Staff and Volunteers

Margaret Schaus, Librarian, Haverford College, coordinates Feminae and indexes materials in English and French.

Chris Africa, Librarian, University of Iowa, advises on bibliography.

Paul Soderdahl, Librarian, University of Iowa, is responsible for implementing and maintaining the Web interface.

Thomas M. Izbicki, Gifts Officer, Johns Hopkins University indexes materials in Italian and provides advice on indexing terminology.

John M. Jeep, Department of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages and Director, Medieval Studies, Miami University, indexes materials in German.

Aaron Wile, Student Assistant, Haverford College, enters data, edits records, and maintains files.

Thanks to Monica Green, Department of History, Arizona State University, for bibliography on women and medicine.

Board members evaluate indexing procedures and identify new publications to be included.

Chris Africa, University Libraries, History/Social Sciences Bibliographer, University of Iowa

Historiography; feminist theory; late medieval-early modern Europe, esp. France

Judith Bennett (judithb@usc.edu), History Department, University of Southern California

Women's history; women's work; singlewomen, a.k.a. spinsters; periodization; England, 12th-16th century

Kathleen Biddick, University of Notre Dame

Lisa Bitel, History Department/Gender Studies, University of Southern California

Ireland; Celtic cultures; religious women

Joan Cadden, History Department, University of California, Davis

Natural philosophy; medicine; sexuality; Western Europe, 12th-14th century

Joan Gibson, York University

Katherine Gill, Hill Monastic Library, St. John's University

Charlotte Newman Goldy, Department of History, Miami University

High medieval England; family history; Jewish and Christian

Monica Green, History Department, Arizona State University

Medical history (western Europe, 500-1500); women's health; gynecological literature

Elaine Hansen, Bates College, President

Middle English literature, especially Chaucer; feminist criticism and theory

Paula Higgins, University of Notre Dame

Late medieval and early modern creative women (musicians, poets, artists); Gender, race, class, and sexuality in late medieval music and poetry; Musical culture in late medieval France (religious institutions and secular princely courts); Intertextuality in chanson, motet, and Mass of the late middle ages; Audience, reception, and hermeneutics of late medieval music; Neomedievalism in popular music and culture

Bruce Holsinger, University of Colorado

Martha Howell, History Department, Columbia University

Women's work in urban economies, especially in the late medieval north; marital property relations and inheritance in late medieval North; urban history of the Low Countries; Germany and northern France

Jenny Jochens, History Department, Towson State University

Women in Old Norse literature; Medieval Iceland and Scandinavia

Penelope D. Johnson, History Department, New York University

Women and gender formation in the Middle Ages; medieval religious women, particularly in northern France in the Central Middle Ages (11th-13th centuries)

Ruth Mazo Karras, History Department, University of Minnesota

History of sexuality, especially prostitution, England, later Middle Ages; masculinity in medieval universities, later Middle Ages; Scandinavia

Louise Mirrer, Central Office, City University of New York

Spanish and comparative literature (13th-15th centuries); women's studies (medieval period, Europe); Sephardic studies (20th century); literary theory; linguistic approaches to literature

Barbara Newman, English and Religion Departments, Northwestern University

Medieval religious women, especially Hildegard of Bingen; history of spirituality and monasticism (12th-15th centuries); women's mystical writings; feminist approaches to theology

Jennifer Rondeau, University of Oregon

Pamela Sheingorn, History Department, Baruch College and Graduate Center, City University of New York

Gender in medieval visual culture; women's history; hagiography; medieval drama; northern Europe, 10th-16th centuries

Helen Solterer, Duke University

Susan Mosher Stuard, History Department, Haverford College

Women's history; social and economic history; Mediterranean during the later Middle Ages