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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:

 

 

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.
wiseman@cua.edu

 

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



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