Steven Justice is a scholar of medieval literature and thought and the Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Since his Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381 won the MLA Prize for a First Book in 1995, Dr Justice has authored many articles and monographs in a career at Berkeley that now spans more than thirty years. His work sits at the crossroads of literature, history, and philosophy. With works such as “Did the Middle Ages Believe in Their Miracles” Justice became a prominent voice in the ongoing debate surrounding historicism in the humanities. Dr Justice has held the Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship, and been chosen as a University of California President’s Research Fellow in the Humanities, a Council of the Humanities Fellow at Princeton, and has earned fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Huntington Library. He was formerly Senior Fellow at the Witherspoon Institute, which aligned with his commitment to illuminating the role of social ethics and religion in modern society.