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Sara McDougall
John Jay College of Criminal Justice & the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Academic Positions:
Professor, Department of Global History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 2022-present.
Medieval Studies Coordinator, CUNY Graduate Center, 2020-present.
Member of the Faculty in Biography & Memoir, French, History, and Medieval Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 2014-present.
Associate Professor, History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY 2014-2022.
Assistant Professor, History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY 2010-2014.
Visiting Appointments and Fellowships:
École pratique des hautes études, Paris, Franco-American Commission, Spring 2026.
Visiting Fellow, University of Basel History Department, April 2026.
Femicide Group, Center for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich, Summer 2026.
John and Constance Birkelund Fellow, the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York Public Library, 2023-2024.
Visiting Professor in Legal History, University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, December 2022.
Astor Visiting Lectureship, Oxford University, Trinity term, 2022.
Norman Freehling Visiting Professor, University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities, spring 2020.
Mellon Fellow, Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ. 2014-2015.
Golieb Fellow in Legal History, New York University School of Law, 2009-2010.
CUNY Teaching and Research Awards:
Audre Lorde Award for Social Justice, LGBTQ+ Resource Center, John Jay College, May 2023.
"Consent: Medieval Legacies from Europe and the Islamic Worlds in Comparative Perspective" with Prof. Anna Akasoy, Futures Initiative Faculty Fellow, CUNY Graduate Center, 2022-2023
"Mothers-in-Law," with Prof. Julie Suk, Futures Initiative Faculty Fellow, CUNY Graduate Center, 2019-2020.
John Jay College Scholarly Excellence Award, 2019-2020, 2018-2019, 2013-2014.
Distinguished CUNY Fellow, Advanced Research Collaborative, The Graduate School of the City University of New York, spring 2017.
Education:
Yale University, New Haven, CT. Ph.D. in History, May 2009.
Books:
Justice for Jehanne: The Tale of a Medieval Survivor (Princeton Univesity Press, September 2026).
Royal Bastards: the birth of illegitimacy, 800-1230 (Oxford University Press, Oxford Studies in Medieval European History, 2017).
Reviews include: Times Literary Supplement, American Historical Review, English Historical Review, Speculum, Francia, H-Net, H-France, Historiche Zeitschrift, Women's History Review, The Medieval Review, History, Journal for the History of Childhood and Youth, and Ceræ.
Bigamy and Christian Identity in Late-Medieval Champagne (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).
Reviews include: Renaissance Quarterly, H-France Review, French Studies, Catholic Historical Review, Reviews in History, Law and History Review, Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis [Legal History Journal], Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, American Historical Review, Sehepunkte, Ecclesiastical Law Journal, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Journal of Social History, Sixteenth Century Studies.
Editorial Projects:
with Arnaud Fossier, Special Issue: "Marriage on Trial: Gendered Justice, Family Strategies," Medieval People 39:1 (December 2024).
with the late Clive Emsley, A Global History of Crime and Punishment, 6 volumes. Bloomsbury Press (August 2023).
with Felicity Turner, Forum: "Rethinking the Criminalization of Childbirth: Infanticide in Premodern Europe and the Modern Americas," Law & History Review 39:2 (May 2021).
with Sarah Pearsall, Gender & History Special Issue: Marriage's Global Past (November 2017).
with Thomas Barton, Susan McDonough, and Matthew Wranovix, Boundaries in the Medieval and Wider World. Festschrift in Honour of Paul Freedman, Europa Sacra 22 (Brepols, 2017).
with John Witte and Anna di Robilant, Texts and Contexts in Legal History: Essays in Honor of Charles Donahue, Robbins Collection, UC Berkeley (October 2016).
Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
with David Perry, "Trial by Battle and Gendered Medievalisms in the Last Duel (2021)," in Law, Justice and Society in the Medieval World: An Introduction Through Film eds. Esther Liberman Cuenca, M. Christina Bruno, and Anthony Perron (Fordham University Press, 2025).
with Emily Hutchison, "Women’s Labor in Later Medieval France: Case Studies from Paris," in Medieval Work, Worship and Power: Persuasive and Silenced Voices Essays in Honor of Sharon Farmer, eds. Abby Dowling, Nancy McLoughlin, and Tanya Stabler Miller (Routledge, 2025).
with Arnaud Fossier, "Introduction: Marriage on Trial: Gendered Justice, Family Strategies," Medieval People 39:1 (December 2024).
