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Govind Sreenivasan
Brandeis University
Ph.D., Harvard University


Govind Sreenivasan is Associate Professor of History at Brandeis University. He completed his undergraduate work at McGill University in Canada and received his Master’s and Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Prior to taking his position at Brandeis University, Dr. Sreenivasan taught at Cornell University.

Professor Sreenivasan is the recipient of Brandeis University’s Michael Walzer Award for Distinction in Teaching. He is the author of The Peasants of Ottobeuren: A Rural Society in Early Modern Europe, 1487-1723.

Professor Sreenivasan has received research grants from the German Academic Exchange Service and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His research interests include early modern Europe, rural economy and society, and the Protestant and Catholic Reformations.





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Robert Oden is the President of Carleton College. He received his Bachelor’s degree in history and literature magna cum laude from Harvard University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Oden earned a Th.M. and Ph.D. with highest distinctions at Harvard Divinity School, as well as earning the Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities. He also earned an honorary master’s degree from Dartmouth College.
Dr. Oden is the recipient of the Detur Prize, the Harvard Honorary Scholarship, and the John Harvard Honorary Scholarship. He was named Outstanding Senior Scholar, Dudley House, and was the Marshall Scholar to Cambridge University. At Cambridge, he earned an additional Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in religious studies/theology as well as the Cambridge University Hebrew Prize and Bethune Baker Prize. He was also Elected Scholar of Pembroke College.
Formerly president of Kenyon College, his professional awards and grants include the Dartmouth College Distinguished Teaching Award and a National Endowment for the Humanities grant…

Teofilo F. Ruiz
University of California at Los Angeles
Ph.D., Princeton University


Teofilo F. Ruiz is a Professor of History and Chair of the department at the University of California at Los Angeles. A student of Joseph R. Strayer, Dr. Ruiz received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1974…

Phillip Cary is the Director of the Philosophy Program at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. He is also a scholar-in-Residence at the Templeton Honors College. He received his undergraduate training from Washington University (St. Louis) with a double degree in English literature and philosophy. He earned his M.A. in philosophy and a Ph.D. in philosophy and religious studies from Yale University. Prior to taking his position at Eastern, Professor Cary taught at Yale University, the University of Connecticut, and the University of Hartford. As the Arthur J. Ennis Post-Doctoral Fellow at Villanova University, Dr. Cary taught the nationally recognized undergraduate core humanities seminars on ancient, medieval, and Renaissance thought, and on modern thought…

John L. Esposito
Georgetown University
Ph.D., Temple University

John L. Esposito is University Professor, Professor of Religion and International Affairs, and Professor of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. He earned his B.A. at St. Anthony College, his M.A. at St. John’s University, and his Ph.D. at Temple University…

Bart D. Ehrman
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.Div., Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary

Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has been teaching for over 15 years. He completed his undergraduate work at Wheaton College and received his Masters of Divinity and Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary. Prior to taking his position at UNC, Professor Ehrman taught at Rutgers University…

Thomas F. X. Noble, Ph.D., is the Robert M. Conway Director of the Medieval Institute and Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, where he has taught since 2001. Before joining the faculty at Notre Dame, he taught for 20 years at the University of Virginia.
The holder of a doctorate from Michigan State University, Professor Noble has long specialized in the Carolingian world and in early medieval Rome and the papacy. Among his many honors and awards are a Fulbright Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, and two grants from the American Philosophical Society…

Louis Markos
Houston Baptist University
Ph.D., University of Michigan


Louis Markos is Professor of English at Houston Baptist University where he has been teaching since 1991. He received his B.A. in English and history from Colgate University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan…

Louis Markos
Houston Baptist University
Ph.D., University of Michigan


Louis Markos is Professor of English at Houston Baptist University where he has been teaching since 1991. He received his B.A. in English and history from Colgate University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan.

Professor Markos specializes in British romantic poetry, literary theory, and the classics and teaches courses in all three of these areas, as well as in Victorian poetry and prose, 17th-century poetry and prose, mythology, epic, and film.

Professor Markos has received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the University of Michigan and was named the Opal Goolsby Teacher of the Year at Houston Baptist…

Bonnie Wheeler
Southern Methodist University
Ph.D., Brown University


Bonnie Wheeler is Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Southern Methodist University, where she directs the Medieval Studies Program. She completed her undergraduate work at Stonehill College and received her Ph.D. from Brown University. Prior to taking her position at SMU, Professor Wheeler taught at Columbia University…

This course presents the lives, based on the latest scholarly interpretations, of four medieval women who still shimmer in the modern imagination: Heloise, the abbess and mistress of Abelard; the prophet Hildegard of Bingen; the legendary Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine; and the woman-warrior and saint, Joan of Arc.