Directory
The Marco Institute is home to one of the largest premodern studies communities in the United States. We have over fifty affiliated faculty members and two dozen graduate students from over a dozen departments and programs around the College of Arts and Sciences and beyond. Our community boasts specialists from Late Antiquity to the eighteenth century, and from Europe and the Mediterranean to the Middle East, East Asia, and the Americas.
Faculty & Staff
Leadership
Anne-Hélène Miller
Riggsby Director of the Marco Institute; Associate Professor of French
Department of World Languages & Cultures
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Salvador Bartera
Associate Director Assistant Professor of Classics
Department of Classics
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Ryan T. Goodman
Program Manager
Marco Institute for Medieval & Renaissance Studies
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Active Faculty
Randi Marie Addicott
Teaching Professor
Department of English
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John Tristan Barnes
Teaching Associate Professor
Department of Classics
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Robert Bast
Associate Professor
Department of History
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Kristen Block
Associate Professor
Department of History
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Megan Bryson
Lindsay Young Associate Professor
Department of Religious Studies
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Manuela Ceballos
Associate Professor
Department of Religious Studies
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Gosia Citko-DuPlantis
Assistant Professor of Japanese
Department of World Languages & Cultures
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Jennifer Collins-Elliott
Associate Teaching Professor
Department of Religious Studies
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Stephen A. Collins-Elliott
Associate Professor and Head of Classics
Department of Classics
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Caitlin Dahl
Assistant Professor of French
Department of World Languages & Cultures
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Erin Darby
Associate Professor
Department of Religious Studies
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Robert Darby
Teaching Associate Professor
School of Art (Art History)
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J.P. Dessel
Steinfeld Professor of the Archaeology of Ancient Israel
Department of History
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Gina Di Salvo
Associate Professor
Department of Theatre
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Natalia Doan
Associate Professor
Department of History
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Mary Dzon
Associate Professor
Department of English
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Matthew Gillis
Associate Professor
Department of History
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Rachel May Golden
Professor of Musicology
College of Music
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Hilary Havens
Lindsay Young Associate Professor; Director of the Digital Humanities Interdisciplinary Program
Department of English
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Duncan Hardy
Associate Professor
Department of History
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Heather Hirschfeld
Distinguished Professor of the Humanities
Department of English
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Gregor A. Kalas
Professor of Architecture; Past Riggsby Director
College of Architecture & Design
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Lisa King
Associate Professor
Department of English
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Charles Kuper
Assistant Professor
Department of Classics
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Jacob Latham
Associate Professor
Department of History
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Scott MacKenzie
Teaching Associate Professor
Department of English
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Annachiara Mariani
Assistant Professor of Italian
Department of World Languages and Cultures
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Harrison Meadows
Associate Professor of Spanish
Department of World Languages and Cultures
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Samantha Murphy
Teaching Professor
Department of English
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Michael Naparstek
Associate Teaching Professor
Department of Religious Studies
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Stefanie Ohnesorg
Associate Professor of German
Department of World Languages and Cultures
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R.D. Perry
Associate Professor
Department of English
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Amanda Platz
Postdoctoral Fellow and Teaching Assistant Professor
Department of English
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Nathan Reeves
Teaching Assistant Profe ssor;Chair, Global Studies Program
Global Studies
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Sean Roberts
Teaching Professor
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Charles Sanft
Professor
Department of History
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Guy Sechrist
Teaching Assistant Professor
Department of History
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J. Clerk Shaw
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
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Christine Shepardson
Distinguished Professor in the Humanities
Department of Religious Studies
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Daniel Sheridan
Instructor
English Language Institute
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Steven Smith
Bruce and Nancy Sullivan Dean of Libraries and the University Press
University Libraries
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Emma Snowden
Assistant Professor
Department of History
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Phillip Stokes
Associate Professor of Arabic
Department of World Languages and Cultures
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Jason Stubblefield
Teaching Assistant Professor
Medieval & Renaissance Studies