"Sex with Nuns in Medieval France," in The Learned and Lived Law: Essays in Honor of Charles Donahue, eds. Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Saskia Lettmaire, and Nikitas Hatzimihail (Brill Press, November 2024).
with Emily Hutchison, “Pardonable Sodomy: Uncovering Laurence’s Sin and Recovering the Range of the Possible,” Medieval People 2 (January 2023).
"Judging Sexy Women in Late Medieval France," postmedieval (August 2022).
with Merle Eisenberg and Laura Morreale, "Middle Ages for Educators," New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession, 3:2 (2022).
"Canon Law and Marriage," in the Cambridge History of Medieval Canon Law, eds. Anders Winroth and John Wei (CUP, January 2022).
"Singlewomen and Illicit Pregnancy in Late Medieval France: The Case of Marie Ribou (1481)" French Historical Studies, 44:3 (August 2021).
"Pardoning Infanticide in Late Medieval France," Law & History Review 39:2 (May 2021).
"The Chivalric Family" in Knighthood and Society in the High Middle Ages, eds. David Crouch and Jeroen Deploige, (Leuven University Press, 2020).
"Bastard Priests: Illegitimacy and Ordination in Medieval Europe," Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 94/1 (January 2019).
with Sarah Pearsall, "Marriage's Global Past: Introduction," in Gender & History Special Issue: Marriage's Global Past (November 2017).
"The Monk-King and the Abbess-Countess: Dynastic Lineage in Twelfth Century Aragon and Boulogne" in Boundaries in the Medieval and Wider World. Festschrift in Honour of Paul Freedman, Europa Sacra 22 (Brepols, 2017).
with Charles Donahue, Jr. “France and Adjoining Areas,” in History of Courts and Procedure in Medieval Canon Law eds. Kenneth Pennington and Wilfried Hartmann (Catholic University Press, November 2016).
“Enclosure as Punishment for Adultery,” in Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, Toronto 3-9 August 2012, eds. Joseph Goering, Stephan Dusil, and Andreas Thier, Monumenta Iuris Canonici, Series C: Subsidia (Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2016).
“À la recherche des enfants illégitimes dans les archives de l’officialité de Troyes au xve siècle. Un exemple atypique ?” in Bâtards et bâtardises dans l’Europe médiévale et moderne, ed. Carole Avignon (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2016).
“Fiction and Lies: Adultery and Spousal Homicide Accusations in Fifteenth Century France" in Imagining Early Modern Histories, eds. Allison Kavey and Elizabeth Ketner (Ashgate, 2016).
“The Transformation of Adultery in France at the End of the Middle Ages,” Law and History Review 32:3 (August 2014).
“The Opposite of the Double Standard: Gender, Marriage, and Adultery Prosecution in Late Medieval France,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 23:2 (May 2014).
“Women Before the Officiality of Troyes in the Fifteenth Century,” in Les officialités dans l'Europe médiévale et moderne: Des tribunaux pour une société chrétienne eds. Véronique Beaulande-Barraud and Martine Charageat, (Brepols, 2014).
“The Making of Marriage in Medieval Europe,” Journal of Family History 38:3 (July 2013).
“Women and Gender in Medieval Canon Law,” in the Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe, eds. Ruth Karras and Judith Bennett (July 2013).
“Bigamy: A Male Crime in Medieval Europe,” Gender and History 22:2 (August 2010).
“The Punishment of Bigamy in Late-Medieval France,” Imago Temporis Acti. Medium Aevum 3 (2009).
“The Prosecution of Sex in Late Medieval Troyes,” in History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Albrecht Classen (De Gruyter: 2008).
Forthcoming Publications:
- with Chanelle Delameillieure, "Medieval rape myths. Consent, sexual assault and honour in fifteenth-century Burgundy" History Workshop Journal, accepted.
- with Rudi Beaulant, "Uxoricide in Dijon, 1465: Guillemot and Marion," in Femicide in the Global Premodern, ed. Julia Burkhardt, Munich, 2026.
