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Meg Leja is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History at Binghamton University, SUNY, within the College of Arts and Sciences. She specializes in the political and cultural history of late antique and medieval Europe, with a focus on interdisciplinary intersections of medicine, religion, gender, and manuscript studies.
- PhD and MA in History from Princeton University
- BA in History from the University of British Columbia
Her research explores the interplay between medical knowledge and theological discourses in Carolingian Europe, particularly through manuscript traditions and gendered perspectives. She also investigates visionary literature, legal conceptions of necessity in the early Middle Ages, and Mediterranean environmental history.
Leja has held prestigious fellowships at the Wolf Humanities Center (University of Pennsylvania), Binghamton’s IASH, and Princeton’s Center for the Study of Religion. Her book Embodying the Soul (2022) examines the integration of medical and religious thought in the early medieval period.
- Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- TAE in Material and Visual Worlds
