Steering Committee of the Center for Medieval & Byzantine Studies (2021-22)
Lilla Kopár (Director; English), Stefanos Alexopoulos (Theology and Religious Studies), Aaron Butts (Semitics), Thomas Clemmons (Theology and Religious Studies), Gregory Doolan (Philosophy), Katherine Jansen (History/Speculum), William Klingshirn (Greek and Latin/Early Christian Studies), Megan Murton (English), Jennifer Paxton (History/University Honors Program), Lev Weitz (History), Kevin White (Philosophy).
Graduate student representative: Casey Knott.
Affiliated Faculty Members
Members of the faculty of Medieval and Byzantine Studies are drawn from the Schools of Arts and Sciences, Canon Law, Theology and Religious Studies, Philosophy, and Music, and include:
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Lilla Kopár, Director Associate Professor, Department of English
Research/Teaching Interests: Old (and Middle) English language and literature, Viking-age stone sculpture, Germanic mythology, medieval Scandinavia. -
Rev. Stefanos Alexopoulos Associate Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Research/Teaching Interests: Byzantine liturgical history. -
Monica J. Blanchard Curator, Semitics/ICOR Library
Research/Teaching Interests: Languages and literatures of the Christian Near East, orientalist librarianship. -
Joshua C. Benson Associate Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology, School of Theology and Religous Studies
Research/Teaching Interests: Historical and Systematic Theology, Franciscan Studies, Medieval and Byzantine Studies, and Spirituality. -
Aaron M. Butts Associate Professor, Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures
Research/Teaching Interests: Language, literature, and history of the Christian Near East, especially Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic. -
Joseph E. Capizzi Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Research/Teaching Interests: Medieval political theology, war and peace. -
Mark Clark Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Research/Teaching Interests: Medieval theology, the Bible and theology in the early Scholastic period. -
Thomas Clemmons Assistant Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Research/Teaching Interests: Latin Patristics, Augustine, and Late Antiquity. -
Jennifer R. Davis Associate Professor, Department of History
Research/Teaching Interests: Early medieval history, especially the Carolingians, early medieval archeology. -
Gregory T. Doolan Associate Professor, School of Philosophy
Research/Teaching Interests: Medieval philosophy and metaphysics. -
Sarah Brown Ferrario Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Greek and Latin
Research/Teaching Interests: Greek history and literature, particularly of the fifth and fourth centuries, B.C. -
Michael Gorman Professor, School of Philosophy
Research/Teaching Interests: Metaphysics and Christology. -
Nora Heimann Associate Professor, Department of Art, Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art
Research/Teaching Interests: Joan of Arc in art and culture, medieval and Gothic revival, religion and art, hagiography, women and gender. -
Katherine L. Jansen Professor, Department of History and editor of Speculum
Research/Teaching Interests: Medieval Italy; medieval women and gender; religious and cultural history. -
William Klingshirn Professor, Department of Greek and Latin, and Director of the Center for the Study of Early ChristianityResearch/Teaching Interests: Late antique history, Roman religion, Christianization, divination.
