Faculty

Elizabeth Papp Kamali

ekamali@law.harvard.edu

Chair of the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies

Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law

J.D. Harvard University, Ph.D. University of Michigan

Professor Kamali teaches criminal law and the history of English law and legal institutions. Her research focuses on the development of criminal law within the English common law tradition in the Middle Ages, in particular the evolution of the trial jury...

Dimiter Angelov

dangelov@fas.harvard.edu

Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History

Chair, Ph.D. Program in Byzantine Studies

Ph.D. Harvard University

Professor Angelov's research addresses the intellectual and political history of the Byzantine world after the tenth century. Among his publications are Imperial Ideology and Political Thought in Byzantium (1204-1330) (Cambridge University Press, 2007)...

Josiah Blackmore

jblackmore@fas.harvard.edu

Nancy Clark Smith Professor of the Language and Literature of Portugal

Ph.D. Harvard University

Josiah Blackmore is a scholar of Iberian literature and culture, with a focus on medieval and early modern Portuguese writing. He is the author of Manifest Perdition: Shipwreck Narrative and the Disruption of Empire (University of Minnesota Press, 2002)...

Suzanne Preston Blier

blier@fas.harvard.edu

Allen Whitehill Clowes Chair of Fine Arts

Ph.D. Columbia University

On leave 2025 - 2026

Suzanne Preston Blier teaches in the departments of History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies, and is an affiliate member of the Committee on Medieval Studies. Her research addresses the history of African art and...

Lorenzo Bondioli

lorenzobondioli@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of History

Ph.D. Princeton University

On leave 2025 - 2026

Lorenzo Bondioli's research on the political economy of medieval Islamic empires focuses in particular on the interplay of labor, capital, and fiscal structures in Egypt in the Fatimid era (tenth to twelfth centuries CE), when the country simultaneously...

Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja

acpistoja@fas.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Italian Language and Literature

Ph.D. Cambridge University

Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja received his B.A. in Medieval and Humanist Philology from the University of Milan (Italy), his M.Phil. in European Literatures and Cultures, and his Ph.D. in Italian Studies from the University of Cambridge. He is the author of...

Tómas Ó Cathasaigh

cathas@fas.harvard.edu

Henry L. Shattuck Emeritus Professor of Irish Studies

M.A. National University of Ireland

Tómas Ó Cathasaigh's research and teaching deal with Old and Middle Irish language and literatures, in particular narrative texts, historiography, and mythology. He is the author of a number of articles on Irish heroic texts such as the Cath Almaine and...

Suzannah Clark

sclark@fas.harvard.edu

Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music Theory

Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center

Ph.D. Princeton University

Suzannah Clark is a scholar of medieval and modern music history and theory, whose teaching and research interests range from the music of Franz Schubert, to the history of tonal theory, to music analysis, to the history and performance of medieval music...

Charles Donahue

Paul A. Freund Professor of Law

Ll.B. Yale University

Charles Donahue is a scholar of the common, canon, and Roman law traditions in medieval Europe. His work focuses in particular upon the law of property and marriage in England and the continent; among his many publications are Select Cases from the...

Daniel Donoghue

dgd@wjh.harvard.edu

John P. Marquand Professor of English

Ph.D. Yale University

On leave Fall 2025

Daniel Donoghue is a specialist on Old and Middle English, with a particular interest in the literary and intellectual history of early Medieval England , and chairs the Medieval Studies events and research committee. His recent publications include Lady...

Khaled El-Rouayheb

kel@fas.harvard.edu

James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and Islamic Intellectual History

Ph.D. Cambridge University

Khaled El-Rouayheb is an intellectual and cultural historian whose teaching and research address the development of Islamic theology and philosophy, the history of Arabic logic, and the transformation of the Arabic-Islamic world in the classical, medieval...

Brian FitzGerald

bfitzgerald@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on Medieval Studies and Religion

Director of Undergraduate Studies in Medieval Studies

D.Phil. Oxford University

Brian FitzGerald is Lecturer on Medieval Studies and the Study of Religion. A scholar of medieval history, his research focuses on the intellectual and religious culture of Europe from the twelfth to the fo­urteenth century. His first book, Inspiration...