Professor Magnusson is the author of Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire, a book that draws on insights from archaeology alongside environmental, technological, legal, social, and cultural history, and that makes use of French, German, Italian, and Latin sources. Her most recent book is Urban Infrastructure in Medieval England: Sustainability and Resilience, a comprehensive study of how medieval towns built, financed, and sustained their defenses, bridges, streets, water systems, and harbors from the thirteenth through sixteenth centuries, a period of profound climatic, demographic, economic, religious, and technological change. Professor Magnusson is an award-winning instructor who has received The Regents Award for Superior Teaching and has served as the History Department's Director of Undergraduate Studies. She regularly offers courses on medieval history including popular courses on the Crusades, Medieval Women, and Medieval Italy. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Editor. Volume 2: The Medieval Period (600-1450) for the forthcoming series A Cultural History of Technology. Bloomsbury.
