• Instructor: David M. Perry
• Class Times: MWF 12:30-1:20
• Location: Lewis 305
• Office: Fine Arts 313
• Office Phone: (708) 524-6052
• Office Hours: TR 10-11
• Email: dperry@dom.edu
• Course URL: http://domin.dom.edu/faculty/dperry/las284/
• Faculty website: http://domin.dom.edu/faculty/dperry/

David Perry is an assistant professor of history at Dominican University, new as of 2007-08. Last year, he was a visiting professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN and before that he spent a year and a half teaching at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN. While in graduate school, 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.

Professor Perry 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. This year he will be teaching a class on Work and Family in the Middle Ages, several sections of both pre-modern and modern Western Civilization, a course on the the Crusades, and a junior seminar. 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 relics taken out of Constantinople as a result of the Fourth Crusade (1204).

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.