Lauren Mancia
Associate Professor
History
Location: 1123B Boylan Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x2810
Fax: 718.951.4504
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Lauren Mancia (she/her) looks at what medieval Europeans left behind -- art, writings, artifacts, institutions, manuscripts, buildings, plays, rituals, diagrams, etc. -- in order to understand how they experienced and learned their religious practices, and, thereby, how they understood themselves. In her research, Mancia focuses on the devotional culture of medieval monasteries in the 11th and 12th centuries. Some of her courses stem from her research interests (e.g., courses on historical Christianity, on historical religious experience, on creative ways of producing historical knowledge, or on the history of emotions), but she also teaches courses on wider subjects of medieval and early modern history. Her new research uses insights and methodologies from the field of performance studies both to better understand medieval monastic devotion and to innovate how to perform that understanding for contemporary audiences. Outside of BC, Prof. Mancia is a lecturer at The Met Cloisters.
Education:
Ph.D., Yale University - 2013 (History)
M.A., Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto - 2006 (Medieval Studies)
B.A., Columbia College, Columbia University - 2005 (English/Medieval Studies)
Areas of Expertise:
Prof. Mancia is a historian of medieval Christian devotional practices. Her first book, Emotional Monasticism: Affective Piety in the Eleventh-Century Monastery of John of Fécamp sheds light on medieval monastic practices of affective piety. Her second book, Meditation and Prayer in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Monastery: Struggling Toward God is forthcoming from ARC Humanities/AUP. In 2023-24, she will be a Visiting Scholar in the Performance Studies Dept. at NYU (and on leave from BC).
Books and Publications
Meditation and Prayer in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Monastery: Struggling Towards God (Available for preorder here: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9781641893121/meditation-and-prayer-in-the-eleventh-and-twelfth-century-monastery) (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2023
"Seeking Unworthiness, Self-Knowledge, and Truth: Humility in the Medieval Monastic Tradition of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries," Oxford Philosophical Concepts volume on Humility, edited by Justin Steinberg, forthcoming. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2022
"The Experience of Monastic Meditation in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries," Memini: Revue intedisciplinaire sur le Moyen Âge et le début de la période moderne, eds. Piroska Nagy and Xavier Biron Ouellet, vol. 28. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2022
Review of Elina Gerstman, The Absent Image, Lacunae in Medieval Books, Penn State University Press, in The Medieval Review, 22.06.20. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2022
Review of Paul Fouracre, Eternal Light and Earthly Concerns: Belief and the Shaping of Medieval Society, Manchester University Press, in English Historical Review, June 2022. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2022
"Jean de Fécamp et sa réforme émotionnelle : Une clé pour comprendre les manuscrits de Fécamp," in La bibliothèque et les archives de l'abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité de Fécamp: Splendeur et dispersion des manuscrits et des chartes d'une prestigieuse abbaye bénédictine normande (Xe-XXe s.); in Première partie: la bibliothèque et les archives au Moyen Age; (eds. Stéphane Lecouteux, Ourdia Siab and Nicolas Leroux). (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2021
"Tools for Monastic Emotion: Confessio and Conversio in Augustine, John of Fécamp, and the Cloisters Cross," in Monastic Emotion, special issue of the Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies, eds. Barbara Rosenwein and Riccardo Cristiani. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
Review of Brian Patrick McGuire, Bernard of Clairvaux: An Inner Life, Cornell University Press, in H-France Review, Vol. 21, July 2021, No. 125. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2021
"Sources for Monasticism in the Long Twelfth Century," Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West, Cambridge University Press, pp. 667-683. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2020
"What Would Benedict Do?," a contribution to Whose Middle Ages?, Fordham University Press (eds. Andrew Albin, Will Cerbone, Mary Erler, Thomas O'Donnell, Nicholas Paul, and Nina Rowe).
(Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
Emotional Monasticism: Affective Piety at the Eleventh-Century Monastery of John of Fécamp (Manchester University Press, 2019; Paperback 2021) http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140203/ (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2019
Review of Karen Stöber, Julie Kerr, and Emilia Jamroziak, eds. Monastic Life in the Medieval British Isles: Essays in Honour of Janet Burton. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2018. In The Medieval Review, TMR 19.09.30. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2019
"Caritas avant qu'elle ne devienne 'charité'," in Sensibilités: Histoire, Critique, et Sciences Sociales, fall 2018. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2018
Review of Gert Melville, The World of Medieval Monasticism: Its History and Forms of Life, trans. James Mixson, with a foreword by Giles Constable. (Cistercian Studies 263.) Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press for Cistercian Publications, 2016, in Speculum, April 2018. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2018
Review of Kristen Collins and Matthew Fisher, eds., St. Albans and the Markyate Psalter: Seeing and Reading in Twelfth-Century England, Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2017, in The Medieval Review, TMR 18.10.08. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2018
"Praying with an Eleventh-Century Manuscript: A Case Study of the Engimatic Paris, BnF, ms. lat. 13593" in Boundaries in the Medieval and Wider World, Europa Sacra series 22, (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017), 153-177. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017
Review of Krijn Pansters and Abraham Plunkett-Latimer, eds. Shaping Stability: The Normation and Formation of Religious Life in the Middle Ages. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. . In The Medieval Review, 17.04.04 (2017). (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2017
Review of Michael Champion and Andrew Lynch, eds., Understanding Emotions in Early Europe. (Early European Research 8.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. In Speculum, July 2017. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2017
Review of Joel Kalvesmaki and Robin Darling Young, eds., Evagrius and His Legacy, Notre Dame, 2016. In The Medieval Review, 16.12.02 (2016). (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2016
"John of Fécamp and Affective Reform in Eleventh-Century Normandy." Anglo-Norman Studies 37: 161-79. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2015
Review of Phillip C. Adamo, New Monks in Old Habits. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2014. Catholic Historical Review, Autumn 2015, Vol. 101, No. 4, 916-917. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2015
"Reading Augustine's Confessions in Normandy in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries." Tabularia "Études 14: 195-233. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
Review of Studies on Medieval Empathies. Series: Disputatio 25 (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2013). Eds. Karl F. Morrison and Rudolph M. Bell. The Medieval Review, March 11. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2014
Creative Work
Co-organizer of exhibit "Magisterial Feminae: How Women Who Studied the Ancient World Innovated Brooklyn College, the Latin Greek Institute, and Beyond: 1930-1980," at Brooklyn College Archives, BC Library, May 5, 2023-December, 31 2023. (Exhibition or Performance) 2023
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Tow Research and Creativity Grant (Grants and Fellowships) 2022
Eric M. Steinberg Award for College Citizenship, Brooklyn College (Awards and Honors) 2021
PSC CUNY Grant (Grants and Fellowships) 2021
William Stewart Travel Award, CUNY Academy of Humanities and Sciences 2018, 2020 (Awards and Honors) 2020
PSC-CUNY Grant (Awards and Honors) 2018
Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellowship for Outstanding Teaching in the Humanities, Spring 2017 (Grants and Fellowships) 2017
PSC-CUNY Grant (Grants and Fellowships) 2016
HSS Mini-Grant, Brooklyn College. (Grants and Fellowships) 2015
PSC-CUNY Grant (Grants and Fellowships) 2014
Elizabeth Ann Bogert Grant for the Study of Christian Mysticism. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
Etienne Gilson Dissertation Grant, Medieval Academy of America. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
Fulbright Research Grant to France. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
John B. and Theta H. Wolf Travel Fellowship, Society for French Historical Studies. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
Travel Bursary for the Study of Medieval Languages & Literature, Medium Aevum. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
National Organization of Italian American Women Scholarship. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"For God and Monastery: Loyalty in the Medieval Devotional Landscape," Loyalty as Emotional Entanglement, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2023
"Greek and Syriac Sources and the 'Innovations' of Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Monastic Thought," Lost Patriarchs Conference, Fordham Univ.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2023
"Medieval/Modern: Confronting the Audience in Monasticism and Performance Art," Faculty Day, Brooklyn College, May 2023
