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Kathryn Miller

Assistant Professor of Medieval European History

E-mail: kamiller@stanford.edu

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At Stanford Since 1999

PhD in History, Yale University, 1998; BA in English, Dartmouth University, 1986

Research Interests

  • Captivity and Commerce: Ransoming in the late Medieval Mediterranean (Book-length project)
  • Medieval science and medical knowledge
  • Medieval commerce and diplomacy
  • Preventative Diplomacy Program (advisor with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington D.C.)

Courses Taught

  • Introduction to Medieval Culture
  • Medieval Spain: The land of three religions
  • Crusaders, Pilgrims, and Merchants
  • Lawyers, Popes and Infidels: Christian and Islamic Law in the Middle Ages
  • Medieval Mediterranean Historiography (graduate)

Publications

  • "Muslim Minorities and the Obligation to Emigrate to Islamic Territory", Islamic Law and Society 7:2 (2000)
  • "Mary Magdalen and Lazarus: Resurrection and Unjust Claims", in History in the Comic Mode, (Kalamazoo, 1999)
  • Guardians of Islam: Muslim Communities in Medieval Aragon, PhD dissertation being reworked into a book
  • "Negociando con el infidel: La actividad mercantil Musulmana en la Espana Cristiana", in El Mediterraneo Medieval ... Espacio de Culturas y Mercados, ed. S. Aurell (Pamplona, in print)
  • "Doctors across Borders: Jewish and Muslim Physicians in the Medieval Mediterranean", forthcoming in Reviving Memory of Moorish Spain

Awards

  • 2001-2002 Fulbright Foundation Fellow to Morocco
  • 2001-2002 Russel Sage Foundation grant

University Service

  • Committee for the Social Sciences