Dr.Joyce Salisbury, Professor Emerita from the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, has a PhD in Medieval History from Rutgers University in New Jersey. She is an author of more than ten books, including a best-selling western civilization textbook, The West in the World, and other non-fiction books on history and religion. Some noteworthy books are The Blood of Martyrs: Unintended Consequences of Ancient Violence and the award-winning Perpetua’s Passion: Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman, and The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages, that explores the moment when people in the West decided they were indeed animals. Salisbury is also a lecturer for “Great Courses,” that produces educational DVDs. Her course “History of Spain: Land on a Crossroad” is a best seller. Her most recent work: "The Middle Ages Around the World" received a Gold Telly Award for excellence.

Salisbury has a new book "First Christian Communities 30 - 380 CE" with Routledge Press.

Salisbury was an award-winning teacher for over 25 years, even receiving the prestigious CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education) Professor of the Year award. Professor Salisbury has done many radio shows and television interviews on her academic subjects, and since retiring in 2005, she has been teaching and lecturing around the world. Salisbury has taught on Semester at Sea three times, teaching courses in religion and medieval history while circumnavigating the globe.

Location-specific lectures on ancient and medieval history throughout the Mediterranean, northern Europe, and the Caribbean including such topics as:

- Pirates of the Caribbean
- The Peculiar Culture of Islands
- Christopher Columbus
-The World Transformed by Columbian Exchange
= Glory of Ancient Greece
- Greeks Become Cosmopolitan
- History of Mediterranean Islands
- History of Spain -- and various regions
- Road to Santiago
- Islam: the Religion and its Spread
- Origins of Christian Churches: From early Christianity through the Baroque
- History of Italy and its various regions
- Normans in England and the Continent

These are only a few of many I am prepared to give. I always use Powerpoint with lots of art and I speak with no notes.

For 10 years I have given Cruise Enrichment lectures. Most of my time has been on Voyages to Antiquity, but I have also lectured on Noble Caledonia, Celebrity, and Norwegian.

The following recent Cruise History has been recorded for this candidate.