Selected Public Writing/Media:
-Interview for Slate on the Gisèle Pelicot trial.
-for Slate, with David Perry, "In the Middle Ages, Botched Executions were a Sign."
"Women Who Hurt Women," & 'Thieves and Harlots' Matt Damon's Last Duel mullet had its reasons" & "What's Fact and What's Fiction in The Last Duel?" & "Mind Your Neighbor: What's Happening in Texas isn't Medieval, it's Worse,"
-New York Times, "Catholic Bishops Agree: Anything But a Woman."
-The Washington Post, "When the Catholic Church’s prohibition on scandal helped women."
-Perspectives: the newsmagazine of the American Historical Association, with Brian Connolly and Hans Hummer, "WEIRD Science: Incest and History."
-Ms. Magazine online, with Felicity Turner: "Qatar and Us: The Violation of Women’s Bodies Has a Long History Among Western Nations."
-The Docket: Law and History Review, with Mireille Pardon and Karl Shoemaker, " 'Abortion Was a Crime'?
WNPR's Colin McEnroe show: "Bastards and Game of Thrones."
Medievalists.net podcast: "Bastards and Priests in the Middle Ages."
Reviews:
- "Their Desires and Ours: Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages. The Met Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. October 17, 2025–March 29, 2026." American Historical Review, Featured Review, September 2026.
-Review of John Watkins, After Lavinia: A Literary History of Premodern Marriage Diplomacy. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2017) in Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 94/1 (January 2019).
-“Polygamy and Western History” Review of John Witte, The Western Case for Monogamy Over Polygamy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2015) in Politics, Religion and Ideology, (2016).
-Review of Susan McDonough, Witnesses, Neighbors, and Community in Late Medieval Marseille (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) Renaissance Quarterly 66:4 (2013).
-Review of Caroline Dunn, Stolen Women in Medieval England: Rape, Abduction, and Adultery, 1100-1500 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012) The Medieval Review (2013).
-Two-Part Review of Charles J. Reid, Jr. Power Over the Body, Equality in the Family: Rights and Domestic Relations in Medieval Canon Law. (Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans. 2004); and Sex, Marriage, and Family in John Calvin's Geneva. Volume 1: Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage, eds. John Witte, Jr., and Robert M. Kingdon (Grand Rapids, MI.: William B. Eerdmans, 2005) in Ecclesiastical Law Journal, Cambridge University Press, Summer 2008.
-Review of To Have and to Hold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600, eds. Philip L. Reynolds and John Witte (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007) in Ecclesiastical Law Journal, Spring 2008.
Future Presentations:
Book talks: Justice for Jehanne
-with Sarah Weinman, Conversations from the Cullman Center, New York Public Library, September 15, 2026.
-with Irit Kleinman, Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, September 16, 2026.
-for "Premodern Connections," Boston College, September 17, 2026.
-for Loyola College History and Medieval Studies, Evanston, IL, October 1, 2026.
-with Swapna Banerjee and Deborah Lutz, CUNY Graduate Center, October 13, 2026.
"The Trafficking of Women by Women in French Burgundy (15th Cen.)" in "Women and Crime in Medieval and Early Modern Europe and Saint-Domingue," American Society for Legal History, Banff, Canada, November 12-14, 2026.
Presentations:
- "Marital Status as an Exacerbating Factor in Sex Crimes: Cases from Medieval Dijon," in "Crime and Conjugality in Europe, pre-1800" All Souls College, Oxford, July 6, 2026.
- "New Approaches to Old Problems: sex, gender, and crime in 15th century Dijon," History Department, University of Basel, April 15, 2026.
- "Modern Myths about Medieval Women" History Department, University of Basel, April 13, 2026.
- Introduction and "The Trafficking of Women in Late Medieval Dijon," in "Women and Violence in Late Medieval Europe" KU Leuven/HARTIS/CROSSPOINT, March 31, 2026.
- "Looking for Women, Finding Jehanne: Gender and Justice in Late Medieval Dijon," University of Michigan Medieval Studies Workshop, November 17, 2025.
-"Justice for Jehanne," Columbia University Legal History Workshop, October 28, 2025.
