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Ruth Mazo Karras | |
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| Born | February 23, 1957 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Historian and academic |
| Title | Lecky Professor of History |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Yale University (BA, MPhil, PhD) University of Oxford (MPhil) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
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| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania Temple University University of Minnesota Trinity College Dublin |
| Notable works | From Boys to Men, Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages and Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others |
Ruth Mazo Karras (born February 23, 1957) is an American historian and medievalist, whose academic research and publications are focused on the disciplines of sexuality, religion and marriage in the late Middle Ages. Her notable works include: From Boys to Men, Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages and Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others.
She is an author of the Middle Ages, whose interests are masculinity and sexuality in Christian and Jewish societies. Her book, Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages, was named co-winner of the American Historical Association's Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History in 2012.[1]
Since 2018, Ruth Mazo Karras has held an appointment as the Lecky Professor of History at Trinity College Dublin.[2] She was also the President of the Medieval Academy of America in 2019–20.[3] In spring 2018, she was a visiting fellow at the St. Andrews Institute for Medieval Studies.[4] Prior to taking up her post in Dublin, she served as Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at the University of Minnesota.[5][6][7][8] She earned a PhD and an MPhil in History from Yale University, an MPhil in European Archaeology from the University of Oxford, and a BA in History from Yale.[9]
- ^ "Faculty News and Awards". History | College of Liberal Arts. June 12, 2014. Retrieved September 20, 2019.
- ^ "Professor Ruth Karras – Department of History – Trinity College Dublin". www.tcd.ie. Retrieved September 20, 2019.
- ^ "Governance Officers and Councillors – The Medieval Academy of America". www.medievalacademy.org. Retrieved September 20, 2019.
- ^ "EIHS Lecture: The Myth of Masculine Impunity: Male Adultery and Repentance in the Middle Ages: Ruth Mazo Karras, University of Minnesota | U-M LSA Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies (EIHS)". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved September 20, 2019.
- ^ "Ruth Mazo Karras". umn.edu. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
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- ^ "Fellows". acls.org. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
- ^ "Book Review". uiowa.edu. Archived from the original on July 3, 2010. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
- ^ "Ruth Mazo Karras Profile". The Rhodes Project. Retrieved September 20, 2019.