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


Philosophy

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.

MacDonald, Scott | Professor
Department of Philosophy (Director of Graduate Studies)
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.