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
Active Faculty
Emeriti and Former 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 Riggsby Director; 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 of French
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; Former Riggsby Director
Department of English
Gregory Kaplan
Professor of Spanish, Distinguished Professor in the Humanities Emeritus
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Maura K. Lafferty
Former Associate Professor of Classics and Marco 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
Aleydis Van De Moortel
Chancellor’s Professor, Lindsay Young Professor, and Head of Classics
Department of Classics
Affiliated Faculty and Staff
Alexandra Brewer
Associate Director of Advising Services
College of Arts & Sciences
313 Ayres Hall
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 Literature
Supervisor: 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 literature
Supervisor: R.D. Perry
Abigail Page
MA Candidate
Gender and Trans Theory in Medieval Literature
Supervisor: R.D. Perry
Hudson Walker
MA Student
Supervisor:
History
Nico Cipriani
PhD Student
Byzantine History
Supervisor: F. Yirga
Madison Fogle
PhD Candidate
Gender and Sexuality in Greek and Syriac Christianity
Supervisor: C. Shepardson
Susan Hernandez
MA Candidate; 2026-27 Marco/History Graduate Student Intern
Merovingian Women and Queenship
Supervisor: M. Gillis
John W. Jones
PhD Student
Merovingian Christianity, Late Antique Religion and Politics
Supervisor: M. Gillis
Sara José
PhD Candidate
Late Antique Syriac Christianity and Apocalyptic Writing
Supervisor: C. Shephardson
Kimberly Krueger-Reilly
PhD Student
The Body in Carolingian Christianity
Supervisor: M. Gillis
Ryan Lozano
MA Student
Supervisor:
Allie Richardson
PhD Candidate
Free and Imperial Cities under the Holy Roman Empire, 13th-15th Centuries
Supervisor: R. Bast
Gabrielle Roberts
MA Student
Supervisor: R. Bast
Nicolas Robinson
MA Candidate; 2025-26 Marco History Graduate Student Intern
Later Byzantine History
Supervisor: F. Yirga
James Cameron Sterling
PhD Student
Crusade Chronicles as Didactic Texts
Supervisor: M. Gillis
Kayla Wylie
MA Candidate
Religion and Politics in the Holy Roman Empire
Supervisor: 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
Alumni
2026
| Koudjo Degle | MA French | “L’epistolaire dans la literature africaine francophone: l’intime et l’ecriture“ |
| Elisabeth Peulausk-Ponder | MA Mediterranean Archaeology | “The Hinterlands of Lixus: An Osteobiography of a Medieval Moroccan Burial” |
| Amanda Platz | PhD English | “A Storm is Brewing: Medieval Holy Women and Weather in Late-Medieval England” |
| Elizabeth Tarulis | PhD Anthropology | “‘Much time thereby unprofitably expended’? An Analysis of North American Tobacco Pipes in 17th-century New England” |
| Jessica Wright | MA English | “Monstrous Mirrors: Chivalric Instability and the Knight in Medieval Romance” |
| Zhao Zhang | MA English | “Reading the Cataloguing Mind: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare” |
2025
| Adel Alshammari | PhD English | “English Representations of Muslim Characters in the Drama of the Renaissance” |
| Stacie Beach | PhD History | “Arbitration and Conciliation: A Social History of Imperial Petitions and Rescripts, 200-450” |
| Aspyn Freeman | MA English | “‘Of ful gret sadnes‘: The Presentation of Feminine Grief, Sorrow, and Mourning in John Lydgate’s Troy Book” |
| Mallory Nischan | PhD French | “Retelling Resistance: Orality, Writing, and the Kahina in North African Francophone Literature” |
| Griffen Smith | MA French | “What Does God Have to Do with Sports? Sports and Secularism in Professional Soccer and Football” |
| Sarah Yancey | PhD English | “The Medieval-ish McCarthy: Medieval Afterlives in Appalachian Literature” |
2024
| Adam Aaron | PhD History | “The Sons of Melisende: Baldwin III, Amalric, and Kingship in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1143-1174 CE” |
| Matthew Baker | PhD History | “The World of Lérins: Ontology and the Late Antique Monastery, 400–529 CE” |
| Ally Dellgren | MA Musicology | “The Trouble with Categorization: Essentialisms of Gender and Genre in the Appalachian Heavy Metal Scene” |
| Ian Geary | MA History | |
| Mackenzie King | MA HIstory | |
| Joshua Mangle | PhD English | “A Love So Legendary: Queering the Prose Lancelot“ |
| Emily Roberts | PhD English | “Bathsheba in Early Modern Literature” |
| Jason Stubblefield | PhD History | “History as a Religious Category in the Writings of William of Malmesbury” |
| Kayla Shea | PhD English | “Wif, Cwen, Ides: The Cultural Construction of Women and Femininity in Early Medieval England” |
2023
| Kelsey Blake | PhD History | “The Body Restored: Illness, Disability, and Healing in Early Medieval Miracle Narratives” |
| Harley Campbell | PhD English | “Fallen Flesh: Experiencing the Body in the Middle English Lives of Adam and Eve” |
