Lombard Gradual, Italy, mid 15th century Medievalists at Cornell

This section provides information on the people in the Program of Medieval Studies at Cornell, including faculty, staff, graduate students, and alumni/ae. Dissertation abstracts from previous years are available under the graduate students heading.



Medieval Studies Faculty and Staff

Administrative Faculty and Staff

Director of Graduate Studies
Professor Andrew Galloway
Department of English
259 Goldwin Smith Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-3201.
Telephone: (607) 255-8545
Contact:  (607) 255-2325 asg6@cornell.edu
 

Graduate Field Assistant
Dianne Ferriss
259 Goldwin Smith Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-3201.
Telephone: (607) 255-8545
medievalst@cornell.edu
df14@cornell.edu


Program in Medieval Studies Faculty

All faculty members appointed to the Program in Medieval Studies also hold positions in other departments. Click on any of the links below for that faculty's other departmental page.

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Ahl, Frederick M. | Professor
Department of Classics

Campus address:  123 Goldwin Smith Hall
Contact:  (607) 255-8324 | fma2@cornell.edu

Scholarly interests:  Late Latin epic.

Kimberly D. Bowes | Assistant Professor
Department of Classics
Campus address: G27 Goldwin Smith Hall
Contact: (607) 255-0538 | kdb48@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests: late antique archaeology, late Roman economy, archaeology of religion.

Brann, Ross | Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies
Department of Near Eastern Studies
Campus address: 405 White Hall
Contact:  (607) 255-5450 | rb23@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests:  Judeo-Islamic studies; Islamic Spain.

Brittain, Charles F. | Associate Professor
Department of Classics (Director of Graduate Studies) | Department of Philosophy
Campus address:  121 Goldwin Smith Hall
Contact:  (607) 255-8330 | cfb9@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests: Early medieval philosophy (Christian and pagan); Platonism; intellectual history.

Browne, E. Wayles | Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
Campus address:  220 Morrill Hall
Contact:  (607) 255-0712 | ewb2@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests: Old Church Slavonic; historical and comparative Slavic philology; South Slavic languages, Polish, Russian and Belarusian, the Balkan language area, Old Church Slavonic, Slavic historical grammar, comparative and contrastive grammar, and pedagogical grammar. In general linguistics: syntax, morphology, and phonology (in particular relative and other subordinate clauses) interrogatives, clitic rules, word order, reflexive verbs, accent rules, etc., usually using Slavic material.

Colby-Hall, Alice M. | Professor of French Literature (Emerita)
Department of Romance Studies
Campus address: 416 Morrill Hall
Contact: (607) 255-4901 | amc12@cornell.edu

Scholarly interests:  Old French epic, courtly romance, the history of the French language, Old French and Old Occitan (Provençal) language and literature.

Falk, Oren | Assistant Professor
Department of History
Campus address:  341 McGraw Hall
Contact: (607) 255-3311| of24@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests:   Medieval Scandinavia and Old Norse (history and literature); cultural history, especially of medieval Europe; violence, honour and gender; paganism and conversion history.

Galloway, Andrew | Professor
Director of Graduate Studies (DGS), Medieval Studies
Department of English
Campus address:  63 Goldwin Smith Hall
Contact:  (607) 255-2325 | asg6@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests:  Old and Middle English (at present especially Chaucer, Langland, Gower); medieval history writing; intellectual communities and the sociology of knowledge; visions of women and women's writings; paleography and codicology.

Groos, Arthur | Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities (On leave 2007/08)
Department of German Studies | Department of Music
Campus address:  182 Goldwin Smith Hall
Contact:  (607) 255-8354| abg3@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests: Old and Middle High German literature; early modern city culture; German and Italian opera; history of science.

Haines-Eitzen, Kim | Associate Professor (On leave fall 2007)
Department of Near Eastern Studies (chair)
Campus address: 409 White Hall
Contact: (607) 255-2519 | kjh10@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests: Early Christianity and early Judaism; religion in Late Antiquity; text transmission in Late Antiquity; asceticism and monasticism.

