Patrick J. Geary
| Patrick J. Geary | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 26, 1948 |
| Fields | Medieval history |
| Alma mater | • Spring Hill College • Catholic University of Leuven • Yale University |
Patrick J. Geary (born September 26, 1948) is an American medieval historian and Professor of Western Medieval History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He also holds the title of Distinguished Professor of Medieval History Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Born in Louisiana, Geary was educated at Spring Hill College, in Mobile, Alabama and the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. In 1974, he received his Ph.D in medieval studies from Yale University, where he studied with Roberto Sabatino Lopez and Jaroslav Pelikan.
Geary's primary area of research has been in the early Middle Ages, from ca. 500-1100 A.D. His scholarship has made significant contributions to a number of areas of medieval social and cultural history, including the cult of relics, literacy and social memory, conflict and dispute resolution, and the formation of ethnic identity in early Europe. He has also published and spoken frequently on the development of medieval history as an academic discipline in Europe and the United States.
Over the course of his career, he has taught at Princeton University, the University of Florida, UCLA and the University of Notre Dame. He has also held visiting professorships at several European universities. In 2009, he served as the president of the Medieval Academy of America, and was previously director of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Medieval Institute at University of Notre Dame.
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