Alumni/ae in Academia

Marcela Kličova Perett (Ph.D. 2009) is a Sorin Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Notre Dame for 2009-11. Her book Vzestup křesťanství: prvních pět století církve [The Rise of Christianity: The First Five Centuries of the Church] was published in 2009 by Návrat.

James Kriesel (Ph.D. 2008) is a Sorin Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Notre Dame for 2008-10.

Jonathan Davis-Secord (Ph.D. 2008) is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Texas, Arlington. He published "Rhetoric and Politics: Nominal Compounds and Social Instability in Archbishop Wulfstan's Old English Homilies," Anglia: Journal of English Philology 126, no. 1 (2008): 65-96.

Christina di Gangi (Ph.D. 2006) is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Urbana University (Ohio).

Miranda Wilcox (Ph.D. 2006) is Assistant Professor of English at Brigham Young University.

Leslie Lockett (Ph.D. 2005) is Assistant Professor of English at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

Bonnie Mak (Ph.D. 2004) is Assistant Professor of Book History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She holds a joint appointment in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and the Program in Medieval Studies.

David Mengel (Ph.D. 2004) is Assistant Professor of History at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio. He authored "From Venice to Jerusalem and Beyond: Milíc of Kromeriz and the Topography of Prostitution in Fourteenth-Century Prague," Speculum, April 2004.

Rebecca Stephenson (Ph.D. 2004) is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Louisiana, Monroe.

Robin Vose (Ph.D. 2004) is Assistant Professor of History at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. In 2004, he published "The Inquisition in Its Own Words: the Portuguese Auto-da-fé Sermon as a Historical Source" in P. Cobb and W. Van Bekkum, eds., Strategies of Medieval Communal Identity: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.(Peeters, 2004). His volume, Dominicans, Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Crown of Aragon, appeared in 2009 as part of the Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought series.

Daniel Hobbins (Ph.D. 2002) is on the faculty of Ohio State University as Assistant Professor of History. His article, "The Schoolman as Public Intellectual: Jean Gerson and the Late Medieval Tract," which appeared in The American Historical Review, 108 (2003), won the Van Courtland Elliott Prize of the Medieval Academy of America in 2005. His book, Authorship and Publicity Before Print: Jean Gerson and the Transformation of Late Medieval Learning, was published in 2009 by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Catherine Kavanagh (Ph.D. 2002) is a postdoctoral fellow at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

James Mixson (Ph.D. 2002) is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama. His book, Poverty's Proprietors: Ownership and Mortal Sin at the Origins of the Observant Movement, was published by Brill in 2009.

John Kerr (Ph.D. 2001) is Assistant Professor of English at St. Mary's University of Minnesota, where he specializes in medieval and early moden British literature.

Rachel Koopmans (Ph.D. 2001), Assistant Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Europe in the History Department at York University, Toronto, was co-winner of the Medieval Academy of America's annual Van Courtland Elliott Prize in 2002 for the most outstanding first article in Medieval Studies. The article, "The Conclusion of Christina of Markyate's 'Vita'" appeared in the Journal of Ecclesiastical History in October 2000.

Michael Waddell (Ph.D. 2000) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. He has published articles in The Thomist, International Philosophical Quarterly, and Sapientia, and is editor of Restoring Nature: Essays in Thomistic Philosophy and Theology (St. Augustine's Press, forthcoming). He has been invited to deliver lectures at Blackfriars (Oxford) and to the Society of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy.

Lezlie Knox (Ph.D. 1999), is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Marquette University. In 2002-03, she received an ACL/Mellon Fellowship for Junior Faculty. She contributed "What Francis Intended: Gender and the Transmission of Knowledge in the Fransciscan Order" to Seeing and Knowing: Women and Learning in Medieval Europe, 1200-1500, ed. Anneke Mulder-Bakker (Brepols, 2004). In 2008, Brill published her monograph entitled Creating Clare of Assisi: Female Franciscan Identities in Later Medieval Italy.

Timothy Smith (Ph.D. 1999) is a Tutor at Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, California. He is the author of Thomas Aquinas' Trinitarian Theology: A Study in Method (Catholic University of America Press, 2002).

F. Thomas Luongo (Ph.D. 1998) is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Tulane University. In 2005-06 he was a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He published The Saintly Politics of Catherine of Siena in 2006 with the Cornell University Press.

Randall Smith (Ph.D. 1998) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology, University of St. Thomas, Houston.

Mark Holtz (Ph.D. 1997) was Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology at St. Louis University before entering the novitiate of the Order of Preachers.

Lisa Wolverton (Ph. D. 1997) is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Oregon. Her first book, Hastening Toward Prague: Power and Society in the Medieval Czech Lands,was published in 2001 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Her translation of Cosmas of Prague's The Chronicle of the Czechs was published in 2009 by Catholic University of America Press.

Nicole Guenther Discenza (Ph.D. 1996) is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of South Florida, Tampa. Her first book, The King's English: Strategies of Translation in the Old English Boethius, was published by SUNY Press in May 2005.

Christopher Kaczor (Ph.D. 1996), a former Fulbright Scholar and von Humboldt Federal Chancellor Fellow, is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is the author of Proportionalism and the Natural Law Tradition (Catholic University of America Press, 2002),The Edge of Life, (Springer, 2005), and articles in the International Philosophical Quarterly, Josephinum Journal of Theology, Theological Studies, The Thomist, The Linacre Quarterly, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, and Nova et Vetera. His most recent article entitled "Is the Sententia libri ethicorum of Thomas Aquinas only an Interpretation of Aristotle?" appeared in the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly.