About CMS

Mission

The Center for Medieval Studies (CMS), founded in 1988, encourages collegial interaction, scholarly collaboration, and community outreach among faculty and graduate students in all areas of medieval studies. To further these activities the Center offers courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels, organizes formal colloquia and informal workshops around specific themes, sponsors guest lectures by local, national and international scholars, organizes conferences on selected interdisciplinary themes, edits conference proceedings and other publications, facilitates graduate and undergraduate student groups, seeks internal and external funding for program development and faculty and student research, works with schools and other educational organizations, and maintains and develops a Medieval Studies library.

The Center seeks to provide an opportunity for scholars of all disciplines and at all levels to focus intensively on historical, literary, anthropological, social, economic, religious, legal, artistic, cultural, and methodological inquiries into the medieval period.