Thomas started following the work of Khalil Andani, Harvard University, Harvard Divinity School.
Thomas started following the work of Alfonso Zera, University of Salerno Italy, Dispac.
Thomas started following the work of 3 people.
Thomas BSC 2011, here I come!
University of Tennessee Knoxville
Graduate Student, History
Truman State University, English and Linguistics
Truman State University, History
Tulane University, History
Newton W. and Wilma C. Thomas Fellow
Thesis Title: Between Saint-Gilles and Saint Maron: Religion and Power in the County of Tripoli
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Jay Rubenstein
Tina Shepardson Tom Burman Rachel Golden |
About
I'm a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. I have a M.A. in English with a focus on Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman literature from Truman State University, and my B.A. (also from TSU) was in History with minors in Philosophy & Religion and English.
My dissertation will, I hope, offer a new view at the creation of the County of Tripoli, starting with the religious views of the Provencal contingents who left on Crusade and how that shaped their attitudes towards eastern Christians, Muslims, Greeks, the works. The millennial, militantly apocalyptic overtones of Raymond de Saint-Gilles' forces and the multiethnic, multiconfessional nature of the County of Tripoli seem at first glance contradictory--I hope to examine how and why it worked, and why such a small, seemingly unimportant county lasted until 1289.
Other interests of mine include the medieval Midi, especially Catharism and how/why it emerged in a region that was so pious, if eccentric, and interactions between Latins and Greeks, both in the Levant and in the Balkans.
I am a dual citizen, France and the US, and am married with a fifteen-month-old son. In my spare time, I read (for fun, no less!) and enjoy theater and hiking.