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2023
"Why the Pre-Modern Period Matters," Faculty Day Roundtable, Brooklyn College
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2023
"You Had to Be There: A Proposed Methodology for the History of Medieval Monastic Religious Experience," at Fragments of Experience: Approaching 'Lived Religion' in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Brooklyn College.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2023
Keynote address, "Touch and Affect in the Middle Ages and Renaissance," 43rd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum, Keene State College, New Hampshire.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2023
"Performing Medieval Passions, Then & Now," NYU Program in Dramatic Literature, English Department
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2022
"Seeing is Believing: The Depictions of God in Medieval Christianity" in the Hinman Brown Lecture Series at the 92Y in NYC.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2022
Leader of the seminar "The Afterlife of Augustine's Confessions" for The Morningside Institute, 7 February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2022
"From Theory to Practice: Understanding Meditative Experience in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Monastery," Medieval Studies Workshop at Stanford University, 21 April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2021
"Know Yourself: Humility in Monastic Texts from the 11th and 12th Centuries," Virtual Humility workshop, via Zoom, May 22-23. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2021
"Tools for Monastic Emotion: Confessio and Conversio in Augustine, John of Fécamp, and the Cloisters Cross," Department of History, GC University, Lahore, Pakistan, 6 December (via Zoom). (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2021
Panel Organizer and Moderator, "Credo? Did Medieval People Really Believe?" International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2021
"'If Only There Were a Fire in Me': Spiritual Advice Between Monastic Men and Medieval Women," Seeking Authority: Women, Genre, and Philosophical Reflections in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Columbia University, 15-16 February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020
"Meditative Experience in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Monastery," Pour une histoire de l'expérience : le laboratoire medieval, Séminaire de recherche, Univeresité de Québec à Montréal, 30 October 2020.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020
"Affective Piety in the Eleventh-Century Benedictine Monastery," September 26, Columbia University Medieval Seminar. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
"Augustine, John of Fécamp, and the Monastic Meditative Tradition to the Eleventh Century," in "Finding the Way: Conference on the Sources, History, and Impact of the Meditative Tradition," organized by Christian Mercer, Columbia University, 1-3 February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
"Praying by Rote? Intellectual and Emotional Modes in Monastic Spiritual Thought," Ritual and Religion in the Medieval World, Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham University, New York, NY, March 30-31. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2019
"Recent Publications in the History Department," 24 September, Brooklyn College History Department. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2019
Faculty roundtable participant, "Crossing Boundaries: Towards an Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies," CUNY Graduate Center, 3 May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2019
Moderator, "The Studies in Religion Program at Brooklyn College: How Does Studying Religion Serve Our Students?" Brooklyn College Faculty Day, 16 May.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2019
Roundtable discussant for "Whose Middle Ages? Confronting the Past Beyond Medievalism," International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2019
"A Psychologist and a Historian Walk into a Bar...and Discuss Steven Pinker," with Prof. Hanah Chapman, LAMEM, 15 October 2018. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2018
"Credo: Did Medieval Monks Really Believe?" Truth and Truthiness: Belief, Authenticity, Rhetoric, and Spin in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Barnard Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, 1 December. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
"Discussing Faith: What the Pre-Modern History of Jewish-Muslim-Christian Interactions Teaches Us" with Profs. David Brodsky, Karen Stern, and Bilal Ibrahim, as a part of the Brooklyn College 'We Stand Against Hate' programming, 6 March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2018
"Elephants in the Classroom," Faculty roundtable participant, Inter-University Doctoral Consortium Medieval Conference, New York University, 27 April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
"Emotional Reform in the Benedictine Monastery of the Eleventh Century (And the Periodization of 'Medieval' and 'Renaissance')," in "Periodizing Medieval Emotions" session, chaired by David Konstan, at the History of Emotions Conference at George Mason University (organized by Susan Matt and Peter Stearns), 1-2 June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
