Miriam Shadis

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Education

• Ph.D. in 历史 from Duke University (1994)

研究

• Europe; Medieval Period
• 西班牙 and 葡萄牙
• Women and Gender; Political Life

Personal Profile

Miriam Shadis earned a Ph.D. in 历史, and a 研究生 Certificate in Women's Studies from Duke University. She earned a B.A. from Simon's Rock of Bard College (in Great Barrington, MA), majoring in Intercultural Studies with a minor in Arts and Aesthetics.

She has taught at Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University and Villanova University. At Ohio University, she served as a Junior 教师 Fellow of the Charles Ping Institute for the Humanities (2006-2009). She is an associated scholar with the Mediterranean Seminar at the University of California, Santa Cruz, participating in the NEH 2006 Summer Institute: The Medieval Mediterranean and the Emergence of the West, in Barcelona, 西班牙. In the Fall of 2016, she was a Fulbright Fellow in Lisbon, 葡萄牙, working at the National 图书馆 and National Archive.

Dr. Shadis is involved with Ohio University Education Abroad, having participated in 2010 in a CIEE 教师 Development Seminar on Women in the Middle East; she is a past director of the 俄亥俄州 study abroad program in Leipzig. She serves as the Director of Studies for the 历史 Program in the Honors Tutorial College, and she is on the Advisory Board as well as teaches for the Margaret Boyd Scholars Program.

Dr. Shadis’ research focuses on royal women in the central and high Middle Ages. She is the author of Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) and Her Family: Political Women in the High Middle Ages (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009) as well as essays on medieval queens of France and Iberia. She is a past editor of The Medieval Feminist Forum. Her current research focuses on royal women in 葡萄牙, for a book tentatively titled The Queens of Early 葡萄牙 (1100-1250): Mothers, Sisters, and Saints. Her other research focuses on women at the courts of Castile, 利昂, and 葡萄牙, as well as Marian imagery in medieval Iberian charters.

Dr. Shadis is married to Joseph McLaughlin, a professor of English, and has two children, Henry and Emma.

Teaching

• HIST 1210: Western Civilization: Antiquity to 1500
• HIST 2530: Love, Life, and Death in the Medieval World
• HIST 3111J: Historical 研究 and Writing
• HIST 3532: Crusades
• HIST 3533: Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1300
• HIST 3555: Women in Medieval Europe
• HIST 3563: Muslims, Christians and Jews in Medieval 西班牙
• T3 4070: Sex and Sin in Western Legal Tradition