Jehangir Malegam

Jehangir Malegam is an Associate Professor in the Department of History within the Arts & Sciences at Duke University. His scholarly work focuses on medieval European history, particularly examining the intersections of religion, culture, and politics during the Central and High Middle Ages. He teaches courses including HISTORY 254.01, Europe in the Middle Ages.

Education:

• Ph.D. from Stanford University (2006)
• M.A. from Emory University (1998)
• B.A. from Emory University (1998)

Malegam specializes in the history of emotions, peacemaking, representations of conflict and community in medieval western Europe. His research explores clerical self-fashioning and lay-clerical relationships between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, with particular attention to discourses around peace-making and conflict. His current work investigates the history of personhood, con-sociation and alienation during nascent state formation and evangelical outreach in England, France and the Empire (1000-1250), drawing on theoretical frameworks from John and Jean Comaroff, Giorgio Agamben, and Pierre Bourdieu.

Malegam's publications reveal a consistent focus on medieval peace studies, violence, religious reform, and emotional history. His book The Sleep of Behemoth: Disputing Peace and Violence in Medieval Europe, 1000-1200 (2013) examines how medieval thinkers redefined peace as a mandate for reform through conflict, coercion, and insurrection. His recent work shows increasing engagement with the history of emotions, with several current projects exploring new approaches to this field within medieval contexts.

His research interests span multiple interconnected domains including:

• History of Emotions
• Urban Communes
• Overlaps of Lay and Clerical communitarian ideas
• Sacraments, Pacts and Friendship in the Middle Ages
• Conflict Resolution
• Monarchism in England and France
• Law in England and France

Malegam's scholarly approach combines traditional historical methods with theoretical insights from anthropology, political philosophy, and sociology to produce nuanced understandings of medieval European society and its religious foundations.