# Our People Sort & Filters close ## Filters Graduate students in Medieval Studies expand\_more - All graduate students in Medieval Studies (21) - Celtic Languages and Literatures (3) - Center for Middle Eastern Studies (4) - Classics (3) - English (3) - History (8) - History of Art and Architecture (3) - Committee on the Study of Religion (1) - Romance Languages and Literatures (5) People expand\_more - Faculty (53) - Standing Committee (30) - Other Medieval Studies Faculty (14) - Special Program in Byzantine Studies (8) - Posdoctoral scholars and associates (4) - Graduate students in Medieval Studies (29) - Emeritus Faculty (15) - Administration (5) Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 99 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by Last Name A-ZLast Name Z-A sort list grid\_view ## 99 results [### Elizabeth Papp Kamali ](/people/elizabeth-papp-kamali) 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... ![ekamali.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/medievalstudies/files/ekamali.jpg?itok=akkzHtCm) [### Omar Abdel-Ghaffar ](/people/omar-abdel-ghaffar)Center for Middle East Studies M.A. (Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies) Columbia University B.A. (Political Science) University of California Omar is interested in Mamluk agrarian law, practice, and administration. His interests include legal history, peasant history, and agrarian studies. ![Omar](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/medievalstudies/files/pp.jpeg?itok=LtTRpuZR) [### Emily Claire Adams ](/people/emily-claire-adams) Special Assistant for Conference Planning Ph.D. Harvard University Claire Adams is a special assistant to the Committee on Medieval Studies, managing logistical and financial planning for the 2025 Medieval Academy of American annual meeting on the Harvard campus, and the Department of History's Catalog and Curriculum... ![Claire](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/medievalstudies/files/img_0268.jpeg?itok=ExHACdqI) [### Walid Akef ](/people/walid-akef) History of Art and Architecture Walid Akef is a PhD candidate in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University. He specializes in the architectural history of the pre-modern Mediterranean world, with a focus on North Africa, southern Italy, and Iberia. His research... ![headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/WA.jpeg?itok=rUEcN-iY) [### Dimiter Angelov ](/people/dimiter-angelov) 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)... ![Dimiter Angelov](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/medievalstudies/files/dangelov_0.jpg?itok=kcon1c8I) [### Masoud Ariankhoo ](/people/masoud-ariankhoo) Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations MTS (Islamic Studies) Harvard Divinity School; M.A Stony Brook University B.A. University of Malaya Masoud is a PhD candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. He received an MA in History from Stony Brook University, and an MTS in Islamic Studies from Harvard Divinity School. Masoud's research focuses on the character of the Devil in the... ![Masoud Ariankhoo](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/medievalstudies/files/masoud_ariankhoo_photo.jpg?itok=-VEnc1zK) [### Juan Manuel Arias ](/people/juan-manuel-arias)Department of Romance Languages and Literatures B.A. (Literature) Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) M.A. (Literature) Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) Juan's research interests include the transmission and translation of stories and exempla through the Middle Ages; comparative literature and folklore; fables and other animal tales from the late Middle Ages and the early modern period; literary... ![juan](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/medievalstudies/files/image_01.jpg?itok=fsrJoxwp) [### Andrew Bair ](/people/andrew-bair) Department of Anthropology - Archaeology Program M.A. (Anthropology) - University of Denver B.A. (Archaeology & Computer Science) - Columbia University Andrew is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology interested in changes to rural life in medieval Ireland. He is a field archaeologist specializing in landscape archaeology and geophysical survey. Andrew is also the co-director of the Castles in Communities... ![Profile Picture](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/medievalstudies/files/bair.png?itok=iIPlG9iE) [### Saaleh Baseer ](/people/saaleh-baseer) Department of History & Middle Eastern Studies B.A., Columbia University Saaleh is a PhD candidate in the joint History and Middle Eastern studies program, where he studies postclassical Hanafi legal theory, Persian philosophy, and procedural law in the Ottoman-Mughal empires. He earned his BA at Columbia University & also... ![Profile Picture](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/medievalstudies/files/img_7941_copy.jpg?itok=kg5SXJe1) [### Saskia Behrens ](/people/saskia-behrens) Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures M.Phil (Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Studies), University of Cambridge M.A. (Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Studies; English), University of Aberdeen Saskia Behrens focuses on comparative approaches to Irish literature, in particular the transmission and reception of Classical narratives in medieval Ireland, with an overarching interest in wider Indo-European cultural and linguistic transfer. ![headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/Saskia%20Behrens.jpg?itok=rpEADnDG) [### Josiah Blackmore ](/people/josiah-blackmore) 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)... ![jblackmore.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/medievalstudies/files/jblackmore.jpg?itok=rCZqUXEW) [### Suzanne Preston Blier ](/people/suzanne-preston-blier) 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... ![sblier.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum3586/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/medievalstudies/files/sblier.jpg?itok=DTQKJuMn) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Last page 9 ](?page=8 "Go to last page") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")