Affiliates

CMRS Affiliates are scholars who have a Ph.D. and specialize in some aspect of medieval and Renaissance studies. Candidates for CMRS Affiliate status must be nominated by a CMRS faculty member and approved by the Faculty Advisory Committee. Appointments are usually granted for periods of two or three years. CMRS Affiliates are generally scholars who have received the Ph.D. degree recently and for whom an affiliation with the Center will promote their professional growth.

Brittany Asaro	Italian, University of San Diego Medieval and early modern Italian literature, love by hearsay, physiology of love, love treatises, Luc'Antonio Ridolfi, Boccaccio.
Sara Frances Burdorff	English, UCLA Classical myth, epic, and drama; premodern obstetrics and gynecology; "monster studies”; medieval and early modern mythography and folklore; Shakespeare.
Leanne Good	History, University of South Alabama Cultural historical geography; early medieval political organization in western and central Europe.
Kristina Markman	History, UCLA Medieval east-central Europe, Baltics, and Rus', Northern Crusades, chronicles, cross-cultural interaction and representation
Christiana Purdy Moudarres	Italian, Yale University Dante; intersection of medieval medicine, science, and literature.
Emily C. Runde	Text Manuscripts Specialist, Les Enluminures Medieval English literature, medieval manuscripts, theories and pedagogies of reading in the vernacular, book history.
Ryan Schwarzrock	Medieval Iberia, Islam and Christianity, twelfth-century burgher revolts, medieval history writing, cartulary-chronicles.
Kristine Tanton	Art History and Cinema Studies, University of Montreal Medieval art, architecture, and visual culture; Romanesque sculpture; liturgy; epigraphy; monasticism; word and image studies.
Sara Torres	Postdoc, English, University of Virginia Medieval and Renaissance English literature; Iberian literature; history of the book and manuscript studies; literature of the Hundred Years War; travel literature.
Shannon L. Wearing	Medieval art and architecture, especially 12th- and 13th-century manuscripts; Iberia and the Mediterranean; cartularies; gender; ideology; identity.
Erica L. Westhoff	University of Nevada, Reno Early modern Italian comic theater and theories of comedy; Renaissance patronage networks, especially the relationship between political power and cultural production; the medieval short story.