Medieval Studies Program

University of California, Santa Barbara

Affiliated Faculty

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Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, 50–40 BCE, Pompei
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Classics

Francis Dunn, Greek tragedy
Dorota Dutsch, Roman drama and gender studies
Rose MacLean, Roman empire and slavery
Robert Morstein-Marx, Roman Republic and Empire

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Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru, Huang Tingjian, 1095, China
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East Asian Languages
& Cultural Studies

Tom Mazanec, Premodern Chinese literature
Dominic Steavu, Daoism and Chinese Buddhism

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Astronomicum Caesareum, Michael Ostendorfer, May 1540
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English

Heather Blurton, High Middle Ages
Daniel Reeve, High Middle Ages and earlier

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Aeneas erects a tomb to his nurse (Aeneid, Book 7), ca. 1530–35, Limoges
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French and Italian

Cynthia Skenazi, Early modern Belgian and French
Giancarlo Tursi, Italian, Francophone, and Hispanophone

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Chess and tric-trac game board, ca. 1550, German
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History

Hilary Bernstein, Early Modern France
Debra Blumenthal, Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Brad Bouley, Early Modern Europe
Mhoze Chikowero, Southern Africa
Beth Digeser, Ancient and late antique Rome
Edward English, Medieval Italy
Stephan Miescher, West Africa
Adam Sabra, Premodern Middle East
Butch Ware, West Africa and African diaspora
Ya Zuo, Middle and Late Imperial China

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Funerary mask, 900–1100, north Peru
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History of
Art & Architecture

Heather Badamo, Byzantine and east Christian art
Alicia Boswell, Pre-columbian art and archaeology
Nuha Khoury, Islamic art and architecture
Mark Meadow, Early modern northern european art
Peter Sturman, Chinese art

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Rosette, Shah Jahan Album, ca. 1645, India
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Religious Studies

Ahmad Atif Ahmad, Islamic law
Juan E. Campo, Islamic history and religion
Thomas Carlson, History of Christian thought
Racha El Omar, Near Eastern languages and civilizations
Randall Garr, Semitic languages and Hebrew Bible
Barbara Holdredge, South Asian studies
Fabio Rambelli, Japanese religions
Dwight Reynolds, Arabic language and literature
Christine Thomas, Early Christianity
David White, South Asian religions
Elliot Wolfson, Jewish mysticism and philosophy

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Saltcellar with Portuguese figures, Niger, ca. 1525–1600
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Spanish & Portuguese

Antonio Cortijo, Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese