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Maryanne Kowaleski, FRHistS, is a medieval historian, who was Joseph Fitzpatrick S. J. Distinguished Professor of History and Medieval Studies at
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from 2005 until her retirement.


Career

Kowaleski completed her undergraduate studies at the
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, graduating with an AB in 1974 with a double
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in French and Medieval/Renaissance studies. She then completed a
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degree in medieval studies at the
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in 1976, before completing the Medieval Studies Licentiate in 1978 at the
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at
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, before spending the 1978–79 academic year as a
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at the
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in the United Kingdom. She returned to the University of Toronto to carry out her doctoral studies; her
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was awarded in 1982. Kowaleski's first academic appointment came in 1982, when she joined the History Department at
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as an assistant professor; six years later she was promoted to associate professor, and then to full professor in 1996 (in which position she remained until taking up the distinguished professorship in 2005).Maryanne Kowaleski"
Fordham University. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
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Fordham University. Retrieved 3 May 2018.


Honours

Kowaleski was elected a
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in 1994 and a Fellow of the
Medieval Academy of America The Medieval Academy of America (MAA; spelled Mediaeval until c. 1980) is the largest organization in the United States promoting the field of medieval studies. It was founded in 1925 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The academy publishes ...
in 2005 (the latter of which she was President for the 2012–13 year).


Selected works

* (Co-edited with
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and Phillipp Schofield) ''Peasants and Lords in the Medieval English Economy: Essays in Honour of Bruce M. S. Campbell'' (Brepols, 2015). * (Co-edited with P. J. P. Goldberg) ''Medieval Domesticity: Home, Housing and Household in Medieval England'' (Cambridge University Press, 2009). * (Edited and translated) ''Medieval Towns: A Reader'' (Broadview Press, 2006). * (Co-edited with Mary Erler) ''Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages'' (Cornell University Press, 2003). * ''The Havener's Accounts of the Earldom and Duchy of Cornwall, 1287–1356'', Devon and Cornwall Record Society, New Series, no. 44 (2001). * ''Local Markets and Regional Trade in Medieval Exeter'' (Cambridge University Press, 1995). * ''The Local Customs Accounts of the Port of Exeter, 1266–1321'', Devon and Cornwall Record Society, New Series, no. 36 (1993). * (Co-edited with Mary Erler) ''Women and Power in the Middle Ages'' (University of Georgia Press, 1988).


References

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