- "Gender in the Archive: Views from Medieval France and Japan," University of Pennsylvania, Medieval Studies, joint presentation with David Spafford, September 25, 2025.
- "Pardoning and Pardon Letters in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe," Brussels, June 5-6, 2025.
- "Women, Gender, and Justice Across Jurisdictions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe," IRHiS (UMR 8529), Université de Lille, 22-23 May, 2025.
- Respondent, New Perspectives on Medieval Customary Law" Medieval Academy of America, Boston, MA, March 19-22, 2025.
"Women, Crime, and Community in Late Medieval France," Edith Bleich Lecture, University of Miami, February 4, 2025.
-"On the Margins of Canon Law: Canon Law in a Woman's Life on the Margins in Late Medieval France," Seventeenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law Canterbury, UK, July 7-13 2024.
-"Crime, Punishment, Testimony, and Patriarchy: A Rape Trial in 1472 France," New York City Bar Association Legal History Committee, November 21, 2023.
-"A Survivor Speaks: Listening to Jehanne from Lorraine in Late Medieval Dijon, Burgundy," in session "Legal History as Biography; Biography as Legal History," American Society for Legal History, Philadelphia, PA, October 26-28, 2023.
-"E. Jean and Jehanne from Lorraine: Judging Sexual Assault, Medieval and Modern," Costello Lecture, History Department, Manhattan College, September 19, 2023.
-Keynote speaker, Medieval and Renaissance Graduate Interdisciplinary Network, New York University, "Production and Reproduction," April 28, 2023.
-Respondent, "Genealogies of Bodily Sovereignty," Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, March 24-25, 2023.
-Respondent and organizer, "Consent and Sex in Law and Legal Practice in the Middle Ages," and Roundtable, with Emily Hutchison, "Women, Sex, and Work in Medieval France," Medieval Academy of America, February 23-24, 2023.
-"The Priest's Mistress as Neighbor: Sex, Sin, and Society in Late Medieval France," Portland State University History Faculty Colloquium, February 3, 2023.
-"L'accouchement hors mariage à la fin du Moyen Âge: L’enseignement des actes judiciaires relatif aux expériences individuelles (Dijon, 1472)" Institut d'Histoire du Droit Jean Gaudemet, Pantheon-Assas, Université Paris, December 8, 2022.
-"The Bishop's Wife," Conference: Priests’ Wives and Concubines in the Medieval West (800-1200), Stanford University, Oct. 27-28, 2022.
-"Extramarital Pregnancies in Legal Sources from Late Medieval France," Postpartum Mental Distress in Late Medieval Europe research group, Tel Aviv University, June 26, 2022.
-Roundtable presenter, "Punishment, Spiritual Health, and Gender in Synodal Statutes (13th cen. France)," Purity, Pollution, Purification and Defilement in the Premodern Mediterranean, Summer 2022 Mediterranean Seminar Workshop, University of Haifa, June 28-30, 2022.
-"Surviving Illicit Pregnancy in Late Medieval France," Oxford Medieval Studies Lecture, Worcester College, May 24, 2022.
-"Sex with Nuns in Medieval France," in "On the Borders of the Realm: Aristocratic Culture and the Making of France, 1100-1300," Princeton University, April 29-30, 2022.
-"Medieval Futures" workshop participant, Yale Whitney Humanities Center, April 21-22, 2022.
-Invited Keynote "Encounters with Jehanne from Lorraine in Late Medieval Dijon," Society for the Study of French History, Annual Conference, "Encounters" Oxford, April 10-13, 2022.
-"Women and Sex in Medieval France and Beyond," in Roundtable: The Past and The Future of Medieval Women’s History: 34 years after Women in Medieval History and Historiography, Medieval Academy of America, Charlottesville, VA, March 10-13, 2022.
-"The Priest's Mistress as Litigant in Late Medieval Dijon," Gender and Medieval Studies Conference, Paris, January 5-7, 2022.
-"Law, Honor, Religion, and Sex in Late Medieval Dijon," Columbia University Medieval Studies Discussion Group, September 1, 2021.
-"Gender and Justice in Medieval France," Oxford University, Oxford Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity, June 3, 2021.
