Tracey Billado-Lotson earned her A.B. in history from Smith College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in European history from Emory University. Her teaching interests range widely within the fields of pre-modern European and Mediterranean history, including conflict, law, violence, persecution, noble culture, unfreedoms, crusading, art and material culture, historiography, Saga Iceland, and classical reception and medievalism. Her research focuses on dispute-processing and violence in France during the central Middle Ages and has received support from the Newberry Library, the American Historical Association, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She also has an interest in paleography, codicology, and archival studies which she developed as a graduate exchange student at the École Nationale des Chartes (Sorbonne) in Paris. Her current project examines political, social, and legal relationships among lay lords, ecclesiastical lords, and peasants in eleventh-century western France. Two pieces of this research are forthcoming in 2024: a study of feuds waged by monks and nuns against their enemies, and a study of peasants who fought against claims that they were serfs.