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Sylvia A. Federico

Professor of English

sfederic@bates.edu | 207-786-6317

Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin literature and history, Benedictine manuscript culture, Chaucer, French literary and historical connections to England, Iberian and Italian literary and historical connections to England, late medieval literary London, manuscript studies, medieval studies, Middle English language and culture, Middle English literature

Sarah B. Lynch

Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

slynch2@bates.edu | 207-786-6312

Mark L. Tizzoni

Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

mtizzoni@bates.edu

cultural and intellectual history, Early Middle Ages, ethnicity, history, history of identity, late antiquity, Late Latin, Latin language, Latin poetry, medieval studies, post-Roman world, premodern African history, premodern Iberia, premodern North Africa, race and ethnicity

Megan R. Boomer

Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture

mboomer@bates.edu | 207-786-6258

architectural history, art history, art of the crusader states, Fatimid art and architecture, Jerusalem, medieval studies, Mediterranean visual cultures, pilgrimage

Henry J. Walker

Senior Lecturer in Classical and Medieval Studies

hwalker@bates.edu | 207-786-8320

ancient languages and literatures, ancient myth and society, how literature and myth reflect social and religious institutions in ancient Greece and India

Laurie O'Higgins

Euterpe B. Dukakis Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

dohiggin@bates.edu

18th century Irish history, classical reception, Greek literature, Greek religion, Greek religion, Homer, women in classical antiquity

Emma Ianni

Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

eianni@bates.edu | 207-786-6160

Lisa Maurizio

Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

lmaurizi@bates.edu | 207-786-8391

Archaic and classical Greek religion, Greek and Roman history and religion, Greek and Roman mythology and literature, mythology, oral poetry, oral studies and gender studies, women’s history

Cynthia M. Baker

Professor of Religious Studies

cbaker@bates.edu | 207-786-6308

early Christian studies, early Rabbinic Judaism, feminist and queer theory, gender and religion, gender and religion in the late ancient Mediterranean and Middle East, historiography of religion, Jewish studies, material culture and historiography of Jews and Judaism, New Testament, The Bible

Liana J. Brent

Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies

lbrent@bates.edu | 207-753-6922

Funerary Archaeology, Latin Inscriptions, Roman Burial Practices, Roman Slavery, Roman Society and Culture