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Marco Alumni

Marco graduates end up all over the world, and have exciting careers in fields both in and out of academia. Click on the names with links below to see what some of our Marco alumni are up to now, and to learn more about their work. Alumni are listed by their graduation year.

2025

NAME DEGREE Thesis Title
Adel Alshammari PhD, English “English Representations of Muslim Characters in the Drama of the Renaissance”
Stacie Beach PhD, History “Arbitration and Conciliation: A Social History of Imperial Petitions and Rescripts, 200-450”
Aspyn Freeman MA, English “‘Of ful gret sadnes‘: The Presentation of Feminine Grief, Sorrow, and Mourning in John Lydgate’s Troy Book”
Mallory Nischan PhD, French “Retelling Resistance: Orality, Writing, and the Kahina in North African Francophone Literature”
Griffen Smith MA, French “What Does God Have to Do with Sports? Sports and Secularism in Professional Soccer and Football”
Sarah Yancey PhD, English “The Medieval-ish McCarthy: Medieval Afterlives in Appalachian Literature”

2024

NAME DEGREE Thesis Title
Adam Aaron PhD, History “The Sons of Melisende: Baldwin III, Amalric, and Kingship in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1143-1174 CE”
Matthew Baker PhD, History “The World of Lérins: Ontology and the Late Antique Monastery, 400–529 CE”
Ally Dellgren MA, Musicology “The Trouble with Categorization: Essentialisms of Gender and Genre in the Appalachian Heavy Metal Scene”
Ian Geary MA, History
Mackenzie King MA, History
Joshua Mangle PhD, English “A Love So Legendary: Queering the Prose Lancelot“
Emily Roberts PhD, English “Bathsheba in Early Modern Literature”
Jason Stubblefield PhD, History “History as a Religious Category in the Writings of William of Malmesbury”
Kayla Shea PhD, English “Wif, Cwen, Ides: The Cultural Construction of Women and Femininity in Early Medieval England”

2023

NAME DEGREE Thesis Title
Kelsey Blake PhD, History “The Body Restored: Illness, Disability, and Healing in Early Medieval Miracle Narratives”
Harley Campbell PhD, English “Fallen Flesh: Experiencing the Body in the Middle English Lives of Adam and Eve”
Michael Lovell PhD, History “A Dark-Age Enlightenment: Reason, Faith, and Social Intolerance in Frankish Culture, 380-754 CE”
Thomas Maurer PhD, History “‘In That Day, the Dragon Will Approach the City’: Italy and the Apocalyptic Dream

2022

NAME DEGREE Thesis Title
Jordan Amspacher PhD, History “Troya Victa: Empire, Identity, and Apocalypse in the Frankish Chronicles of the Fourth Crusade”
Caroline Jansen PhD, English “Begone Thought: Temptation To Despair in Late-Medieval Religious Literature”
Lily Sanders MA, History
Caitlin Branum Thrash PhD, English “Seeing with the Eyes of the Soul: Visionary Women, Meditative Lives of Christ, and Their Readers in Late-Medieval England,
Klayton Tietjen PhD, French “Epic Identity Crisis: the Effects of Rebellious Narratives and Racial Discourse on Chivalric Culture in 12th-century Chansons de Geste”

2021

NAME DEGREE Thesis Title
Alexandra Garnhart-Bushakra PhD, History “If Life Were Verse: Classical Masculinity and Memories of Violence in First Crusade Narratives”
Amy Huesman PhD, History “The Wilderness Experience: Imitatio Christi and the Demonic Encounters of Italian Holy Women of the Quattrocento”
Laura Roesch PhD, History “A Fine Spray of Blood’: Martyrdom, Violence, and Sacred Landscapes in the Late Antique Mediterranean”

2020

NAME DEGREE Thesis Title
Dustin Breitkreuz MA, History
Brittany Poe PhD, History “Teacher and Preacher: Alan of Lille and Scholastic Theology in Paris and Occitania”
Alex Spanjer MA, History

2019

NAME DEGREE Thesis Title
Alanna Heatherly BA, MRST, History, Classics (Latin)
Katie Kleinkopf PhD, History
Kendra Slayton PhD, English

2018

NAME DEGREE Thesis Title
Jeremy Pearson PhD, History “William of Tripoli and his Middle-Eastern Context”
Brad Phillis PhD, History “Crusade, Reform, and the Counts of Flanders, 1071-1204”
Lydia Walker PhD, History “Ad sanctos ultimi temporis: Lay Spirituality, Crusading, and Reform in the Sermons of Jacques de Vitry”

2017

NAME DEGREE Thesis Title
Stefan Hodges-Kluck PhD, History “Ascetic Bodies: Philosophical Self-Presentation in Late Antique Cappadocia”
Teresa Lopez PhD, English “Re-Writing English Identity: Medieval Historians of Anglo-Norman Britain”
Sarah Moore MA, English “The Importance of Disguise in the Middle English Romances”
James Stewart PhD, English “Lords of Retinue: Middle English Romance and Noblemen in Need”
Jesse Stratton MA, English

2016

NAME DEGREE Thesis Title
R. Scott Bevill PhD, English
“Old English Manuscripts in the Early Age of Print: Matthew Parker and his Scribes”
Jake Brannum BA, History
Andrew Eichel PhD, English “Patristic Precedent and Vernacular Innovation: the Practice and Theory of Anglo-Saxon Translation”
Teresa Hooper PhD, English
Geoff Martin PhD, History “Mozarab Readers of the Bible, from the Cordoban Martyrs to the Glossa Ordinaria”
Houston McClure MA, French
Patrick Mooney MA, History

2015

NAME DEGREE Thesis Title
Alison Gose BA, History; Political Science; Minor in Religious Studies
Katherine Hodges-Kluck PhD, History “The Matter of Jerusalem: The Holy Land in Angevin Court Culture and Identity, c. 1154-1216”
Thomas Lecaque PhD, History “The Count of Saint-Gilles and the Saints of the Apocalype: Occitanian Culture and Piety in the Time of the First Crusade”
Nathan Kent Reeves MA, Musicology

2014

NAME DEGREE Thesis Title
Joshua Durbin PhD, History
Tricia George PhD, English
Sara Gottardi MA, MFLL-Spanish
Matthew Monk BA, History;
Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Virginia Stormer PhD, English “A Mirror for Spectators: The Dramaturgy of Participation and Unreliable Mirror Figures in Sixteenth-Century Drama”

2013

NAME DEGREE Thesis Title
Evan Elkins MA, History
T. Christopher Lawrence PhD, History “Crisis of Legitimacy: Honorius, Galla Placidia, and the Struggles for Control of the Western Roman Empire, 405 – 425 C.E.”
Anthony Minnema PhD, History
Travis Shockley MA, History

2012

NAME DEGREE Thesis Title
Will Biel MA, English
Jenny Bledsoe BA, English Lit, Religious Studies; Minors in Latin & History
Ted Booth PhD, History “A Body Politic to Govern: The Political Humanism of Elizabeth I”
Miguel Gomez PhD, History “Las Navas de Tolosa: The Practice and Culture of Crusade in Medieval Iberia“

2010

NAME DEGREE Thesis Title
Jonathan Allen MA, History
Timothy Duis MA, History
Gabriel Fidler MA, History “Building the Norman Achievement: Architecture and the Conquest of England and Southern Italy“
Brad Pardue PhD, History

2008

NAME DEGREE Thesis Title
Allison Elledge MA, History