Meet the Speaker: Rachel Koopmans ’94 MA, ’01 Ph.D.

Rachel Koopmans ’94 MA, ’01 Ph.D., received her doctorate from Notre Dame and has taught at York University, Toronto, since 2006, where she is currently Associate Professor of History. Her book, Wonderful to Relate: Miracle Stories and Miracle Collecting in High Medieval England (2011), was awarded the Margaret Wade Labarge Prize for 2012 by the Canadian Society of Medievalists. That same year, she was also awarded a prestigious Insight Grant by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for her work on the “miracle windows” depicting Thomas Becket in the Trinity Chapel at Canterbury Cathedral. The resulting study, accepted for the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, was published by the British Academy and Oxford University Press, and was the first major detailed analysis of the subject.

To read Rachel’s Alumni Spotlight published by the Medieval Institute, click here.