Patrick Geary

Patrick Geary

Patrick Geary

Professor Emeritus

Email: geary@ucla.edu

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Field of Study

Medieval

Research

  • Medieval culture and society, 500-1200
  • Continuing research on vernacular language, vocality, and memory in the Early Middle Ages.
  • Principal Investigator, The St. Gall Monastery Plan Digital Project (Phase One): Creation of a Virtual Reality Version of the Manuscript with Related Digital Scholarly Databases. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. http://www.stgallplan.org/
  • Principal Investigator, “Tracing Longobard Migration through DNA Analysis,” an international, interdisciplinary investigation of migration-era populations through DNA analysis.

Awards & Grants

  • 1970 Woodrow Wilson Fellow
  • 1977-80 Princeton University Bicentennial Preceptorship
  • 1981 American Philosophical Society Research Grant
  • 1981 German Academic Exchange Service Research Grant
  • 1984-86 L.J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation Grant 2
  • 1986-87 Dept. of History Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching
  • 1987-88 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
  • 1990 Research Fellow, Max Planck Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen
  • 1990-91 Member, Institute for Advanced Study
  • 1990-91 Guggenheim Fellow
  • 1994-94 NEH Public Programs. Creating Ethnicity: The Use and Abuses of History
  • 1998-2000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant
  • 2005 Andrew Mellon Foundation grant for the Creation of a Virtual Reality Version of the Manuscript with Related Digital Scholarly Databases 2006 Lester K. Little Resident, American Academy in Rome
  • 2009 Fellow, Hungarian Institute for Advanced Study
  • 2011 Anneliese Maier Research Award, Humboldt Foundation
  • 2015 National Science Foundation grant. Inferring Biological Relatedness And Genomic Ancestry Using 2nd Generation Sequencing

Degrees

  • 1974 Ph.D. in Medieval Studies, Yale University
  • 1973 M.Phil. in Medieval Studies, Yale University
  • 1970 A.B. summa cum laude in Philosophy, Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama
  • 1968-69 Elève libre, Institut supérieur de philosophie, Université catholique de Louvain