Ken Mondschein is a scholar, teacher, and author with expertise in subjects ranging from medieval history to contemporary politics. He received his Ph.D in history at Fordham University, has also studied at SUNY Buffalo, Boston University, and Harvard, and was a Fulbright scholar to France. Though Ken's scholarly concentration is the Middle Ages and Renaissance, he has taught, lectured, and published on everything from contemporary sexual mores to medieval science to the political uses of the past.
Ken began writing professionally in his late teens. His work has appeared in the New York Press, various consumer magazines, as a columnist for Nerve.com and The Faster Times, and elsewhere. He also worked in New York for six years as an editor in both academic and trade publishing.
Driven to study swordsmanship by the same love of the past and desire to relate it to the present—and to teach others—that led him to become an academic, Ken is also internationally known as an authority on, and instructor of, historical methods of fencing. He primarily teaches at the Higgins Armory Museum in Worcester.
Born, raised, and having spent most of his professional life in New York City and also having lived in Buffalo, Boston, and Paris, Ken currently resides near Northampton, Massachusetts. He has made several radio and TV appearances in support of his work, and is available for consultation and interviews. Publishers may contact Ken through his literary agent, Scott Gould of RLR Associates. He may be contacted personally at <his first name> at <this URL>.