Assistant Professor
Department of History
St. John Hall 244E
8000 Utopia Parkway
Queens, NY 11439
Phone: (718) 990-5223
Fax: (718) 990-2644
coopert@stjohns.edu
Educational Background
Ph.D., 2005, Boston College, History
M. A., 2001, Boston College, History
B. A. (First Class Degree Honours), 1997, Lancaster University
(UK), Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Areas of Specialization
Anglo-Saxon History, Manuscript Studies, Church History; Medieval
Culture
Profile
Tracey-Anne Cooper is an Assistant Professor in the History
Department, where she teaches the core course, “Emergence of Global
Society” and various courses on medieval Europe and medieval
Britain.
Cooper joined the history department in 2006 with an M. A. and a
Ph. D in Medieval History from Boston College. She graduated with
honours from Lancaster University, UK in 1997 with a B. A. (first
class) in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. She spent her second
year as an undergraduate studying at Wellesley College,
Massachusetts.
Cooper’s main area of research is Anglo-Saxon England and she is
particularly interested in manuscript studies, and intellectual and
religious history. Her dissertation “Reconstructing a deconstructed
manuscript, community and culture: London BL Cotton Tiberius
A.iii”, presented a new methodology for the field of manuscript
studies in which a compilation manuscript was examined as a
contextual whole. This holistic approach allowed texts which would
ordinarily have been only examined by scholars in discrete fields
of study to be regarded in the proximity of their original context.
This method revealed a strong connection between the liturgy,
monastic rules, pastoral care texts, charms and prognostics of the
manuscript which had hitherto seemed to present a farrago. That
connection was the various facets of the job of the archbishop, for
whom, Cooper argues, this manuscript was compiled.
Cooper has published several scholarly articles in journals such
as Anglo-Norman Studies, the Haskins Society Journal and Notes and
Queries. She is currently in the process of revising her
dissertation for publication. Cooper has also given numerous papers
on her research interests at international conferences, including,
the International Medieval Conference, Leeds, UK (2003, 2006); the
International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI (2002, 2003, 2006);
the Haskins Society Conference (1998, 2003, 2005) and the Battle
Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies, Battle, UK in 2005.