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Amy G. Remensnyder's research focuses on the cultural and religious history of medieval Europe. The author of numerous articles and of a book about monastic culture and memory in southern France, she is currently finishing a book about how pre-modern Spanish Christians used the Virgin Mary as a symbol of the conquest and conversion of non-Christians in the Iberian Peninsula and in early colonial Mexico.
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Amy G. Remensnyder earned her A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard University, studied at Cambridge University and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, and received her Ph.D. in History from the University of California at Berkeley. She joined the Brown faculty in 1993. Named the Stephen Robert Assistant Professor in 1995, she was promoted to associate professor in 1998. Her honors include the Van Courtland Elliott Prize from the Medieval Academy of America, Brown's William G. McLoughlin Award for Teaching Excellence, and Brown's Academic Advisor Award. She has held research fellowships from the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She recently completed a three year term as a Councilor of the Medieval Academy of America. The author of a book about medieval monasteries and collective memory in southern France, she is currently finishing a study of the Virgin Mary as symbol of conquest and conversion in medieval Spain and colonial Mexico.
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