Welcome to the Global Medieval Studies Program!
Global Medieval Studies is an interdisciplinary program of study connecting faculty and students from over fifteen departments at Georgetown and spanning Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
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Announcements
Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Global Medieval Studies Awards for Academic Excellence! Read more about each of the projects here.
Recent Events
Nezami’s Khosrow and Shirin
Dr. Dick Davis (Ohio State University)
Iranologist, Poet, University Professor, and Translator
The Georgetown Global Medieval Studies Program,
Shahrzad and Farhad Jalinous Lecture Series of the Persian Studies Program,
and the Georgetown Humanities Initiative present
Monday, February 26, 2024
Please visit out “Event” page for more ongoing events and details!
Congratulations to Our Students
We are happy to announce that in 2024 three meriting students were awarded a prize for the essays in medieval courses:
Ruth Abramovitz for her essay “Julian of Norwich: Pain and Suffering and God’s Divine Love”
(Prof. Julia Lamm’s THEO-3260 “Religion in Medieval England”)
Sophie Mayle for her essay, written in French, “Une Œuvre Hantée par le Spectre du Féminisme: Une Analyse du Livre de La Cité des Dames”
(Prof. Joseph Johnson’s FREN 4771 “Women and Gender in Medieval France”)
Mason Friesen with a podcast titled “Fourteenth-Century Egyptian/Syrian Incense Burner”
(Prof. Sarah McNamer’s ENG 1145, “Premodern Worlds: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural History, 500-1500”)
Faculty Highlights
Congratulations to Dr. Suzanne Stetkevych on winning the 2022 King Faisal Prize in Arabic Language and Literature! Dr. Stetkevych is one of our program’s affiliated faculty, and Global Medieval Studies is incredibly grateful for her expertise and scholarship. See the full news release announcing the prize here.
Congratulations to Visiting Researcher Dr. Laura Morreale for winning the MAA’s 2022 Digital Humanities and Multimedia Prize for her work on the web-based research project DALME: The Documentary Archaeology of Late Medieval Europe! More information about the prize and Dr. Morreale’s work can be found here.
The Global Medieval Studies Program welcomes input from the Georgetown community. Please suggest future speakers and events with our digital submission box .
Courses in Global Medieval Studies
Our majors and minors can take courses about everything from witches to world literature. Click here to see a sample of courses cross-listed with GMST.
Learn more about The Deiphira Project!
Learn about the Deiphira Project, an international scholarly collaboration to transcribe, translate, and study one manuscript of the Deiphira, Leon Battista Alberti’s treatise on love.
Incorporate Global Medieval Studies into Study Abroad!
Learn about study abroad options that can easily be incorporated into our program coursework, and take a look at summer abroad programs!