Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran Cruz

Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran Cruz is an associate professor of history at Georgetown University and former chair of the department. She is the co-founder and former director of the Medieval Studies program at Georgetown. She has directed International Initiatives in the Provost's Office at Georgetown and has taught in Georgetown’s programs in Qatar, Italy, and Turkey. She served as Dean of Humanities and Natural Sciences at Loyola University, New Orleans from 2008-2012.

Her primary scholarly focus has been in the field of late medieval education and literacy, in which she wrote a prize-winning book, The Growth of English Schooling, 1340-1548 (1985). She is the co-author with Richard Gerberding of a 2003 textbook, Medieval Worlds: An Introduction to European History, 300-1492. She published "Dante, Purgatorio II and the Jubilee of Boniface VIII” in the journal Dante Studies.

Professor Moran Cruz is revising her often-cited lecture on "The Roman de la Rose and Thirteenth-century Prohibitions of Homosexuality" for publication and co-writing a book on Religion and the State in the Islamic and Christian Worlds. In 2019, she published An Account of an Elizabethan Family: The Willoughbys of Wollaton by Cassandra Willoughby (1670–1735).