Welcome to the Center for Premodern Studies. Founded in 2021, the Center for Premodern Studies (CPS) is a multidisciplinary community of scholars committed to historical research and exploring the past’s legacies and continued relevance to our world’s most pressing issues.

CPS builds on the University of Minnesota’s strong history of multidisciplinary engagement in the historical humanities and social sciences led by the Center for Early Modern History, the Center for Medieval Studies, the Mellon-funded Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World, and others. Learn about each of these entities and the important roles that they have played in the creation of the CPS under the history sections below.

We promote the study of the past through workshops, lectures, courses, fellowships, and more. We serve scholars at all levels of their professional development, from advanced researchers to graduate and undergraduate students.