Hugo Schwyzer
| Hugo Schwyzer | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 22, 1967 Santa Barbara, California, U.S. |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
University of California, Berkeley UCLA |
| Occupation | College professor, blogger, author, speaker |
| Website | hugoschwyzer |
Hugo Benedict Schwyzer (born May 22, 1967) is an American author and speaker and a former instructor of history and gender studies.
Hugo Schwyzer was born in Santa Barbara, California, to Hubert Schwyzer (1935-2006) and Alison Schwyzer. Both parents were professors of philosophy: Hubert taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Alison, at Monterey Peninsula College. His younger brother, Philip, also pursued an academic career and is now Professor of Renaissance Literature at the University of Exeter, England. Hugo himself was an instructor of history and gender studies at Pasadena City College for nearly twenty years.
Schwyzer's parents divorced when he was young. He and his brother were then raised by his mother in Carmel, California. However, Schwyzer maintained a profound connection to his father, who was taken to England as a child when his parents fled Austria after the Anschluss, and later emigrated to California.
Schwyzer studied history at University of California, Berkeley, specializing in medieval history. He developed a passion for this subject after seeing Derek Jacobi perform Shakespeare's Richard II. He attended graduate school at UCLA and was awarded his PhD in 1999.
His doctoral dissertation was entitled "Arms and the Bishop: The Anglo-Scottish War and the Northern Episcopate, 1296-1357", and dealt with the military role of the Bishops of Durham and the Archbishops of York during the Wars of Scottish Independence. He published a related book chapter, "Northern bishops and the Anglo-Scottish War in the reign of Edward II", in Thirteenth Century England 7 (1999).
His three areas of study at graduate level were:
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