Bill Dohar is a medievalist who specializes in the history of Christianity and popular religion. He studied history and theology at the University of Notre Dame, earning master's degrees in both fields. He then went on to Toronto where he earned both a licentiate from the Pontifical Institute and a PhD from the University of Toronto in Medieval Studies. He spent two years at Oxford while researching his doctoral dissertation and there met Tom McCarthy. His two books before Dark Sonnet are The Black Death and Pastoral Leadership and, co-authored with John Shinners, Pastors and the Cure of Souls in Medieval England. Bill is a former Catholic priest who lives in San Francisco and teaches in the Religious Studies Department at Santa Clara University.
