Biography
My research currently centers on the sentimental practices and literature of the Teutonic Knights during the Middle Ages. Scholarship on the emotional turn and the Baltic Crusades frames my project. I am particularly interested in how medieval ideas about emotions could essentialize Baltic peoples and how the Teutonic Order’s chroniclers constructed emotional communities that incorporated both monastic and chivalric ideas.
Education
M.A., Marquette University
B.A., Macalester College
Field
- European History
- War in Society and Culture
MA Title
“‘The Intensity of Feeling’ of Teutonic Knights in the Kronike von Pruzinlant”
Working Dissertation Title
“Ardent Compulsion and Sweet Comfort: Emotions in the Baltic Crusading Chronicles of the Teutonic Order”
Selected Publications
- “The Christian-Democratic Medievalism of the Young German Order.” In Studies in Medievalism XXXV, edited by Karl Fugelso. Studies in Medievalism. Boydell & Brewer, 2026.
- Review of Risk, Emotions, and Hospitality in the Christianization of the Baltic Rim, 1000-1300, by Wojtek Jezierski. De Re Militari, May, 2023: https://deremilitari.org/2023/05/wojtek-jezierski-risk-emotions-and-hospitality-in-the-christianization-of-the-baltic-rim-1000-1300-reviewer-patrick-eickman/.
- Review of Medieval Authorship and Cultural Exchange in the Late Fifteenth Century: The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order, by Rombert Stapel. Crusades, Volume 21.
- Review of Emotions in a Crusading Context: 1095-1291, by Stephen Spencer. De Re Militari, December, 2020: https://deremilitari.org/2020/12/stephen-spencer-emotions-in-a-crusading-context-1095-1291-patrick-eickman/.
Selected Awards
- George L. Mosse Teaching Fellowship in European History, University of Wisconsin–Madison (2026-2027)
- One Year Grant for Doctoral Candidates, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. (2024-2025)
- Early Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin–Madison. (2024)
- Foreign Language and Area Studies Academic Year Fellowship, Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Program. (2022-2023)
Professional Affiliations
- Society for Military History
- Society for the Study of Medieval Emotions
- De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History
- Graduate Association of Medieval Studies
- War in Society and Culture Student Association
- Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
- The Medieval Academy of America
Course Taught as Instructor
Hist 229 Explorations in Transnational/Comparative History: A Soldier’s Military History