|
Professor Magnusson is the author of Water Technology
in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks
after the Roman Empire that draws on insights from
environmental, technological, legal, social, and cultural
history and makes use of French, German, Italian, and
Latin sources. She is now at work exploring the origins
and development of public services in medieval English
cities and how such services--street-paving, sanitation,
bridge building and repair, fire protectionBshaped medieval
government and culture. Professor Magnusson is an award-winning
instructor who just received The Regents Award for
Superior Teaching and is also the History Department's
Director of Undergraduate Studies. She regularly offers
courses on medieval history including a popular course
on the Crusades and another on women in the medieval
age. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California,
Berkeley.
|
