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Faculty Members
Members of the faculty in Medieval and Byzantine Studies are drawn from the Schools of Arts and Sciences, Canon Law, Theology and Religious Studies, Philosophy, and Music, and include: |
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DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR MEDIEVAL AND BYZANTINE STUDIES
Graduate Advisor
Lourdes Alvarez, Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Ph.D., Yale University
Research/Teaching Interests: Iberian studies with an emphasis on Hispano-Arabic studies, Andalusian Sufism and Religious Poetry.
alvarezl@cua.edu
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Undergraduate Advisor
Lilla Kopár, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature
Ph.D., University of Szeged, Hungary
Research/Teaching Interests: Old (and Middle) English language and literature, Viking-age stone sculpture, Germanic mythology, medieval Scandinavia.
kopar@cua.edu
Father Regis Armstrong, Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Ph.D., Fordham University
Research/Teaching Interests: Franciscan and Medieval theology, Christian spirituality.
regisja@cua.edu
Joshua Benson, Assistant Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Ph.D., Saint Louis University
Research/Teaching Interests: Systematic theology, history of medieval theology, history of Franciscan thought.
bensonj@cua.edu
Monica J. Blanchard, Semitics/ICOR Library
Ph.D., The Catholic University of America
Research/Teaching Interests: Languages and literatures of the Christian Near East, orientalist librarianship.
blanchard@cua.edu
Uta Renate Blumenthal, Professor Emerita, Department of History
Ph.D., Columbia University
Research/Teaching Interests: Medieval institutional history, the Investiture Controversy.
blumenthal@cua.edu
Claudia Bornholdt, Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Ph.D., Indiana University at Bloomington
Research/Teaching Interests: Germanic languages and literatures, medieval European literature.
bornholdt@cua.edu
Joseph E. Capizzi, Associate Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Research/Teaching Interests: Medieval political theology, war and peace.
capizzi@cua.edu
Jennifer Davis, Assistant Professor, Department of History
Ph.D., Harvard University
Research/Teaching Interests: Early medieval history, especially the Carolingians, early medieval archeology.
davisj@cua.edu
Gregory Doolan, Assistant Professor, School of Philosophy
Ph.D., The Catholic University of America
Research/Teaching Interests: Medieval philosophy and metaphysics.
doolan@cua.edu
Thérèse-Anne Druart, Ordinary Professor, School of Philosophy
Ph.D., Université Catholique de Louvain; B. Phil., Oxford University
Research/Teaching Interests: Medieval Arabic philosophy, Greek philosophy (Plato), medieval Latin philosophy.
druart@cua.edu
Sarah Brown Ferrario, Assistant Professor, Department of Greek and Latin
Ph.D., Princeton University
Research/Teaching Interests: Greek history and literature, particularly of the fifth and fourth centuries, B.C.
ferraris@cua.edu
Michael Gorman, Associate Professor, School of Philosophy
Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo; B.C., Boston University
Research/Teaching Interests: Metaphysics and Christology.
gorman@cua.edu
Father Sidney Griffith, Professor, Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures
Ph.D., Catholic University of America
Research/Teaching Interests: Arabic Christianity, Syriac monasticism, medieval Christian-Muslim encounters, ecumenical and interfaith dialogue.
griffith@cua.edu
Joan Grimbert, Chair and Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research/Teaching Interests: Medieval French literature and language.
grimbert@cua.edu
Tobias Hoffmann, Associate Professor, School of Philosophy
Ph.D., Universite de Fribourg
Research/Teaching Interests: Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, medieval ethics.
hoffmann@cua.edu
Katherine L. Jansen, Associate Professor, Department of History
Ph.D., Princeton University
Research/Teaching Interests: History of women and gender, medieval religious cultures, hagiography, medieval Italy.
jansen@cua.edu
William Klingshirn, Professor, Department of Greek and Latin
Ph.D., Stanford University
Research/Teaching Interests: Late antique history, Roman religion, Christianization, divination.
klingshirn@cua.edu
Shialing Kwa, Lecturer and Course Supervisor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Ph.D., Yale University
Research/Teaching Interests: Medieval Spanish literature and language
kwa@cua.edu
William P. Loewe, Associate Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Ph.D., Marquette University
Research/Teaching Interests: Systematic and fundamental theology, especially Christology and soteriology, Lonergan Studies.
loewe@cua.edu
Father John Lynch, Professor Emeritus, School of Canon Law
Ph.D., University of Toronto
Research/ Teaching Interests: History of canon law, medieval history.