| Michael Lovell | PhD History | “A Dark-Age Enlightenment: Reason, Faith, and Social Intolerance in Frankish Culture, 380-754 CE” |
| Thomas Maurer | PhD History | “‘In That Day, the Dragon Will Approach the City’: Italy and the Apocalyptic Dream |
2022
| Jordan Amspacher | PhD History | “Troya Victa: Empire, Identity, and Apocalypse in the Frankish Chronicles of the Fourth Crusade” |
| Caroline Jansen | PhD English | “Begone Thought: Temptation To Despair in Late-Medieval Religious Literature” |
| Lily Sanders | MA History | |
| Caitlin Branum Thrash | PhD English | “Seeing with the Eyes of the Soul: Visionary Women, Meditative Lives of Christ, and Their Readers in Late-Medieval England, |
| Klayton Tietjen | PhD French | “Epic Identity Crisis: the Effects of Rebellious Narratives and Racial Discourse on Chivalric Culture in 12th-century Chansons de Geste” |
2021
| Alexandra Garnhart-Bushakra | PhD History | “If Life Were Verse: Classical Masculinity and Memories of Violence in First Crusade Narratives” |
| Amy Huesman | PhD History | “The Wilderness Experience: Imitatio Christi and the Demonic Encounters of Italian Holy Women of the Quattrocento” |
| Laura Roesch | PhD History | “A Fine Spray of Blood’: Martyrdom, Violence, and Sacred Landscapes in the Late Antique Mediterranean” |
2020
| Dustin Breitkreuz | MA History | |
| Brittany Poe | PhD History | “Teacher and Preacher: Alan of Lille and Scholastic Theology in Paris and Occitania” |
| Alex Spanjer | MA History |
2019
| Alanna Heatherly | BA Medieval & Renaissance Studies/History/Classics | |
| Katie Kleinkopf | PhD History | “A Second Skin: Ascetics as Body-Places in Late Antique Christianity” |
| Kendra Slayton | PhD English | “Gender, Free Will, and Circumscription in Chaucer” |
2018
| Jeremy Pearson | PhD History | “William of Tripoli and his Middle-Eastern Context” |
| Brad Phillis | PhD History | “Crusade, Reform, and the Counts of Flanders, 1071-1204” |
| Lydia Walker | PhD History | “Ad sanctos ultimi temporis: Lay Spirituality, Crusading, and Reform in the Sermons of Jacques de Vitry” |
2017
| Stefan Hodges-Kluck | PhD History | “Ascetic Bodies: Philosophical Self-Presentation in Late Antique Cappadocia” |
| Teresa Lopez | PhD English | “Re-Writing English Identity: Medieval Historians of Anglo-Norman Britain” |
| Sarah Moore | MA English | “The Importance of Disguise in the Middle English Romances” |
| James Stewart | PhD English | “Lords of Retinue: Middle English Romance and Noblemen in Need” |
| Jesse Stratton | MA English |
2016
| R. Scott Bevill | PhD English | “Old English Manuscripts in the Early Age of Print: Matthew Parker and his Scribes” |
| Jake Brannum | BA History | |
| Andrew Eichel | PhD English | “Patristic Precedent and Vernacular Innovation: the Practice and Theory of Anglo-Saxon Translation” |
| Teresa Hooper | PhD English | “Re-Mapping the Space of the Sacred in the Nowell Codex” |
| Geoff Martin | PhD History | “Mozarab Readers of the Bible, from the Cordoban Martyrs to the Glossa Ordinaria” |
| Houston McClure | MA French | |
| Patrick Mooney | MA History |
2015
| Alison Gose | BA History / Religious Studies | |
| Katherine Hodges-Kluck | PhD History | “The Matter of Jerusalem: The Holy Land in Angevin Court Culture and Identity, c. 1154-1216” |
| Thomas Lecaque | PhD History | “The Count of Saint-Gilles and the Saints of the Apocalype: Occitanian Culture and Piety in the Time of the First Crusade” |
| Nathan Kent Reeves | MA Musicology |
2014
| Joshua Durbin | PhD History | “Inherited Masculinities?: Noble Fathers and Sons and Aspects of Masculinity in Early Modern England, 1530-1630” |
| Tricia George | PhD English | “The Auchinleck Manuscript: A Study in Manuscript Production, Scribal Innovation, and Literary Value in the Early 14th Century” |
| Sara Gottardi | MA Spanish | |
| Matthew Monk | BA History / Medieval & Renaissance Studies | |
| Virginia Stormer | PhD English | “A Mirror for Spectators: The Dramaturgy of Participation and Unreliable Mirror Figures in Sixteenth-Century Drama” |
2013
| Evan Elkins | MA History | |
| T. Christopher Lawrence | PhD History | “Crisis of Legitimacy: Honorius, Galla Placidia, and the Struggles for Control of the Western Roman Empire, 405 – 425 C.E.” |
| Anthony Minnema | PhD History | “The Latin Readers of Algazel, 1150-1600” |
| Travis Shockley | MA History |
2012
| Will Biel | MA English | |
| Jenny Bledsoe | BA English / Religious Studies / Latin / History | |
| Ted Booth | PhD History | “A Body Politic to Govern: The Political Humanism of Elizabeth I” |
| Miguel Gomez | PhD History | “Las Navas de Tolosa: The Practice and Culture of Crusade in Medieval Iberia“ |
2010
| Jonathan Allen | MA History | |
| Timothy Duis | MA History | |
| Gabriel Fidler | MA History | “Building the Norman Achievement: Architecture and the Conquest of England and Southern Italy“ |
| Brad Pardue | PhD History | “‘[A] litle treatyse in prynte and euen in the english tongue’: Appeals to the Public during the Early Years of the English Reformation” |
2008
| Allison Elledge | MA History |