Rothman Chair

Bonnie Effros, professor of history, is the Rothman Chair and Director of the Center of the Humanities and the Public Sphere. She took up this position in August 2009 after coming to the University of Florida from Binghamton University (State University of New York).

Recently Dr. Effros held a fellowship at the Institut für Mittelalterforschung of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. She has previously been a fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College (now the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study), and the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France.

She is the author of Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages (University of California Press 2003), Caring for Body and Soul: Burial and the Afterlife in the Merovingian World (Pennsylvania State University Press 2002), and Creating Community with Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul (Palgrave 2002).

Besides serving as an annual lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America, she is currently completing a book-length project entitled Uncovering the Germanic Past: Merovingian Archaeology in France, 1830-1914.