J. R. Webb Professor of History Bridgewater State University jrwebb [at] bridgew.edu

 

 

 

 

Education

 

Pontifical Institute of Medi val Studies, L.M.S. Licence in Mediaeval Studies (summa cum laude) 2012

 

 

Harvard University, Ph.D. in History 2008

Dissertation: "Cathedrals of Words: Bishops and the Deeds of their Predecessors in Lotharingia, 950–1100"

Committee: Michael McCormick (advisor), Thomas N. Bisson, Guy Philippart

 

Harvard University, A.M. in History 2003

General research fields: Late Antiquity/Early Middle Ages, High Middle Ages, Roman Empire, International Relations since 1815

 

 

University of Colorado at Boulder, B.A. in History (summa cum laude) 2000

Outstanding Graduate (Valedictorian), College of Arts & Sciences

 

 

 

Employment

 

Professor of History, Bridgewater State University 2023–

 

Associate Professor of History, Bridgewater State University 2018–2023

 

Assistant Professor of History, Bridgewater State University 2012–2018

 

College Fellow and Lecturer on History, Harvard University 2011–2012

 

Mellon Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto 2010–2011

 

Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Medieval Mediterranean Travel, Harvard University 2009

 

Lecturer on History, Harvard University 2008

 

 

 

Publications (link)

 

 

 

Professional Associations

 

Medieval Academy of America (link)

 

Episcopus: Society for the study of episcopal power and culture in the middle ages (link)

 

 

 

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