Miriam Shadis received her Ph. D. in History from Duke University in 1994, as well as a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies. She earned her B.A. from Simon’s Rock of Bard College (in Great Barrington, MA), majoring in Intercultural Studies with a minor in Arts and Aesthetics. She teaches part-time for the Department of History; since coming to Athens in 1996 she has taught also for the Program in Women’s Studies and the English Department. Between 1994 and 1996 she held the Arthur J. Ennis, O.S.A. Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Core Humanities Program at Villanova University. She has taught at Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University.

Dr. Shadis teaches courses in European history; this spring she will offer a course on the Crusades. Her research focuses on royal women in the central and high Middle Ages. The author of several essays on medieval queens of France and Iberia, she is currently finishing a book manuscript entitled “Political Women in the High Middle Ages: Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) and Her Family,” under contract with Palgrave. Research plans for the future include a study of the women at the court of Portugal from 1100 – 1300. She is on the Advisory Board for the Society for Medievalist Feminist Scholarship, and will serve as the Editor for the Medievalist Feminist Forum in 2007-08. In the summer of 2006 she will teach for the OU study abroad program in Leipzig, Germany.

Dr. Shadis is married to Joseph McLaughlin, a professor of English, and has two children, Henry and Emma.

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