Dr. Michael Mccormick

Biography

Michael McCormick is the Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History at Harvard University and the chair of the Science of the Human Past initiative, which integrates research across genetics, archaeology, and environmental sciences to understand human history. He obtained his Ph.D. from Université catholique de Louvain in 1979 and taught at Johns Hopkins University until 1991. McCormick has authored numerous monographs and articles, including "Origins of the European Economy: Communications and Commerce, A.D. 300-900," which won the Haskins Medal in 2005 and was shortlisted for the British Academy Book Award in 2002. His recent publication, "Charlemagne’s Survey of the Holy Land: Wealth, Personnel, and Buildings of the Mediterranean Church from Antiquity to the Middle Ages," was released by Dumbarton Oaks-Harvard University Press in 2011. He has received fellowships from prestigious organizations including the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies, and was honored with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award in 2002. He is a fellow of several academic societies, including the Medieval Academy of America and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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