Sherri Franks Johnson
Associate Professor
sfj@lsu.edu
237B Himes Hall
578-4503
Courses Taught
Medieval History; Women in Medieval Europe; Women in Early Modern Europe; Martyrs, Monastics and Mystics; History of Christianity; Heresy
Current Research Interests
Women鈥檚 Monasticism in Medieval Europe; Veneration of Mary in late medieval and early modern Italy; Late Medieval Monastic Reform Movements
Interested in Directing Theses On
Medieval and Early Modern European History; Women in Premodern Europe; Religion in Premodern Europe
Education
BA 海角社区, 1992
MA University of Arizona, 1997
PhD University of Arizona, 2004
Awards and Honors
海角社区 ORED Faculty Travel Grant, 2018
海角社区 HSS Manship Summer Stipend, 2016
海角社区 Council on Research Summer Stipend, 2015
University of California, Riverside Center for Ideas and Society Residential Fellowship, Fall 2008
University of Arizona Vice President for Research Fund Grant, Fall 1999
Notable Articles
鈥淧overty and Property: Ties between male and female religious communities in late medieval Bologna, 鈥� Questiones Medii Aevi Novae 19 (2014): 19-32.
鈥淣egotiated Unions and Hostile Takeovers: Studying Religious Women鈥檚 Choices in Late Medieval Italy.鈥� Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 44 (2013): 267-282.
鈥淐onvents and Change: Autonomy, Marginalization, and Religious Affiliation in Late Medieval Bologna,鈥� The Catholic Historical Review 97 (2011): 250-275.
Books
Monastic Women and Religious Orders in Late Medieval Bologna. Cambridge University Press, 2014.