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Jo Ann Moran Cruz is an associate professor in the Department of History at Georgetown University, having served as dean of humanities and natural sciences at Loyola University, New Orleans from 2008 to 2012. Her primary scholarly work has been in the field of late medieval education and literacy. Moran Cruz is the co-founder and former director of the Medieval Studies program at Georgetown, where she also directed the International Initiatives office and worked to establish the Catholic Studies program. She has also taught a class supported through the Berkley Center's Doyle Seminars project. Her publications include, among others, Medieval Worlds: An Introduction to European History, 300-1492 (2004, with Richard Gerberding) and The Growth of English Schooling 1340-1548: Learning, Literacy and Laicization in pre-Reformation York Diocese (1985); she is also working on book manuscripts on religion and the state in the Islamic and Christian worlds and on the marital tribulations of an Elizabethan family. Moran Cruz holds a B.A. from Radcliffe College, Harvard University and M.A. and Ph.D. from Brandeis University.