Courtney A. Krolikoski
Last Updated: Spring 2025

Education

  • 2022 PHD, Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University 
    • ​Dissertation: Neither Outcast Nor Sinner: Leprosy in Bologna, Italy 1100-1348
    • Advisor: Faith Wallis (McGill)
    • Committee Members: Travis Bruce (McGill), Elma Brenner (Wellcome Trust) 
    • Exam Fields: Medieval Medicine, Pre-Modern Women’s History, Monastic History
  • 2011 MA, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University
    • Thesis: Malady or Miracle? The Influence of St Francis on the Perception of Leprosy in the High Middle Ages
    • Advisor: Gàbor Klaniczay
  • 2007 BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
    • ​Major: Psychology
    • Minor: History

Professional Experience

  • 2022-2025, Assistant Professor of History, Jacksonville University
    • ​I was among the faculty affected by Jacksonville University's decision on April 15, 2025, to lay off over 40 faculty members, including tenured professors. My position was one of those terminated as part of this broader institutional realignment despite an excellent teaching record​.

Teaching Experience

​Instructor of Record
  • 2025 HIST 488RI: Independent Study: Advanced Research Methods in History (Spring, Jacksonville University)
  • 2025 HIST 488RI: Independent Study: Research Methods in History (Spring, Jacksonville University)
  • 2025 HIST 150: The Modern World (Spring & Summer, Jacksonville University)
  • 2025 HIST 189: History of Medicine (Spring, Jacksonville University)
  • 2025 HIST 329/IS 307: 20th Century Europe (Spring, Jacksonville University)
  • 2025 HIST 189: Medieval Europe (Spring, Jacksonville University)
  • 2024 HIST 150: The Modern World (Winter, Jacksonville University)
  • 2024 HIST 350/IS 307: Medieval Italy (Fall, Jacksonville University)
  • 2024 HIST 350: Community & Conflict in the Medieval Mediterranean (Fall, Jacksonville University)
  • 2024 HIST 150: The Modern World (Summer & Winter, Jacksonville University)
  • 2024 HIST 329/IS 307: 20th Century Europe (Spring, Jacksonville University)
  • 2024 HIST 189: Medieval Europe (2 Sections, Spring & Fall, Jacksonville University)
  • 2024 JU 189: First Year Seminar (Spring & Fall, Jacksonville University)
  • 2023 JU 189: First Year Seminar (Fall, Jacksonville University)
  • 2023 HIST 150: The Modern World (Fall & Winter, Jacksonville University)
  • 2023 HIST 350/HUM 330: The Holocaust: History & Memory (Fall, Jacksonville University)
  • 2023 HIST 189/MHUM 189: The History of Medicine (Spring & Summer, Jacksonville University)
  • 2023 HIST 189: Medieval Europe (Spring &Fall, Jacksonville University)
  • 2023 HIST 350/WG S320: Medieval Women (Spring, Jacksonville University)
  • 2022 HIST 150: The Modern World (2 Sections, Fall, Jacksonville University)
  • 2022 HIST 329: 20th Century Europe (Fall, Jacksonville University)
  • 2019 HIST 380: The Medieval Mediterranean (Winter, McGill University)
  • 2019 HIST 401: Medieval Culture & Society: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle Ages (Winter, McGill University)

Courses as a Teaching Assistant

  • 2020 JWST 240: The Holocaust (Fall, with Dr. Ula Madej-Krupitski, McGill University)
  • 2020 JWST 240: The Holocaust (Winter, with Dr. Ula Madej-Krupitski, McGill University)
  • 2019 HIST 249: Health & Healer in Western History (Fall, with Drs. Faith Wallis and Thomas Schlich, McGill University)
  • 2019 HIST 356: Medicine in the Medieval West (Winter, with Dr. Faith Wallis, McGill University)
  • 2018 JWST 254: The Jewish Holy Days (Fall, with Dr. Eric Caplan, McGill University)
  • 2018 JWST 240: The Holocaust (Fall, with Danijel Matijevic, McGill University) 
  • 2018 HIST 249: Health & Healer in Western History (Fall, with Drs. Faith Wallis and Thomas Schlich, McGill University)
  • 2018 HIST 221: United States Since 1865 (Winter, with Dr. Shanon Fitzpatrick, McGill University)
  • 2018 JWST 240: The Holocaust: History and Memory (Winter, with Dr. Daniel Heller, McGill University)
  • 2017 HIST 380: Western Europe: The Middle Ages (Winter, with Dr. Travis Bruce, McGill University)
  • 2016 HIST 221: United States Since 1865 (Winter, with Dr. Shanon Fitzpatrick, McGill University)
  • 2015 HIST 249: Health & Healer in Western History (Fall, with Drs. Faith Wallis and George Weisz, McGill University)
  • 2015 HIST 380: Western Europe: The Middle Ages (Winter, with Dr. Nancy Partner, McGill University)
  • 2014 HIST 214: Introduction to European History (Winter, with Dr. Nicholas Dew,​ McGill University)

