Melodie Eichbauer

Background

About Melodie Eichbauer

As the Interim Director of Scholarly Innovation and Student Research, I work to advance FGCU’s culture of faculty-student research by offering scaffolded initiatives that begin from the moment students arrive on campus and continue through graduation. Course-embedded and faculty-mentored research experiences, research funding, on- and off-campus presentation opportunities, publication opportunities, and professionalization workshops engage students in scholarly inquiry as a high impact practice and mentors them on how to apply their research to future success in their career and/or graduate school. As a Professor of Medieval History, I specialize in legal and ecclesiastical history from to c.1500. My research interests focus on legal pluralism and the evolution of legal principles. I am particularly interested in the dissemination of legal knowledge; the interpretation of law; and the ways in which social, political, and intellectual developments and trends shaped both during the height of the medieval period. By examining the larger processes linking law to the world in which it functions, my hope is to show new ways of thinking about current issues.