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Brett E. Whalen is a Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of Departmental Outreach, overseeing the Honors Thesis program. He holds a BA (1994) and MA (1998) from the University of Vermont, and an MA (2000) and PhD (2005) from Stanford University. His research focuses on Christian intellectual and cultural history in the European Middle Ages, particularly the 11th–13th centuries, with expertise in the crusades, apocalypticism, pilgrimage, and medieval papal authority.
Whalen’s major works include Dominion of God: Christendom and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (2009) and The Two Powers: The Papacy, the Empire, and the Struggle for Sovereignty in the Thirteenth Century (2019). He currently serves as series editor for Trivent Publishing’s The Papacy and Medieval Christendom series and is researching a new project on Medieval Jesus: The Son of God from the Middle Ages to the Present.
He teaches courses such as HIST 50: Time and the Medieval Cosmos, HIST 177H: The Apocalypse in the Christian Middle Ages, and graduate seminars on medieval studies and the Crusades. His research emphasizes primary sources, including chronicles and theological texts, and engages interdisciplinary approaches to medieval political theology and ecclesiastical power dynamics.
