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 |
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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 |
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Brittany Poe |
PhD, History |
“Teacher and Preacher: Alan of Lille and Scholastic Theology in Paris and Occitania” |
Alex Spanjer |
MA, History |
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2019
NAME |
DEGREE |
Thesis Title |
Alanna Heatherly |
BA, MRST, History, Classics (Latin) |
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Katie Kleinkopf |
PhD, History |
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Kendra Slayton |
PhD, English |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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2015
NAME |
DEGREE |
Thesis Title |
Alison Gose |
BA, History; Political Science; Minor in Religious Studies |
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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
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 |
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2011
2010
NAME |
DEGREE |
Thesis Title |
Jonathan Allen |
MA, History |
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Timothy Duis |
MA, History |
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Gabriel Fidler |
MA, History |
“Building the Norman Achievement: Architecture and the Conquest of England and Southern Italy“ |
Brad Pardue |
PhD, History |
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2008
NAME |
DEGREE |
Thesis Title |
Allison Elledge |
MA, History |
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