Current Medieval Studies Graduate Students

Congratulations to our award-winning graduate students!

Below is a directory of currently enrolled graduate students at the Center for Medieval Studies as well as students in other departments with research interests in the medieval period. Directory alphabetized by first name.

Alexandre Autrand | MA, History | [email protected]
Education
Research Interests

Benjamin Bertrand | PhD, History | [email protected]
Education
MA, History, Boston College
BA, History, University of New Hampshire, Durham

Research Interests
Intersections of violence and society in Medieval Europe, with a special emphasis upon the ways that violence served to construct identity in different communities.

Annie Bharucha | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
Education
BA, Mt. Holyoke College

Research Interests
Heresy and inquisition in 13th-century southern Europe

Gabrielle Bibeau | PhD, Theology | [email protected]
Education
BA, English and Religious Studies, University of Dayton
MA, Theology, University of Dayton

Research Interests
French Catholic women's spirituality and religious experience in the 19th century, Marian piety, devotions, and religious movements

Katarina Birimac | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
Education
BA, History and English Language and Literature, University of Chicago

Research Interests
Medieval Literature and Canon law

Lily Carlisle | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
Education
BA, History and Medieval Studies, Fordham University

Research Interests
Medieval gender and sexuality, queer studies, religious women, Christian mysticism, and monasticism

Maria Carriere | PhD, Medieval History| [email protected]
Education
BA, Western Washington University
MA, University of Vermont

Research Interests
Women, gender, and politics in France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries

Malek Charchour | PhD, English | [email protected]
Education
BA, English and French, Hartwick College

Research Interests
Medieval and Modernist Studies with a focus on Postcolonial and Disability Studies

Justyn Cooke | MA, Medieval Studies| [email protected]
Education
BA, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, French and Francophile Studies, Vassar College

Research Interests
Social and Cultural history, Old French literature, queer and masculinity studies

Liam Cuff | MA, Medieval Studies| [email protected]
Education
BA, History, James Madison University

Research Interests
Aristocratic culture, Memory and Identity in High Medieval England and France, Crusading

Alexander DaCruz | PhD, History | [email protected]
Education
MDiv, Covenant Theological Seminary
BA, History, Belmont University

Research Interests
Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman chronicle writing, ecclesiastical historical writing, hagiography, and Greek and Latin patristics

Grace DiModugno | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
Education
BA, English and History, University of St. Joseph
MA, English, Southern Connecticut State University

Research Interests
Vernacular hagiography, Middle English literature, and intersections with animal studies and the environmental humanities

Christopher Emrich | PhD, Philosophy| [email protected]
Education
BA, Liberal Arts, Thomas Aquinas College

Research Interests
The Thought of Thomas Aquinas and his interpretation of the works of Aristotle

Emma Emrich | PhD, Philosophy | [email protected]
Education
BA, Liberal Arts, Thomas Aquinas College
MA, Philosophy, Fordham University

Research Interests
Medieval Philosophy especially medieval metaphysics and theories of the soul

Frances Eshleman | PhD, History | [email protected]
Education
MA, Fordham University
BA, History, Wheaton College

Research Interests
Late medieval canon law and its social application, penance and punishment, sexuality

Alex French | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]Education
BA, History, Davidson University

Research Interests
Architecture, Baltics, Chronicles

Morgan Gartner | PhD, English | [email protected]
Education
MA, Fordham University
BA, SUNY Purchase

Research Interests
Medieval Jewish Literature and Medieval Literature of the monstrous and demonic

Adelaide Greig | PhD, English | [email protected]
Education
MA, University of Melbourne
BA, University of Melbourne

Research Interests
literary representations of the medieval body, medieval romance and Arthuriana, sensory studies and affect studies, smell studies, gender and reproduction

Douglass Hamilton | PhD, Philsophy | [email protected]

Education
MA, University of Toronto
BA, Skidmore College

Liz Hickman | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
Education

Research Interests

Mark Host | PhD, English | [email protected]
Education
BA, Cleveland State University
MA, Cleveland State University

Research Interests
Literature (Old English, Middle English, Arthurian), relic cults, Byzantine east, military religious orders
Elissa Johnston | PhD, English | [email protected]
Education
BA, English Literature, Wheaton College

Research Interests
Female devotional writers of late medieval England, Mariology, gender and devotional practice

Diamantina Kefalas | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
Education
BA, Fordham University

Research Interests
Vernacular Greek and French literature, Byzantium from the 13th to the 15th centuries, collective identities

Galina Krasskova | PhD, Theology | [email protected]
Education
BA, Religious Studies, Empire State University
MA, Religious Studies, New York University
MA, Medieval, Studies, Fordham University

Research Interests
Eunuchs, constructions of masculinity in early Christianity, asceticism, bodily affect.

