Scott G. Bruce teaches Medieval History at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. A native of Canada, he 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). 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) and at the Universiteit Gent in Belgium (2009). He was recently the Derek Brewer Visiting Fellow at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom (2015).
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 and Jason and the Argonauts. It is no secret that he worked his way through college as a grave-digger.
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 and Jason and the Argonauts. It is no secret that he worked his way through college as a grave-digger.