-"Une concubine à Dijon à la fin du XVe siècle," Sexualités ecclésiastiques. État des lieux et perspectives, Université Grenoble-Alpes, June 3, 2021.
-Workshop on Medieval Kinship, George Mason University, May 17, 2021.
-"#MeToo 1472: telling a survivor's story from Late Medieval Dijon," for the Women Writing Women's Lives Biography Seminar, Center for the Study of Women and Society, CUNY Graduate Center, May 3, 2021.
-"Abducted Nuns, Pregnant Nuns, and Consent in Valois France," Consent Workshop, Oxford University, April 23-26, 2021.
-"Telling the Truth About Illicit Pregnancy in Medieval France," in "Women and Truth Telling," Medieval Academy of America, April 16, 2021.
-Panel, "On Gender in the Middle Ages," Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group, Brooklyn College, March 25, 2021.
-"Judging Sex in Late Medieval France," Oxford University Medieval History Research Seminar, January 25, 2021.
-Panel, "Women and Work in the Middle Ages," University of Nevada at Reno, January 28, 2021.
-"Judging Sex Crimes: Pregnancy and Punishment in Medieval France," Legal History Workshop, University of Pennsylvania Law School, October 29, 2020.
-"Middle Ages for Educators: Online Resources and Strategies for Teaching the Pre-Modern," with Laura Morreale and Merle Eisenberg, American Historical Association Teaching Webinar, July 23, 2020.
-"Down and Out and Pregnant in Medieval France," FellowSpeak, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, January 28, 2020.
-"Infanticide in the Middle Ages: Cross-Perspectives from Canon Law, the Courts, Health Care, and the Confessional," in session "The Law’s Two Bodies. Legal Corpus and Marginalized Bodies in Medieval Europe and the New World," American Historical Association, January 3-6, 2020.
-"Punishing and Pardoning Infanticide in Late Medieval France," in session "Infanticide and Illegitimate Pregnancies in Premodern Europe and the Modern Americas," American Society for Legal History, November 21, 2019.
-"La grossesse, l'accouchement et la protection des nourrissons et des enfants dans les statuts synodaux français" Legal Diffusion in the Late Medieval Church: Local Ecclesiastical Legislation, 1215-1500, Metz, France, June 13-14, 2019.
-"Mothers of Bastards and Problems with Paternity in Medieval France" Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group, Brooklyn College, May 7, 2019.
-"Illicit Pregnancy and Synodal Statutes in France," Legal Diffusion in the Late Medieval Church: Local Ecclesiastical Legislation in France and its Neighbors, 1215-1500, Stanford University, April 26-27, 2019.
-"The Family post-1000," Re-envisioning Kinship in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages"
Princeton University, April 7, 2019.
-Respondent, "Medieval Family Matters: A Graduate Student Roundtable," CUNY Graduate Center, March 1, 2019.
-"A Roundtable on Reproductive Choice: Abortion and Infanticide in Premodern Europe and the Modern Americas" American Historical Association, Chicago, IL, January 4, 2019.
-"Autour de la mère sans mari: droit et pratique au moyen-âge," Société d'Histoire du Droit,
Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, November 17, 2018.
-"Les bâtards au Moyen Âge: Naissance de l'illégitimé," Sorbonne Université Lettres-École nationale des Chartres, October 11, 2018.
-"Bringing up Bastards in Late Medieval Paris" Sewanee Medieval Studies Conference, April 13-14, 2018.
-"Down and Out and Pregnant in the Thirteenth Century: Law and Practice," Medieval Studies Conference "Gothic Arts," University of Pennsylvania, March 23-24, 2018.
-"La maternité et les enfants illégitimes dans nos sources," workshop "Legal Diffusion in the Late Medieval Church: Local Ecclesiastical Legislation in France and its Neighbors, 1215-1500," organized by Christine Barralis and Rowan Dorin, Metz, 18 December 2017.
-"Bastard Priests in Medieval Europe," Syracuse University History Department Invited Lecture, September 15, 2017.
-"Bastards and their Families in the Twelfth Century," Symposium Families in Law: Social Contexts 200-1200, Manchester University, UK, July 8-9, 2017.
