• James D. Mixson
  Associate Professor
  Ph.D., Notre Dame, 2002
  
  jmixson@bama.ua.edu

  Research Interests:

• Medieval Europe
• Religious Movements
• Medieval Cultural History
• Material Culture and Consumption

  Courses Regularly Taught:

• Western Civilization to 1648 (HY101)
• Honors Western Civilization to 1648 (HY 105)
• The Crusades (HY 300)
• The Middle Ages (HY 442)

Current Research:

• Translation of the collected essays of Kaspar Elm (in preparation).
• Co-editor (with Bert Roest) of Observant Reform in the Later Middle Ages and Beyond (Brill, Companions to the Christian Tradition).

  Publications:

• “Contesting Authority and Community: Models and Practices of Monastic Reform in Late Medieval Central Europe,” Austrian History Yearbook 41 (2010): 30-47.
• Poverty's Proprietors: Ownership and Mortal Sin at the Origins of the Observant Movement (Leiden, NL.ZH: Brill Academic Publishers, 2009).
• "John Nider's Reformation of Religion," in Kirchenbild und Spiritualität: Ekklesiologie aus dem Anspruch des mendikantischen Ordensideals. Edited by Thomas Prügl and Marianne Schlosser (Schöningh, 2006).
• Ulrich Horst, The Dominicans and the Pope: Papal Teaching Authority in the Medieval and Early Modern Thomist Tradition, trans. James D. Mixson (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006).
• Book reviews in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History; Religion and Literature; Medieval History Journal, and H-Net.

Grants, Awards, and Honors:

• The University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences Leadership Board, Outstanding Commitment to Students Award (2011)
• The University of Alabama Research Advisory Committee Grant (2005; 2010)
• Heckman Research Fellowship, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (2005)
• D.A.A.D. Research Grant (Munich, Germany) (2004)
• Fulbright Fellowship (1997-8)
• Bavarian Cultural Ministry Fellowship (1997-8)

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