Prof. Gabriele’s research and teaching have been featured locally, nationally, & internationally.
He’s written for Smithsonian Magazine, Forbes, The Washington Post, Time, Slate, Religion News Service, Religion Dispatches, and The Daily Beast, among others.
In addition, he’s provided expert analysis for venues such as The NY Times, Die Zeit, The Guardian, Slate, The New Republic, CNN, NPR, the History Channel, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, among others.
He hosted, from 2020-23, the popular webcast Drinking with Historians, and he now hosts the podcast American Medieval with Multitude Productions.
Please feel free to get in touch.
Public Writing
Prof. Gabriele’s scholarship has appeared in numerous venues.
From June 2021 until December 2021, he was a columnist (with Davd M. Perry) for Smithsonian Magazine. Clips:
“In St. Louis, History and Nostalgia Battle it Out,” July 2020.
“A New History Changes the Balance of Power Between Ethiopia and Medieval Europe,” June 2021.
“What the Medieval Olympics Looked Like,” July 2021.
“The ‘Green Knight’ Adopts a Medieval Approach to ‘Modern’ Problems,” August 2021.
“Vinland Map of North America Identified as 20th-century Forgery,” September 2021.
“Why Dragons Dominated the Landscape of Medieval Monsters,” October 2021.
“The Many Myths of the Term ‘Crusader,’” November 2021.
“Did the Vikings Actually Torture Victims With the Brutal ‘Blood Eagle’?” December 2021.
“The History behind Robert Eggers’ The Northman,” April 2022.
“How a Tale of Demonic Possession Predicted the Decline of an Early Medieval Empire,” December 2024.
In 2018-19, he was a regular contributor to Forbes.com. Clips:
“The Surprising Finds at King Arthur’s Legendary Castle,” Forbes.com, June 2018.
“Why the History of Medieval Studies Haunts How We Study the Past,” Forbes.com, July 2018.
“How Massive Drought Killed the Classic Maya Civilization (& Why We Already Knew That),” Forbes.com, August 2018.
“Why We Should See the Middle Ages in All its ‘Garish’ Colors,” Forbes.com, September 2018.
“There were no Borders in the Middle Ages,” Forbes.com, November 2018.
“What you didn’t know about children in the Middle Ages,” Forbes.com, January 2019.
He has also written for The Washington Post, Time, The Daily Beast, Religion News Service, the American Historical Association’s Perspectives, and The Roanoke Times. Clips:
“Five Myths of the Middle Ages,” The Washington Post, September 2016
“What Eco could teach us about Trump and Twitter, The Roanoke Times, January 2017.
“Islamophobes want to recreate the Crusades. But they don’t understand them at all,” The Washington Post, June 2017.
“Want to know how ‘The Last Jedi’ will end? Check your Bible,” The Washington Post, December 2017.
“Trump’s Recognition of Jerusalem excites apocalyptic fervor,” Religion News Service, December 2017.
“After Charlottesville: Historians Tackle White Supremacist Nostalgia for an Imagined Past,” AHA Perspectives, January 2019.
“Trump says medieval walls worked. They didn’t,” The Washington Post, January 2019.
“Steve King says he was just defending ‘Western Civilization.’ That’s racist too,” (with David M. Perry) The Washington Post, January 2019.
“Fire was the scourge of medieval cathedrals. But they rebuilt from the ashes,” The Washington Post, April 2019.
“Donald Trump Jr.’s rifle shows how obsessed the right still is with the Crusades,” (with David M. Perry) The Washington Post, January 2020.
“Christian Groups That Resist Public-Health Guidelines Are Forgetting a Key Part of the Religion’s History,” Time, April 2020.
“History Will Judge Trump But We’ve Got To Do It First,” (with David M. Perry) The Daily Beast, December 2020.
“Vikings, Crusaders, Confederates: Misunderstood Historical Imagery at the January 6 Capitol Insurrection,” Perspectives Daily, January 2021.
“How bad analogies undermine our understanding of history,” (with David M. Perry) The Washington Post, May 2021.
“On Guillotines, Monarchy, and the American Right,” June 2021.
“Latest Diatribe on Francis and Latin Mass in the Times Launders History,” Religion Dispatches, August 2021.
“Ted Lasso is not about what you think,” (with David M. Perry), CNN, October 2021.
“The Deus Vult Cross,” Uncivil Religion: January 6, 2021 (collaboration with the University of Alabama and the Smithsonian Museum of American History)
“There’s a new villain on ‘Ted Lasso,” CNN, March 2023.
“Student protests are what created the modern university as we know it,” CNN, April 2024
“Why this Florida school literally threw LGBTQ-friendly books into a dumpster,” MSNBC, August 2024
“Elon Musk didn’t just misunderstand an iconic medieval quote. He’s missing a much bigger lesson from history,” The Toronto Star, December 2024.
“The New Middle Ages: What castlecore and romantasy are doing with medievalism.” Slate, February 2025.
Selected Interviews
Interviews with Prof. Gabriele have appeared locally, nationally, and internationally. See also his podcast.
Please get in touch if you’d like to speak with him.
Selected National/ International Interviews
Listen to him talking with WBEZ about a far right medieval symbol at Northwestern University.
(in French) Read him talking about white supremacy and Republican uses of the “Crusades” and “knights” in Politis.
(in Danish) Read him talk about American political uses of “crusade” imagery in Politiken.
(in German) Read him talk about Crusade imagery among the American political Right in Die Zeit.
Read him talk about Christian Nationalism and the “Jerusalem Cross” in the American Military with The Intercept, and then again with Task & Purpose.
Watch him talk about Christian Nationalism on “How is this Better?” with Akilah Hughes
Read him talking about #RaptureTok in The Guardian
Read him discuss how far right veterans are working for the Trump administration in Gaza in The Intercept.
Listen to him talk about Charlemagne and early medieval history with BBC History Magazine.
Read him talk about Pete Hegseth’s vision of the Crusades in The NY Times.
Read him discuss the far right’s nostalgia for the Crusades in The Guardian, related to Pete Hegseth.
Listen to him on NPR’s With Good Reason talking about medieval views on “the end of the world.”
Watch him on The History Channel’s History’s Greatest Mysteries discuss the Knights Templar.
Read him talking with The Washington Post about white supremacy and Catholicism.
Watch him play the video game Crusader Kings 3 and talk medieval history with the game’s developers.
Listen on NPR’s 1A as he talks about the Middle Ages and modern appropriations of the period.
Watch him discuss the cathedral of Notre Dame and its 2019 fire for National Geographic.
Read Prof. Gabriele talk about the medieval imagery in National Geographic on the January 6 sedition at the US Capitol. On a similar topic in Teen Vogue.
Watch Prof. Gabriele discuss hate groups and medieval symbols on WESH-2 (Orlando)
Read Prof. Gabriele in NBC News on the role of parents in how students choose their majors at college.
Listen to Prof. Gabriele talk about the last season of Game of Thrones with KCBS (San Francisco).
Listen to Prof. Gabriele’s interview on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation about “Fact Checking the Middle Ages.”
Listen to Prof. Gabriele’s interview on NPR’s With Good Reason on Game of Thrones (starts at about 13:23).
Selected Local Interviews
Listen to Prof. Gabriele’s interview on WVTF/ Radio IQ about the role of women and the Middle Ages on Game of Thrones.
See Prof. Gabriele talk about the medieval storytelling at work in Star Wars.
Listen to Prof. Gabriele on WVTF/ Radio IQ on Trump’s proposed border wall and whether or not it’s “medieval.”