People
Meet the leadership team and staff members at the Center for Premodern Studies.
Leadership and Staff
Michelle Hamilton
Specialties
Cultural Contact in Medieval Iberia; Literary Theory and Cultural Studies; Hebrew and Arabic cultures of Europe; The Medieval Mediterranean and its Legacy; Sephardic Traditions; Mediterranean Studies; Religious Studies & Philosophies
Lydia Garver
Specialties
Historical Archaeology; Material Culture; Religion and Migration in the 18th Century; Interdisciplinary Studies
Patricia Ahearne-Kroll
Specialties
Second Temple Judaism; Religion in Ptolemaic Egypt; Jewish Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Andrea Sterk
Specialties
Late antiquity; Ancient and medieval Christianity; Byzantium
Anna Lise Seastrand
Specialties
South Asian art; Tamil Cultural Studies; Hinduism
Anya Badaldavood
Specialties
Music Iconography (Premodern Persia, and Premodern through early modern Japan); Poetry, literature, arts, and politics in Timurid Persia (1370-1507); Musical Instruments and practice in Timurid Persia; Soundscape of Premodern Persia; Musical instruments and practice in Heian through early Edo Japan; Music iconography, gender, and performance in Tale of Genji and Tale of Heike
Stephan Knott
Specialties
Social and Cultural History of the High Middle Ages; Eastern Mediterranean; Fourth Crusade and Frankish Greece; Knightly Society and Literary Culture; Medieval Constantinople and Urban Uprisings