Graduate students in Medieval Studies

Jordan is a first year PhD student in Romance Languages and Literatures. He is from Texas and thoroughly enjoys anything medieval, from Chaucer to Braulio to Juan Ruiz. In particular, he focuses on the textual interplay between medieval Iberian legal...

Carina Dreyer’s research interests lie at the intersection of the rational and transmitted sciences, Sufism, and Mongol and Mamluk social and intellectual history. Her master’s thesis Quṭb al‐Dīn al‐Shīrāzī and his political, religious, and intellectual...

Research interests: Iberian literature of the Late Middle Ages and Early Modernity. Travel narratives and early cartography. Connections between mental and narrative structures.

History of Ethics, Education, Politics and Society, Theology, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Comparative Literature, with sources in Italian, French, Latin, Ancient Greek, Arabic, emphasis on Renaissance Italy, placed in longue durée global perspective

Omar is interested in Mamluk agrarian law, practice, and administration. His interests include legal history, peasant history, and agrarian studies. 

Interests: Old English literature, Poetry, Manuscript studies

Reed is interested in textual, archaeological, and scientific approaches to the history of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.  His research focuses on migration and identity (religious, political, and ethnic) in the Late Antique Western...

Stephanie Leitzel entered the History program in 2015, and currently is a Ph.D. candidate. Her scholarly interests revolve around the social and economic history of Europe, with a particular focus on Italy and the global connections of the Mediterranean...