Graduate Students
This is an interdisciplinary list of the graduate students at the University of Iowa who work in the area of medieval studies.
Department of English | Department of History | Department of Spanish and Portuguese | School of Art and Art History
Department of English
Tom Blake
thomas-blake@uiowa.edu
Sonja Mayrhofer
sonja-mayrhofer@uiowa.edu
Joseph Rodriguez
joseph-p-rodriguez@uiowa.edu
Vincent Rotkiewicz
vincent-rotkiewicz@uiowa.edu
[CV]
My research focuses on drama and gender, particularly on
Middle-English Cycle Plays and representations of the
Peasant's Revolt of 1381 (specifically in Chaucer).
Spenser Santos
spenser-santos@uiowa.edu
My research focuses on Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse and some
Old Spanish works, with a particular interest in the
relationship of orthodoxy and heroes or heroic status.
Michael Sarabia
michael-sarabia@uiowa.edu
Tracy Stuhr
tracy-stuhr@uiowa.edu
Chris Vinsonhaler
chris-vinsonhaler@uiowa.edu
Department of History
Rebecca Church
rebecca-church@uiowa.edu
My research focus is on cross cultural interactions between
Southern France and Spain as reflected in charters. My other
interests include women/gender, monasticism, medieval
Mediterranean and the broader Islamic world.
Kristi DiClemente
kristi-diclemente@uiowa.edu
[Blog]
My dissertation research is on marriage disputes in 15th
century Paris bishop's court. My general foci are marriage,
gender, women's history, social history in the High and Late
Middle Ages. I am also involved in diversity and equality
issues on campus, and student government.
Tyler Dryg
tyler-dryg@uiowa.edu
Medieval Germany
Renee Goethe
renee-goethe@uiowa.edu
My research focuses on the propaganda exchanges, both in
textual and artistic forms, between the royal abbey of
Saint-Denis and the Capetian kings of France. (1100-1324
C.E.)
Sarah Matthews
sarah-matthews@uiowa.edu
[Academia.edu]
My research is on the role of the body in theories about
mood, emotional health, and psychological therapies in the
high and later Middle Ages; more broadly I am interested in
the history of science, magic, and medicine.
Christopher McFadin
christopher-mcfadin@uiowa.edu
I am interested in the rise of monasteries as economic
institutions during the medieval period.
Melissa Moreton
melissa-moreton@uiowa.edu
[Academia.edu]
My research focuses on book production and women's
monasticism in late medieval and Renaissance Italy.
Yvonne Seale
yvonne-seale@uiowa.edu
[Blog]
I am broadly interested in women's history and in the social
history of religion, with my dissertation research focusing
on female Premonstratensians in 12th/13th century northern
France.
Michelle Seiler
michelle-seiler@uiowa.edu
Medieval English legal history.
Heather Wacha
heather-wacha@uiowa.edu
My research focuses on 12th/13th century Picardy, France:
the construction of cartularies and women's religious
patronage represented in those cartularies. Other interests
include history of paper-making and book-binding as well as
medieval Iberia and 12th/13th century French romances.
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
James Dyer
james-dyer@uiowa.edu
School of Art and Art History
Steven Kerrigan
steven-kerrigan@uiowa.edu
Rebecca Smith
rebecca-a-smith@uiowa.edu