James D. Mixson

James D. Mixson is Associate Professor of History at the University of Alabama specializing in medieval religious culture. His research examines Observant reform movements, crusade narratives, and monastic manuscript traditions across late medieval Europe.

Publications focus on the intersection of religious reform and cultural production, particularly how monastic communities preserved and transmitted crusade ideologies through textual practices. Research employs paleographic analysis of unstudied manuscript collections to reconstruct religious mentalities.

Awards include:

• Fulbright Fellowship for research in Germany (1997-1998)
• Heckman Fellowship for manuscript studies (2005)
• National Alumni Association Teaching Award (2016)

Leads international collaborations on religious orders and identity formation.