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Hugh ThomasPh.D., Yale University (1988); e-mail: h.thomas@miami.edu |
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Professor Thomas received his B.A. from Yale University in 1982 and stayed on there for his Ph.D., which he received in 1988. He specializes in the history of Medieval Europe and of England. His first book, Vassals, Crusaders, Heiresses, and Thugs: The Gentry of Angevin Yorkshire, was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 1993, and his second, The English and the Normans: Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation and Identity after the Norman Conquest, 1066-c. 1220, by Oxford University Press in 2003. His third book, The Norman Conquest: England after William the Conqueror appears this year, and is a textbook on the Norman Conquest and its impact. He has received fellowships to do research at the National Humanities Center and the University of Pennsylvania. He has given numerous papers throughout the U.S. and the United Kingdom. Besides a variety of courses on the Middle Ages, he teaches Western Civilization and a course on Religious War and Tolerance in the Western Religious Traditions. He enjoys a variety of outdoor activities, including camping, hiking, canoeing, and snorkeling. He also enjoys traveling, with a particular emphasis on ancient and medieval sites, ranging from the Maya city of Tikal and the Forbidden City in Beijing to numerous castles and churches in England. He has two daughters who are, in his completely unbiased opinion, the two best kids in the world. |
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