Dr. Sarah Luginbill is a Visiting Assistant Professor in History and the Humanities here at Trinity. She graduated from Trinity in 2014, majoring in History and double-minoring in Art History and Medieval & Renaissance Studies. While a student at Trinity, Dr. Luginbill undertook museum internships at the San Antonio Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and participated in an archaeological excavation of a Roman fort in northern England. She received her PhD in History at the University of Colorado Boulder in May 2021.
Dr. Luginbill is interested in the intersection of museums and objects, especially religious or spiritual items. She currently researches portable Mass kits used by Catholic chaplains in the U.S. military during World War I and II.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder
- M.A, University of Colorado at Boulder
- B.A., Trinity University
Selected Publications
- “Inscribing Devotion between the Medieval and the Modern.” The Genealogies of Modernity (July 2023).
- “Portable Mass Kits and American Catholics.” The Genealogies of Modernity (May 2022).
- “Spread the Love: Sharing Your Dissertation Research with the General Public through Websites.” The Medieval Academy of America Graduate Student Newsletter (July 2021).
- “Moving Altars from the Middle Ages to WWII.” The Genealogies of Modernity (Feb. 2021).
- “The Medieval Portable Altar Database.” Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief (Nov. 2020).doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2020.1843915.
Subjects Taught
- Early Modern Europe
- First-Year Experience
- Introduction to Gender Studies
- Medieval Europe
Honors & Awards
- 2023 Mellon Summer Research Undergraduate Fellowship (mentor)
- 2022-2023 Public Humanities Faculty Fellowship, Trinity University Humanities Collective
- 2020-2021 Rice Dissertation Fellowship, University of Colorado at Boulder Department of History