-"Bastard Priests and their Families in Medieval Europe," Workshop, Family in the Premodern World, Princeton University, April 8-9, 2017.
-"Bastards and Bastard Priests in Medieval Europe," CUNY Graduate Center Medieval Studies and Renaissance Studies Certificate Programs, March 17, 2017.
-"Bastards and their Families in Medieval Europe," Advanced Research Collaborative Spring Workshop Series, CUNY Graduate Center, February 23, 2017.
-"Like Father Like Son? Clerical Celibacy and Priestly Office in Medieval Europe," Yale Law School Legal History Colloquium, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, February 2, 2017.
-"Bastards!" Medieval History Colloquium, Harvard University, January 31, 2017.
-"Bastards and Thrones in Medieval Europe c.800-c.1230,” Legal History Colloquium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, November 7, 2016.
-"The Monk-King and the Abbess-Countess, Dynastic Succession in Twelfth Century Aragon and Boulogne," Conference in Honor of Paul Freedman, UCLA Center for the Humanities, October 17, 2016.
-"Canon Law, Priests' Children, and Disinheritance," Fifteenth International Medieval Canon Law Congress, Paris, France, July 17-23, 2016.
-"Bâtards et succession, ixe-xiiie siècle" Seminar: La Bâtardise et autres "taches" de naissance, Charles de Miramon and Sylvie Steinberg, Ecole des Hautes Etudes et Sciences Sociales, Paris, June 20, 2016.
-Respondent, Tiffany Vann Sprecher, "Vigilante Justice, Women, and the Church Courts in Paris, 1483-1505," Columbia Seminar on Women and Society, Columbia University, March 21, 2016.
-Concluding Remarks, "Marriage's Global Past" Cambridge University, Robinson College, April 7-9, 2016.
-"Bastards and Illegitimacy in the Christian Mediterranean" in "Individuals and Legal Institutions Around the Medieval Mediterranean," Center for Jewish Studies, Duke University, March 7-8, 2016.
-"Illegitimacy and the Children of Illegal Marriages" in "Legitimacy, Illegitimacy, and Succession in Medieval Europe" Medieval Academy of America, Boston, February 25-27, 2016.
-"Women and their bastards in medieval Europe (11th-13th centuries)" in "Gender and Illicit Sex in Premodern Europe" American Society for Legal History, Washington D.C., Nov. 1-2, 2015.
-"The Monk-King and the Abbess-Countess, Religious Life and Dynastic Succession in Twelfth Century Aragon and Boulogne" in "Between Worldly Objectives and Spiritual Renewal" International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 6-9 July 2015.
-"The Canon Law of Bastards," Stephan Kuttner Medieval Canon Law Conference, Yale University, New Haven, CT, May 21, 2015.
-"Saint Fernando III: The Bastard King of Castile-León," Friends of the Saints, CUNY Graduate Center, March 13, 2015.
-"What was a bastard in Medieval Europe?" School of Historical Studies Lunchtime Colloquia, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, December 4, 2014.
-Respondent, "Sex and Law in Medieval Europe," 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History, Denver, Colorado, November 6-8, 2014.
-"Money, Marriage, and the Illegitimate Children of Royalty," Invited Lecture, Program in Medieval Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, October 23, 2014.
-"Reforming Marriage in France" Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, New Orleans, October 16-19, 2014.
-"Adulterous Murderesses and Royal Pardon in Late Medieval France" in: "Spousal Homicide and Adultery in Comparative Perspective" Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Toronto, Canada, May 22-24, 2013.
-"Illicit Sex, Illicit Progeny: Family Law and the Regulation of Illegitimate Children in Medieval France" in session "Law and Lineage: Comparative Histories of Children and Families as Legal Subjects," American Society for Legal History, Miami, FL, November 7-10, 2013.
-"Sexual Misbehavior in 14th- and 15th-Century France," Sexual Pleasure and Medieval Canon Law - Law in Action, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England, July 2, 2013.
-"Les enfants adultérins," in Filiation illégitime et bâtardise dans les sociétés médiévale et moderne, Université d’Angers, June 10, 2013.
