Lauren Wood
Lauren Wood, PhD
- Specialties:
- History,
- Western Civilization
INT 210: Western Civilization & The Formation of Christendom
INT 310: Ethics and Culture in Modern Society.
Professor Wood is a lecturer for the Integrated Interdisciplinary Core sequence. She received her MA in Early Modern European and Medieval Byzantine History from CSU Fullerton in 2015 and received her doctorate from UC San Diego in Medieval History in 2023. Her research considers themes surrounding gender and the female body, monstrosity, and the construction of social memory. She currently teaches courses at USK, as well as Cal State San Marcos and UC San Diego.
She has received multiple grants and fellowships to further her research, including the Mellon-funded Integrated Initiative Fellowship, and is currently collaborating on an early cultures conference focusing on gender frames in the pre-modern period. She is also working on an article for the Medieval Feminist Forum. Her dissertation, From the Devil We Came: Reimagining Female Agency with the Monstrous Mélusine, is available on ProQuest.
