Research Affiliates

Name	Contact	Research Interests
Jennifer Awes-Freeman United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities	jawesfre@umn.edu	Role of images and material culture in religious meaning making during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, art and theology, iconoclastic acts
Marie Balsley Taylor	balsl001@umn.edu	Indigenous leaders, New England missionary writings
Justin Biel	justin.biel@mnsu.edu	Modern Britain, Colonialism, History of Secularism, Enlightenment Studies
Francesca Bortoletti	fbortole@umn.edu	Renaissance Studies, Theater Studies, Memory Studies, Cultural Heritage, Italian Studies, Early Modern History, Performance Studies
Kent Cao Duke University & Duke Kunshan University	kent.cao@duke.edu	East Asian art and archaeology, Chinese bronzes and bronze revivalism, technology transmission
Jennifer Carnell Hill Museum & Manuscript Library	schm4066@umn.edu	Medieval German language and literature, manuscript studies
Mario Cossio Olavide	cossi009@umn.edu	13th- and 14th-century encyclopedic Castilian prose, and digital humanities applied to textual edition
Jennifer Easler University of Providence, Montana	easle038@umn.edu	Prophecy and poetry, early modern reception of classical texts, Latin
Ruchen Gao	gaoxx444@umn.edu	Northern China, social networks, trade, education, early modern and modern history
Jonas Gardsby University of Wisconsin - Green Bay	eric1566@umn.edu	Essayist, History of the essay, Environmental humanities
Penelope Geng Macalester College	pgeng@macalester.edu	Early modern literature, Shakespeare, law and literature, religion, and disability studies
Brian Hanson Bethlehem College & Seminary	blhanson@umn.edu	Early modern England, English Reformation, early modern households, political rebellion, Renaissance humanism, and the history of religious toleration.
Betsy Howard Bethlehem College	howar571@umn.edu	Victorian and Early Modern Studies, poetry and elegy, periodicals
Nicole Labouff Minneapolis Institute of Art	nlabouff@umn.edu	Early modern Europe, history of science, art history, prints, embroidery, gender history, domestic spaces
Nathan Weaver Olson	olso6158@umn.edu
Noam Ezra Sienna	sienn002@umn.edu	Jewish book culture, Mediterranean and North African Studies, religion and museums
Emma Snowden University of Tennessee, Knoxville	esnowden@utk.edu	Medieval Mediterranean, Iberia and North Africa, Muslim-Christian relations, identity and memory, gender and sexuality
Linda Sturtz Macalester College	lsturtz@umn.edu	Early Modern Atlantic World
Amanda Taylor	tayl0861@umn.edu	Late medieval and early modern English and Italian literature, arms and armor, fencing treatises, and medical texts
Natalia Vargas Marquez DePauw University	varga066@umn.edu	Global early modern world, with an emphasis in Latin America; nature, landscapes, and non-human animals; critiques of coloniality and imperialism; indigenous artists
Veronica Menaldi Peak to Peak College Preparatory, Colorado	veronica.menaldi@gmail.com	Spanish, medieval Iberian literature, magic
Luo Wang Peking University	wang1648@umn.edu	Medieval history, gender, religion, music
Travis Wilds	tbwilds@umn.edu	Literary theory, history of science, cultural history, animal studies, biopolitics
Mai Yamaguchi Minneapolis Institute of Art	myamaguchi@artsmia.org	Japanese and Korean art, visual literacy and Japanese book culture