Kathleen Biddick

Kathleen Biddick is Professor Emerita of History at Temple University. She has authored books in the fields of medieval studies, critical historiography, and theory: The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate (California, 1989); The Shock of Medievalism (Duke, 1998); and The Typological Imaginary: Circumcision, Technology and History (Pennsylvania, 2003). She has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards: Fulbright Foundation-Ireland, Lily Foundation, Rockefeller...See more

Kathleen Biddick is Professor Emerita of History at Temple University. She has authored books in the fields of medieval studies, critical historiography, and theory: The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate (California, 1989); The Shock of Medievalism (Duke, 1998); and The Typological Imaginary: Circumcision, Technology and History (Pennsylvania, 2003). She has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards: Fulbright Foundation-Ireland, Lily Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Stanford Humanities Center, Dartmouth Humanities Center, National Science Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies Curriculum Development Award. She has lived in Ireland, England, Germany, and Italy in the course of undertaking her scholarly projects. In Spring 2013 she received the Provost's Award at Temple University for Innovative Teaching. See less