Faculty and Staff
Megan McLaughlin
Professor of History
Professor McLaughlin specializes in European religion and society to 1200, and the history of women and gender. Her current research focuses on sexuality, gender and politics in eleventh-centuryEurope, and the transformation of rituals for the dead in twelfth-century France. Selected publications include "On Communion with the Dead," Journal of Medieval History, 17 (1991) 23-34; "Gender Paradox and the Otherness of God", Gender and History, 3 (1991) 147-59; and Consorting with Saints: Prayer for the Dead in Early Medieval France (Cornell University Press, 1994). Professor McLaughlin received her doctorate from Stanford University in 1985.