Dyan Elliott (born 1954) is a medievalist historian and scholar, whose focus of academic research is "gender, sexuality, spirituality, and the ongoing tensions between orthodoxy and religious dissent".
[1] Elliott is the Peter B. Ritzma professor of history at Northwestern University, where she teaches the Medieval period.
[2] Elliott was born in 1954 and was raised Anglican by a very religious mother, attending mass at least three times a week.
Dyan Elliott’s research about "gender, sexuality, spirituality" adds levels of evaluation and understanding regarding church history, and those who were affected negatively and positively by its hierarchy and authority figures.
[5] In addition to several academic books, Elliott has also written a historical novel, A Hole in the Heavens (2017).