Leadership and Staff
Meet the staff in the Department of Premodern Studies.
Staff
![Photo of Juliette Cherbuliez, May 2023](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2023-09/PHOTO-2023-06-14-19-33-30.jpg?h=cccf1bc5&itok=2IJ9UtkQ)
Juliette Cherbuliez
Specialties
Ethics and experience of violence; 17th-century French literature and culture, esp. drama and the novel; Dramatic literature, theater history, performance studies; Libertinism and free-thinking
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Lydia Garver
Specialties
Historical Archaeology; Material Culture; Religion and Migration in the 18th Century; Interdisciplinary Studies
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Patricia Ahearne-Kroll
Specialties
Second Temple Judaism; Religion in Ptolemaic Egypt; Jewish Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
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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
![Katharine Gerbner](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/profile_photo_teaser/public/pictures/2022-03/headshot-YSAR.jpg?h=e04c71bf&itok=kZOOHryi)
Katharine Gerbner
Specialties
Atlantic World; Early American History; Religion; Comparative Early Modern History; History of Race; Global Christianity
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Hannah Wiepke
Specialties
Early Modern Europe; Early Modern Atlantic World; Print History; Book History; History of collecting