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Thomas E. Burman

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Field Specialties

Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations in the Middle Ages; Medieval Intellectual History

Professor Burman specializes in medieval Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations and medieval intellectual history. He earned a Licentiate of Mediaeval Studies from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto and a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto, and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Study of Islamic Societies and Civilizations in St. Louis as well as at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.  

Professor Burman teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the Crusades, on Medieval Spain and the Mediterranean, on Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and on medieval and Renaissance intellectual history.  He has directed MA theses and Ph.D. dissertations in these areas as well. 

He is also Director of Graduate Studies in the History Department.

Education

  • Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1991
  • M.S.L.(Licentiate of Mediaeval Studies) Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of Toronto, 1989
  • M.A. University of Toronto, 1986

Selected Publications

  • Religious Polemic and the Intellectual History of the Mozarabs, c. 1050-1200, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994.
    Ed. with Mark Meyerson and Leah Shopkow, Religion, Text, and Society in Medieval Spain and Northern Europe:  Essays in Honor of J. N. Hillgarth, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2002.

  • Ed. with Thomas J. Heffernan, Scripture and Pluralism:  Reading the Bible in the Religiously Plural Worlds of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Leiden:  E. J. Brill, 2005.

  • Reading the Qur’ân in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560,  Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.

Selected Honors and Awards

  • Rockefeller Foundation Research Fellowship, 1992-1993
  • American Philosophical Society Research Grant, 1995
  • University of Tennessee Faculty Development Grants, 2003, 1999, 1998, 1995
  • UT College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Advising Award, 1997
  • NEH Fellowship, 2002-2003
  • Abdul Aziz al-Mutawa Visiting Fellowship, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, 2002-2003
Thomas E. Burman

Contact Information

Thomas E. Burman
Associate Professor of History
Head, Department of History
915 Volunteer Boulevard
6th Floor, Dunford Hall
Knoxville, TN 37996-4065

Office: (865) 974-7082
Fax: (865) 974-3915
E-mail: tburman@utk.edu