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Marie Balsley Taylor
Assistant Professor
Department of English
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Klayton Tietjen
Teaching Assistant Professor
Department of World Languages and Cultures
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Anthony Welch
Associate Professor
Department of English
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Jessica Westerhold
Assistant Professor
Department of Classics
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Kelli Wood
Assistant Professor
School of Art
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Duygu Yıldırım
Assistant Professor
Department of History
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Felege-Selam Yirga
Assistant Professor
Department of History
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Emeriti Faculty
Paul Barrette
Professor Emeritus of French
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Jane Bellamy
Professor Emerita
Department of English
Anne Bridges
Emerita Professor & Librarian, History and Medieval Studies Librarian
University Libraries
Palmira Brummett
Professor of History Emerita
Department of History
Thomas E. Burman
Former Director of the Medieval Institute at Notre Dame
Department of History
D. Allen Carroll
Professor Emeritus
Department of English
Sheldon Cohen
Professor Emeritus
Department of Philosophy
Bryant Creel
Professor Emeritus
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Salvatore DiMaria
Professor Emeritus of Italian
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Millie Gimmel
Professor Emerita of Spanish
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Rosalind W. Gwynne
Professor Emerita
Department of Religious Studies
Dottie Habel
Professor Emerita
School of Art
Thomas J. Hefferman
Kenneth Curry Professor in the Humanities Emeritus
Department of English
Laura Howes
Professor Emerita
Department of English
Professor of Spanish, Distinguished Professor in the Humanities
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Maura K. Lafferty
Medieval Latin Advisor
The Marco Institute
Miriam Levering
Professor Emerita
Department of Religious Studies
Roy Liuzza
Professor Emeritus
Department of English
Jeff Mellor
Professor Emeritus of German
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Amy Neff
Professor Emerita
School of Art
Robert E. Stillman
Professor Emeritus
Department of English
David W. Tandy
Professor Emeritus
Department of Classics
Joseph Trahern
Professor Emeritus
Department of English
Chancellor’s Professor, Lindsay Young Professor, and Head of Classics
Department of Classics
Affiliated Faculty and Staff
Shaina Anderson
Humanities Librarian
University Libraries
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Alexandra Brewer
Associate Director of Advising Services, College of Arts & Sciences
313 Ayres Hall
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Jed Diamond
Associate Professor
Department of Theatre
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Jennifer Donley
Director of Support Services, College of Arts & Sciences
311B Ayres Hall
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Amy Elias
Professor of English; Director, Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts
Cherokee Mills Suite 223
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Alan Rutenberg
Director, Proposal Development
Office of Research
Phone: 865-974-8686
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Hannah Schmidt
Arts and Humanities Grants Liaison
Office of Research
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Virginia Stormer
Assistant Director for Experiential Learning
Teaching and Learning Innovation
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Current Graduate Students
English
Braden Burton
PhD Candidate
Supervisor: R.D. Perry
Sara Creel
PhD Candidate; 2025-26 Marco Haslam Dissertation Fellow
“Rewriting the Bard: Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Plays in Online Spaces of Fandom”Supervisor: H. Hirschfeld
Taylor DeMichael
PhD Candidate; 2026-27 Marco Haslam Dissertation Fellow
Supervisor: M. Dzon
Taylor Fairbairns
PhD Candidate; 2026-27 Marco Public Humanities Fellow
“The Loathly Lady’s Mental Monstrosity”Supervisor: A. Welch
Samuel Gleason
PhD Candidate; 2024-25/2025-26 Marco Public Humanities Fellow
Reception of Greco-Roman Classics in Medieval & Renaissance LiteratureSupervisor: R.D. Perry
Nico Hauser
MA Candidate
Supervisor: R.D. Perry
Bridget Mackie
PhD Student
Supervisor:
Mary Oates
PhD Student
Women and monstrosity in medieval literatureSupervisor: R.D. Perry
Abigail Page
MA Candidate
Gender and Trans Theory in Medieval LiteratureSupervisor: R.D. Perry
Hudson Walker
MA Student
Supervisor:
History
Nico Cipriani
PhD Student
Byzantine HistorySupervisor: F. Yirga
Madison Fogle
PhD Candidate
Gender and Sexuality in Greek and Syriac ChristianitySupervisor: C. Shepardson
Susan Hernandez
MA Candidate; 2026-27 Marco/History Graduate Student Intern
Merovingian Women and QueenshipSupervisor: M. Gillis
John W. Jones
PhD Student
Merovingian Christianity, Late Antique Religion and PoliticsSupervisor: M. Gillis
Sara José
PhD Candidate
Late Antique Syriac Christianity and Apocalyptic WritingSupervisor: C. Shephardson
Kimberly Krueger
PhD Student
Carolingian ChristianitySupervisor: M. Gillis
Ryan Lozano
MA Student
Supervisor:
Allie Richardson
PhD Candidate
Free and Imperial Cities under the Holy Roman Empire, 13th-15th CenturiesSupervisor: R. Bast
Gabrielle Roberts
MA Student
Supervisor: R. Bast
Nicolas Robinson
MA Candidate; 2025-26 Marco History Graduate Student Intern
Later Byzantine HistorySupervisor: F. Yirga
James Cameron Sterling
PhD Student
Crusade Chronicles as Didactic TextsSupervisor: M. Gillis
Kayla Wylie
MA Candidate
Religion and Politics in the Holy Roman EmpireSupervisor: R. Bast
World Languages & Cultures
Koudjo Degle
PhD Student in French
Supervisor: M. Seck
Ann-Sophie Kohlbrenner
MA Candidate in German; 2026-27 Marco Medieval & Renaissance Studies GTA
Supervisor: S. Ohnesorg
José Sarzi Amade
PhD Candidate in Spanish; 2026-27 Anne Marie Van Hook Travel Fellowship
“Illegitimacy and Legal Personhood in Early Modern Hispano-American Literature”Supervisor: H. Meadows
Morgan Schneider
PhD Candidate in Spanish
“Imperial Devils: Representing the Diabolical in the Early Modern Hispanic Tradition”Supervisor: H. Meadows
