Past workshops have centered on such topics as "Writing and Building your Curriculum Vitae," (with a panel of faculty from different disciplines, and handouts of guidelines for writing an academic resumé); "Submitting a Conference Paper and Writing a Conference Abstract" (with a panel of faculty and advanced graduate students at Fordham); and "Finding a Job in Academia: What We Wish We Knew Then That We Know Now" (with a panel of recent PhD graduates in English, History, and Theology). For the last several years, the Center has also co-sponsored the Teaching the Middle Ages workshops. Information on current and past workshops can be found here.
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