Patrick Morgan
I study the legal history of the Kingdom of Sicily in the twelfth century and its connections to the Mediterranean world.
Field of Study
Subfield
Legal History of twelfth-century Sicily and southern Italy
Research
Publications
"Tokens of his Rule: The Royal Image on the Coins of Roger II." Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 50 (2019): 21-44.
Grants and Awards
Late Antique, Medieval and Renaissance Consortium Fellowship, 2016-2017
Graduate Research Mentorship, 2019-2020
UCLA CMRS Summer Fellowship, 2020
Conference Presentations
“Tokens of his Rule,” UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Emerging Scholars Conference, 2017.
“Law, Kingship, and the Imperial Past in Sicily and Southern Italy,” Session 712, 2019 International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 2019.
“Legislating Religious Boundaries in the Twelfth-Century Mediterranean,” Session 8, Law and Communal Identity in the Premodern Mediterranean, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2020.
Advisors
Jessica Goldberg (Chair),
Teo Ruiz,
Sharon Gerstel (Art History),
Luke Yarbrough (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures),
Alexander Roberts (Classics, USC)
Degrees
B.A. History - University of California, Berkeley
M.A. History - UCLA