Faculty Bio

Ilana Krug, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of History

Secondary Education Social Studies Coordinator

Education

• B.A., Brandeis University (1996)
• M.A., Rutgers University (1999)
• M.A., University of Toronto (2000)
• Ph.D., University of Toronto (2006)

Courses

• Western Civilization
• Ancient World
• Medieval Civilization
• Renaissance and Reformation
• Classical Social History

Research Interests

• Fourteenth-century English social, economic, and military history
• Impact of war, war financing, corruption and natural disasters on the peasantry
• Complaint and "evils of the times" literature
• Medieval English military logistics

Honors

• Medieval Academy of America Frederic C. Lane Dissertation Grant, 2003
• White Hart Society James L. Gillespie Award, 2005

Recent Publications

• Krug, Ilana. “Purveyance and Peasants at the Beginning of the Hundred Years War: Maddicott Reexamined,” in Don Kagay and Andrew Villalon, eds. The Hundred Years War (Part II): Different Vistas (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2008), 345-65.
• Krug, Ilana. “Wartime Corruption and Complaints of the English Peasantry,” in Niall Christie and Maya Yazigi, eds. Noble Ideals and Bloody Realities: Warfare in the Middle Ages (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2006), 177-93.