raduate Students Directory
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| Name | Department | Degree | Research |
| Ted Booth | History | Ph.D. Candidate | Elizabeth I's humanism and the projection of her political persona, civic humanism in 16th-century England |
| Gina Cash | History | Ph.D. Candidate | Women in Late Middle Ages/Early Modern Scotland |
| Katie Hoffman Doman | English | Ph.D. Candidate | The Appalachian ballad tradition and its connection to/divergences from medieval British and Celtic traditions; medieval bestiary and its relationship to the Appalachian ballad tradition; images of women in the ballads and the ballad tradition as female space. |
| Donna Dudek | History | M.A. Candidate | Late-medieval Europe; mysticism; gender and society. |
| Josh Durbin | History | Ph.D. Candidate | Gender in sixteenth century Britain; dissertation examines the construction of elite Elizabethan and early Jacobean masculinity, and what models of masculinity elite Elizabethan and Jacobean fathers attempted to pass on to their sons as seen through correspondence and father/son advice literature. |
| David K. Dyer | History | Ph.D. Candidate | Early modern rebellions and revolutions; pirates, privateers and the Elizabethan and Stuart monarchies. |
| Allison Elledge | History | Ph.D. Candidate | Radical Reformation in Germany, European Reformation studies. Thesis: Twelfth- through Fifteenth-Century Female Mysticism |
| Tricia George | English | Ph.D. Candidate | Humor as related to religious texts, primarily in medieval England |
| Leah Giamalva | History | Ph.D. Candidate | Intellectual history, Christian-Muslim relations |
| Miguel Gomez | History | Ph.D. Candidate | Medieval Iberia. |
| Erin Hetzel | English | M.A. Candidate | Chaucer; female mysticism in the Middle Ages. |
| Misty Krueger | English | Ph.D. Candidate | Early Modern, Restoration, and early 18th-century drama; revenge tragedy |
| Chris Lawrence | History | Ph.D. Candidate | Fifth-century political and social history |
| Tara E. Lynn | English | Ph.D. Candidate | Shakespeare in performance, gender boundaries, Biblical translation as an act of defiance/definition, female homoeroticism as power struggle, modern staging of Renaissance plays as political commentary, the Maitland Quarto manuscript, and Kings/Queens as writers. |
| Scott MacKenzie | English | Ph.D. Candidate | In my dissertation, I juxtapose two expressions of piety — Christ as warrior in the Dream of the Rood and warrior-king Oswald as martyr and humble servant of God — to illustrate that between them exists a vestige of an ancient counterpoint which may, if listened to sympathetically, reveal how the Northumbrians of seventh century viewed their world (both secular and sacred). Not merely reflecting Germanic ideals, The Dream of the Rood and the narrative of St. Oswald’s martyrdom reflect a unique worldview stemming from the cultural diversity of Northumbria. |
| Geoffrey Martin | History | Ph.D. Candidate | Medieval Mediterranean, intellectual history |
| Sarah McCollum | English | Ph.D. Candidate | Early modern religion and accounts of religious experience; late Medieval mysticism, particularly the English mystics; the continuities and discontinuities in late Medieval and early Renaissance expressions of religious experience and identity; mysticism in the 17th century. |
| Anthony Minnema | History | Ph.D. Candidate | Intellectual history, specifically the transfer of Arabic texts into Latin. |
| Brad Pardue | History | Ph.D. Candidate | Religious and intellectual history of the late medieval and early modern periods. |
| Melissa Rack | English | Ph.D. Candidate | Historical accounts of early modern monsters and monstrous births, psychoanalytic theory, revenge tragedy and its classical roots, and early modern science. |
| Sean Williams | History | M.A. Candidate | Religious and Political Interaction in Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Period |