Ana C. Núñez

Ana C. Núñez is a historian of the Middle Ages focusing on queenship, gender, and the crusades in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Her doctoral dissertation, Hereditary Queenship in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1131–1228, examines the political authority and activities of the five royal women who ruled crusader Jerusalem by dynastic right. Work from her dissertation has been published in the Journal of Medieval History. During her doctoral studies, she held fellowships at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, the Stanford Humanities Center, and through the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education. She also has extensive teaching experience as a Teaching Assistant, Writing Fellow, and Principal Instructor, and has taught on topics and themes from the late Roman Empire to modern American feminism.