Samantha Slaubaugh is a liturgical scholar with a Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame, where she focused on medieval liturgy. After completing a year as a postdoctoral teaching scholar at Notre Dame, she was a postdoctoral associate at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, where she researched for her first book and taught at the Yale Divinity School. Her research interests include medieval women and their liturgical lives, Christian mysticism, and medieval Franciscans. Her dissertation, "Liturgy and Ecstasy among the Beguines of Roubaud: Douceline of Digne's Vida as Liturgical Commentary and Customary," explores how the hagiographic text for Douceline of Digne (d. 1274) utilized narratives of her ecstatic raptures as a liturgical gloss and model for the community. In additional to medieval liturgy, Slaubaugh is interested in contemporary liturgical issues of performance and participation, such as children’s participation in the church’s worship.
