William Chester Jordan

Professor William Chester Jordan is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History and Chairman of the History Department at Princeton University. Formerly, Jordan directed the Program in Medieval Studies and the Shelby Davis Center for Historical Studies and held multiple positions in the Medieval Academy of America. He is a scholar of medieval history, but began as an historian of the state and has consistently made the development of the central political and social institutions of the feudal monarchies the core of his work. His work has been published on the Crusades, English constitutional history, gender, economics, Judaism and, most recently, church-state relations in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. He is a recipient of the Haskins Medal for his book, The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century.