Wing Lai | PhD, English | [email protected]
Education
MA, University of Oxford
BA, University of Sheffield

Research Interests
Middle English Romance, Chaucer, the Gowain Poet

Patrick Landers | PhD, Theology | [email protected]
Education
MAR, Yale University
MPPM, Yale University
BA, Williams College

Research Interests
Medieval and Patristic Theology

Iris Loritz | PhD, History | [email protected]
Education
MA, History, Fordham University
BA, Sarah Lawrence College

Research Interests
Gender and sexuality in late medieval France and the Mediterranean, crime, punishment, and public justice, urban history, marriage and family, sex trade, masculinity, queer studies, intersectionality

Brittany Lugo | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
Education
BA, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, CUNY Medgar Evers College

Research Interests
Patristic Theology and Racial Formation, Critical Race Theory

Sean Maldonado | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
Education
BA, History and Philosophy, Fordham University

Research Interests
Philosophy, Theology, Liturgy, Art Architecture, Early Medieval Spain

Kaitlyn Morris | Philosophy | [email protected]
Education

Research Interests

Nicholas Joseph Norita | PhD, Philosophy | [email protected]
Education
MA, Philosophy, Fordham University
BA, Philsophy, University of San Diego

Research Interests
Metaphysics, Logic

Christie Olek | PhD, History | [email protected]
Education
MA, Fordham University
BA, History, Saint Francis University (Loretto, PA)

Research Interests
Law and medicine, especially illicit medical practice
Alex Pisano | PhD, Theology | [email protected]
Education
MA, Medieval Studies, Fordham University
BA Catholic Studies, minor Medieval and Renaissance, Holy Cross University

Research Interests
Medieval mysticism, poetry, and theology

Nicholas Pisano | PhD, History| [email protected]
Education
MA, History, Southern Connecticut State University
BA Politics, Fairfield University

Research Interests
Medieval Maritime history, military history, Mediterranean world, crusades, piracy, cartography, navigation

Kristian Powell | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
Education
BA, Medieval and Renaissance, SUNY Albany

Research Interests
Early medieval history, religion, philosophy, paleography, architecture, liturgy

Amanda Racine | PhD, History | [email protected]
Education
MA, History, University of Colorado-Boulder
BA, History, University of Idaho

Research Interests
Latin East, the Eastern Mediterranean, thirteenth-century, France, crusading, slavery, service, law, customary treatises

Curtis Rager| PhD, History | [email protected]
Education
BA, History, San Francisco State University
MA, History, San Francisco State University

Research Interests
Monastic documentary and legal culture of tenth-, eleventh-, and twelfth-century France.

Carmeliz Ramas-Fisk | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]Education
BS, Accounting, Santa Clara University
BA, History, University of San Francisco

Research Interests
Medieval Women, with a particular focus on the Anglo-Norman period.

Kathryn Rauscher | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
Education
BA, Art History, University of Texas at Dallas

Research Interests
Female political culture, queenly patronage, cross-cultural interactions, art history, and late medieval French manuscripts

Jason Ray | PhD, English | [email protected]
Education
MA, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Columbia University
BA, Theater Studies, Yale University

Research Interests
Medieval languages and literatures of the British Isles; cultural contact and transfer; critical theory

Katie Robertson | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
Education
BA, History with a Medieval Studies Certificate, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Research Interests
Middle English romance literature, mysticism, woman and gender studies, ascetism and Dante Studies

Sophia Rubino | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
Education
BA, Sant Johns University

Research Interests
Mysticism, embodied religious experiences, female experience

Michael J. Sanders | PhD, History | [email protected]
Education
MA, History, Western Michigan University
BA, History & English, St. Vincent College

Research Interests
Later Crusades, political culture, kingship, apocalypticism, interfaith relations

Miles Smith | PhD, English | [email protected]
Education
MA, English with a Medieval Concentration, Western Michigan University
BA, English and minor in Art & Design, Northern Michigan University

Research Interests
rhetoric and embodiment in late medieval literature, medieval gender and sexuality, disability, and monstrosity

Tanner Smoot | PhD, History | [email protected]
Education
MA, Marshall University
BA, Marshall University

Research Interests
Early Medieval England and Europe; Monasticism; Religious Culture

Dylan Warnasiri | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
Education
BA, Fordham University

Research Interests
Iberia

Thomas Warren | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
Education
BA, History and minor in Digital Studies, Davidson University

Research Interests
9th-12th century religious, cultural and intellectual history, text as data, and textual criticism
Katrine Funding Højgaard
MA Program, Medieval Studies
BA History, Aalborg University (Denmark)
Research Interests: High Middle Ages, Central Europe, and British Isles, History of Mentalities, Cultural History, Manuscripts, Literature.