Dr. Jochen Burgtorf

Professor and Chair
Department of History

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Teaching interests: Medieval History, Crusades, Byzantium, Theory and Methodology, Latin

Research interests: Crusades, Religious Military Orders, Papacy, England, Refugees and Fugitives

Brief biography: Professor Burgtorf received his Ph.D. in medieval history (with "minors" in early modern history and English/American language and literature) from Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf (Germany) in 2001, the same year he joined CSUF. The crusades and the military orders are his main areas of publication, but he is also conducting research in English medieval history, as well as the history of fugitives and refugees. His recent publications include, The Debate on the Trial of the Templars (1307-1314), co-edited with Paul F. Crawford, and Helen J. Nicholson (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2010); The Central Convent of Hospitallers and Templars: History, Organization, and Personnel, 1099/1120-1310 (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2008); and "With his life, my joyes began and ended: Piers Gaveston and King Edward II of England Revisited," in Fourteenth Century England V, ed. Nigel Saul (2008). He contributed a series of articles to both the Dictionnaire européen des ordres militaires au Moyen Âge (2009) and The Crusades: An Encyclopedia (2006). Professor Burgtorf is an official collaborator of the "Regesta Pontificum Romanorum," an international research project on papal documents. He is the faculty advisor to CSUF's award-winning Theta-Pi chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the History Honor Society.