Dr. John Mulhall

Biography

John Mulhall is a historian whose research focuses on the intersection of history and science in the medieval Mediterranean. His interests concentrate on the movement, circulation, and transformation of knowledge among the Islamicate, Byzantine, and Latin Christian worlds. He received his Ph.D. in Byzantine History from Harvard University and has a Master of Studies in Ancient History from Oxford, funded by the Lionel Pearson Fellowship, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Ancient Greek from the College of William and Mary. Mulhall has been honored as a Tyler Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks and an Andrew W. Mellon Junior Faculty Fellow at Notre Dame’s Medieval Institute. For the 2025-2026 academic year, he was awarded the Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome. His current book project, "Republic of Translators: Latin, Greek, Arabic New Age Science, Philosophy, Theology Twelfth Century," provides a monographic history of translation activities among these languages in the twelfth century and proposes a new model for understanding transformative moments in world intellectual history. Additionally, he works on the history of disease and medicine in late antiquity and the middle ages, with a particular interest in uniting textual research with new advances in microbiology, genetics, and archaeoscience. His recent publications include articles in the Journal of Late Antiquity and the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.

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