Harbert, Wayne | Professor
Department of Linguistics (Director of Undergraduate Studies)
Campus address: 210 Morrill Hall
Contact:  (607) 255-8441 | weh2@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests:  Syntactic structures of the Germanic languages (especially the older ones) and the Celtic languages (primarily Welsh and Scottish Gaelic), and what they can tell us about the principles of syntactic organization operating in natural language. Germanic philology (Old Norse and Icelandic, Old and Middle High German, Old English, Old Saxon, Gothic, modern German and Scandinavian languages), Celtic language and philology (especially medieval and modern Welsh).

Hill, Thomas D. | Professor
Department of English
Campus address:  262 Goldwin Smith Hall
Contact:  (607) 255-3799 |  tdh1@cornell.edu

Scholarly interests:  Old and Middle English literature; Old Norse-Icelandic literature; English philology. Though primarily interested in literature, he has occasionally served on committees of students interested in linguistics.

Hinrichs, TJ | Assistant Professor (On leave fall 2007)
Department of History
Campus address: 306 McGraw Hall
Contact: (607) 254-1694 | th289@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests: Medical history, Chinese government policies to educate southern peoples in medicine, suppression of southern "shamans."

Howie, Cary | Assistant Professor
Department of Romance Studies
Campus address: 321 Morrill Hall
Contact: (607) 255-1379 | csh34@cornell.edu

Scholarly interests: Medieval French and Italian literature; phenomenology; theology; pornography; critical poetics; sexuality and gender studies.

Hyams, Paul | Professor
Department of History
Campus address:  307 McGraw Hall
Contact:  (607) 255-2076 | prh3@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests:  Medieval, European social, legal, political history. England to 1400.

Kaske, Carol V. | Professor (Emerita)
Department of English
Campus address:  159 Goldwin Smith Hall
Contact:  (607) 255-4138 |  cvk2@cornell.edu

Scholarly interests:   Edmund Spenser; Dante; Malory; Renaissance Latin writers such as Erasmus, Ficino; other non-dramatic literature of the High Middle Ages and Renaissance; cultural history of these periods, especially gender, patronage, printing, religion, magic, and Neoplatonism; in literature as a whole—rhetoric, epic, romance, and the theory and practice of the allegorical and symbolic modes.

Kennedy, William J. | Professor
Department of Comparative Literature
Campus address: 163 Goldwin Smith Hall
Contact: (607) 255-3398 | wjk3@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests: Rhetoric; Neo-Latin; medieval Latin and Italian literature. Italian, French, English, and German texts from Dante to Milton.

Kuniholm, Peter I. | Professor (Emeritus)
History of Art & Archaeology
Campus address: B48/334 Goldwin Smith Hall
Contact: (607) 255-8650 | pik3@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests: Classical and Near Eastern archaeology, Aegean dendrochronology, numismatics.

MacDonald, Scott | N. K. Regan Professor in Christian Studies/Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
Campus address:  320 Goldwin Smith Hall
Contact:  (607) 255-6823 | scm8@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests:  Specializes in medieval philosophy and philosophy of religion. His interests also include ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of action, and Aristotle. He has taught advanced courses in recent years on Augustine, Aquinas's moral psychology, the concept of free will in the Middle Ages, the place of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics in medieval philosophy, and divine goodness.

Manning, Sturt | Goldwin Smith Professor of Classical Archaeology
Department of Classics
Campus address: 135 Goldwin Smith Hall/B48 Goldwin Smith Hall
Contact: (607) 255-8650 | sm456@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests: Archaeology (especially Mediterranean, Near East and Europe), archaeological theory, complex societies; dendrochronology (and dendroarchaeology and dendro-environment studies) - for example re Medieval period: structures, landscapes, etc., in Europe and Mediterranean region; climate and history; archaeological science.

Migiel, Marilyn | Professor
Department of Romance Studies
Campus address: 311 Morrill Hall
Contact: (607) 255-4821 | mm55@cornell.edu

Scholarly interests: Italian literature and culture (especially 1200-1600). Feminist criticism. Critical pedagogy.

Najemy, John M. | Professor
Department of History
Campus address:  318 McGraw Hall
Contact:  (607) 255-6748 | jmn4@cornell.edu

Scholarly interests:  Late Medieval and Renaissance history; Italy, 1250-1559; Florence: political, socioeconomic, constitutional, and cultural history; intellectual history of Western Europe, 1300-1600.

