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University Distinguished LectureBiographical SketchBarbara A. Hanawalt Barbara A. Hanawalt joined the Department of History at The Ohio State University in 1999 as The King George III Professor of British History. In addition, she has served as the director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies since 2003. Prior to joining Ohio State's faculty, she was a professor and director of the Center for Medieval Studies at the University of Minnesota. Writing one of the first books on historical criminology, she used the considerable English criminal court records in a survey of eight counties from 1300 to 1348 that involved about 30,000 criminal indictments. In addition to wide acclaim for four scholarly books, Crime and Conflict in English Communities, 1330-1348; The Ties that Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England; Growing Up in Medieval London, and Of Good and Ill Repute: Gender and Social Control in Medieval England, these works have also been widely read by students and the general public. With a desire to encourage interest in the Middle Ages, she is the co-author of The Western Experience (McGraw-Hill) and The Middle Ages: An Illustrated History and The European World, 400-1500 for the Children's and Juvenile Division of Oxford University Press. Colleagues consider Professor Hanawalt the world's leading scholar of late medieval England. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and has served on the councils of the American Historical Association and the Medieval Academy of America. She also recently served as the president of the Medieval Academy of America, the nation's leading organization of medievalists with a membership of about 6,000. Professor Hanawalt received her bachelor's degree from Douglass College, Rutgers University, and her master's degree and doctorate from the University of Michigan. |
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