William L. North (Director)
Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
Bill North is professor of medieval history and teaches courses on all aspects of the medieval world (Europe and the Byzantine Empire), especially the intersections between institutional, intellectual, and religious history. He has a particularly deep interest in the history of medieval Italy, especially the development of the city of Rome. He co-directs (with Professor of History Victoria Morse) an OCS program on History, Religion, and Urban Change in premodern Rome. More recently, North has taught a course on human responses to natural disaster and is especially interested in the ways in which communities address environmental challenges through institutions.. In addition to articles on the institutional, legal, religious and artistic history of the central Middle Ages, A dedicated Latinist, North teaches medieval Latin and is a dedicated translator of Latin texts; his translations have appeared in print and online. North is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He can be reached at wnorth@carleton.edu
Pamela O. Long
Independent Scholar (Washington, D.C.)
Pamela O. Long is an independent historian of late medieval and early modern Europe and of the history of science and technology. Her books have focused on practical and technical writings, on artisanal culture and on the relationships of that culture to the new sciences in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Her latest book is Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topology, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late sixteenth-Century Rome (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018). She is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow, and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ. More information about her research and publications may be found on her website .
Chiara Bariviera
Independent Scholar (Padua, IT)
Chiara Bariviera is a classical archaeologist who has worked on research projects in Rome, Pompeii, and Veii. Her studies center on Roman topography and the development of urban and agrarian landscapes, with a special interest in public architecture and the reconstruction of monumental complexes. She contributed chapters to Atlas of Ancient Rome, ed. A. Carandini (Princeton, 2017). With Pamela O. Long, she has published translations of 16th-century Latin treatises about the restoration of the Roman aqueduct Acqua Vergine on the website Waters of Rome (IATH, University of Virginia, ed. K. Rinne).
Austin Mason
Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
Austin Mason is the Assistant Director of the Humanities Center for Digital Humanities at Carleton College and Lecturer in History. In this position, he teaches courses in history and digital humanities and works with students, faculty and staff to build a robust Digital Humanities program that fosters both digital scholarship and pedagogy on campus. By training he is an early medieval historian, with an interdisciplinary research agenda encompassing religious history, material culture, archaeology and the digital humanities. His current book project is entitled, “Listening to the Early Medieval Dead: Religious Practices in England, c.400-900 CE,” and leverage archaeological evidence (like bones, brooches, and buckets) and cutting-edge GIS mapping techniques to rewrite the history of the Anglo-Saxon conversion as a complex story of locally-negotiated, lived religious practices.
