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.


Current Appointments held by Cornell Graduates

Current Students | Dissertation Abstracts | Appointments of Graduates

Bernd Goehring (Ph.D. 2006) | Assistant Professor, Program of Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame.

Johanna Kramer (Ph.D. 2006) | Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Missouri-Columbia.

James Schryver (Ph.D. 2005) | Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Minnesota-Morris.

Katherine Terrell (English Ph.D. 2005) | Assistant Professor of English, Hamilton College in Clinton, NY.

Jordi Sánchez Martí (Ph.D. 2004) | Assistant Professor of English, University of Alicante, Spain.

Ross Leasure (English Ph.D. 2004) | Assistant Professor, Department of English, Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland.

John Sebastian (Ph.D. 2004) | Assistant Professor, Department of English, Loyola University, New Orleans. His current projects include an edition of the fifteenth-century Croxton Play of the Sacrament and a review of recent psychoanalytic approaches to Chaucer that has been commissioned by the medieval section editor of "Literature Compass," a new on-line literature resource published by Blackwell (http://www.literature-compass.com/).

Andrew Cain (Ph.D. 2003) | Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Maribeth Polhill (German Ph.D. 2002) | Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras.

Kara Doyle (Ph.D. 2000) | Associate Professor of English, Union College in Schenectady, NY.

Sean Eisen Murphy (Ph.D. 2000) | Assistant Professor (Medieval and Early Modern Europe), Department of Liberal Studies, Western Washington University. Recent publication: "Concern about Judaizing in Academic Treatises on the Law, c. 1130-c. 1230," Speculum 82:3 (2007): 560-594.

Vicki Szabo (Ph.D. 2000) | Associate Professor of History, Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC.

Mary DeCoste (Romance Studies Ph.D. 2000) | Assistant Professor of Italian, University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario.

Sachi Shimomura (English Ph.D. 2000) | Associate Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Asa Mittman (B.A. 1998; Ph.D. Stanford 2003) | Senior Lecturer, School of Art, Arizona State University, and editor of ShelfLife: The Bulletin of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, a new publication in the field of medieval manuscripts (http://www.public.asu.edu/~asmittma/).

Nancy Bisaha (History Ph.D. 1997) | Associate Professor of History, Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY.

Niall Brady (Ph.D. 1996) | Project Director, Medieval Rural Settlement Project of The Discovery Programme, an archaeological research institution dedicated to investigating Ireland's past, and also Director of the Archaeological Diving Company Ltd, a private-sector consultancy that specializes in underwater and related archaeological work in Ireland and Britain (http://www.adco-ie.com).

Scott McDonough (History/Classics B.A. 1996; Ph.D. UCLA 2005) | Assistant Professor of History at William Paterson U of New Jersey specializing in Late Antiquity.

María Bullón-Fernández (Ph.D. 1995) | Associate Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies, Seattle University.

Suzanne Hagedorn (Ph.D. 1995) | Associate Professor, Department of English, The College of William & Mary.

Fiona Somerset (English Ph.D. 1995) | Associate Professor, Department of English, Duke University.

Lauren Kiefer (Ph.D. 1994) | Assistant Professor, Department of English, State University of New York College at Plattsburgh.

Nicole Clifton (Ph.D. 1993) | Associate Professor, Department of English, Northern Illinois University.

Wendy Chapman Peek (Ph.D. 1992) | Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English, Stonehill College.

Nancy Spatz Lucid (Ph.D. 1992) | Data analyst in marketing at Symmetricom, a leading supplier of timing and synchronization hardware for communications networks, in San Jose, California.

Paul Schaffner (Ph.D. 1990) | Senior Associate Librarian (2004-present), University of Michigan Libraries; Associate Editor, Middle English Compendium; former editor of the Middle English Dictionary (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfs/).

Theodore South (Ph.D. 1990) | Professor of History, Western New England College.

Regina Psaki (Ph.D. 1989) | Professor of Italian and Associate Chair, Department of Romance Languages, University of Oregon.

Newton Key (History Ph.D. 1989) | Professor of History, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois (http://ux1.eiu.edu/~nekey/).

Teresa Pugh Rupp (History Ph.D. 1988) | Associate Professor of History at Mount St. Mary's University.

James Blythe (History Ph.D. 1987) | Dunavant Professor of History, University of Memphis.

Patricia Black (Romance Studies Ph.D. 1985) | Department chairperson of Foreign Languages and Literatures at California State University at Chico.

Florence Newman (English Ph.D. 1985) | Professor of English, Towson University. Her scholarly focus continues to be Middle English literature (the Gawain-Poet and Chaucer), although she has also published on Hrotsvit of Gandersheim and Marie de France.

David S. Peterson (History Ph.D. 1985) | After teaching at Stanford, the University of Texas at Austin, and a visiting professorship at Cornell, is now Associate Professor of History at Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA, where he is also Chair of their Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program (http://home.wlu.edu/~petersond/).

Charles D. Wright (English Ph.D. 1984 | Professor of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Margot E. Fassler (Ph.D. 1983) | Robert Tangeman Professor of Music History and Liturgy at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

Frederick B. Jonassen (English Ph.D. 1983; J.D. Indiana U, Bloomington) | Assistant Professor of Law, Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law, Barry University, Orlando, Florida. His academic interests include law and literature, legal history, constitutional law, and products liability.

David Millon (History Ph.D. 1982; J.D. Harvard 1983) | J. B. Stombock Professor of Law at Washington & Lee U in Lexington, Virginia.

Mary Wack (Ph.D. 1982) | Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education, Washington State University.

Carol L. Neel (History Ph.D. 1981) | Professor of History at Colorado College.

Robert C. Figueira (Ph.D. 1980) | Professor of History, Lander University, Greenwood, South Carolina; he also serves on the advisory board of the Stephan Kuttner Institute of Medieval Canon Law.

Walter Stephens (Comparative Lit Ph.D. 1979) | Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies, The Johns Hopkins University.

Michael W. Twomey (Ph.D. 1979) | Charles A. Dana Professor of Humanities in the Department of English at Ithaca College.

Jeremy Cohen (History Ph.D. 1978) | Spiegel Family Foundation Chair for European Jewish History, Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University.

Eleonore Stump (Ph.D. 1975) | Robert J. Henle Chair in Philosophy, Saint Louis University. She recently published Aquinas as part of Routledge’s Arguments of the Philosophers series; and her 2003 Gifford Lectures will be published as Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering.

William R. Cook (History Ph.D. 1971) | Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at SUNY Geneseo. Most recently he has edited and contributed to a collection of essays, The Art of the Franciscan Order in Italy, published in Leiden by Brill.

Eugene ("Yehuda") Weinraub (Romance Studies Ph.D. 1970) | Teaches Journalism and Public Affairs at the College of Management's School of Media Studies