rwjohnso@princeton.edu
Advisor: William C. Jordan
Interests: Late medieval and early modern Mediterranean Europe; popular religion and the cult of the saints; pregnancy and childbirth; medieval medicine and healing; magic and divination; ghosts, purgatory, and the afterlife; medieval notions of madness, possession and exorcism.
Dissertation Title: “Praying for Deliverance: Childbirth and the Cult of the Saints in the Later Medieval Mediterranean”