Greta Austin (she/her)

Greta Austin is Professor of the History of Christianity, Chair of the Department of Religion, Spirituality, and Society, the Director of the Undergraduate Core Curriculum, and the former Director of the Gender & Queer Studies Program (2012-19). Her academic research focuses on the law of the Catholic Church during the central Middle Ages. Her publications include a monograph, Shaping Church Law around the Year 1000: The Decretum of Burchard of Worms, and twenty articles on feuds, just war, and the Middle Ages in movies, and studies of church law during the central Middle Ages in the Cambridge Companion to Medieval Canon Law and in journals such as Speculum and the Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Kanonistiche Abteilung. She is currently co-editing a volume on Women and Gender in Medieval Canon Law (Brepols) and is the lead editor of the forthcoming Penance, Pastoral Care, and Gracious Justice: Essays from the Sixteenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law. She has given invited talks and keynote lectures at the National University of Singapore, the University of British Columbia, and Yale University. She has also published essays for the popular press, such as “St. Augustine and the Hall of Memory” in The American Scholar. She serves as Secretary of the Institute of Medieval Canon Law, and previously served as Secretary of the Board of the Iuris canonici medii aevi consociatio (ICMAC). She has won the Presidential Teaching Award and the Thomas A. Davis Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Puget Sound, as well as a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.