-"Marriage and the Monastery: In and out of marriage in the twelfth century," Medieval Prosopography Sponsored Session, International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo: May 12, 2013.
-"Reforming Adultery in Late Medieval France," Stanford University Law School, Legal History Colloquium, February 11, 2013.
- “Adultery and the Law in Fifteenth Century France,” Boston University Law School, Legal History Colloquium, November 14, 2012.
-Respondent “French Law in the Making,” American Society for Legal History, St. Louis, Missouri, November 10, 2012.
- “Adultery in France in 1500,” Society For the Study of Women in the Renaissance, CUNY Graduate Center, October 11, 2012.
- “Adultery in Late-Medieval France,” Marriage Made and Broken in Canon Law and Legal Practice, The Fourteenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, University of Toronto, Canada, August 5-11, 2012.
- “Husbands, Wives, and Adultery in Late-Medieval France,” University of Chicago Law School Workshop on Regulating Family, Sex and Gender, Chicago, IL, April 11, 2012.
- “Husbands, Wives, and Adultery in Late-Medieval France,” University of Michigan Law School Legal History Workshop, Ann Arbor, MI, April 10, 2012.
- “Adultery in Late-Medieval Northern France,” CUNY Graduate Center Seminars in the Humanities: “Undoing Marriage,” CUNY Graduate Center, New York, March 2, 2012.
-Keynote Speaker “The Creation of Indestructible Marriage,” Seventh Annual Graduate Student Conference, CUNY Graduate Center “Creation and Destruction,” February 24, 2012.
- “Regulating the Sex Lives of Married Persons in Medieval Europe,” American Society for Legal History, Atlanta, GA, November 9-13, 2011.
- “Required and Prohibited Sex in Northern France,” in Panel “Sex in Christian and Muslim Marriage Law” Medieval Club of New York, CUNY Graduate Center, November 4, 2011.
- “Marriage in France and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem,” Medieval Marriage: Law and Society, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Amherst, MA, June 9-11 2011.
- “The Order of Matrimony in Late-Medieval Troyes,” Sixth Annual Symposium of the International Medieval Society of Paris: “Ordo” Paris, France, June 30-July 2, 2011.
- “Why Commit Bigamy? Illegal Remarriage in Fifteenth Century Champagne,” New Perspectives on Marriage and Remarriage, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Montreal, Canada, October 14-17, 2010.
Teaching Experience:
Professor, CUNY Graduate Center, Biography and Memoir, French, History, and Medieval Studies, and John Jay College History Department, Humanities and Justice, and Gender Studies Programs, (2022-present)
Associate Professor, CUNY Graduate Center, Medieval Studies and French, and John Jay College History Department, Humanities and Justice, and Gender Studies Programs, (2015-2022)
Assistant Professor, History Department, Humanities and Justice Program, and Gender Studies Program, John Jay College (2010-2015)
Teaching Fellow, History Department, Yale University (Spring 2009, 2005-2006)
University Service:
Deputy Executive Officer and Graduate Admissions Co-Chair, History Department, CUNY Graduate Center, 2024-2025, 2026-2027.
Medieval Studies Certificate Program Coordinator, CUNY Graduate Center, 2020-2029.
Executive Committee, Biography and Memoir MA Program, CUNY Graduate Center, 2019-2025.
Executive Committee, French Department, CUNY Graduate Center, 2015-2017, 2020-2027.
Curriculum Committee, French Department, CUNY Graduate Center, 2019.
Graduate Admissions Committee, History Department, CUNY Graduate Center, 2018-2019, 2021-2022.
CUNY Justice Academy experiential learning course development and 200-level transfer
seminar course development, John Jay College, 2020-2021.
Assessment Committee John Jay History Department, 2021.
Five Year Review and Assessment Committee, Humanities and Justice, John Jay, 2019-2020.
Minor Coordinator, History and Law Minor, John Jay College, 2021-present, 2018-2019.
Five-Year History Major Review Report Committee, John Jay, 2017-2018.
Deputy Executive Officer, French Department, CUNY Graduate Center, 2016-2017.
Medieval Studies Certificate Program Advisory Committee, CUNY Grad. Center, 2016-present.
