James D. Mixson
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Notre Dame, 2002

jmixson@bama.ua.edu

Fall 2008 Office Hours: Mon. & Wed. 10-12:00 p.m.


Research Interests:

• Medieval Europe
• Religious Movements
• Medieval Cultural History
• Material Culture and Consumption

  Courses Regularly Taught:

• Western Civilization to 1648 (HY101)
• Honors Western Civilization to 1648 (HY 105)
• The Crusades (HY 300)
• The Middle Ages (HY 442)

Current Research:

• Poverty's Proprietors: Material Culture, Mortal Sin and Transformations of Religious Life (book manuscript in preparation).
• Translation of the collected essays of Kaspar Elm (in preparation).

  Publications:

• "John Nider's Reformation of Religion," in Kirchenbild und Spiritualität: Ekklesiologie aus dem Anspruch des mendikantischen Ordensideals. Edited by Thomas Prügl and Marianne Schlosser (Schöningh, 2006).
• Translator, The Dominicans and the Pope. The Papal Teaching Authority in the Medieval and Early Modern Thomist Tradition, by Ulrich Horst (Notre Dame, 2006).
• Book reviews in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History and Religion and Literature.

Grants, Awards, and Honors:

• University of Alabama Research Advisory Committee Grant (2005)
• Heckman Research Fellowship, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (2005)
• D.A.A.D. Research Grant (Munich, Germany) (2004)
• Fulbright Fellowship (1997-8)
• Bavarian Cultural Ministry Fellowship (1997-8)

« Back