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.

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	“The Auchinleck Manuscript: A Study in Manuscript Production, Scribal Innovation, and Literary Value in the Early 14th Century”
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

2011

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