Dissertation supervision of three PhD candidates in History, CUNY Grad. Center, 2014-present.
PhD thesis committee member for three PhD candidates in History, CUNY Grad. Center, 2017-present.
PhD thesis committee member for five PhD candidates in French, Comparative Literature, and English, CUNY Grad Center, 2015-present.
Student Advising, Grade Appeals Committee, History Department, John Jay, 2015-2016, 2019.
Departmental Personnel and Budget Committee, History Department, John Jay, 2012-2014.
General Education Curriculum Committee, 2012-2014.
History Department Curriculum Committee, 2011-2014, 2016-2017.
History Department Assessment Committee, 2011-2014, 2021.
Student Research Travel Committee, fall 2013.
Major Coordinator, Global History, 2011-2013.
At-Large Representative, Faculty Senate and College Council, 2011-2012.
History Department Representative, Faculty Senate and College Council, Spring 2011.
Public Engagement:
Co-Founder and Project Editor, Middle Ages for Educators www.middleagesforeducators.princeton.edu
Board Member, Libraries Without Borders USA, Washington, DC.
Reform Leadership Council, Vera Institute of Justice, New York, 2020-2024.
Board, Association of Members of the Institute for Advanced Study (AMIAS) Princeton, NJ, 2020-2023.
Conference and Workshop Organization:
-with Ellen Wurtzel, Workshop, "l'histoire de Dijon au XVe siècle au prisme des vies individuelles, Archives départmentales de la côte-d'or, January 10, 2026.
-Graduate Student Feminist Translation Workshop with Prof. Stephanie McCarter, CUNY Graduate Center, February 28, 2025.
- with Lauren Mancia, Hannah Weaver, and Jeffrey Wayno, "50 Years of the Tyranny of a Construct: A Discussion in Honor of E.A.R. Brown," Columbia University Faculty House, November 8, 2024.
-Annual Interuniversity Doctoral Consortium Medieval Studies Conference, March 31, 2023.
-with Arnaud Fossier, Workshop "Gender on Trial/Genre en procès," Université de Bourgogne, December 14-15, 2022.
-with Bonnie Wheeler and Nancy Wu, "Paradigms and Personae: A Symposium in Honor of Elizabeth A. R. Brown," Skylight Room, CUNY Graduate Center, March 16, 2018.
-with Abigail Firey and Conrad Leyser, "Families in Law: Social Contexts 200-1200," Manchester University, Rylands Library, July 7-9, 2017.
-with Lee Mordechai, "The Family in the Premodern World," Princeton University, April 7-8, 2017.
-with Sarah Pearsall, "Marriage's Global Past," Cambridge University, April 6-7, 2016.
Related Professional Experience:
Associate Editor, Law and History Review, 2024-2026.
Advisory Board, International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, 2024-2027.
Examiner for Assistant Professor Arnaud Fossier, Habilitation to Direct Research, University of Lyon, January 2024.
External examiner, Oxford University, PhD thesis of Alice Raw, April 2023.
External examiner, Oxford University, PhD thesis of Lucia Akard, June 2022.
Dissertation jury, University of Poitiers, France, Charlotte Pichot, December 2020.
Surrency Prize Committee, American Society for Legal History, 2023-2026.
Nominating Commitee, Medieval Academy of America, 2026-2029.
K-12 Committee, Medieval Academy of America, 2021-2023, 2024-2026.
Baldwin Dissertation Prize Committee, Medieval Academy of America, 2017-2022.
Women Writing Women's Lives, CUNY Graduate Center, 2020-
Berkshires Women's History Conference Program Committee, 2020.
Board of Directors, American Society for Legal History, 2015-2018.
Peter Stein Book Prize Committee, American Society for Legal History, 2016-2017.
American Society for Legal History Annual Conference Program Committee, 2015, 2019.
President, Medieval Club of New York, 2015-2017.
Vice-President, Medieval Club of New York, 2013-2015.
Secretary, Medieval Club of New York, 2011-2013.
Manuscript Reviewer: Journal of Modern History, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Gender and History, Law and History Review, American Historical Review, Journal of Family History, Speculum, University of Pennsylvania Press, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and Routledge Press.
External evaluator, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2012.