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Institute Director

 

Timothy C. Graham, Associate 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 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.

 
 

Core Faculty

 



Justine 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 & 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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Helen Damico
, Professor of English
UNM Presidential Teaching Fellow

B.A. (University of Iowa)
M.A. (New York University)
Ph.D. (New York University)
E-Mail: hdamico@unm.edu
Office Phone: (505) 277-7448

Professor Damico teaches Introduction to Medieval Culture, Vikings & Sagas, Viking Women, Old English, Beowulf and Old Norse.

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Leslie Donovan
, Associate Professor of
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.

Nancy Mcloughlin, Assistant Professor of History
B.A. (Wesleyan University)
M.T.S. (Harvard University Divinity School)
Ph.D. (UCSB)
E-mail: nmclough@unm.edu
Office phone: (505) 277-7848

Professor McLoughlin offers courses on Western Medieval European History with a special emphasis on sanctity, heresy, women’s spirituality, medieval towns, and medieval universities.

 

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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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Andrew Burgess, Associate Professor of Philosophy

B.A. (St. Olaf), M.A. (University of Minnesota), M.Div. (Luther Theological Seminary), Ph.D. (Yale University)
E-Mail: aburgess@unm.edu
Office Phone: (505) 277-6361

Selected Publications: Passion, "Knowing How," and Understanding: An Essay on the Concept of Faith. American Academy of Religion Academy Series, number 9. Scholar's Press, 1975. Selected Book Chapters: "Pictures of the Soul." "Concept of Happiness," Reflection 67 (March 1970): 10-11. "Irreducible Religious Metaphors," Religious Studies 8 (December 1972): 355-66. "Brentano as Philosopher of Religion." International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion 5 (Summer 1975): 75-90. "Kierkegaard's Climacus as Author." Journal of Religious Studies 7 (Fall 1979):1-14. "Brentano's Evolving God," The New Scholasticism, 55 (Autumn 1981):438-49. "Concord 1980," Dialog 17 (Winter 1978): 57-58.

Professor Burgess teaches Religious Studies/Philosophy 360.001, Christian Classics. He has served as Chair for the Religious Studies Program since 1979.

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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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Joseph McAlhany, Assistant Professor of Classics

B.A. (Haverford), M.A. (Columbia), Ph.D. (Columbia)
E-Mail: jcm3@unm.edu
Office Phone: (505) 277-3683

Professor McAlhany specializes in the intellectual history of late Republican and early Imperial Rome and is currently revising his dissertation, Language and Tradition in Varro, for Cambridge University Press.

Professor McAlhany teaches courses in Greek and Latin literature and language, as well as other courses on the classical tradition. He began the Medieval Latin Reading Group, an informal translation and discussion group for those interested in Medieval Latin.

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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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Richard Robbins, Professor of History

B.A. (William College), M.A. (Columbia), Ph.D. (Columbia)
E-Mail: rrobbins@unm.edu
Office Phone: (505) 277-4428

Selected Publications: The Tsar's Viceroys: Russian Provincial Governors in the Last Years of the Empire (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987); Famine in Russia 1891-1892: Government Responds to a Crisis (New York: Columbia University Press, 1975); "Russia's System of Food Supply Relief on the Eve of the Famine of 1891-92," Agricultural History 45 (October 1971): 259-69. "A.A. Kizevetter: Scholar and Criticism," Introduction. to a reprint of Kizevetter's memoirs, Na rubezhe dvukh stoletii. Newtonville, MA. Oriental Research Partners, 1974. "Choosing the Russian Governors: The Profossionalization of the Gubernatorial Corps." Slavonic and East European Review 58 (October 1980): 541-560.

Professor Robbins teaches Old Russia, a survey of Russian history from the 9th through the 17th century.

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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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