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Institute Director:

Timothy C. Graham

 
 

 

 
  Core Faculty: Adjunct Faculty:  
  Justine M. Andrews James L. Boone  
  Anthony Cárdenas John Bussanich  
  Jonathan Davis-Secord Patricia Risso  
  Sarah Davis-Secord Colleen Sheinberg  
  Leslie Donovan    
  Anita Obermeier    
  Michael A. Ryan    
       

 

  Institute Director  
 

Timothy C. Graham, Professor of History
B.A. (University of Cambridge)
M.Phil (University of London)
Ph.D. (University of Cambridge)
E-Mail: tgraham@unm.edu
Office Phone: (505) 277-1191

Professor Graham’s undergraduate teaching portfolio includes The Medieval World, Anglo-Saxon England, and History of Christianity to 1517; he teaches graduate-level courses on Manuscripts and Paleography, Medieval Latin, Medieval Research and Bibliography, and Bede and His World.

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Justine M. Andrews
, Assistant Professor of Art and Art History

B.A. (Assumption College)
M.A. (SMU)
Ph.D. (UCLA)
E-mail: jandrews@unm.edu
Office phone: (505) 277-2809

Professor Andrews offers courses on Western Medieval, Byzantine, and Islamic Art and Architecture with a special emphasis on the interaction between these cultures. In addition Professor Andrews teaches the introductory survey of the history of art from Antiquity through the Middle Ages.

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Anthony Cárdenas, Professor of Spanish language and Literature

B.A. (University of New Mexico)
M.A. (University of Wisconsin)
Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin)
E-Mail: ajcard@unm.edu
Office Phone: (505) 277-5526

Professor Cárdenas teaches courses in medieval Spanish literature, paleography, and textual criticism.

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Jonathan Davis-Secord, Assistant Professor of English

B.A. (Brandeis University)
M.M.S. (University of Notre Dame)
Ph.D. (University of Notre Dame)
E-Mail: jwds@unm.edu
Office Phone: (505) 277-6347

Professor Davis-Secord teaches courses in Old English, History of the English Language, Old Norse, and other courses in medieval literature.

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Sarah Davis-Secord, Assistant Professor of History

B.A. (Northwestern University)
M.A. (Trinity International University)
M.A. (University of Notre Dame)
Ph.D. (University of Notre Dame)
E-Mail: scds@unm.edu
Office Phone: (505) 277-
2451

Professor Davis-Secord offers courses on the interactions between Christian, Muslim, and Jewish cultures in the medieval Mediterranean, with a particular focus on travelers, trade, the Crusades, and the experiences of religious and cultural minorities. 

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Leslie Donovan, Associate Professor of English
University Honors Program and Faculty Advisor of the UNM Hobbit Society

B.A. (University of New Mexico)
M.A. (University of New Mexico)
Ph.D. (University of Washington)
Web Page: http://www.unm.edu/~ldonovan
E-Mail: ldonovan@unm.edu
Office Phone: (505) 277-4313


Professor Donovan teaches interdisciplinary undergraduate seminars at all levels. Previous and current medieval or related courses include: Medieval Legacy, J.R.R. Tolkien, Early Celtic Cultures, and the Legend of Arthur.

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Anita Obermeier, Associate Professor of English and Faculty Sponsor of the MSSA

Ph.D. (Arizona State University)
Medieval Graduate Studies (Ludwig-Maximillian University, Munich)
M.A. (Eastern Illinois University)
B.A. (Ludwig-Maximillian University, Munich).
Web Page: http://www.unm.edu/~aobermei
E-Mail: aobermei@unm.edu
Office Phone: (505) 277-2930

Professor Obermeier teaches Chaucer, Medieval Literature, Introduction to Medieval Culture, Arthurian Legend, Bible as Literature, Middle English Language and Literature, and other courses in Medieval Literature.

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Michael A. Ryan, Associate Professor of History

B.A. (University of Florida)
M.A. (Western Michigan University)
Ph.D. (University of Minnesota)
E-Mail: ryan6@unm.edu
Office Phone: (505) 277-2451

Professor Ryan offers undergraduate and graduate courses on the social, cultural, and intellectual history of the late medieval and early modern Iberian and Mediterranean worlds.  He offers courses on early, high, and late medieval history, readings on medieval Mediterranean history, medieval and modern apocalypticism, and the intersection of magic, science, and religion in the premodern world. 

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Adjunct Faculty

 
 

James L. Boone, Associate Professor of Anthropology
B.A. (University of Texas, Austin), M.A. (SUNY, Binghamton), Ph.D. (SUNY, Binghamton)
E-Mail: jboone@unm.edu
Office Phone: (505) 277-6558

Author of Rural Settlement and Islamization: The Evidence from Alcaria Longa
(U. de Huelva, 1994), Competition, Cooperation and the Development of Social Hierarchies (Cambridge UP, 1998), Parental Investment, Social Subordination, and Population Processes Among the 15th and l6th Century Portuguese Nobility(Cambridge UP, 1988), Noble Family Structure and Expansionist Warfare in the Middle Ages(Westview Press, 1983).

Professor Boone teaches Later European Prehistory, a survey course on the prehistoric foundations of European civilization and culture, and Iron Age Europe: 1000 BC-1000 AD.

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John Bussanich, Associate Professor of Philosophy
B.A. (Stanford U.), Ph.D. (Stanford U.)
E-Mail: manonash@unm.edu
Office Phone: (505) 277-8938

Author of The One and its Relations to Intellect in Plotinus: A Commentary on Selected Texts (Leiden, 1988). Philosophy in Late Antiquity (Westview Press, forthcoming). Author of articles on Greek and Medieval Philosophies, Plotinus, Neoplatonism, Nemesius, Themistius, Henry Suso, and John Tauler.

Professor Bussanich teaches courses in Classical Greek, Hellenistic, and Late Antique Philosophy and on Christian theological and mystical traditions from the Patristic Age through the Medieval period.

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Patricia Risso, Associate Professor of History
B.A. (Bryn Mawr), M.A. (McGill University), Ph.D. (McGill University)
E-Mail: prisso@unm.edu
Office Phone: (505) 277-5807

Selected Publications:Merchants and Faith: Muslim Commerce and Culture in the Indian Ocean. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995 Oman and Muscat: An Early Modern History, London: Croom Helm and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. "Indian Muslim Legal Status, 1964-1986," [international] Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. v 16, no.2 (Winter, 1992). "Muslim Identity in Maritime Trade: General Observations and Some Evidence from the l8th-century Persian Gulf/Indian Ocean Region," International Journal of Middle East Studies v.21 (August 1989).

Professor Risso teaches two medieval studies courses, Islamic Middle East and Islam.

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Colleen Sheinberg, Lecturer II, Department of Music

Colleen Sheinberg is music director of UNM's Early Music Ensemble and has collaborated with IMS during the Spring Lecture Series.

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