Philip Daileader

Philip Daileader is a professor of history at The College of William & Mary in Virginia. He was born in Queens, New York, on October 25, 1968, and grew up in Central Islip, New York. He attended St. Anthony's High School in Smithtown and then South Huntington, New York. He received his B.A. (1990) in history from Johns Hopkins University and earned his M.A. (1991) and Ph.D. (1996) in history from Harvard University. Prior to taking his position at William & Mary, he taught at the University of Alabama and the State University of New York at New Paltz. From 2008 to 2011, he served as the chairman of the Department of History at William & Mary. He is seen in various "History Channel" videos, mostly dealing with the Middle Ages. Daileader has also created numerous courses for The Teaching Company on topics including the Middle Ages, Crusades, and Charlemagne.

As a graduate student, Daileader was a four-time winner of the "Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching." At William & Mary, he has held a University Professorship for Teaching Excellence and been awarded an Alumni Fellowship Award for Teaching and a Phi Beta Kappa Award for Excellence in Teaching (Alpha chapter of Virginia). In 2012, The Princeton Review named him one of the 300 best professors in America. Daileader also received the Thomas Ashley Graves Jr. Award for Sustained Teaching Excellence in 2016.

His book Saint Vincent Ferrier, His World and Life: Religion and Society in Late Medieval Europe won the La corónica International Book Award “for the best monograph published on Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures” in 2018.