Peraino, Judith | Associate Professor (On leave 2007/08)
Department of Music
Campus address:  116 Lincoln Hall
Contact: (607) 255-5059 |  jap28@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests:  Medieval musicology, thirteenth-century French secular music, music and queer identity, rock music and gender.

Pinet, Simone | Assistant Professor (On leave spring 2008)
Department of Romance Studies
Campus address: 313 Morrill Hall
Contact: (607) 255-7724 | sp349@cornell.edu

Scholarly interests: Medieval Spanish literature, especially books of chivalry, Golden Age poetics, cartography, theories of space, "mester de clerecía," romance.

Powers, David S. | Professor (On leave 2007/08)
Department of Near Eastern Studies
Campus address: 406 White Hall
Contact: (607) 255-6275 | dsp4@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests:  Medieval Islamic history and law.

Raskolnikov, Masha | Assistant Professor
Department of English
Campus address:  165 Goldwin Smith Hall
Contact:  (607) 255-9505 | mr283@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests: Middle English literature, allegory theory, medieval philosophy and rhetoric, contemporary critical theory, feminist and queer studies.

Rebillard, Eric | Associate Professor
Department of Classics | Department of History
Campus address: 120 Goldwin Smith Hall
Contact: (607) 255-8640 | er97@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests: History and Archaeology of Late Antiquity, Transformation of the Classical World, Tertullian, Augustine, Latin Sermons.

Robinson, Cynthia | Assistant Professor
History of Art & Archaeology
Campus address: Goldwin Smith G35A
Contact: (607) 255-4812 | cr94@cornell.edu

Scholarly interests: Medieval Mediterranean visual culture, 1000-1500 A.D. (Islamic and Christian); religion and art.

Ruff, Carin | Assistant Professor (On leave spring 2008)
Medieval Studies Program | Department of English
Campus address: Goldwin Smith 283
Contact: (607) 255-6806 | cr222@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests: Anglo-Latin and Old English language and literature; narrative and historiography; history of grammar, especially glossography and pedagogy of Latin syntax and versification; history of the book; Latin paleography.

Sayers, William | Adjunct Professor
Department of Comparative Literature
Campus address: 110 Olin Library
Contact: (607) 255-9487 | ws36@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests: Medieval western European languages and literatures (in particular Old Norse, Middle Irish, and Anglo-Norman French); cultures in contact; technical vocabularies and the transfer of technology (in particular nautical and maritime).

Senderovich, Savely | Professor (On leave fall 2007)
Department of Russian Literature
Campus address: 226A Morrill Hall
Contact: (607) 255-2007 |  ss51@cornell.edu

Scholarly interests:   Medieval Russian literature.

Toorawa, Shawkat | Associate Professor
Department of Near Eastern Studies
Campus address: 407 White Hall
Contact: (607) 255-1330 |  smt24@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests:  Classical and medieval Arabic literature, modern Arabic poetry, plural Islam, and the Indian Ocean.

Warner, Ding Xiang | Associate Professor (On leave spring 2008)
Department of Asian Studies
Campus address: 347 Rockefeller Hall
Contact: (607) 255-6738 | dxw2@cornell.edu

Scholarly interests: Chinese literature and literary thought from Han through early Song; medieval Chinese intellectual history; text production and text culture in pre-modern China.

Weiss, Michael L. | Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
Campus address: 213 Morrill Hall
Contact: (607) 255-3073 | mlw36@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests: Indo-European linguistics, Old Irish.

Wetherbee, Winthrop | Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities (Emeritus)
Department of English | Department of Classics
Campus address:  283 Goldwin Smith
Contact:  (607) 255-6806 | ww22@cornell.edu | web

Scholarly interests:  Chaucer; Middle English; Classical and medieval Latin; Dante; Old French poetry; Medieval literary criticitism.

Zacher, Samantha | Assistant Professor
Department of English
Campus address: 239 Goldwin Smith Hall
Contact: (607) 255-9307 | sz66@cornell.edu

Scholarly interests: Old English literature (with a special interest in prose homilies and biblical poetry); Middle English
literature; manuscript studies; rhetoric; studies in orality and literacy; history of the English language.