This course will examine the arts of England and the British Isles, from the fall of Rome to the late Gothic period. We will begin with the artistic traditions of the Roman era and proceed through time, looking at the art found in ship-burials like Sutton Hoo and in hoards of buried treasure, and at ...
The Middle Ages has had a powerful, long-lasting effect on cultures worldwide. A medieval studies curriculum enables students to discover just how much of our modern world can be traced back to the Middle Ages. The Minor Program in Medieval Studies has been designed as an interdisciplinary minor, to ...
Heidi Gearhart received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and specializes in the art of Medieval Europe. Her research focuses on sacred arts and manuscripts, artists, and medieval art theory, and she is especially interested in issues of memory, craft, and manufacture. Prior to coming to Mas...
Laura is a PhD candidate in art history at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and the recipient of an Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship. She has been a lecturer of history and art history at George Mason University since 2008, specializing in Irish history from pre-Christian to contemporar...
Students in the MA in history program select an area of specialization in American history, European history, or world history. They choose from one of four concentrations.
Sam Collins is an historian of early medieval western Europe. His first book, The Carolingian Debate Over Sacred Space (2014), examined opposed ninth-century assessments of claims for and against the status of ecclesiastical architecture as sacred. His current work looks at eighth and ninth-century m...
The History of Western Civilization course explores the events, personalities, and complex social, political, and cultural changes that have contributed to the genesis of today's world. It follows the great civilizations of Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages, the advent of the Renaissance and the emerg...
Amanda Madden is Assistant Professor of History and Director of Geospatial History at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM). Her resarch areas include digital spatial history, digital humanities, early modern Italy, the history of crime and violence, the history of women and ge...
Spencer is a PhD candidate, who specializes in Medieval European history and the premodern Muslim world. Since 2017, he has been a teaching assistant for HIST 100, 125, 301, and 323. Additionally, since earning his MA in 2013, he has been an adjunct professor for J Sargeant Reynolds Community College...
