Sean Gilsdorf is Administrative Director and Lecturer on Medieval Studies, and an affiliate member of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology. His research addresses the intellectual, religious, and political history of the early and high Middle Ages, focusing upon post-Carolingian western and central Europe, as well as the political and cultural history of the medieval Caucasus. He is the author of The Favor of Friends: Intercession and Aristocratic Politics in Carolingian and Ottonian Europe (Brill Publishers, 2014) and Queenship and Sanctity: The Lives of Mathilda and the Epitaph of Adelheid (Catholic University of America Press, 2004), and editor of The Bishop: Power and Piety at the First Millennium (Lit-Verlag, 2004) as well as (with Laura Morreale) Digital Medieval Studies: Practice and Preservation (ARC Humanities Press, 2022) and the forthcoming Digital Medieval Studies: Experimentation and Innovation. From 2021 to 2024, Dr. Gilsdorf served as Chair of the Medieval Academy of America's Committee on Centers and Regional Associations (CARA).