Laura Gathagan

Education

Ph.D., City University of New York Graduate Center, 2002

M.A., Fordham University, 1994

Teaching

• HIS290: Historical Methods
• HIS 341: Gender and Power in Medieval Europe
• HIS 344: Medieval Europe, 300-1050
• HIS 345: Medieval Europe 1050-1300
• HIS490: Senior Seminar

Graduate Courses:

• HIS529: Women and Power in Medieval Europe
• HIS661: Seminar in Medieval Europe

Publications

Books:

The Queenship of Mathilda of Flanders, c. 1031–1083: Embodying Conquest (Boydell Press, April 2025)

Gender, Memory and Documentary Culture, 900–1200 eds. Laura L. Gathagan and Charles Insley (Boydell Press, January 2025)

A Companion to the Abbey of Le Bec in the Central Middle Ages (11th–13th Centuries) eds. Benjamin Pohl and Laura L. Gathagan (Brill, 2017).

Select Publications:

‘Abbess, Judge, Jailor: Authority and Imprisonment at Holy Trinity, Caen’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 99, 2 (2023): 25–46.

 ‘Mathilda of Flanders: The Innovator’ in English Consorts: Power, Influence, Dynasty: Volume I ed. Aidan Norrie et al (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), 47–66.

 ‘Family and Kinship in the Age of William the Conqueror’ in The Cambridge Companion to the Age of William the Conqueror (Cambridge University Press, 2022), 143–162.

 ‘Audi Israel: Apostolic Authority in the Coronation of Mathilda of Flanders’, Anglo-Norman Studies XLIII, Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2020 (2021), 89–104.

 Medieval Elite Women and the Exercise of Power, 1100–1400: Moving beyond the Exceptionalist Debate, ‘Introduction’ with Heather Tanner and Lois L. Huneycutt. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 1–18.

 ‘You Conquer Enemies, even as a maiden: The Conqueror’s daughter and Holy Trinity, Caen’, History: The Journal of the Historical Association 103 (2017), 840–857.

 ‘‘‘Mother of heroes, most beautiful of mothers’: Mathilda of Flanders and royal motherhood in the eleventh century,” in Virtuous or Villainess? The Image of the Royal Mother from the Early Medieval to the Early Modern Era edited Ellie Woodacre and Carrie Fleiner, Palgrave (2016), 37–63.

Journal Editor:

Haskins Society Journal: Studies in Medieval History Volumes 25–34, volumes published annually, 2013–2022.

Service

Series Editor, ‘Medieval Documentary Cultures’, (Boydell Press) with Charles Insley, January 2022 to present.

Grants

External Grants & Awards:

Summer Research Residency, Université de Caen, MSRH (Maison de Recherche en Sciences Humaines), 2024

Friends of Princeton Library Research Grant, 2022

Summer Research Residency, Université de Caen, MSRH (Maison de Recherche en Sciences Humaines), 2022

American Philosophical Association, Franklin Library Grant, 2019

John Rylands Manuscript Library Visiting Fellowship, 2016

Professional Recognition:

Fellow, The Society of Antiquaries, London, 2022 to present

Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, Elected 2022

The Rozanne Brooks Dedicated Teaching Award, 2025

President, The Haskins Society, November 2025 to present

Links

The Haskins Society:

https://thehaskinssociety.wildapricot.org/

The Haskins Society Journal: 

https://boydellandbrewer.com/books/series/haskins-society-journal/?v=0b3b97fa6688