Invited Talks

  • 2022 “The Plague of Justinian,” CLAS4310: Plagues and Perceptions in Ancient Greece and Rome. Capstone Course, Classics, Texas Tech University (9 November). 
  • 2018 “The Black Death,” for HIST 214: Introduction to Western Europe (17 October, McGill University)
  • 2017 “Changes in Religious Life: The Thirteenth Century,” for HIST 380: Western Europe: The Middle Ages (21 November)
  • 2016 “To Kiss A Leper: Saint Francis of Assisi and the Social Perception of Lepers in the High Middle Ages,” Topics on Tap – Graduate Student Speaker Series, McGill University (8 April).
  • 2015 “The Challenge of the Plague in the Fourteenth Century,” for HIST 214: Introduction to Western Europe (19 October)
  • 2015 “Communal Health and Urbanization,” for HIST 380: Western Europe: The Middle Ages (11 March)
  • 2014 “The Crisis of the Fourteenth Century,” for HIST 214: Introduction to Western Europe (20 October)

Publications

Articles 
  • 2012 “Saints and Sinners: The Role of the Saint in the Life of the Leper Before the Thirteenth Century,” Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU 18 (2012): 66-78.

​Book Chapters in Edited Volumes
  • 2023 “Faking It: Thirteenth Century Bolognese Responses to Feigning Leprosy.” In The Art of Illness: Malingering and Inventing Health Conditions, edited by Wendy J. Turner (Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics).
  • 2023 “‘Have You Come Here to Play Jesus’: The Use and Misuse of Medieval Leprosy in Modern Media.” In Beyond Cadfael, edited by Lucy Barnhouse and Winston Black (Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture).
  • 2021 “’For the good and pacific state of the people of the Commune’: Healthscaping in Bologna and Siena Before the Black Death (c. 1100-1348).” In Pre-Modern Environment and Disease, edited by Lori Jones, 19-37. London: Routledge, 2022.
  • 2021 “’No More Horrified by Them’: Royal Holy Women and Lepers in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries.” In Living on the Edge: Transgression, Exclusion, and Persecution in the Middle Ages, edited by Delfi Nieto and Laura Miquel Milian, 59-74. Berlin: Medieval Institute Publications, 2022.
  • 2021 “Kissing Lepers: Saint Francis and the Treatment of Lepers in the High Middle Ages.” In Leprosy and Identity in the Middle Ages: From England to the Mediterranean, edited by Elma Brenner and François-Olivier Touati. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011.

Reviews
  • 2017 Review of Leprosy and Charity in Medieval Rouen, by Elma Brenner, Memoria Europae 2, no. 3 (2017).

Forthcoming
  • 2025 “By Its Spots: Leprosy as Medieval Illness.” In Images, Objects, & Remains, edited by Lori Jones (ARC Humanities Press).
  • 2025 Review of Les lépreux en Alsace. Vol. 1. Marginaux, exclus, intercesseurs? By Élisabeth Clementz-Metz. Revue d’Histoire ecclésiastique (Forthcoming)
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In Progress Works
  • Leprosy, Society, and Medical Learning in Northern Italy, 1000-1400 [Monograph]

Conference Activity 

Conferences Organized
  • 202X Leprosy and the ‘Leper’ Reconsidered II (In-Planning Stages)
  • 2020 #AcademicsInQuarantine (est. April 2020, Ongoing e-Conference Series)​
  • 2019 Movements in the Middle Ages: Durham-McGill Graduate Student Symposium (7-9 May, McGill University)
  • 2018 Leprosy and the ‘Leper’ Reconsidered (20-22 September, McGill University)

Papers Presented
  • 2025 “avoculos et qui faciunt se avoculos: Blindness in Medicine and Society in Medieval Bologna.” Forthcoming presentation at the Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting, Harvard University (20-23 March)
  • 2024  “’She get it from her mama’: Sex, Gender, and the Transmission of Leprosy.” Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (9-11 May)
  • 2023  “Now if We’re Talking Body’: Sex, Heredity, and Leprosy in Later Medieval Italian Medical Texts.” Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (11-13 May)
  • 2022 “Lepra Est: Viewing Leprosy as a Disability in Medieval Italy, 1100-1500.” Presented at the Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting, University of Virginia (10-13 March)
  • 2021 “‘What Am I? A Leper in This Town?’: The Misuse of Medieval Leprosy.” Presented at the 36th Annual Conference on Medievalism, International Society for the Study of Medievalism (4-6 November)
  • 2019 “‘Have you Come Here to Play Jesus?’: The Use and Misuse of Medieval Leprosy in Modern Media.” Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University (9-12 May)
  • 2018 “Leprosy and Society in Medieval Bologna, 1100-1350.” Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University (10-13 May)
  • 2018 “Regulations Concerning the Leprosaria of San Lazaro in Medieval Bologna, 1100-1350.” Presented at the Movements in the Middle Ages: Durham- McGill Graduate Student Symposium at McGill University (7 May)
  • 2017 “‘No More Horrified by Them’: Female Saints and their Lepers in the Medieval West.” Presented at the ARDIT International Congress at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain (17-19 May).
  • 2016 “Leprosy and Sanctity: Reimagining Medieval Understandings of Leprosy.” Presented at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds University (4-7 July)
  • 2011 “To Kiss a Leper: Saint Francis of Assisi and the Changing Perception of Leprosy Presented at the Leprosy, Language and Identity in the Medieval World Conference at Kings College, Cambridge (12-13 April)​
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Panels Organized
  • 2021 The Misuse of the Pre-Modern in the Modern World and How to Counter It.  Held at the Social Science Education Consortium Annual Conference.
  • 2019 Stepping into the Professions: Tips on Navigating a Variety of Career Paths for Medievalist Graduate Students and Early Career Scholars – A Roundtable Discussion. Held at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University. Co-Sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America Graduate Student Council and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
  • 2019 Leprosy in the City: Medical, Charitable, and Regulatory Responses to Leprosy in the Middle Ages. Held at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University. Sponsored by Medica: The Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages.
  • 2018 The Academic Work-Life Imbalance: Tips and Techniques for Managing Graduate School and your Personal Life – A Roundtable Discussion. Held at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds University. Sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America Graduate Student Council.

