Dr. Lori Woods
Title: Associate Professor of History
School: Arts & Letters
Academic Department: History and Political Science
Phone: 814-471-1104
E-mail: lwoods@francis.edu
Office Location: Scotus Hall 316-A
Education
- Ph.D. University of Toronto
- M.A. University of Calgary
- B.A. University of British Columbia
Biography
Research Interests
- Late medieval Europe; Spain; social and religious history; history of medicine
Publications
- Co-editor, Worth and Repute: Valuing Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Toronto: Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2011).
- "Mainstream or Marginal Medicine? The Case of a Parish Healer Named Gueraula Codines," in Worth and Repute.
Current Projects
Lori Woods’ research focuses on the history of hospitals and the development of civic religious culture in late medieval Valencia (Spain). She has presented her research at international conferences and institutions. She is currently working on an article-length study of a repentant asylum in Valencia, and also a book project that examines the impact of plague on hospital formation and the development of civic religious culture in late medieval Spain.
Read about Dr. Wood's experience with Saint Francis University study abroad students in Ambialet, France, during the Fall 2010 semester at Dr. Wood's Fall 2010 Study Abroad Blog
Courses
- History 101 Europe and the World, 1500-1815
- History 220 History of Science (spring semesters)
- History 245 History of Medicine (fall semesters)
- History 401 Renaissance and Reformation
- History 445 Black Death: Renaissance Society, Culture, and Politics
- History 495 History of Prostitution