Dr. Courtney Luckhardt is an early medieval social and cultural historian at the University of Southern Mississippi, with a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the University of Notre Dame. Her first book, The Charisma of Distant Places, explored migration through an examination of religious movement to reveal the diversity of religious travel. My current research uses Digital Humanities tools, including virtual reality, to recover the histories of early medieval migrants and diverse communities in 9th century Spain to understand ideas about power, economics, identity, and mobility during the transformation of the Roman world in the global Middle Ages.
