IU School of Liberal Arts

Eric Leland Saak

Campus Address: CA 503N
Phone: (317) 274-1687
Fax: 317-278-7800
Email: esaak@iupui.edu
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Appointments

Associate Professor of History

Education

B.A. University of Southern California 1985,
Ph.D. University of Arizona 1993

Academic Interests

Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Europe, Religious, Intellectual, and Political History of the 14th-16th centuries, the Augustinian tradition and the Augustinian order, late medieval textual culture, textual/literary theory and text editing.

Awards

Fulbright Fellow 1992, 1993;
Postdoctoral Fellow, Netherlands Research School for Medieval Studies, 1994-1999;
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for European History, Mainz, Germany, 2000-2001;
IU New Frontiers Travel Grant, 2006

Publications

Numerous articles and book reviews, and two books: High way to Heaven. The Augustinian Platform between Reform and Reformation, 1292-1524. (2002), and ed. with Heiko A. Oberman and Frank A. James III, Via Augustini: Augustine in the Later Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Reformation.
Essays in Honor of Damasus Trapp, O.S.A. (1991). Augustinus Noster. Interpreting Augustine and Augustinianism in the Later Middle Ages will be coming out in 2010. Co-editor of and major contributor to The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine (in preparation).

Service

Editoral Board for the series Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, of Brill Academic Publishers;
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History

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