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Portrait of Mark Tizzoni

Mark L. Tizzoni

Granted tenure and promotion to associate professor of classical and medieval studies and history.

Tizzoni earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in medieval studies at the University of Leeds, specializing in late antique and medieval studies. Tizzoni’s teaching focuses on the history of a broader, more globally-defined Middle Ages that centers Africa in wider Mediterranean and Afro-Eurasian worlds. His course offerings consider the Mediterranean world broadly, but give particular attention to the Maghreb, the Horn of Africa, West Africa, and the Iberian peninsula.

Tizzoni’s research focuses on the transformation of the Roman world in the fifth through seventh centuries C.E. He is particularly interested in questions of identity, social cohesion, and how cultural production can be used to help understand and navigate times of drastic social change (such as those witnessed in the aftermath of the Roman Empire in North Africa). As an interdisciplinary cultural historian, Tizzoni employs late antique Latin poetry to engage with these questions, focusing on the collections that have survived from sixth-century North Africa and seventh-century Iberia. He is currently writing an open-access book with Kısmet Press entitled The Maghreb in Late Antiquity.

Before coming to Bates in 2020, he taught pre-modern African, Iberian, and United States history at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, and worked as a professional horticulturalist in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

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    Isidore of Seville’s early influence and dissemination (636–711)

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    Christian Communities and Religious Movements in Roman Africa

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    Seeking Female Experience in the Verse of Vandal-Era Carthage

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