Celia Martin Chazelle (born April 7, 1954) is a Canadian historian and author. She is a professor of history at

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Early life and education

Celia Martin was born in California on April 7, 1954, to an English father, John Martin, who held small roles in films and who taught English literature at the

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. Her mother Constance was born in

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. Her grandfather was a manager of Paramount Pictures in London during the era of silent films. Chazelle completed a Bachelor of Arts in history at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

in 1977. She earned a Master of Arts in medieval studies in 1978 at

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, where she also completed a doctorate of philosophy in 1985. Chazelle has two younger siblings.

Career

In 2008, Chazelle began teaching courses in social justice and prison history at the Albert C. Wagner Youth Correctional Facility, through the Petey Greene Prisoner Assistance Program. She later taught joint courses with

(TCNJ). She is a professor of history at TCNJ and was the department chair there from 2008 to 2014. In 2019, Brill Academic Publishing published her latest monograph, ''The Codex Amiatinus and Its Sister Bibles: Scripture, Liturgy, and Art in the Milieu of the Venerable Bede''. She was also named a Fellow of the

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in 2019.

Personal life

Chazelle is married to French computer scientist

Bernard Chazelle Bernard Chazelle (born November 5, 1955) is a French computer scientist. He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. Much of his work is in computational geometry, where he is known for his study of algorith ...

. They have two children,

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and

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Selected works

Books

* * Reviews of ''Why the Middle Ages Matter'': * * * * *

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chazelle, Celia 1954 births Living people 20th-century Canadian historians 21st-century Canadian historians Canadian women historians 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers Trinity College (Canada) alumni University of Toronto alumni Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni The College of New Jersey faculty Canadian people of English descent Canadian expatriate academics in the United States American medievalists American women medievalists Canadian medievalists Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America