- Bernard Bachrach
- Andrea M. Berlin
- Bruno Chaouat
- Michael Cherlin
- Gary B. Cohen
- Maria Damon
- Michelle Hamilton
- Benjamin M. Jacobs
- Alex Jassen
- Amy Kaminsky
- Ruth Mazo Karras
- Judith Katz
- Ronald R. Krebs
- Bernard M. Levinson
- Michael Lower
- Alex Lubet
- Leslie Morris
- Rick McCormick
- Karen Painter
- Riv-Ellen Prell
- Calvin Roetzel
- Andrew Scheil
- Renana Schneller
- Philip Sellew
- Eric D. Weitz
Professor of History
Distinguished Women Scholars Award in Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities for 2008
Research Interests
- Medieval Europe, especially northwestern and northern central Europe
- Women’s history
- Gender studies
- History of sexuality
- Social and cultural history
Selected Publications
Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others (Routledge, 2005). Translation: Sexualität im Mittelalter, trans. Wolfgang Hartung (Artemis & Winkler, 2006).
From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003).
“Women’s Labors: Reproduction and Sex Work in Medieval Europe Journal of Women’s History. 15:4 (2004), 153-58.
“’This Skill in a Woman is By No Means to Be Despised’: Weaving and the Gender Division of Labor in the Middle Ages,” in Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings, ed. E. Jane Burns ( New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), 89-104.
[Kathryn Kelsey Staples and Ruth Mazo Karras,] “ Christina’s Tempting,” in Christina of Markyate, ed. Samuel Fanous and Henrietta Leyser ( London: Routledge, 2004).
“Using Women to Think With in the Medieval University,” in Seeing and Knowing: Women and Learning in Medieval Europe 1200-1550, ed. Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004), 21-33.
“Marriage and the Creation of Kin in the Sagas,” Scandinavian Studies 4 (2003), 473-90.
“‘Because the other is a poor woman, she shall be called his wench’: Gender, Sexuality, and Social Status in Late Medieval England,” for Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages, ed. Sharon Farmer and Carol Braun Pasternack (University of Minnesota Press, 2003), 210-29.
“Knighthood, Compulsory Heterosexuality, and Sodomy,” in The Boswell Thesis: Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, ed. Matthew Kuefler (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), 273-286
“The Lechery That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Sodomy and the Vices in Medieval England,” in In the Garden of Evil: The Vices and Culture in the Middle Ages, ed. Richard Newhauser (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2005), 193-205.
“The History of Marriage and the Myth of Friedelehe,” Early Medieval Europe 14 (2006), 119-151.
Courses
- Gender in Medieval Culture
- Women in Medieval Europe
- Medieval England