Recent Ph.D. Graduates

Marcela Kličova Perett, Ph.D. 2009

• Dissertation: “Battle for the Public Mind: John Hus and the Hussite Movement”
• Advisor: John Van Engen

Patrick Gardner, Ph.D. 2009

• Dissertation: “Dante and the Suffering Soul”
• Advisor: Ralph McInerny

James Kriesel, Ph.D. 2008

• Dissertation: “‘Favole, parabole, o istorie’: The Genealogy of Boccaccio’s Theory of Allegory”
• Advisors: Christian Moevs and W. Martin Bloomer

Jonathan Davis-Secord, Ph.D. 2008

• Dissertation: “Theodcwidas: Compound Words, Language, and Social Context in Early English Literature ”
• Advisors: Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe and Michael Lapidge

Christina di Gangi, Ph.D. 2006

• Dissertation: “Lydgate’s Mesure: The Echecs Amoureux Tradition and the Theme of the Fall of Princes”
• Advisor: Maura Nolan

Miranda Wilcox, Ph.D. 2006

• Dissertation: “Vernacular Biblical Epics and the Production of Anglo-Saxon Cultural Exegesis”
• Advisor: Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe

Simone Brosig, Ph.D. 2006

• Dissertation: “‘In the Secret of the Trinity’: Eucharistic Devotion in the Thirteenth-Century Southern Low Countries”
• Advisor: Joseph Wawrykow

Leslie Lockett, Ph.D. 2005

• Dissertation: “Corporeality in the Psychology of the Anglo-Saxons”
• Advisor: Michael Lapidge

Bonnie Mak, Ph.D. 2004

• Dissertation: “(Re)Defining the Page for a Digital World”
• Advisors: Kathleen Biddick and Calvin Bower

David Charles Mengel, Ph.D. 2004

• Dissertation: “Bones, Stones, and Brothels: Religion and Topography in Prague under Emperor Charles IV (1346-78)”
• Advisor: John Van Engen

Rebecca L. Stephenson, Ph.D. 2004

• Dissertation: “Deliberate Obfuscation: The Purpose of Hard Words and Difficult Syntax in the Literature of Anglo-Saxon England”
• Advisor: Michael Lapidge

Robin Vose, Ph.D. 2004

• Dissertation: “Converting the Faithful: Dominican Mission in the Medieval Crown of Aragon”
• Advisor: Olivia Remie Constable

Daniel Hobbins, Ph.D. 2002

• Dissertation: “Beyond the Schools: New Writings and the Social Imagination of Jean Gerson”
• Advisor: John Van Engen

Catherine Mary Kavanagh, Ph.D. 2002

• Dissertation: “The Place of the Linguistic Artes in Eriugena’s Theological Method”
• Advisor: Stephen Gersh

James Mixson, Ph.D. 2002

• Dissertation: “Professed Proprietors: Religion, Property and the Origins of the Observant Movement”
• Advisor: John Van Engen

John M. Kerr, Ph.D. 2001

• Dissertation: “Proserpinan Memory in Dante and Chaucer”
• Advisors: Theodore Cachey and Christian Moevs

Rachel Marie Koopmans, Ph.D. 2001

• Dissertation: “Dispute, Control and the Individual Voice: The Making of Miracles at Christ Church, Canterbury, 1080-1220”
• Advisor: John Van Engen

Lisa Boyett Luongo, Ph.D. 2001

• Dissertation: “The Sins of Our Own Offspring: Metaphysics and Moral Discourse in Bonaventure’s Collations on the Hexaemeron”
• Advisor: Mark Jordan

Martin J. Tracey, Ph.D. 2000

• Dissertation: “The Character of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Teaching in Albert the Great’s Super ethica commentum et quaestiones (1250-1252)”
• Advisor: Mark Jordan

Michael Machias Waddell, Ph.D. 2000

• Dissertation: “Truth Beloved: Thomas Aquinas and the Relational Transcendentals”
• Advisor: Ralph McInerny

Lezlie S. Knox, Ph.D. 1999

• Dissertation: “The True Daughters of Francis and Clare: The Formation of the Order of Saint Clare in Late Medieval Italy”
• Advisor: John Van Engen

Timothy L. Smith, Ph.D. 1999

• Dissertation: “Thomas Aquinas’ Trinitarian Theology: A Study in Theological Method”
• Advisor: Ralph McInerny

Joel Irving Barstad, Ph.D. 1998

• Dissertation: “Body, Soul, and Image: Gregory of Nyssa’s Influence on Eriugena”
• Advisor: Stephen Gersh

Theresa Helen Farnan, Ph.D. 1998

• Dissertation: “Virtue and Kingship in Thomas Aquinas’s De regno”
• Advisor: Mark Jordan

Francis Thomas Luongo, Ph.D. 1998

• Dissertation: “The Politics of Marginality: Catherine of Siena in the War of Eight Saints (1374-1378)”
• Advisor: John Van Engen

Randall B. Smith, Ph.D. 1998

• Dissertation: “How the Old Law Shows Forth the Precepts of the Natural Law: A Commentary on Certain Questions Concerning the Law in the Summa of Theology of Thomas Aquinas”
• Advisor: Ralph McInerny

Mark Daniel Holtz, Ph.D. 1997

• Dissertation: “Cults of the Precious Blood in the Medieval Latin West”
• Advisor: Joseph Wawrykow

Lisa Ann Wolverton, Ph.D. 1997

• Dissertation: “In manu sancti wenceslai: Power in the Czech Lands, 1004-1198”
• Advisor: John Van Engen

Nicole Guenther Discenza, Ph.D. 1996

• Dissertation: “Alfred’s Cræft of Translation: The Old English Boethius”
• Advisor: Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe

Christopher Robert Kaczor, Ph.D. 1996

• Dissertation: “Thomas Aquinas and Proportionalism: An Evaluation of Their Compatibility”
• Advisor: Ralph McInerny

Mark Damien Delp, Ph.D. 1995

• Dissertation: “De sex rerum principiis: A Translation and Study of Twelfth-Century Cosmology”
• Advisor: Stephen Gersh

Brendan R. Kelly, Ph.D. 1995

• Dissertation: “On the Nature of the Human Intellect in Aristotle’s De anima: An Investigation into the Controversy Surrounding Thomas Aquinas’ De unitate intellectus contra Averroistas”
• Advisor: Ralph McInerny

Fabian Christian Lochner, Ph.D. 1995

• Dissertation: “Dietger (Theogerus) of Metz and His Music”
• Advisor: Calvin Bower

John William Houghton, Ph.D. 1994

• Dissertation: “Bede’s Exegetical Theology: Ideas of the Church in the Acts Commentaries of St. Bede the Venerable”
• Advisor: John Cavadini

Brian T. Kelly, Ph.D. 1994

• Dissertation: “Aquinas on Gravitational Motion”
• Advisor: Ralph McInerny

Thérèse Marie Bonin, Ph.D. 1993

• Dissertation: “The Origin of Diversity in Albertus Magnus’ De causis et processu universitatis a prima causa”
• Advisor: Stephen Gersh