Rate My Professor Matthew Champion

Champion's research centers on how time was made, perceived, and experienced from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries in medieval and early modern Europe, exploring its intersections with affective dispositions, political commitments, historical processes including temporal modernity, globalisation, racialisation, colonial practices, and mediality. He is Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award project 'The Sounds of Time,' which uses microhistory, global history, sound studies, and sensory approaches to investigate musical clocks and their melodies in ecclesiastical, political, and social contexts. He also contributes as Chief Investigator to the ARC Discovery Project 'Albrecht Dürer’s Material World,' analyzing materiality and time-measuring devices in Dürer’s prints. Champion's monograph The Fullness of Time: Temporalities of the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries (University of Chicago Press, 2017) was awarded the 2018 Gladstone Prize by the Royal Historical Society. Other significant works include the chapter 'Pointing to a Deeper Now: Time, Sound, Touch, and the Devotional Present in Fifteenth-Century Northern Europe' (2022) and the co-authored article 'Musicalising History' with Miranda Stanyon in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. He has held fellowships at the Warburg Institute, Newberry Library, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, and Sugden Fellowship at Queen’s College, Melbourne.