Professor
Gabrielle M. Spiegel
Johns Hopkins University
Historian; Educator; Academic administrator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
History
Elected
2011
Professor Gabrielle Spiegel is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and is an internationally recognized medieval historian, educator, and administrator. She is the past president of the American Historical Association from 2008-2009. Her work focuses on medieval French history, literary and cultural theory, and the practice and theory of writing history in the Middle Ages and in the modern era. She has authored and edited five books and approximately seventy articles, which have been translated into more than eight languages. Professor Spiegel serves on the editorial advisory board, History and Theory, and Viator, as well as several others. Some of her past positions include dean of humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles, dean of faculty at Johns Hopkins' Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, chair of Charles Homer Haskins Prize Committee and Medieval Academy of America. She has also been the President of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and served on the board of directors at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
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