"John of Fécamp: Abbot, Administrator, Devotee, Innovator," Conference in Honor of Elizabeth A.R. Brown, CUNY Graduate Center, 16 March 2018. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2018
"Medieval Devotional Performance," NYU English Department, 8 November 2018. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018
"Monastic Spiritual Thought: Emotional or Intellectual?" in Twelfth and Thirteenth Century Intellectual History, North American Conference on British Studies, 25-28 October 2018, Providence, RI. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
"Roundtable on Law in Late Antique and Medieval Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions," with Profs. David Brodsky and Bilal Ibrahim, LAMEM, 15 March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2018
"The Question of Hannah: Prayerful Models for Male and Female Religious," in "Gender and Devotion in the 12th and 13th Centuries," 21st New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, FL, 8-10 March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
"Why Study Religion: A Lightning Roundtable." Participated with faculty from around Brooklyn College on 8 February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2018
Session organizer, with Jennifer Ball, Bilal Ibrahim, and Karl Steel, "Teaching with Medieval Manuscripts," Brooklyn College Faculty Day, 23 May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
"Discussing Faith: What the Studies of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism Can Learn from One Another," with Profs. David Brodsky and Bilal Ibrahim, as a part of the Brooklyn College 'We Stand Against Hate' programming, 23 March.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2017
"L'invention d'un dieu souffrant: Réforme émotionelle dans le monastère de Fécamp," La bibliothèque monastique de l'abbaye de la sainte Trinité de Fécamp, Fécamp, France, 25-26 October 2017. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2017
"Lament for Lost Solitude? Monastic Devotion Cultivated in the Secular Landscape," Medieval Club of New York, CUNY Graduate Center, 10 November 2017. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
"What did Medieval Monks Desire?: Weaving a Scholarly Argument Out of 'Dark Age' Sources," invited by the Brooklyn College Historical Society, 21 February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2017
Session Chair, "Plurality and 'Ambiguity' in Female Religious' Observance in the Ninth to Eleventh Century Medieval West," at Berkshire Conference of Women, Genders, and Sexualities, Hofstra University, 1-4 June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2017
"Praying with an Eleventh-Century Manuscript: A Case Study of the Engimatic Paris, BnF, ms. lat. 13593" in Boundaries in the Medieval and Wider World: A Conference in Honor of Paul Freedman, UCLA, Los Angeles, 14-15 October 2016. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2016
"The Mirror of the Middle Ages: Scholarship and Social Engagement in the 21st Century," invited by the Brooklyn College Historical Society to speak with two other Brooklyn College medievalists at Brooklyn College, 18 April 2016. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2016
"'Harming to Help' and Affective Reform at Eleventh-Century Fécamp." International Medieval Congress. University of Leeds. Leeds, United Kingdom, July 6-9. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
"Compassionate Cruelty: John of Fécamp and Emotional Devotion in the Eleventh-Century Monastery." Department of History, Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, Oct. 5. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"Emotional Devotion in the Medieval Monastery." Department of French, New York University. New York, Feb. 26. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"Getting Medieval at Brooklyn College" roundtable. Brooklyn College Faculty Day. May 20. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
"John of Fécamp, Monastic Discipline, and Abbatial Empathy." Colloquium of the Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern. Brooklyn College Faculty Working Group. Feb 3. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
"Jesus Through the Middle Ages: The Development of the Image and Doctrine of Christ in Medieval Christianity." St. Francis College. Brooklyn, N.Y., April 4. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"John of Fécamp and Affective Reform in Eleventh-Century Normandy." Battle Conference of Anglo-Norman Studies. Winchester, United Kingdom, July 29. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Reading John of Fécamp in an Eleventh-Century Monastery." Brooklyn College's Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group Colloquium. May 1. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"Realizing Prayer in the Material: The Devotional Culture of the Eleventh-Century Monastery of Fécamp." Medieval Materiality. University of Colorado at Boulder. Oct. 23-25. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"Religious Reform as Emotional Reform in the Eleventh-Century Monastery of John of Fécamp." Friends of the Saints. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, Dec. 12. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"The Art of Reform at Fécamp." International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Mich. May 8-11. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"The Invention of a Suffering God: Emotional Reform of Devotional Practice in a Medieval Monastery." Varieties of Academic Experience: Religious Studies at Brooklyn College Panel. Faculty Day. Brooklyn College. May 21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"Visualizing Emotion: Cultivating Empathy and Modeling the Ineffable in Medieval Art." Department of Art History, Wellesley College. Wellesley, Mass., April 3. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
