John D. Young

• Kenan Distinguished Associate Professor of Liberal Education and History, 2018-21
• Visiting Professor at the University of Würzburg, Fall 2015 and Fall 2018
• Fellow, Forschungsstelle für vergleichende Ordengeschichte, University of Dresden

Recent publications:

• Co-editor with Timothy J. Johnson and Katherine Wrisley Shelby, Preaching and New Worlds: Sermons as Mirrors of Realms Far and Near (New York: Routledge, 2018).
• “A Fruitful Partnership: Jews and the Canons of St. Kilian in Twelfth-century Würzburg,” Concilium medii aevi 21 (2018), 79-90.
• “Old World Text and New World Cloister: Jews and Monks in the Admont Sermons on Exodus,” in Preaching and New Worlds: Sermons as Mirrors of Realms Far and Near, ed. Johnson, Shelby, and Young (New York: Routledge, 2018), 28-42.
• Co-author with David D. Peck, Krista Feinberg, and Tyson Yost, This Small Spot: A Narrative History of Selected World Civilizations (Chicago: Redshelf, 2017)
• “Medieval Monastic Sermons: An Argument for New Editions,” in Editionswissenschaftliches Kolloquium 2017: Quelleneditionen zur Geschichte des Deutschen Ordens und anderer geistlicher Institutionen, ed. H. Flachenecker, K. Kopinski, and J. Tandecki (Torun, Poland, 2017), 109-22.
   
• Co-editor with Miranda Wilcox, Standing Apart: Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).
• “Long Narratives: Toward a New Mormon Understanding of Apostasy,” in Standing Apart, ed. Miranda Wilcox and John D. Young (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014) 309-34.

Recent papers presented:

• “Visitors to the Cloister: Outsiders in Monastic Exempla” (Poster), International Medieval Sermon Studies Society Symposium, Bristol, UK, July 2018.
• “A Fruitful Partnership: Jews and the Canons of St. Kilian in Twelfth-century Würzburg,” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 2018.
• "Medieval Monastic Sermons: An Argument for New Editions,” Deutsch-Polnischer Gesprächskreis für Quellenedition Conference, University of Würzburg, Germany, May 2017.
• "Jews, Monks, and New Worlds in the Admont Sermons on Exodus", International Medieval Sermon Studies Society Symposium, Flagler College, July 2016.
• “Western Monasticism and the Other,” Workshop on the Interreligious Comparison of Monastic Cultures, Forschungsstelle für vergleichende Ordensgeschichte, University of Dresden, Germany, July 2014.
• "Monks in Arrears: Monasteries and the Thirteen-century Economy," International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 2013.