Dr. Sara Ritchey

Assistant Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies
Address: 569 Griffin Hall
Phone: 482-5341
Email: SMR0144@Louisiana.edu

 

 

Sara Ritchey is an Assistant Professor of medieval European history. She holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago. Her current research project explores Jan Mombaer’s Rosetum exercitorum spiritualium and the western tradition of meditation, and questions the repercussions for the humanities of its removal from the university curriculum. At UL she teaches courses in the history of Christian devotion, gender relations in medieval Europe, historical research methods, and European historiography. You can read her work in The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality, Religion Compass, and Church History. For more information about Professor Ritchey's teaching and publications, click HERE.