Contact Information:
Iona College, Department of History
715 North Ave.
New Rochelle, NY 10801
Phone: (914) 633-2434
Fax: (914) 633-2153
Email: dthiery@iona.edu

Office Hours:
Tuesday 11:00 am - Noon
Thursday 11:00 am - Noon
Friday 11:00 am - Noon

Education:
BA - Providence College.
MA - University of Toronto.
PhD - University of Toronto, 2003.

Courses Taught:
HUM 102. Honors Humanities: Medieval.
HUM 201. Honors Humanities: Early Modern.
HST 105. Topics in Western Civilization.
HST 315. Ancient Civilization.
HST 343. Europe in the Middle Ages.
HST 348. Early Modern History.
HST 491. Violence: A History from the Greeks to the Present Age.
HST 492. Renaissance and Reformation Europe.
HST 765. Europe in the Middle Ages.

Teaching Interest:
History of Violence and Aggression (society's enactment, control, perception and representation of violence).
English History (500-1688).
Renaissance and Reformation History.
Medieval History (especially social and cultural history).
Ancient Greece and Rome (political and social history).

Research Interest and Scholarships:
Religion and Interpersonal Violence.
Parish Life in Medieval and Reformation England.
Medieval and Reformation Religious Rituals and Social Life.
Law and Order in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
Feuds and Peacemaking in the Medieval and Early Modern Society.

Publications:
- PhD Thesis, Polluting the Sacred: Violence and Religion in English Daily Life, c. 1400-1553 (Centre for Medieval Studies, U. Toronto, 2003).
- Editor, “Introduction” and “Conclusion,” in A Great Effusion of Blood? Interpreting Medieval Violence, eds. M. Meyerson, D. Thiery and O. Falk (University of Toronto Press, 2004).
- “Welcome to the Parish. Remove your Cap and Stop Assaulting your Neighbour,” in Reputation and Representation: Essays on the Late Middle Ages, eds. S. Michalove, D. Briggs and A Compton Reeves (Brill Press, 2004).
- “Plowshares and Swords: Clerical Involvement in Acts of Violence and Peacemaking in Late Medieval England,” Albion: A Journal of British Studies (2004).
- "Review of Christopher Dyer's Making a Living in the Middle Ages" Providence: A Journal of Humanities (2004).

Representative Presentations:
- “So Vengeance is Whose Now? Clerical Justification of Temporal Violence in Late Medieval England,” Fifteenth-Century Studies Conference (May 2004).
- “Lay Piety and Manners in a Fifteenth-Century Brawl on Fleet Street” Invited Lecture: Providence College History Symposium in Honor of Fr. C.P. Forster (March 2004).
- “It’s a Matter of Sin and Civility: Belligerency and Eucharistic Piety in England, c. 1400-1536,” Invited Lecture: History Department and Centre for Medieval Studies,University of York (York, UK, February 2003).
- “Hoodlums in the Churchyard: Community Aggression and the Sacred in Late Medieval England,” International Congress of Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI, May 2000).
- “Faith in the Vicarius Dei, Disdain for the Princeps Presbyterorum: Lollard Political Theory and Practice, 1379-1415” International Congress of Medieval Studies (May 1998).
- “Wading through the Muddle: The Historiography of Richard III,” Massey College Lecture Series (February 1998).

Academic Awards, Honors and Officerships:
- Centre for Medieval Studies Doctoral Research/Travel Grant, 2002.
- University of Toronto Edward W. Nuffield Graduate Fellowship, 2001-2002.
- William B. Schallek Graduate Fellowship, Richard III Society, 2000.
- University of Toronto Open Fellowship, 1996-2002.
- University of Toronto International Student Award, 1997-2001.
- University of Toronto Doctoral Studies Fellowship, 1997-1998.
- Massey College Rita B. Catherall Scholarship, 1998.
- National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholars Grant, 1996.
- Massey College Junior Fellowship, 1996-1999.
- Father Forster Medal for Excellence in European History, 1996.
- Leo B. Aaronsen Award for Excellence in Latin and Classical Studies 1996.
- Providence College Liberal Arts Honors Program, 1992-1996.

Other Information:
Born and raised in East Hartford, CT.
Long-term addiction to running (from mile races to marathons), mountain biking and ice hockey.

Useful Link about Middle Ages:
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto (the "other medieval links" provides connections to many research tools).

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