Ruth Mazo Karras

Ruth Mazo Karras (born February 23, 1957) is an American historian of the Middle Ages whose interests are masculinity and sexuality in Christian and Jewish society during the Middle Ages. Her book Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages was named co-winner of the American Historical Association's Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History for 2012.[1]

Since 2018, Ruth Mazo Karras has held an appointment as the Lecky Professor of History at Trinity College Dublin.[2] She is the also the president of the Medieval Academy of America in 2019–20.[3] In spring 2018, she was a visiting fellow at the St. Andrews Institute for Medieval Studies.[4] Prior to taking up her post in Dublin, she served as Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at the University of Minnesota.[5][6][7][8] She earned a PhD and an MPhil in History from Yale University, an MPhil in European Archaeology from the University of Oxford, and a BA in History from Yale.[9]

Selected publications

References

  1. "Faculty News and Awards". History | College of Liberal Arts. 2014-06-12. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  2. "Professor Ruth Karras – Department of History – Trinity College Dublin". www.tcd.ie. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  3. "Governance Officers and Councillors – The Medieval Academy of America". www.medievalacademy.org. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  4. "EIHS Lecture: The Myth of Masculine Impunity: Male Adultery and Repentance in the Middle Ages: Ruth Mazo Karras, University of Minnesota | U-M LSA Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies (EIHS)". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  5. "Ruth Mazo Karras". umn.edu. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
  6. "Ruth Mazo Karras". umn.edu. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
  7. "Fellows". acls.org. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
  8. "Book Review". uiowa.edu. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
  9. "Ruth Mazo Karras Profile". The Rhodes Project. Retrieved 2019-09-20.


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