Meghan Woolley
Assistant Professor and Director of History Education - Medieval Europe
Office: LA 335
Education
Ph.D. Duke University
M.Litt. The University of St Andrews
B.A. Hamilton College
Research Interests
Medieval Europe, Anglo-Norman and Angevin England, the history of emotions, love and friendship, cultural history, legal history
Selected Fellowships and Grants
ASSERT (Aligning Stakeholders and Structures to Enable Research Transformation) Program, Idaho State University (2026)
Wallace Johnson Program for First Book Authors, The Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University (2023-2024)
Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Duke Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2021)
Helen Maud Cam Dissertation Grant, Medieval Academy of America (2020)
Travel Grant for Study in the United Kingdom and Ireland, The Huntington Library (2020)
Publications
“Better than Just Fine: Combining Final Concords with Documentary and Symbolic Practices,” The Journal of
Legal History 44.3 (2023): 225-255.
“Anger Management: Modeling Christian Kingship in Peter of Blois’s Dialogus,” The Haskins Society Journal 32
(2020): 185-203.
Public-Facing Articles
“The Charters in the Margin of Matthew Paris’s Chronica Maiora,” Medievalists.net, 2022. https://www.medievalists.net/
“True Knights Kiss their Friends,” Culturico, 2021. https://culturico.com/2021/08/17/true-knights-kiss-their-friends/
“The Language of Love in a 12th-Century English Law Book,” Pysche, 2020. https://psyche.co/ideas/the-language-of-love-in-a-12th-century-english-law-book
Courses Taught
HIST 1101 World History I
HIST 1120 Survey of the Medieval World
HIST 4491 History Senior Seminar: The Norman Conquest
HIST 4448 Medieval Renaissances
HIST 4431 Love in Medieval Europe
HIST 4499 Medieval Gender and Power
HIST 4479 The Black Death