Richard Rodgers

Richard Rodgers is a junior at Harvard College studying History and Medieval Studies. His research focuses on medieval intellectual, religious, and political history, political theory, and Christian political theology, with particular attention to medieval England and to the ways these traditions intersect there.

He has written on Christian kingship and English identity in the memory of Richard Coeur de Lion, for which he received Harvard’s Medieval Studies Prize, conferred by the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies for outstanding undergraduate scholarship. His research on Arthurian legend and its place in later imperial political imagination was presented at Harvard’s Symposium in Premodern Studies.

Rodgers is a Research Fellow in Medieval Political Thought and a John Aroutiounian Fellow at the Abigail Adams Institute, and a Fellow at the Harvard Catholic Forum. He is also the Hao Fellow in Medieval and Renaissance Art at the Harvard Art Museums. He is, with others, the editor of Political Thought of the Middle Ages, a forthcoming three-volume primary-source anthology of medieval Christian, Jewish, and Islamic political thought.

He welcomes correspondence concerning medieval history, especially medieval England, political thought, kingship and empire, political theology, Christian intellectual history, Arthurian studies, the reception of the Middle Ages, and related research projects.