Carolyn Twomey

Carolyn is an Assistant Professor in Medieval European History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She received her Ph.D. from Boston College with a project on the history and material culture of baptism in the early Middle Ages. After her B.A. in Medieval & Byzantine Studies and English Literature with a minor in Theology & Religious Studies from the Catholic University of America, she pursued an interdisciplinary M.A. degree in Medieval Studies at the University of York, UK, concentrating in History and Art History. While completing her Ph.D. research at Boston College, Carolyn spent many research summers driving around Yorkshire and visiting the many medieval parish churches and their past and present communities. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching interests focus on the history of cultural and religious change in the premodern world seen through the rituals, art & archaeology, and environments of conversion. She has published several articles on Romanesque baptismal fonts and is currently working on a monograph on the material history of baptism in early England.