Sandy Bardsley

Sandy Bardsley is a Professor of History at Moravian University. Her teaching focuses on medieval history, English history, the history of popular culture, and women's history, including courses like Introduction to Women's Studies and seminars on peasant history and the history of disease.

• Education: B.A. from the University of Otago (New Zealand), M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Her research explores gender dynamics in late medieval England, with a particular emphasis on women's health, wages, status, and speech. She co-authored Medieval Europe: A Short History (12th edition, 2020) and has published extensively on topics such as sex ratios, land inheritance, and the criminalization of women's speech.

Recent publications highlight trends in medieval peasant studies, gender and labor economics, and historical demography. Her 2023 work focuses on undergraduate research mentorship, while earlier scholarship (2014–1999) examines land inheritance, wage disparities, and speech-related legal records in medieval England.

Her academic contributions span medieval gender studies, social history, and interdisciplinary analysis of historical texts and archaeological data. She actively engages with topics like medieval women's roles, deviant speech, and peasant society, using comparative and statistical methods to reframe historical narratives.