Ph.D. student, Medieval Europe
Late Medieval England, Women’s and Gender History, Digital Public History
baileymb@cua.edu
MikkaelaBailey.com
Bluesky: @mikkaelabailey.bsky.social
B.A., History, Southern Wesleyan University, 2017
M.A., History, Clemson University, 2019
Dissertation title: "Belongings and Belonging in Medieval East Anglia: Guild, Parish, and Society, 1350-1530 "
Dissertation director: Dr. L.R. Poos
My current research involves the guild and rural communities. How people came together, what they did to belong, and what belonging to a group like this looked like in medieval England offers more insight to a very important part of many people's lives. Guilds were popular, widespread, and a big part of both the parish and larger community. Gaining more insight into how people networked and why they might have privileged some micro-communities over others reveals priorities and sentiments beyond the the more obvious practicalities and needs filled by organizations like guilds.
Before coming to Catholic University, I earned a Bachelor of Arts in History at Southern Wesleyan University where I completed an Honors Thesis on medieval constitutional history with the support of SCICU grant funding. I also earned a Master of Arts at Clemson University, where I was awarded the Vallmore-Forgett Fellowship in 2018. My thesis was entitled “Relict: Widows and Their Expressions Of Agency Through Personal Piety and Religious Devotion in Fifteenth-Century England.”
Publications
Caroline Dunn and Mikkaela Bailey. “Visualizing Elizabeth of York's Ladies-in-Waiting,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 51, 2 (2025): 104-132, 
https://doi.org/10.3167/hrrh.
Highlights
Cicely Angleton Graduate Fellowship in Medieval History, The Catholic University of America, 2019-
Vallmore-Forgett Fellowship for language study, 2018
South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities research travel grant, 2016