People

Staff

Name	Contact
Michelle Hamilton Trustee for Medieval Studies Center for Premodern Studies Department of Spanish and Portuguese	Hamilton@umn.edu
Lydia Garver Associate Director Center for Premodern Studies	premod@umn.edu
Alex Korte & Jonas Garver Center Research Assistants	premodstudies@umn.edu

Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialty
Bernard S. Bachrach Professor Emeritus Department of History	114 Heller Hall 612-624-3301 bachr001@umn.edu	Early Angevin history, Fulk Nerra, medieval Europe before 1200, medieval military, Renaissance
Lianna Farber Associate Professor Department of English	110H Lind Hall 612-626-7126 farbe004@umn.edu	Medieval literature and thought
Mohsen Goudarzi Assistant Professor Department of Classical & Near Eastern Studies	266 Nicholson Hall 612-625-5353 goudarzi@umn.edu	Emergence of Islam, History of the Qur'an, Islamic Learning, Islamic Theology, Islamic Law
Ryan Greenwood Assistant Librarian Law School Library	N30 Mondale Hall 612-625-7323 rgreenwo@umn.edu	Medieval Roman law, Magna Carta
Michelle Hamilton Professor Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies	209 Folwell Hall 612-625-6661 hamilton@umn.edu	Cultural contact in medieval Iberia, Hebrew and Arabic cultures of Europe, religious studies and philosophies
Gabriela Ilnitchi Currie Associate Professor School of Music	166 Ferguson Hall 612-624-0261 ilnit001@umn.edu	Medieval music theory, intersections between music and scientific thought in the early and premodern eras
Michal A. Kobialka Professor Department of Theatre Arts & Dance	580C Rarig Center 612-625-0048 kobia001@umn.edu	Eastern European theater, theater historiography, medieval theater
Nita Krevans Associate Professor Department of Classical & Near Eastern Studies	245 Nicholson Hall 612-625-3422 nkrevans@umn.edu	Greek and Latin poetry, Hellenistic literature, history of the book
Rebecca Krug Professor Department of English	110E Lind Hall 612-626-0048 krugx001@umn.edu	Late medieval literature, religion, culture, women's studies
Anatoly Liberman Professor Department of German, Scandinavian & Dutch	323A Folwell Hall 612-625-5594 aliber@umn.edu	Folklore, historical phonology and the origin of words, Scandinavian mythology, languages and literatures of the Middle Ages
Michael Lower Associate Professor Department of History	1122 Heller Hall 612-624-7543 mlower@umn.edu	Medieval Mediterranean, the Crusades, Christian/Muslim relations, North Africa
Susan Noakes Professor Department of French & Italian	245 Folwell Hall 612-624-0076 noake001@umn.edu	Banking and economics in medieval literature, the global Middle Ages
James Parente Professor Department of German, Scandinavian & Dutch	215 Johnston Hall 612-624-2535 paren001@umn.edu	Renaissance, Reformation, and Baroque literature and culture; medieval, German, Netherlandic, and Scandinavian literature and culture
Marguerite Ragnow Curator James Ford Bell Library	15 Elmer L. Andersen Library 612-624-6895 ragn0001@umn.edu	Medieval history and early modern world trade
Kathryn Reyerson Professor Department of History	1120 Heller Hall 612-624-8569 reyer001@umn.edu	Medieval Europe, Mediterranean Europe, medieval France, social and economic history
Andrew Scheil Professor Department of English	110K Lind Hall 612-625-9518 ascheil@umn.edu	Anglo-Saxon language and literature, literatures of late antiquity/early Middle Ages
Jole Shackelford Assistant Professor History of Science, Technology & Medicine	511 Diehl Hall 651-227-4691 schack001@umn.edu	Early Modern European science and medicine, history of Paracelsianism
Andrea Sterk Associate Professor	1237 Heller Hall 612-626-4265 sterk@umn.edu	Ancient and Medieval Christianity, Late Antiquity, Byzantine History
Ray Wakefield Emeritus Department of German, Scandinavian & Dutch	328D Folwell Hall 612-920-9775 wakef001@umn.edu	Medieval German culture, medieval mystics, Dutch, manuscript culture
John Watkins Professor Department of English	312 Lind Hall 612-624-8879 watki005@umn.edu	Medieval and early modern diplomacy, premodern political culture, classical and medieval origins of the Renaissance
Peter Wells Professor Department of Anthropology	395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center 612-624-6845 wells001@umn.edu	Material culture, visual representation, European prehistory, Roman and early medieval periods, ancient Germans and Celts