Maryanne Kowaleski, FRHistS, is a medieval historian, author and scholar, who was Joseph Fitzpatrick S. J.
Distinguished Professor of History and Medieval Studies at Fordham University from 2005 until her retirement.
She then completed a Master of Arts degree in medieval studies at the University of Toronto in 1976, before completing the Medieval Studies Licentiate in 1978 at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies at Toronto, before spending the 1978–79 academic year as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom where should would conduct lectures and research.
She returned to the University of Toronto to carry out her doctoral studies; her PhD was awarded in 1982.
Kowaleski's first academic appointment came in 1982, when she joined the History Department at Fordham University as an assistant professor.