Janine Peterson

Besides teaching medieval and early modern courses for the History Department at Marist, Dr. Peterson offers courses on specialized topics such as "History of Witchcraft and Sorcery," "Medieval Misfits," "Medieval Cultures in Contact," and "Medieval Gender and Sexuality" for the history department and the honors program and also teaches First Year Seminars (e.g., "Europe and the 'Barbarians'" and "Beyond Game of Thrones").

She was a submissions editor for the journal Hortulus, as well as a reviewer/fact checker for The Rosen Publishing Group. Dr. Peterson served on an Awards Committee of the Society for Italian Historical Studies, was elected to three terms on the executive committee of The Hagiography Society as the Communications Chair. She is an Affiliated Scholar at the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University, on the Advisory Board of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, and is the editor for Medieval Europe for the massive international digital humanities project, Database of Religious History.

Dr. Peterson, along with Dr. Kristin Bayer, is a faculty advisor for the Marist branch of the History Honor Society, Phi Alpha Theta. She is the Coordinator for the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Minor and a Marist LGBTQ+ Ally.

Education

Dr. Peterson received her BA and MA in Medieval Studies from Fordham University. She received a PhD certificate in Medieval Studies and PhD in History (dual program in Medieval History and Cultural History) from Indiana University, Bloomington.She has also worked in the business world - for the Outsource Department at IBM, as an office manager and benefits administrator for the National Scholastic Chess Foundation, and as Assistant Director for an academic department in university administration.She loves to tell her students that she obtained those positions with a liberal arts degree of the most seemingly impractical field: an undergraduate major in Medieval Studies and a minor in Classical Languages.