Dyan Elliott (born 1954) is a medievalist historian and scholar, whose focus of academic research is "gender, sexuality, spirituality, and the ongoing tensions between orthodoxy and religious dissent". Elliott is the Peter B. Ritzma professor of history at Northwestern University, where she teaches the Medieval period.  
Life.
Elliott was born in 1954 and was raised Anglican by a very religious mother, attending mass at least three times a week. Although she is no longer religious, she has credited her religious upbringing for sparking her interest in church history. 
She received her PhD from the University of Toronto in 1989. 
Dyan Elliott’s research about "gender, sexuality, spirituality" adds levels of evaluation and understanding regarding church history, and those who were affected negatively and positively by its hierarchy and authority figures. Her work has won her several prestigious awards and fellowships in her field. 
Elliott's 2020 book, "The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy", explores sexual abuse in the medieval church. In 2024, Elliott spoke on "sexual abuse by clergy in the Middle Ages" at the Pontifical Gregorian University's conference "The Memory of Power and Abuse of Power". 
In addition to several academic books, Elliott has also written a historical novel, "A Hole in the Heavens" (2017)"." 
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