Professor Scott G. Bruce teaches Medieval History at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. A native of Canada, SGB earned his B.A. in History and Latin summa cum laude at York University in Toronto (1994) before pursuing his Ph.D. in History at Princeton University (2000). After holding a Solmsen Fellowship from the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin at Madison (2001/02), he taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder for sixteen years (2002-2018), where he served as Director of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) from 2013-2018. In 2018, he moved to the History Department at Fordham University, where he holds the rank of Full Professor. An award-winning teacher and author, SGB has lectured throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel, and New Zealand. He has held visiting research appointments at the Technische Universität Dresden in Germany (2003); at the Universiteit Gent in Belgium (2009); as the Derek Brewer Visiting Fellow at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom (2015); as Professeur invité at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, France, as part of the three-year research initiative Arts et Sciences du Silence (2022-2024); and as Bristol Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol, UK, as part of the Bristol Next Generation Visiting Researcher Programme (2023). In April 2023, he delivered the J. R. O'Donnell Memorial Lecture at the Centre for Mediaeval Studies in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. SGB serves as the executive editor of Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought, and Religion. He was recently the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship (2020/21) in support of his new research initiative: The Lost Patriarchs Project. For a complete list of his academic publications, please visit https://fordham.academia.edu/ScottGBruce.
SGB credits his abiding interest in the Middle Ages to endless hours spent reading J. R. R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard and playing Dungeons & Dragons as a teenager in suburban Scarborough. His fascination with the restless dead dates back even further to childhood viewings of classic Ray Harryhausen films like The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958) and Jason and the Argonauts (1963). It is no secret that he worked his way through college as a gravedigger.
SGB credits his abiding interest in the Middle Ages to endless hours spent reading J. R. R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard and playing Dungeons & Dragons as a teenager in suburban Scarborough. His fascination with the restless dead dates back even further to childhood viewings of classic Ray Harryhausen films like The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958) and Jason and the Argonauts (1963). It is no secret that he worked his way through college as a gravedigger.