lynch@cua.edu
Frank A.C. Mantello, Professor, Department of Greek and Latin
Ph.D., University of Toronto
Research/Teaching Interests: Medieval Latin, Latin paleography, textual criticism.
mantello@cua.edu
William C. Mattison III, Assistant Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Research/Teaching Interests: Moral theology of St. Thomas Aquinas, virtue ethics.
mattison@cua.edu
Angela McKay, Assistant Professor, School of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Research/Teaching Interests: Virtue, ethics, Thomas Aquinas.
mckay@cua.edu
Rev. Mark Morozowich, Associate Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies
SEOL, SEOD, Pontifical Oriental Institute
Research/Teaching Interests: Byzantine liturgy.
morozowich@cua.edu
Leonora Neville, Associate Professor, Department of History
Ph.D., Princeton University
Research/Teaching Interests: Byzantine history, middle Byzantine social and cultural history, especially authority and social regulation, historiography, appropriations of Roman culture, gender and religion.
nevillel@cua.edu
Timothy B. Noone, Ordinary Professor, School of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Toronto
Research/Teaching Interests: John Duns Scotus, Franciscan philosophy, metaphysics in the High Middle Ages, medieval intellectual culture.
noonet@cua.edu
Denis J. Obermeyer, Assistant Curator, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
Ph.D., The Catholic University of America
Research/ Teaching Interests: Theology and literature, Christology, church history.
obermeyer@cua.edu
Kenneth Pennington, Kelly-Quinn Professor of Ecclesiastical and Legal History, Columbus School of Law and School of Canon Law
Ph.D., Cornell University
Research/Teaching Interests: Ancient, medieval and early modern legal history, history of constitutional thought, political theory, Church history, history of universities, paleography.
pennington@cua.edu
John F. Petruccione, Associate Professor, Department of Greek and Latin
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research/Teaching Interests: Latin Patristics, early Christian poetry and hagiography.
petruccione@cua.edu
Lawrence R. Poos, Dean of School of Arts & Sciences, Ordinary Professor, Department of History
Ph.D., Cambridge University
Research Interests: Late medieval social and economic history.
poos@cua.edu
Philip Rousseau, Director and Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Center for the Study of Early Christianity
Ph.D., Oxford University
Research/Teaching Interests: Late antique religion with emphasis on early Christian asceticism.
rousseau@cua.edu
Shawqi Talia, Instructor, Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures
Ph.D., The Catholic University of America
Research/Teaching Interests: Arabic, Neo-Syriac, Garshuni texts, simultaneous interpretation (Arabic-English).
talia@cua.edu
Janet Timbie, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Research/Teaching Interests: Coptic, Egyptian asceticism and monasticism.
jtimbie@worldnet.att.net
Matthias Vorwerk, Assistant Professor, School of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Münster, Germany
Research/Teaching Interests: Ancient philosophy, Plato, Plotinus, Neoplatonism.
vorwerk@cua.edu
Grayson Wagstaff, Associate Professor and Director, Latin American Center for Graduate Studies, Rome School of Music
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Research/Teaching Interests: Late medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music in Spain and Mexico.
wagstaff@cua.edu
Susan Wessel, Assistant Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Ph.D., Columbia University
Research/Teaching Interests: History of church councils, Christology, formation of Orthodoxy, Heresiology, reception of classical antiquity, hagiography, Christian Anthropology, the theology of compassion.
wessels@cua.edu
Kevin White, Associate Professor, School of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Ottawa
Research/Teaching Interests: Medieval Latin philosophy, medieval rhetoric, Thomas Aquinas.
whitek@cua.edu
Monsignor John H. Wippel, Ordinary Professor, School of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Louvain
Research/ Teaching Interests: Medieval philosophy, Thomas Aquinas, Godfrey of Fontaines.
wippel@cua.edu
Father James A. Wiseman, Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies
S.T.D., The Catholic University of America
Research/Teaching Interests: Christian spirituality, including that of some medieval authors.
Rev. Michael G. Witczak, Assistant Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies
SLL and SLD, Pontifical Liturgical Institute (Pontifical Athenaeum S. Anselmo), Rome
Research/Teaching Interests: History of the liturgy, sacramental liturgy, Medieval Latin liturgy, especially the development of the Ordo missae, the cult of the saints.
witczak@cua.edu
Stephen Wright, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature
Ph.D., Indiana University
Research/Teaching Interests: Middle English and European literature, medieval drama.
wrights@cua.edu
Last Revised 27-Oct-09 12:56 PM.