About GMB

Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley (GMB or as we like to pronounce it, Gumbee) was launched in 1993 by graduate students committed to community. Anyone who studies the premodern understands that it is absolutely impossible to learn everything on your own. It is often in our intellectual exchanges with peers across disciplines that we learn the most. It is the goal of GMB to provide students an opportunity to expand their intellectual community past the formal restrictions of their own discipline and to build a dynamic social and intellectual network across the university campus. If you identify yourself as interested in the premodern in any capacity, you will be a crucial member to our community. We would love to meet you! Send us an email and come to our events. If you have ideas for programs, please send them to us, and we will do our best to make them happen.  And of course, if you’d like to get involved…we are always looking for more hands, minds, and hearts!

Your current Board: 

Peter Michelli 

Michelle Ripplinger

Mary Vitali