Emily E. Graham is a historian of the Middle Ages, specializing in the intersection of religious and political history.

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Dr. Graham's research interests include sanctity, monastic orders, religious reform and heretical movements, and papal politics. She has published on Franciscan reformers, their patronage and networks. Most recently, she wrote and filmed Surprising Lives of Christian Saints for The Great Courses, winner of a bronze Telly Award. Her current projects place saints within their historical context, and examine the Cardinal Protectors of the Franciscan Order. She is currently the Associate Department Head for the Department of History, and has served terms as Director of Undergraduate Studies for the department, and in faculty governance as Vice-Chair and Chair of the Faculty Council for the College of Arts & Sciences.