Current Medieval Studies Graduate Students

Daphne Bendull | MA, Medieval History | dbendull@fordham.edu
Education
BA, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
MAT, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Research Interests
Legacy and Legitimacy creation in the 12th century, Material Culture, Memory Projects

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.

Robert Byers | PhD, English |  [email protected]
Education
MA, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
BA, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Research Interests
Old English Literature, Middle English literature, Icelandic sagas, animal studies, posthumanism

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

Patrick C. Debrosse  | PhD, History | [email protected]  
Education
MA, Medieval History, University of East Anglia
BA, History, Temple University

Research Interests
Medieval political culture; the Angevin Empire; the crusading movement; Latin historiography; troubadour lyrics

Elizabeth Duchovni | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
Education
PhD, Mathematics, CUNY Graduate Center
BA, English Language and Literature, Hunter College                       

Research Interests
Medieval Londoners, Maritime History, DH, Python programming, History of English, Beowulf, Medieval Icelandic History and Literature

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, Medieval Studies, Fordham University
BA, History, Wheaton College

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

Matthew Glaser | PhD, Philsophy | [email protected]
Education
MA, Philosophy, Fordham University
BA, Economics & Philosophy, Gustavus Adolphus College

Research Interests
Medieval theories of self-knowledge, the soul, and epistemology

Douglass Hamilton | PhD, Philsophy | [email protected]
Education
MA, University of Toronto
BA, Skidmore College

Benjamin Hausman | MA, Medieval History | [email protected]
Education
BS, Empire State University

Research Interests
Saint and relic cults and veneration in the Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099-1187)

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

Elias Holmquist | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
Education
BA, Liberal Arts, Sarah Lawrence College

Research Interests
Old French Literature, Urbanism/Suburbanism, Hospitality, Manuscript Studies

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, Medieva, 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

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

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

Research Interests
Metaphysics, Logic

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 Fransisco 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.

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

Natalie Reynoso  | PhD, Theology | [email protected]

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

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

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

Emily Varker | MA, Medieval Studies | [email protected]
Education
MA, English & History, Iona University

Research Interests
Medieval women and their acquisition, usage, and loss of power; representations of women in medieval literature and the correlation to historical women; interactive narrative games as digital humanities

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.