Current Medieval Studies Graduate Students

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.  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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]

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

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

Research Interests
Material cultural exchange in the Global Middle Ages

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

Sydne Johnson | PhD, History | [email protected]
Education
BA, History and Latin, Calvin College
MA, History, Western Michigan University
MA, Library and Information Science, University of South Florida

Research Interests
Sydne studies social and cultural interactions, especially in family settings, during the High Middle Ages. She is particularly interested in women and gender in northern France. 

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

Research Interests
Medieval monasticism and woman mystics

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]

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

Kaitlyn Morris | PhD, Philosophy | [email protected]

Research Interests
Camino de Santiago, medieval pilgrimage, 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

Jack Palmieri | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]

Sally Parker | MA, Medieval Studies | sp246@fordham.edu
Education
BS Business Administration, North Carolina State University

Research Interests
Jewish communities in England during the Middle Ages, relics and the cult of saints, theological shifts caused by the Crusades, and images of childhood in the High Middle Ages. 

Lance Piao | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]

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

Jacob Price | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
Education
BA, History, University of Texas at Tyler
MA, European History, Politics, and Society, Columbia University

Research Interests
Artisan history of Southern France and the French Mediterranean

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

Research Interests
Curtis studies the social and legal history of medieval France. His dissertation will examine judges and adjudicators and identify how they attempted to strengthen and enforce their settlements in the Loire Valley from 1060 to 1250.

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

Research Interests
Middle English romance, codicology, scribal culture, paleography, connections between material culture and text, and household miscellanies.

Logan Roubo | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]

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

Research Interests
Mysticism, embodied religious experiences, female experience

Amber Shrewsbury | PhD, History | [email protected]
Education
BA, Geography, University of California, Berkeley
BA, History and Art History, Portland State University
MA, History, Portland State University

Research Interests
Medieval geography, cartography; Classics in the Middle Ages (particularly geographical knowledge and pagan literature)

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

John Soleng | MA, Medieval Studies | js494@fordham.edu

Lucas Stopper | MA, Medieval Studies | ls256@fordham.edu
Education
BA History, Christopher Newport University

Research Interests
The intersection of social custom and religious doctrine experienced by Anglo-Norman monastic women, disability studies, theology, and philosophy

Research Interests
Frontier Societies, Cosmopolitanism, Race and Identity, Early Medieval Byzantium and Iberia

Tia Verrone | MA, Medieval Studies | cfv@fordham.edu

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.