Barbara Ann Hanawalt (born 4 March 1941) is an American historian and bestselling author. She specializes in English medieval social history.

Life

She was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Her father was a university professor and her mother was a schoolteacher.^{[citation needed]}

Career

She received her bachelor's degree from Douglass College in 1963, a master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1964, and a Ph.D., also from the University of Michigan, in 1970.^{[citation needed]}

She taught for a number of years at Indiana University and the University of Minnesota. She finally arrived at the Ohio State University as the King George III Chair of British History in 1999.^[1]

Awards

She was named fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and the Center for Advanced Studies at Princeton University.^{[citation needed]}