Graduate Student, History
Thesis Title: Men in the Family – Husbands in Society: Men, Marriage and Masculinity in Late Medieval Hagiography
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Paul Freedman
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About
After completing my MA at the university of Åbo Akademi, Turku, Finland, I moved to the US to attend the PhD program in history at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, in the fall of 2006.
My PhD thesis, preliminarily titled "Men in the Family – Husbands in Society: Men, Marriage and Masculinity in Late Medieval Hagiography", examines how men in biographies (Lat. vitae) of married saints navigate the social role of husband, familial obligations and religious calling with emphasis on masculinity.
I am a founding member of the "Premodern Gender and Sexuality Working Group" (2009) at Yale which focuses on discussing questions of theory, gender and sexuality in research on pre-1750 topics.
My qualifying exams (spring 2009) were in the fields of
"Medieval Social History" (with an emphasis on saints & sanctity as well as gender and sexuality) with my adviser Paul Freedman; "Intellectual, Institutional and Nordic History" with professor Anders Winroth; and "Reformation and Early Modern Catholicism" (including Reformation and counter-reformation in Scandinavia) with professor Carlos Eire.
I am dedicated teaching, and am interested in questions regarding pedagogy in general. I am currently pursuing the "Certificate of College Teaching Preparation" offered by the Graduate Teaching Center at Yale.
Contact Information
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