Katherine L. Jansen is an American historian and professor of

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at the

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in Washington, D.C. She also has served as a visiting professor at the

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and

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Biography

She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, a student of William C. Jordan. Her scholarly interests are in the history of medieval Italy, religious cultures, and women and gender studies. Her first book was awarded the

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from the

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and the prize for the first book in the field of history from the

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society. She has held fellowships from the

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, the

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Villa I Tatti Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies is a center for advanced research in the humanities located in Florence, Italy, and belongs to Harvard University. It houses a collection of Italian primitives, and of Chinese and ...

, the

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, the

American Council of Learned Societies The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a private, nonprofit federation of 75 scholarly organizations in the humanities and related social sciences founded in 1919. It is best known for its fellowship competitions which provide a ra ...

Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry located in Princeton, New Jersey. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholars, including Albert Ein ...

and

, among others. In 2019 she was appointed editor of ''

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''. In 2020 she was elected a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.

Selected publications

*''The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages'', publisher Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. *''Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation'', co-edited with Frances Andrews and Joanna Drell, publisher Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. *''Charisma and Religious Authority: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Preaching'', 1200-1500, co-edited with

Miri Rubin Miri Rubin (; born 1956) is a historian and professor of medieval and early modern history at Queen Mary University of London. She was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Cambridge, where she gained her doctorate a ...

, publisher Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. *''Center and Periphery: Essays on Power in the Middle Ages in Honor of William Chester Jordan'', co-edited with Guy Geltner and Anne E. Lester, publisher Leiden: Brill, 2013. *''Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy'', publisher Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018.

References

Living people Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America Catholic University of America faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Johns Hopkins University faculty American women historians Princeton University alumni History journal editors {{cat improve, date=October 2022