Digital Projects


Service

Graduate School Service
  • 2015-16 Communications Coordinator/President, McGill University History and Classics Graduate Students Association
  • 2014-15 Events and Social Coordinator, McGill University History and Classics Graduate Students Association
  • 2010-11 Board Member, Central European University Student Union 
  • 2009-11 Medieval Studies Departmental Representative, Central European University Student Union

Service to the Profession
  • 2017-19 Graduate Student Committee, Medieval Academy of America
    • ​​Acts on behalf of graduate student members of the Medieval Academy of America within the organization and the broader academic community. Committed to fostering international and interdisciplinary exchange and providing guidance to graduate students. Responsible for managing and growing the GSC’s social media presence and organizing panels at the major annual medieval conferences.

Work and Research Experience

  • 2020 Remote Learning Assistant, Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University
    • Provided support to McGill faculty in the Department of History and Classical Studies in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic to pivot their courses to an online platform with an aim of enhancing the student experience. Fielded technical questions about e-learning platforms, like Zoom and MyCourses, as well as questions about pedagogies of online teaching.
  • 2017-20 The Bartholomaeus Project, Research Assistant to Dr. Faith Wallis, Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University
    • Worked under Dr. Faith Wallis on her SHRC-funded project to transcribe and edit the medical writings of Bartholomaeus of Salerno. Responsibilities included transcription and translation of Latin medieval medical texts, website development and maintenance, comparing the works of Bartholomaeus with other 12th century medical commentaries, and other assorted duties related to the project.
  • 2017/19 The Center for Talented Youth of Johns Hopkins University, Academic Dean’s Assistant
    • Worked with the Academic Dean on day-to-day administration of on-site academic programming. Focused on ensuring that a diverse group of educators were able to meet the goals of their classrooms. Responsible for organizing a large portion of staff orientation and provided ongoing training and support for teaching assistants.
  • 2016-19 Translating the Divide, Research Assistant to Dr. Travis Bruce, Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University
    • Worked under Dr. Travis Bruce on his SSHRC-funded project exploring the role of translators in the medieval Mediterranean as a medium of intercultural relations. Duties included identifying, scanning, and data-mining primary sources, creating a searchable database of key terms, and any other assorted duties related to the project.
  • 2014-16 The Center for Talented Youth of Johns Hopkins University, Teaching Assistant for “History of the Middle Ages” and “History of the Renaissance” 
    • ​Assisted in the intellectual development of talented and multi-national students by providing first-class academic instruction and engagement. Responsibilities included tutoring students while also learning and meeting their individual needs, teaching lectures and lessons, ensuring the class ran smoothly, and other assorted duties related to teaching and classroom management.
  • ​2012-19 The Veterans Camps at Kieve-Wavus Education, Inc., Staff Assistant
    • Provided a safe place for veterans of the United States Armed Forces – both retired and active duty – and their families to rest and reconnect with each other and society, while also providing them with the space and resources to cope with the stress of deployment during past and current conflicts.
  • 2012-14 The Leadership School at Kieve-Wavus Education, Inc., Educator 
    • ​​Empowered youth to grow and contribute positively to society by providing a wide range of experiential opportunities that help develop twenty-first century learning skills, encourage responsible decision making, broaden and raise aspirations, and improve social competencies.

Languages

  • English: Native
  • ​French: Intermediate conversational and written; Advanced literary comprehension
  • Italian: Basic conversational and written; Intermediate literary comprehension
  • ​Latin: Intermediate Medieval

Professional Affiliations

  • 2018- Society for the Social History of Medicine
  • 2018- Medica: The Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages 2018- American Association for University Women
  • 2017- Society for Italian Historical Studies
  • 2014- Medieval Academy of America
  • 2014- American Historical Association
  • 2014- American Association for the History of Medicine

Research & Teaching Interests

  • Medieval Medicine
  • Pre-Modern Women’s History
  • Monastic History
  • Medieval History
  • History of Medicine
  • History of Pre-Modern Medicine
  • History of Hansen's Disease
  • Social History
  • Religious History
  • Urban History
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