Speaker in the "Medieval and Renaissance Lives" series of Columbia/Barnard's Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program. Barnard College. New York, Oct. 8. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
Speaker, "Persecution, Punishment, Purgatory" faculty roundtable. 10th Annual Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, Nov. 7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Jean de Fécamp et la culture religieuse à son monastère au XI siècle." Journée d'études on the monastery of Fécamp. Université de Caen Basse-Normandie. Caen, France, June 15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"John at Fécamp." International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Mich., May 9-12. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"Monastic Reform, Monastic Devotion, and the History of Emotions." New Directions in Medieval Scholarship Panel. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, Nov. 15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"Reading John of Fécamp in an Eleventh-Century Monastery." Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting. University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Knoxville, Tenn., April 4-6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"Emotional Reform in the Eleventh-Century Monastery: The Case of John of Fécamp." Conventus Medieval Seminar. Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies, Ghent University. Ghent, Belgium, May 23. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"Writing a History of Religious Experience: The Case of John of Fécamp." Groupe de recherche sur les pouvoirs et les societés de l'Occident médiéval et moderne" Grepsomm, Université de Québec à Montréal. Montreal, Dec. 14. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"The Monks of Fécamp and Their Ducal Patrons: Transformations of the Eleventh Century." Charles Homer Haskins Society Annual Meeting. Boston College. Boston, Nov. 4-6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"More Than Alpha et Omega: God the Father in Medieval York." International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Mich., May 9. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
"A City for All the Faithful: Representations of the City of God in Two Canterbury Manuscripts of Augustine's De Civitate Dei." International Medieval Congress. University of Leeds. Leeds, United Kingdom, July 12. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
Professional Leadership
Co-convener, with Prof. Brian Sowers, Fragments of Experience conference (on lived religion in late antique and early medieval culture), June 5-6 2023. To attend, email laurenmancia@brooklyn.cuny.edu. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2023
Co-chair, Columbia University Seminar in Affect Studies, 2014-present. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2022
Co-Chair, Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern (LAMEM) Faculty Working Group,Brooklyn College, 2014-present. http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/centers/lamem.php (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2022
Director of the Studies in Religion Program at Brooklyn College, 2018-2022. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2022
Member, Executive Committee, CARA (Medieval Acadamy of America's Committee on Centers and Regional Associations), 2022-26
(Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2022
Member, Medieval Academy of America K-12 Committee. 2022-25 (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2022
Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute Faculty Associate, 2021-22. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2021
Pedagogical Achievements
Students wishing to meet with Prof. Mancia for any reason should email her at laurenmancia@brooklyn.cuny.edu to make an appointment. 2022
Community Activities
For a complete list of Prof. Mancia's upcoming special talks at The Met Cloisters, email her at laurenmancia@brooklyn.cuny.edu. 2022
Other Professional Activities
"Lilith: Part Four, on the Divine Feminine," The Oldest Profession Podcast, with Dr. Charlene Fletcher (BC MA in History, '14). https://theoldestprofessionpodcast.com/lilith/, 23 December. 2020
Link to appearance on CSPAN Book TV: https://www.c-span.org/video/?465947-1/role-university-presses-american-society 2019
For more on Professor Mancia's work on the history of emotions, see: http://time.com/5203763/emotions-history-lent/ 2018
Featured guest on four History Café podcasts (out of Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vt.): "History Café Visits the Met I: The Cloisters' Gothic Chapel"; "History Café Visits the Met II: Medieval Mysticism"; "History Café Visits the Met III: Archeological Reconstruction"; and "Affective Piety with Lauren Mancia." Listen here for free: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-cafe/id701289889?mt=2. 2015