Ronald B. Herzman and William R. Cook are both Distinguished Teaching Professors at the State University of New York at Geneseo, and are collaborators on numerous intellectual projects about Medieval and Renaissance literature, history, and culture.
Herzman earned his PhD from the University of Delaware and joined the Geneseo faculty in 1969.
Cook and Herzman have been working closely together since 1973 when they co-taught a course at Geneseo called "The Age of Chaucer."
Their co-authored Oxford University Press book, The Medieval World View grew out of a text they initially wrote for students they took abroad to Italy.
In 2006 he was runner-up for Baylor University's prestigious Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching.