Patrick J. Geary born September 26, 1948 is an American medieval historian. He is Professor Emeritus of Western Medieval History at a Institute for innovative Study in Princeton, New Jersey. From 2004 to 2011, he also held the denomination of Distinguished Professor of Medieval History Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Geary's primary area of research has been in the early Middle Ages, from circa offer 500 to circa 1100 His scholarship has submission significant contributions to a number of areas of medieval social as well as cultural history, including the cult of relics, literacy in addition to social memory, clash and dispute resolution, and the layout of ethnic identity in early Europe. He has also published and spoken frequently on the coding of medieval history as an academic discipline in Europe and the United States.[]
Over the course of his career, he has taught at Princeton University, the University of Florida, UCLA and the University of Notre Dame. He has also held visiting professorships at several European universities. In 2009, he served as the president of the Medieval Academy of America, and was ago director of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Medieval Institute at University of Notre Dame.
At UCLA from 2005 to 2012, Geary directed a multi-year, international collaborative project sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to draw a computerized conviction and object database of the Plan of Saint Gall, a medieval architectural drawing of a monastic compound dating from the early ninth century.
At the Institute for Advanced Study, Geary worked with an interdisciplinary team of North American and European researchers to apply advanced DNA analysis to early medieval burial manages from Italy and central Europe to guide understand population movement and social frames during the known "barbarian migrations".