Faculty

Allison Palmer

Professor

Interests: Early Italian Renaissance; Italian Baroque architecture; modern architecture

apalmer@ou.edu

David Anderson   

Associate professor
Senior Fellow of Dunham College

Interests: The poetry and drama of the English Renaissance, particularly the relationship between literature and religion

dkanderson@ou.edu

Kyle Harper 
Professor

Interests: The social and economic history of the period spanning the Roman Empire and the early Middle Ages

kyleharper@ou.edu

Samuel J. Huskey  
Professor

Interests: Paleography, manuscript traditions, and the transmission of classical literature; Boccaccio's Latin poetry and the late medieval reception of Lucan

huskey@ou.edu

Scott Johnson 
Associate Professor
Joseph F. Paxton Presidential Professor

Interests: Greek literature in late antiquity; multilingualism in the late antique East; travel, pilgrimage, cartography; Syriac language and literature

sfj@ou.edu

Joyce Coleman
Emerita Professor
Rudolph C. Bambas Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture 
Director, University of Oklahoma Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

Interests: Medieval literary reception, performance, and patronage; "the iconography of the book" in medieval manuscripts

joyce.coleman@ou.edu

Bill Endres 
Associate Professor

Interests: Early medieval manuscripts; digital humanities

bill.endres@ou.edu

Joseph Mansky
Assistant professor

Interests: Early modern literature; libel; theater and social history; rhetoric and poetics; political theory

jmansky@ou.edu

Roberta Magnusson 
Associate Professor

Interests: Medieval Europe, particularly Italy; the origins and development of public services in medieval English cities

magnusson@ou.edu

Shmuel Shepkaru
Schusterman Professor of Jewish Intellectual and Religious History

Interests: Late antique and medieval Jewish history; Hebrew; the history of heaven and hell

shepkaru@ou.edu

Jane Wickersham
Associate Professor

Interests: Renaissance Italian history, particularly the Italian Inquisition

jwickersham@ou.edu

Peter Barker
Emeritus Professor

Interests: History and historiography of the Scientific Revolution; 19th and 20th-century physical science and psychology; philosophy of science

barkerp@ou.edu

Kathleen Crowther
Associate Professor

Interests: Early modern science and medicine; body and gender in early modern Europe; science and religion

kcrowther@ou.edu

Kerry Magruder
Curator and John H. and Drusa B. Cable Chair of the History of Science Collections 
Associate Professor of Bibliography
Associate Professor of the History of Science

Interests: 17th and 18th-century theories of the Earth; early geology, cosmology, visual representation; history of the book; science and religion

kmagruder@ou.edu

Rienk Vermij 
Professor

Interests: Cartesian natural philosophy; Copernicanism; early modern meteorology; Enlightenment science and religion; science in the Netherlands

rienk.vermij@ou.edu

Luis Cortest
Professor, Spanish

Interests: Spanish religious writers of the 16th century; medieval Spanish literature; the history of Spanish scholasticism and natural-law theory

lcortest@ou.edu

Joshua Frydman 
Associate professor, Japanese

Interests: 7th-9th century Japan; Tang dynasty China

joshua.frydman@ou.edu

A. Robert Lauer  
Professor, Spanish

Interests: Golden Age drama, poetry, and prose; film studies

arlauer@ou.edu

Andreea Marculescu 
Lecturer, French

Interests: The history of psychiatry and narratives of mental illnesses in medieval and early modern European literature; disability studies; history of witchcraft and demonology; affect studies and emotions

andreea.marculescu@ou.edu

Roberto Pesce  
Assistant Professor, Italian

Interests: Medieval literature written in Latin and Italian; autobiography and historiography in the Middle Ages

roberto.pesce@ou.edu

Joseph M. Sullivan
Associate Professor, German

Interests: Arthurian literature; medieval Germanic literature; modern and popular representations of the Middle Ages

jsullivan@ou.edu

Nathan Dougherty
Visiting Lecturer of Musicology

Interests: Director, Collegium Musicum

nathan.k.dougherty-1@ou.edu

Rangar H. Cline
Assistant Professor

Interests: The relationship between Greek and Roman religions, early Christianity, and Judaism in the Roman world; the economics of pilgrimage

rangar.cline@ou.edu

David Vishanoff
Associate Professor

Interests: Islamic thought and legal theory; interactions between religious communities; modern Qur'anic hermaneutics

vishanoff@ou.edu

Carrie Schroeder
Professor, Women's and Gender Studies

Interests: Cultural history of early Christianity; gender studies; digital humanities

ctschroeder@ou.edu