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David Perry has been an assistant professor of history at Dominican University since 2007. He is a specialist in medieval Mediterranean history, with a particular focus on Venice and the Crusades. Professor Perry is fascinated by cross-cultural contact and conflict in the ancient, medieval and early modern world and the ways that historical memory is shaped by such moments of contact. His courses 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 LAS seminar program and the Honors program. He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 2006, working with Kay Reyerson and Michael Lower. He is currently finishing a monograph provisionally entitled, "Stolen Relics and Civic Identity: Venice and the Contested Memories of the Fourth Crusade." Publications include: "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). Two articles on Venetian memory, mythmaking, and the crusades are forthcoming in other collections. 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). As a graduate student, 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 son named Nicholas Quillen Perry and a baby girl named Elisabeth Vivianne Perry who currently take up most of his free time, but his other interests include acoustic guitar and bass, songwriting (bluegrass, Irish, Americana), Venetian cuisine, and the Red Sox. |
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