CMRS Associates are scholars holding a Ph.D. or the equivalent who specialize in some aspect of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. To be granted associate status, a scholar must be nominated by a CMRS faculty member and approved by the Center’s Faculty Advisory Committee. Most CMRS Associates hold academic positions at other local educational institutions or research facilities, or are established independent scholars.
Sara M. Adler (Italian, Scripps College): Vittoria Colonna; women poets of the Italian Renaissance.
Susana Hernández Araico (English and Foreign Languages, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona): Spanish literature of the Golden Age; Renaissance and Baroque commercial and court theater; Lope de Vega; Calderón's mythological plays, chivalry masques and allegorical Autos; Sor Juana's theater in Baroque Mexico.
Juan Bautista Avalle-Arce (Spanish and Portuguese, UC Santa Barbara): History and literature of Golden-Age Spain; Spanish American colonial literature; Perez Galdos; Valle-Inclan; Garcia Lorca; Basque studies.
Susannah F. Baxendale: Social and political history in Renaissance Italy; family and women's issues; early business history
Lisa M. Bitel (History, University of Southern California): Early medieval Ireland, culture and society; women and gender
Matthew Brosamer(English, Mount St. Mary's College): Chaucer, Old English literature, church history, monastic theology, the seven deadly sins.
Cynthia Brown (French, UC Santa Barbara): Late medieval and early Renaissance French literature and culture.
Warren C. Brown (History, California Institute of Technology): Early and Central Middle Ages; conflict resolution; history of power; history of writing.
Gayle K. Brunelle (History, California State University, Fullerton): Early modern commerce, merchants, women and wealth, and the Atlantic world.
Silvia Orvietani Busch (Senior Manager, UCLA College Alumni Relations): Medieval Mediterranean history, archaeology, ports; Mediterranean navigation; maritime history.
Michael Calabrese (English, California State University, Los Angeles): Medieval English literature (Chaucer, Langland); medieval amatory tradition (Ovid, Boccaccio); medieval masculinity.
Rafael Chabrán (Modern Languages, Whittier College): Life and works of Francisco Hernández; Cervantes and medicine; history of science and medicine in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Spain and Mexico.
Paul E. Chevedden (History, Santa Monica College): Medieval Mediterranean history; Crusades; medieval artillery; early photography of the Middle East.
Stanley Chodorow (History, UC San Diego): Legal history; canon law; church and state.
Andrew Fleck(English, San Jose State University): The Dutch in /and English history.
Luisa Del Giudice(Director, Italian Oral History Institute): Italian folk, regional, and immigrant cultures (song, belief, celebration, food, dance).
John Geerken (History, Scripps College): Italian Renaissance; Machiavelli; European intellectual history; history of legal thought.
James Given (History, UC Irvine): Medieval social and political history; heresy and inquisition in Languedoc; social and political conflict.
Piotr S. Górecki(History, UC Riverside): Early and central Middle Ages; Poland and east-central Europe; legal history in a social context; relationship between communities and judicial institutions.
George L. Gorse(Art History, Pomona College): Art history of the Middle Ages and Renaissance; urban space and artistic patronage in Renaissance Italy.
Lawrence D. Green (English, University of Southern California): the Renaissance; rhetoric; linguistics.
Richard Helgerson(English and Comparative Literature, UC Santa Barbara): English Renaissance literature and culture.
Maryanne Cline Horowitz(History, Occidental College): Renaissance Italian and French cultures; visual cues to collections; Stoicism; Skepticism, and toleration; cultural history of ideas.
Leslie Ellen Jones: Medieval Welsh literature and history; British and Celtic Folklore and mythology; Arthuriana; film and folklore.
Constance Jordan (English, Claremont Graduate University): Comparative literature; Shakespeare; history of political thought.
Sharon D. King: Medieval and Renaissance drama; early cookbooks; women's studies; French wars of religion; military strategy; proto-science fiction; early modern Protestant mysticism.
Scott Kleinman (English, California State University, Northridge): Medieval English historiography and regional culture; medieval English romance; Old and Middle English philology.
Aaron J. Kleist (Associate Professor of English, Biola University): Old English and Anglo-Latin literature; Aelfric; Anglo-Saxon homilectics; Anglo-Saxon and Patristic theology; digital manuscript editions.
Leonard Michael Koff: Use of the Bible in literature; medieval literature; literature of medieval and Renaissance courts; Chaucer; Trecento literary connections; postmodern theory and the pre-modern text.
Thomas Kren (Curator of Manuscripts, Getty Museum): Medieval and Renaissance manuscript illumination; Late Medieval Netherlandish painting.
John S. Langdon (Emeritus Head, History and Social Sciences, The Marlborough School, Los Angeles): Byzantine Anagennesis from Anatolian Exile: The Basileia of John III Ducas Vatatzes 1222-54; Late Roman and Byzantine Emperors as Warriors: Image and Reality; Byzantine Imperial Consorts and Princesses of the Anatolian Exile.
Leena Löfstedt (University of Helsinki): Old French and Middle French philology.
Joyce Pellerano Ludmer (Bibliographer and Senior Collections Curator, Getty Research Institute): Critical art history and secondary sources; small presses and artists' books; Leonardo da Vinci; Renaissance and Baroque art history.
Peter C. Mancall(History, University of Southern California): Early modern Atlantic world; early America; native America.
Ruth Mellinkoff: Medieval and Renaissance iconography.
Louis A. Montrose(Literature, UC San Diego): Elizabethan and early modern studies; cultural history and theory.
Elizabeth Morrison (Associate Curator, Department of Manuscripts, J. Paul Getty Museum): medieval French secular manuscript illumination; Flemish Renaissance manuscripts; social and historical context of manuscripts.
Michael O'Connell (English, UC Santa Barbara): Renaissance literature; Medieval and Renaissance drama; Shakespeare; Spenser; Milton.
Aino Paasonen (Antioch University, Los Angeles): Dante; surveys of world literature: antiquity to modern; urban poetry of place.
Roberta Panzanelli (Getty Research Institute): medieval and Renaissance art history; northern Italian
art; religious art.
Mary Elizabeth Perry (History, Occidental College): History of marginal people and minorities, deviance, and disorder in early modern Spain; women's history.
Ricardo Quinones (Professor Emeritus, Comparative Literature, Claremont McKenna College): Renaissance comparative literature, modernism, Dante, Shakespeare; history of ideas (Time); thematics (Cain and Abel); literary dualisms.
Mary L. Robertson (Chief Curator of Manuscripts, The Huntington Library): Early Modern English politics and government; English archives.
Mary Rouse (Retired, former Viator editor, CMRS, UCLA): Medieval manuscripts; history of medieval Paris.
Marilyn Schmitt: Medieval art, Romanesque sculpture.
Stephen H. A. Shepherd(English, Loyola Marymount University): Middle English Romance; Malory; Langland; textual criticism; late medieval manuscripts in their material and social contexts.
Steve Sohmer (Fleming Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford): Renaissance calendars and Tudor liturgies as they relate to the texts of Shakespeare’s plays.
Zrinka Stahuljak (Department of French and Francophone Studies, UCLA): Medieval Romance, historiography, and poetry; affect in the Middle Ages; medieval sexualities; medievalism in the nineteenth century; contemporary and medieval translation theory.
Stanley Stewart(English, UC Riverside): Renaissance English literature; Shakespeare; literature and philosophy.
Elizabeth C. Teviotdale(Assistant Director of the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University): Medieval liturgical manuscripts.
