David M. Perry - Assistant Professor - Dominican University Office: Fine Arts 313 Office Phone: (708) 524-6052 Office Hours: MW 9:30-10:15 and by appt. Email: dperry@dom.edu Faculty website: http://domin.dom.edu/faculty/dperry/

Please use the links below to find course-websites for current and past courses taught by David Perry. Thanks!

Websites for current courses at Dominican

• History 101 - Western Civilization I
• History 301 - Jerusalem from antiquity to now (LiveDU mostly). Documents page.
• LAS 192 - Dimensions of the Self - "We don't need no education." (LiveDU only)

Former courses taught at Dominican

• History 271 - The Viking World
• History 308 - The Medieval Church
• LAS 288 - Utopia, Shangri-La, and the History of the Future (MyDU only)
• History 102 - Western Civilization II
• History 267 - The Crusading Era
• History 270 - The Silk Road
• History 331 - Work and Family in Medieval Europe
• LAS 284 - Travel and Migration
• LAS 192 - The Self - From Antiquity to You (MyDU only)

Former course websites at other institutions:

• Macalester College
  • The Silk Road
  • Venice and the Turks
  • The Viking World
  • Discovering World History
  • Jihad and Crusade
• St. Olaf College
  • The Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Jihad and Crusade
  • The Silk Road
  • Global 1500-Present, Expansion of Europe
  • High and Late Middle Ages
  • Medieval Women
  • The Crusades
  • Seminar, Medieval Europe, The Medieval City
• University of Minnesota
  • History of the Catholic Church
  • History of the Crusades
    

Other Academic Websites Originally Designed by David Perry

• Center for Early Modern History

David Perry is an assistant professor of history at Dominican University, new as of 2007-08. He is a specialist in medieval Mediterranean history with a particular focus on Venice and the Crusades. Both his teaching and his scholarship examine cross-cultural contact and conflict, particularly in the medieval and early modern Mediterranean world. At Dominican, his classes focus on cultural exchange and production, medieval religion in all its permutations, economic activity, and daily life. He is also an active participant in the seminar program.

His dissertation (University of Minnesota, 2006) is entitled Mirabilia in mari veniendo: Venice, Stolen Relics, and the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade. He is currently working on several articles and a book concerning the relics of the Fourth Crusade (1204). He has just had an article published, "The Translatio Symonensis and the 7 thieves: a Venetian Fourth Crusade Furta Sacra narrative and the looting of Constantinople," in The Fourth Crusade: Event, Aftermath, and Perceptions, ed. Thomas Madden (Asghate, 2008).

Before coming to Dominican, he was a visiting professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN (2006-2007) and a visiting instructor at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN (2005-2006). Before that, he taught as an instructor and teaching assistant at the University of Minnesota. He also worked as the undergraduate advisor, instructor and website designer for the Institute of Global Studies and the Human Rights Law program.

He has a baby boy named Nicholas Quillen Perry who currently takes up most of his free time, but his other interests include acoustic guitar and bass, ultimate frisbee, Venetian cuisine, and the Red Sox.