Alex J. Novikoff teaches medieval history at Kenyon College in Ohio and Franklin University Switzerland. He is a recipient of the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain and has previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Rhodes College, Fordham University, and the Juilliard School of Music. He is also the editor of The Twelfth-Century Renaissance: A Reader (Toronto, 2017).