Who We Are

We are academics from across the disciplines of medieval studies, teaching and researching at universities around the United States.  The Toolkit began following the tragic events of the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, VA, in the wake of which a group of graduate students resolved to make scholarly research on the Middle Ages more accessible to non-academic professionals who are teaching medieval history or otherwise working at the intersection of extremism and history. This project continues to be fuelled by the work of graduate students and early career faculty.

What We Do

The Medievalist Toolkit forges bridges between academics and public-facing professionals, including teachers, students, social workers, and medieval enthusiasts of all kinds: We participate at conferences and organise workshops and lectures. We develop teaching modules for K-12 teachers and for undergraduate classrooms. We teach courses, enabling our students to contribute their work to this website. Our goal is to develop tools that both change the public perception of mis-used aspects of the medieval past and that make scholarship on these subjects accessible to the public.

The Tools

Among the tools we develop are syllabi for the undergraduate classroom that three members of the Medievalist Toolkit are teaching at their respective institutions. We are also developing modules on medieval history with K-12 teachers, and we are running a graduate student reading group at Fordham University (New York City). In addition, we have an editorial team who allows scholars and students to contribute written work to our website either in the format of a glossary or/and a longer article.