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William Chester Jordan
Birth Date:7 April 1948
Birth Place:Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Education:Ripon College (BA)
Princeton University (PhD)
Notable Works:Europe in the High Middle Ages (2004)
Dayton-Stockton Professor of History
Awards:Haskins Medal (1996)
American Philosophical
Society
(2000)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009)

William Chester Jordan (born April 7, 1948) is an American medievalist who serves as the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University; he is a recipient of the Haskins Medal for his work concerning the Great Famine of 1315–1317. He is also a former director of the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton. Jordan has studied and published on the Crusades, English constitutional history, gender, economics, Judaism, and, most recently, church-state relations in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

Biography

Jordan received an undergraduate education at Ripon College, earning a bachelor's degree in history, mathematics, and Russian studies.[1] In 1973, he earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University, where he was a student of Joseph R. Strayer. He was the director of the university's Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies from 1994 to 1999.[2] In 1996, he won the annual Haskins Medal from the Medieval Academy of America for his work on the Great Famine, published in The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century. He was elected the second vice-president of the Medieval Academy of America in 2012.[3] Since 2003, Jordan has served as a trustee of the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, NC.

Jordan has shown a marked interest in pedagogy and edited single-volume and four-volume encyclopaedias on the Middle Ages, aimed at the elementary and middle-school audiences respectively. He is the editor-in-chief of the first supplemental volume of the Dictionary of the Middle Ages.

Besides his scholarship on the Great Famine, Jordan is also known for his study of the reign of Louis IX of France, especially with respect to his Crusades. His Louis IX and the Challenge of the Crusade is "the most comprehensive secondary source account of the seventh crusade currently available" and has been cited by Frances Gies, Malcolm Barber, and Robert Chazan.[4]

Jordan was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2000,[5] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: William Chester Jordan Department of History . 2023-02-05 . history.princeton.edu.
  2. Web site: Award Ceremonies 2012: Spring General Meeting - Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities William Chester Jordan. American Philosophical Society. 4 November 2015.
  3. Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting Report. http://www.medievalacademy.org/?page=Meeting_Report
  4. Holt (2005).
  5. Web site: APS Member History. 2021-11-30. search.amphilsoc.org.
  6. Web site: William Chester Jordan. 2021-02-11. American Academy of Arts & Sciences. en.