Steven A. Schoenig, S.J., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of History
Associate Director
Courses Taught
Origins of the Modern World to 1500; The Middle Ages to 1100; Medieval Popes and Papacy; Death, the Afterlife, and the End of the World in Medieval Life and Thought; Topics in Medieval Canon Law; The Carolingian and Ottonian Worlds; Reform and Revolution in the Central Middle Ages; Religious Life in the Middle Ages; The Papacy and the Law, The Medieval World
Education
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2009
M.Phil., Columbia University, 2004
M.Div, Weston Jesuit School of Theology, 2001
M.A., Fordham University, 1999
Research Interests
- Medieval religious and cultural history
- Papacy
- Councils
- Canon law
- Liturgy
- Monasticism
- Saints
- Medieval Latin
- Manuscripts
Publications and Media Placements
Bonds of Wool: The Pallium and Papal Power in the Middle Ages. Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law 15. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic
University of America Press, 2016
"The Livery of Loyalty: Innocent II and the Pallium." In Pope Innocent II (1130-43): The World vs. the City, edited by John Doran and Damian J. Smith, 311-325. Church, Faith and Culture in the
Medieval West. London: Routledge, 2016
"The Palliated Suffragan." In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, edited by Joseph Goering, Stephan Dusil, and Andreas Thier, 837-848. Monumenta Iuris
Canonici, ser. C: Subsidia, 15. Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2016
“Withholding the Pallium as a Tool of the Reform.” In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, edited by Peter Erdö and Sz. Anzelm Szuromi, 577-588. Monumenta Iuris Canonici, ser.
C: Subsidia, 14. Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2010.
Honors and Awards
- Mellon Faculty Development Award, 2016 Mellon Faculty Development Award, 2015
- Alpha Sigma Nu (honor society of Jesuit colleges and universities)
- Eta Sigma Phi (honorary society for classical studies)
- Brebner Travel Award, Columbia University, 2008
- Richard Hofstadter Fellowship, Columbia University, 2002-2005
- Joseph F. O'Callaghan Prize in Medieval Studies, Fordham University, 1997-1998
- Outstanding Student of New Testament Greek, American Bible Society, 1991
Professional Organizations and Associations
- American Catholic Historical Association
- American Historical Association
- EPISCOPUS (Society for the Study of Episcopal Power and Culture in the Middle Ages)
- Iuris Canonici Medii Aevi Consociatio (International Society of Medieval Canon Law)
- Medieval Academy of America
Community Work and Service
- Jesuit priest
- Rector, Bellarmine House of Studies