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.

Garrett Ahlers, SJ | MA, History | [email protected]
Education
S.T.L., Patristics, Gregorian University
S.T.B., Theology, Gregorian University
BA, Philosophy and Catholic Studies, University of St. Thomas

Research Interests
The cultural and social history of religious communities, ecclesial institutions, and reform movements in the Middle Ages; religious political culture, and the relationship between secular and religious jurisdictions and powers.

Will Alvey | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
Education
BA History, University of Oklahoma

Research Interests
Military and Political History in the Early and High Middle Ages; Cross Cultural Interactions

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

Sheindl Berger | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
Education
BA, History, Yeshiva University
MA, Talmudic Interpretation, Yeshiva University

Research Interests
Early medieval history, Norman & Plantagenet Britain

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

Research Interests
Benjamin's work primarily focuses on medieval bishops, considering how they balance their seemingly conflicting secular and spiritual responsibilities through a case study of a twelfth-century bishop, Henry of Blois (r. 1126-1171), and his sometimes-controversial career.

Joshua J. Beuker | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
Education
BA, History, Baylor University

Research Interests
Religious cultures in east central and eastern Europe

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

Alexander Briggs | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
BA, Liberal Arts, Thomas Aquinas College; Majors in Philosophy and Theology, Minors in Math and Science

Research Interests
Early to high medieval Northern European literature and history (500-1200 AD); Artifacts in literature; Medieval political theories of kingship; Epistemology and signification; Medieval monsters; Use of genealogy in medieval literature.

Brianna Budhram | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
BA, History and Political Science, Fordham University

Research Interests
Philosophy, theology, and law

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

Research Interests
Religious women in the early and central Middle Ages, especially their cultures of care and literacy

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 Francophone Studies, Vassar College

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

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

Evelyn Dunn | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
Education
BA, Liberal Arts, Sarah Lawrence University; Concentration in Medieval and Classical Literature

Research Interests
Animality and Classics in the Middle Ages

Christian 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

Aaron Enzor | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]

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
Baltic Crusades, Colonization, Landscape, Travel, Wilderness

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

Daniel Gregory | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
Education
BA, History, Central Connecticut State University

Research Interests
Material cultural exchange in the Global Middle Ages

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, History | [email protected]
Education
MA, University of Toronto
BA, Skidmore College
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

Maggie Knutzen | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
Education
BA, Painting, Boston University
MFA, Visual Arts, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University

Research Interests
Medieval monasticism and woman mystics

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

Zachary Levey | MA, History | [email protected]

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 | PhD, Philosophy | [email protected]

John Nahm | Advanced Certificate in Christian Spirituality | [email protected]
Education
BA, Economics, Columbia University
MA, International Affairs, Columbia University

Research Interests
Camino de Santiago, medieval pilgrimages, medieval spirituality, medieval Spanish history, Cistercian history and spirituality, Franciscan history and spirituality

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

Research Interests
Metaphysics, Logic
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, Double Major in History and Medieval Studies

Research Interests
Medieval Italy, Iberia, Mediterranean, canon law, legal history, ecclesiastical history, interfaith relations

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.