Boomer’s current book project, Reconstructing the Holy Land, uses extant architecture, lost iconography (including images and inscriptions), archaeological reports, and textual sources to investigate the reshaping of sacred sites in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099-1187). In addition to research on “Crusader” art, Boomer also studies Fatimid shrines in eleventh- and twelfth-century Egypt and Palestine, the visual culture of Arabic-speaking Christian communities, and twentieth-century representations of the crusades.

Before coming to �ֲ���ý, Boomer held postdoctoral fellowships at the Getty Research Institute and Columbia University and received a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019.

Tizzoni’s research focuses on the transformation of the Roman world in the fifth through seventh centuries CE. He is particularly interested in questions of identity, social cohesion, and how cultural production can be used to help understand and navigate times of drastic social change (such as those witnessed in the aftermath of the Roman Empire in North Africa). As an interdisciplinary cultural historian, Tizzoni employs late antique Latin poetry to engage with these questions, focusing on the collections that have survived from sixth-century North Africa and seventh-century Iberia. He is currently writing an open-access book with Kısmet Press entitled The Maghreb in Late Antiquity.

Before coming to �ֲ���ý in 2020, he taught pre-modern African, Iberian, and United States history at Angelo State University in San Angelo, TX and worked as a professional horticulturalist in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

Recent Publications:

“Christianity in Roman Africa, I: Communities and Religious Movements,” with Éric Fournier. In Handbook of African Christianity from Apostolic Times to the Present, ed. by Andrew Barnes and Toyin Falola. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

“Review: Caroline Goodson, Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy,” Speculum, 98.4 (2023) .

“Locating Carthage in the Vandal Era.” In Urban Interactions: Communication and Competition in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, ed. by Michael Burrows and Michael J. Kelly. Gracchi Books, 2020.

“Teachers and Teaching,” with Sarah B. Lynch. In Cultural History of Education in the Middle Ages, ed. by Jo Ann H. Moran Cruz. Bloomsbury, 2020.

“Isidore’s early influence and dissemination (636-711).” In A Companion to Isidore of Seville, ed. by Andrew Fear and Jamie Wood. Brill, 2020.

Forthcoming Publications:

“Alterity in the Anthologia Latina: Gender, Race, and the (Patriarchal) State in Vandal Carthage.” In The Vandal Renaissance, ed. by Richard Miles et al. Brill, forthcoming.

“Between Originality and Classical Tradition: the Ars Poetica of Eugenius II of Toledo,” in Transforming the Early Medieval World: Studies in Honour of Ian N. Wood, edited by N. Kıvılcım Yavuz and Richard Broome. Kısmet Press, forthcoming.

“Constructing Culture and Community in Post-Roman Carthage: Rereading the Anthologia Latina.” In A Companion to North Africa During the Vandal Century, ed. by Éric Fournier. Brill, forthcoming.

“Poetic, epistolary, and scribal culture.” In A Companion to Visigothic Iberia, ed. by Damián Fernández, Molly Lester, and Jamie Wood. Brill, forthcoming.

“Seeking female experience in the verse of Vandal-era Carthage.” In Women and Gender in Late Antiquity, ed. by Maijastina Kahlos and Éric Fournier. Brepols, forthcoming.

“Transforming the Late Antique Curriculum: Eugenius of Toledo and Educational Culture in Visigothic Iberia,” in Reading Eugenius of Toledo, ed. Graham Barrett and David Ungvary. Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin. Brepols, forthcoming.

Jeremy Glover ’17 with Professor of English Sylvia Federico at Leeds University. (Clair Wood for �ֲ���ý College)

Sylvia Federico is Professor of English and affiliated with the Classical and Medieval Studies Program at �ֲ���ý College. Her research focuses on late medieval English, French, and Latin literatures, and particularly on the intersections between historical and textual culture.

At �ֲ���ý, Professor Federico teaches introductory and advanced medieval literature, language, and culture. Recent courses include Chaucer, Arthurian Romance, and Medieval London.

Professor Federico is the recent recipient of several prestigious teaching and research awards, including the Mrs. Giles Whiting Fellowship for Teaching Excellence and the American Council of Learned Societies ACLS Fellowship.

Federico is author of The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham: ‘Worldly Cares’ at St Albans Abbey in the Fourteenth Century (York Medieval Press, Boydell & Brewer, 2016), New Troy: Fantasies of Empire in the Late Middle Ages (U of Minnesota Press, 2003), and many articles on Chaucer and other late medieval topics; she is also co-editor, with Elizabeth Scala, of The Post-Historical Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

The Mount David Summit is �ֲ���ý’ annual campus-wide celebration of student academic achievement. The Summit highlights undergraduate research; student creative work in art, dance, theater, music and film/video; projects conducted in the context of academic courses; and community-engaged research. The Summit spotlights the rich intellectual life of our students. The event is sponsored by the Dean of the Faculty’s Office and the Student Research Program. Held in Pettengill Hall.