Felice Lifshitz
Professor
Department of History
Florida International University
University Park
Miami, FL 33199, USA
Tel: 305-348-3557
Fax: 305-348-3561
Email: lifshitz@fiu.edu

Felice Lifshitz received her PhD from Columbia University in 1988, and has taught Medieval European history at Florida International University since 1989. In addition to survey courses, she teaches specialized classes which focus particularly on religious culture (e.g., “Saints, Relics and Miracles in Medieval Europe”), gender studies (e.g. “Women and Gender in Pre-Modern Eurasia”) and historiography (e.g. “Graduate Historical Methods”).

Prof. Lifshitz has been the recipient of fellowships and grants from the Whiting Foundation, the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Toronto), the DAAD, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Florida Humanities Council, the Institute for Advanced Study, and – during 2008/2009 - the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. She is the author of The Norman Conquest of Pious Neustria: Historiographic Discourse and Saintly Relics, 684 – 1090 (1995), of The Name of the Saint: The Martyrology of Jerome and Access to the Sacred in Francia (627 – 827)(2005), and of some two dozen articles on early medieval religious, intellectual, and cultural life. She is the General Editor of Medieval Feminist Forum, and Editor-in-Chief of History Compass, as well as co-editor of two essay collections: Paradigms and Methods in Early Medieval Studies: A Reconsideration (2007) and Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe: New Perspectives (2008). She is currently completing a book-length study of gender and manuscript culture in the eighth-century Main River valley.