Marirose Osborne

Marirose Osborne is a current Ph.D. candidate at the University of Notre Dame. She completed a master's degree with full funding in medieval history at the Catholic University of America in 2024. She also served as a teaching assistant, a secondary department representative in the graduate student government, and worked as an Editorial Assistant for The Catholic Historical Review, a journal from the Catholic University of America Press.

 

At Notre Dame, Marirose has continued to develop and refine her research on the later Middle Ages. She currently has an article forthcoming in the Journal of Medieval History on politics and representation in medieval Naples. Her current dissertation project examines the political and personal relationships between noblewomen and holy women in medieval France and Naples. She is interested in questions of governance, gender, queenship, religion, and politics and their impact on medieval life. Marirose has most recently been admitted to participate in a co-tutelle program with the Université Paris-Saclay and will spend the 2026-27 academic year carrying-out archival research in France.