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Our staff

There are more than 30 full-time staff actively involved in postgraduate teaching and supervision at the CMS, and also many emeritus staff, research staff and associates. The current Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies is Professor Kenneth Clarke. 

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Research and Teaching Staff, surnames A-G

Michelle Alexander (Archaeology)
Bioarchaeology and in particular the application of biomoelcular techniques to aid in understanding the diet and resource base of communities

Steve Ashby (Archaeology)
The Viking Age (life, identities, movement, towns, craft, trade; Scandinavia, Scotland, England). Medieval artefacts, craft production, use of animal products in craft and industry; use of metal-detected data.

Tim Ayers (History of Art)
English medieval art and stained glass

Sarah Brown (History of Art) 
Stained Glass; ecclesiastical architecture

Kenneth Clarke (English)
Medieval Italian literature; the commentary tradition; glosses and marginalia; Dante; Boccaccio

Dilnoza Duturaeva (History)
Asian interconnections and global trade in the pre-modern period

Mary Garrison (History)
Early medieval literary and cultural history

Kate Giles (Archaeology)
Medieval and post-medieval buildings

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Research and Teaching Staff, surnames H-O

Dawn Hadley (Archaeology)
Vikings; Anglo-Saxon and medieval England; funerary practices; migration; childhood; masculinity

 

Eliza Hartrich (History)
Towns in the British Isles during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. More broadly, interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to urbanism, rebellion, networks, archives, and empire.

Owen Hulatt (Philosophy)
Frankfurt School Critical Theory; Adorno; Post-Kantian Idealism; Anti-Humanism; Spinoza; Analytic Aesthetics; Althusser; Aleatory Materialism.

Shazia Jagot (English)
Late medieval English literature, the history of science, art and religion; emphasising an engagement with Arabic, Latin and vernacular literature.

Holly James-Maddocks (English)
Late medieval manuscripts and early printed books; Book History; Chaucer; Fifteenth-century and early Tudor literature

Ahmed Khaleel (Language and Linguistic Science)
Arabic language and literature

Alicia Maddalena (English)
Old Norse poetry, and looks specifically at how we might approach the corpus using a methodology guided by a semantic field

Aleks McClain (Archaeology) Archaeology of churches, commemoration, and the Anglo-Norman period

Richard McClary (History of Art)
Medieval Islamic Architecture; Islamic Ceramics; Collecting and Displaying Islamic Art; Seljuq Iran and Anatolia; Qarakhanid Central Asia

Nicola McDonald (English)
Romance and medieval French literature; Chaucer and Gower; gender studies

Marcus Milwright (History of Art)
Islamic art and archaeology; craft practices in the Middle East; Orientalist depictions of the Islamic world; Ottoman architecture and infrastructure in Greece. 

Harry Munt (History)
History of the early Islamic Arabian Peninsula, Islamic holy cities and pilgrimage, and Arabic history-writing in the medieval period 

Jeanne Nuechterlein (History of Art)
Late medieval and Reformation art of northern Europe; scientific and diagrammatic imagery

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Research and Teaching Staff, surnames P-Z

Julian Richards (Archaeology)
Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age England

Jessica Richardson (History of Art)
Italian art c.1300–1550; Materiality and the agency of matter; Temporality; Magic, the supernatural and the miraculous image (image/relic); Image, ritual space and the performance of script; The reception, reworking and display of ‘medieval’ art.

Eleanor Rye (Linguistics)
Place-names, language, and early medieval landscapes

Lucy Sackville (History)
Medieval heresy and its repression, concentrating on the histories of Italy and southern France

Shelagh Sneddon (History)
Old French language; palaeography

Erhan Tamur (History of Art) 
Archaeology of West Asia (modern-day Iraq, Turkey, Syria, and Iran)

Craig Taylor (History)
Late medieval French political culture; 100 Years War; Joan of Arc; chivalry

Matthew Townend (English)
Viking language and literature

Elizabeth Tyler (English)
The literary culture of England from the 9th to the 12th century in English, Latin and French, early and high medieval literature more broadly (i.e. outside of England), some early medieval historical topics

Pragya Vohra (History)
Social and cultural history of the Viking age British Isles and Scandinavia, with a special interest in migration, settlement and the formation of diaspora

Hanna Vorholt (History of Art)
Illuminated manuscripts, and the representation of Jerusalem in the medieval West

Sethina Watson (History)
History of the church and canon law 1100-1300; local records (cartularies, charters, registers)

Christine Williamson 
Tutor in classical and medieval Latin

Stephanie Wynne-Jones (Archaeology)
Archaeology of objects and trade; medieval Africa and the Indian Ocean world; urban archaeology; household archaeology

Laura Yeoman
Access and Digital Engagement Archivist at the Borthwick Archives, with special responsibility for medieval collections, as well as teaching medieval administrative palaeography 


 

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Admin Staff

CMS Administrative Staff


Student Services Administrator: Brittany Scowcroft
(brittany.scowcroft@york.ac.uk)

Tel: 01904 (32)1784
E:  cms-office@york.ac.uk

 

Student Wellbeing Officer

Lucy Akturk, Student Wellbeing Officer
Lucy is here to offer support and guidance with any personal or academic issues you might encounter during your studies. You can email her with any queries, or book an appointment online.