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- Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2002
- A.B. University of Michigan 1992
- M.A. Northwestern University 1997
BIO
Professor Sean L. Field is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and a Correspondant étranger of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. His translation of Jacques Dalarun, To Govern is to Serve: An Essay on Medieval Democracy was published by Cornell in 2023, and he is the author or editor of sixteen other books, including A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy: The Life of Clare of Rimini (Penn, 2022), The Deeds of Philip Augustus: An English Translation of Rigord’s Gesta Philippi Augusti (Cornell, 2022), and Courting Sanctity: Holy Women and the Capetians (Cornell, 2019). Professor Field has been a Fulbright Fellow and a UVM University Scholar, and is particularly proud to have received the CARA Excellence in Teaching Award from the Medieval Academy of America. He has held residential fellowships at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, and most recently at the National Humanities Center in the Research Triangle, North Carolina.
Area(s) of expertise
Medieval Europe
Bio
Professor Sean L. Field is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and a Correspondant étranger of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. His translation of Jacques Dalarun, To Govern is to Serve: An Essay on Medieval Democracy was published by Cornell in 2023, and he is the author or editor of sixteen other books, including A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy: The Life of Clare of Rimini (Penn, 2022), The Deeds of Philip Augustus: An English Translation of Rigord’s Gesta Philippi Augusti (Cornell, 2022), and Courting Sanctity: Holy Women and the Capetians (Cornell, 2019). Professor Field has been a Fulbright Fellow and a UVM University Scholar, and is particularly proud to have received the CARA Excellence in Teaching Award from the Medieval Academy of America. He has held residential fellowships at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, and most recently at the National Humanities Center in the Research Triangle, North Carolina.
Areas of Expertise
Medieval Europe