About

Carolyn Twomey is an Assistant Professor in Medieval European History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She received her Ph.D. from Boston College with a project on the history and material culture of baptism in the early Middle Ages. After her B.A. in Medieval & Byzantine Studies and English Literature with a minor in Theology & Religious Studies from the Catholic University of America, she pursued an interdisciplinary M.A. degree in Medieval Studies at the University of York, UK, concentrating in History and Art History. While completing her Ph.D. research at Boston College, she trained at an archaeological field school through the SERF Project at the University of Glasgow and completed the Apprenticeship in College Teaching program through the Boston College Center for Teaching Excellence.

Her interdisciplinary research and teaching interests focus on the history of cultural and religious change in the premodern world seen through the rituals, visual & material objects, and environments of conversion. Carolyn developed a love of the outdoors and the power of places & things in public history as a former national park ranger and as a graduate intern at both the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College. On this website you can find more information about her research and teaching.