Meet Courtney
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Courtney completed her PhD at at the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec in 2022. She was supervised by Dr. Faith Wallis. She is interested in the history of medieval medicine, particularly issues surrounding mental health, social perceptions of illness and disease, and the intersection of medicine and religion. Her current research explores the status of lepers in Bologna, Italy in the High Middle Ages with attention to the interaction between contemporary social, political, religious, and medical understandings of the disease. She received her undergraduate degree in 2007 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a major in Psychology and a minor in History. She then received her Master's Degree in 2011 from the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary in Comparative History: Late Antique, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies. During the summers during her PhD she worked for the Center for Talented Youth from Johns Hopkins University, first teaching courses on medieval and Renaissance history to gifted middle school students and, most recently, working as a member of the on-site administrative team. In her non-academic life Courtney enjoys a good novel, volunteers with military combat veterans, advocates for mental health awareness, support, and services, and tries to find time to continue fencing, ballroom dance, and yoga. |
