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:
DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR MEDIEVAL AND BYZANTINE STUDIES
Graduate Advisor
Ph.D.,
Research/Teaching Interests: Iberian studies with an emphasis on Hispano-Arabic studies, Andalusian Sufism and Religious Poetry.
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Undergraduate Advisor
Lilla Kopár, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature
Ph.D.,
Research/Teaching Interests: Old (and Middle) English language and literature, Viking-age stone sculpture, Germanic mythology, medieval Scandinavia.
Father Regis Armstrong, Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Ph.D.,
Research/Teaching Interests: Franciscan and Medieval theology, Christian spirituality.
Joshua Benson, Assistant Professor,
Ph.D., Saint Louis University
Research/Teaching Interests: Systematic theology, history of medieval theology, history of Franciscan thought.
Monica J. Blanchard, Semitics/ICOR Library
Research/Teaching Interests: Languages and literatures of the Christian Near East, orientalist librarianship.
Uta Renate Blumenthal, Professor Emerita, Department of History
Research/Teaching Interests: Medieval institutional history, the Investiture Controversy.
Claudia Bornholdt, Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Ph.D.,
Research/Teaching Interests: Germanic languages and literatures, medieval European literature.
Joseph E. Capizzi, Associate Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Ph.D.,
Research/Teaching Interests: Medieval political theology, war and peace.
Jennifer Davis, Assistant Professor, Department of History
Ph.D., Harvard University
Research/Teaching Interests: Early medieval history, especially the Carolingians, early medieval archeology.
Gregory Doolan, Assistant Professor, School of Philosophy
Ph.D., The
Research/Teaching Interests: Medieval philosophy and metaphysics.
Ph.D., Université Catholique de Louvain; B. Phil., Oxford University
Research/Teaching Interests: Medieval Arabic philosophy, Greek philosophy (Plato), medieval Latin philosophy.
Michael Gorman, Associate Professor, School of Philosophy
Ph.D., SUNY
Research/Teaching Interests: Metaphysics and Christology.
Father Sidney Griffith, Professor, Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures
Ph.D.,
Research/Teaching Interests: Arabic Christianity, Syriac monasticism, medieval Christian-Muslim encounters, ecumenical and interfaith dialogue.
Joan Grimbert, Chair and Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Ph.D., University of
Research/Teaching Interests: Medieval French literature and language.
Ph.D., Universite de Fribourg
Research/Teaching Interests: Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, medieval ethics.
Katherine L. Jansen, Associate Professor, Department of History
Ph.D.,
Research/Teaching Interests: History of women and gender, medieval religious cultures, hagiography, medieval
William Klingshirn, Professor, Department of Greek and Latin
Ph.D.,
Research/Teaching Interests: Late antique history, Roman religion, Christianization, divination.
Shialing Kwa, Lecturer and Course Supervisor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Ph.D., Yale University
Research/Teaching Interests: Medieval Spanish literature and language
William P. Loewe, Associate Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Ph.D.,
Research/Teaching Interests: Systematic and fundamental theology, especially Christology and soteriology, Lonergan Studies.
Father John Lynch, Professor Emeritus, School of Canon Law
Research/ Teaching Interests: History of canon law, medieval history.
Frank A.C. Mantello, Professor, Department of Greek and Latin
Ph.D.,
Research/Teaching Interests: Medieval Latin, Latin paleography, textual criticism.
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.
Angela McKay, Assistant Professor, School of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Research/Teaching Interests: Virtue, ethics, Thomas Aquinas.
Rev. Mark Morozowich, Associate Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies
SEOL, SEOD, Pontifical Oriental Institute
Research/Teaching Interests: Byzantine liturgy.
Leonora Neville, Associate Professor, Department of History
Ph.D.,
Research/Teaching Interests: Byzantine history, middle Byzantine social and cultural history, especially authority and social regulation, historiography, appropriations of Roman culture, gender and religion.
Timothy B. Noone, Ordinary Professor, School of Philosophy
Ph.D.,
Research/Teaching Interests: John Duns Scotus, Franciscan philosophy, metaphysics in the High Middle Ages, medieval intellectual culture.
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.
Kenneth Pennington, Kelly-Quinn Professor of Ecclesiastical and Legal History, Columbus School of Law and School of Canon Law
Ph.D.,
Research/Teaching Interests: Ancient, medieval and early modern legal history, history of constitutional thought, political theory, Church history, history of universities, paleography.
Ph.D.,
Research Interests: Late medieval social and economic history.
Philip Rousseau, Director and Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Center for the Study of Early Christianity
Ph.D.,
Research/Teaching Interests: Late antique religion with emphasis on early Christian asceticism.
Shawqi Talia, Instructor, Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures
Ph.D., The
Research/Teaching Interests: Arabic, Neo-Syriac, Garshuni texts, simultaneous interpretation (Arabic-English).
Janet Timbie, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures
Ph.D.,
Research/Teaching Interests: Coptic, Egyptian asceticism and monasticism.
Matthias Vorwerk, Assistant Professor, School of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Münster, Germany
Research/Teaching Interests: Ancient philosophy, Plato, Plotinus, Neoplatonism.
Grayson Wagstaff, Associate Professor and
Ph.D.,
Research/Teaching Interests: Late medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music in
Susan Wessel, Assistant Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Ph.D.,
Research/Teaching Interests: History of church councils, Christology, formation of Orthodoxy, Heresiology, reception of classical antiquity, hagiography, Christian Anthropology, the theology of compassion.
Kevin White, Associate Professor, School of Philosophy
Ph.D.,
Research/Teaching Interests: Medieval Latin philosophy, medieval rhetoric, Thomas Aquinas.
Monsignor John H. Wippel, Ordinary Professor, School of Philosophy
Ph.D.,
Research/ Teaching Interests: Medieval philosophy, Thomas Aquinas, Godfrey of Fontaines.
Rev. Michael G. Witczak, Assistant Professor,
SLL and SLD, Pontifical Liturgical Institute (Pontifical Athenaeum S. Anselmo),
Stephen Wright, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature
Ph.D.,
Research/Teaching Interests: Middle English and European literature, medieval drama.