Robin Chapman Stacey is an American medievalist and celticist based at the

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. After finishing her undergraduate life, she attended the

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where she complete her M. Litt. under

Thomas Charles-Edwards Thomas Mowbray Charles-Edwards (born 11 November 1943) is an emeritus academic at the University of Oxford. He formerly held the post of Jesus Professor of Celtic and is a Professorial Fellow at Jesus College. Biography He was educated at A ...

, learning Welsh with the tutorship of David Ellis Evans.Stacey, ''Road to Judgment'', p. ix In 1986 she completed a Ph.D. with a thesis on Irish and Welsh law at

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, under

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. Since 1988 she has been teaching at the University of Washington, where she is now a Professor in history. In addition to many individual scholarly articles, she is the author of the following monographs: * ''The Road to Judgment: From Custom to Court in Medieval Ireland and Wales''. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994, * ''Dark Speech: The Performance of Law in Early Ireland''. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007 ''Dark Speech'' was a winner of the American Conference for Irish Studies' James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences in 2007.. Stacey is a recipient of the University of Washington's Distinguished Teaching Awards. Her husband, Robert Stacey, is a divisional dean, and Stroum Endowed Chair, in the Dean's Office of the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stacey, Robin Chapman American women historians Alumni of the University of Oxford Celtic studies scholars American medievalists Women medievalists University of Washington faculty Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women