Eleanor Janega

Eleanor Janega is an American broadcaster and medievalist. Her scholarship focuses on gender and sexuality; apocalyptic thought; propaganda; and the urban experience, in the late medieval period.

Biography Janega was raised in Tacoma, Washington. She gained her BA in history (with honours) from Loyola University Chicago, and holds an MA (with distinction) in Medieval Studies and a PhD in history from University College London. She completed her PhD in 2015, writing her doctoral thesis on the 14th-century Bohemian preacher Milíč of Kroměříž. Her thesis was supervised by Martyn Rady, and was titled Jan Milíč of Kroměříž and Emperor Charles IV: Preaching, Power, and the Church of Prague.

She is a guest teacher in the London School of Economics Department of International History,

Janega co-hosts the Going Medieval documentary strand on the History Hit streaming service. She also co-hosts the Gone Medieval podcast as well as the "We're Not So Different" podcast and has appeared as a talking head on radio and television.