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William P. Loewe Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Research/Teaching Interests: Systematic and fundamental theology, especially Christology and soteriology, Lonergan Studies. -
Rev. Nicholas Lombardo, O.P. Associate Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Research/Teaching Interests: Theology of God, soteriology, theological anthropology, Thomas Aquinas -
Rev. Mark Morozowich Associate Professor and Dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies
Research/Teaching Interests: Byzantine liturgy. -
Megan Murton Assistant Professor, Department of English
Research/Teaching Interests: (Old and) Middle English literature, especially Chaucer; Middle English religious writings; medieval reception of Boethius. -
Timothy Noon Professor, School of Philosophy
Research/Teaching Interests: John Duns Scotus, Franciscan philosophy, metaphysics in the High Middle Ages, medieval intellectual culture. -
Fabio Pagani Assistant Professor, Department of Greek and Latin
Research/Teaching Interests: Interactions between Classical and Christian learning in the Middle Ages, Medieval Latin, Byzantine Greek, Latin and Greek paleography. -
Jennifer Paxton Director of the University Honors Program and Clinical Associate Professor of History
Research/Teaching Interests: Medieval England and Ireland, medieval monasticism. -
John F. Petruccione Associate Professor, Department of Greek and Latin
Research/Teaching Interests: Latin Patristics, early Christian poetry and hagiography. -
Lawrence R. Poos Professor, Department of History
Research Interests: Late medieval social and economic history. -
Shawqi Talia Instructor, Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures
Research/Teaching Interests: Arabic, Neo-Syriac, Garshuni texts, simultaneous interpretation (Arabic-English). -
Janet Timbie Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures
Research/Teaching Interests: Coptic, Egyptian asceticism and monasticism. -
Lev Weitz Associate Professor, Department of History
Research/Teaching Interests: Medieval Middle East, law and society, non-Muslims in Islamic societies. -
Susan Wessel Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Research/Teaching Interests: Early Church History, Patristics, Conciliar History, Christology, Moral Psychology. -
Kevin White Associate Professor, School of Philosophy
Research/Teaching Interests: Medieval Latin philosophy, medieval rhetoric, Thomas Aquinas. -
Monsignor John H. Wippel Professor, School of Philosophy
Research/ Teaching Interests: Medieval philosophy, Thomas Aquinas, Godfrey of Fontaines. -
Rev. Michael G. Witczak Associate Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Research/Teaching Interests: History of the liturgy, sacramental liturgy, Medieval Latin liturgy, especially the development of the Ordo missae, the cult of the saints. -
Robin Darling Young Associate Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies
Research/Teaching Interests: History of Early Christianity, Patristic Theology, Eastern Christianity (Greek, Syriac, Armenian), Monasticism. -
Emeritus Professors
Uta Renate Blumenthal
Professor Emerita, Department of History- Ph.D., Columbia University
- Research Interests: Medieval institutional history, the Investiture Controversy.
- blumenthal@cua.edu
Thérèse-Anne Druart
Professor, School of Philosophy- Ph.D., Université Catholique de Louvain; B. Phil., Oxford University
- Research/Teaching Interests: Medieval Arabic philosophy, Greek philosophy (Plato), medieval Latin philosophy.
- druart@cua.edu
Fr. Sidney Griffith
Professor Emeritus, Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures- Ph.D., Catholic University of America
- Research/Teaching Interests: Arabic Christianity, Syriac monasticism, medieval Christian-Muslim encounters, ecumenical and interfaith dialogue.
- griffith@cua.edu
Joan T. Grimbert
Professor Emerita, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures- Ph.D., University of Chicago
- Research Interests: Medieval French literature and language.
- grimbert@cua.edu
Fr. John Lynch
Professor Emeritus, School of Canon Law- Ph.D., University of Toronto
- Research Interests: History of canon law, medieval history.
- lynch@cua.edu
Frank A.C. Mantello
Professor Emeritus, Department of Greek and Latin- Ph.D., University of Toronto
- Research/Teaching Interests: Medieval Latin, Latin paleography, textual criticism.
- mantello@cua.edu
Kenneth Pennington
Professor Emeritus, Kelly-Quinn Professor of Ecclesiastical and Legal History, Columbus School of Law and School of Canon Law- Ph.D., Cornell University
- Research/Teaching Interests: Ancient, medieval and early modern legal history, history of constitutional thought, political theory, Church history, history of universities, paleography.
- pennington@cua.edu
✝ Philip Rousseau
Professor Emeritus, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Christianity- Ph.D., Oxford University
- Research Interests: Late antique religion with emphasis on early Christian asceticism.
✝ Stephen Wright
Professor Emeritus, Department of English Language and Literature- Ph.D., Indiana University
- Research Interests: Middle English and European literature, medieval drama.
Visiting Fellows
2015-2016: Joseph Koivisto, MLIS DC Public Library / Library of Congress2011-2012: Joshua A. Westgard, Ph.D UCLA, Reichenau-St. Gall Virtual Library Project