Members of the Standing Committee

Dimiter Angelov

dangelov@fas.harvard.edu

Chair, Standing Committee on Medieval Studies

Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History

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

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

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...

Thomas B.F. Cummins

cummins@fas.harvard.edu

Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art

Director of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection

Ph.D. University of California Los Angeles

After being spawned at the bottom of the Hoboken River, birthplace also of Frank Sinatra, TBFC left the hallowed waters of New Jersey’s most famous water way and went on to prove Darwin’s theory of evolution and received his PhD from UCLA. (Actually he...

Daniel Donoghue

dgd@wjh.harvard.edu

John P. Marquand Professor of English

Ph.D. Yale University

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...

Sean Gilsdorf

gilsdorf@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on Medieval Studies

Administrative Director of the Committee on Medieval Studies

Director of Graduate Studies in Medieval Studies

Ph.D. University of Chicago

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...

Luis Girón Negrón

giron@fas.harvard.edu

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature and of Romance Languages and Literatures

Ph.D. Harvard University

Luis Girón Negrón is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature and of Romance Languages and Literatures . His research focuses upon medieval and Golden Age Spanish literature, and on the religious and cultural life of Islamic, Jewish, and...

Eric Gurevitch

ericgurevitch@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of the History of Science

Ph.D. University of Chicago

Eric Moses Gurevitch is a historian of science, technology, and medicine in the medieval and early modern periods, with a focus on South Asia and the Indian Ocean. His first monograph, under contract with the University of Chicago Press, is titled...