Dr. Kristi DiClemente

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History professor, medievalist, and textile artist who loves cozy mysteries and her dog.

A white woman with red hair and glasses smiling next to an open drawer within the drawer is a black and white picture of a very very large sheep that went viral a few years ago
A white drawer with a black and white embossed label that says "STAMPS 7 WASHI" in all caps.
A rectangle metal baking pan filled with white sand on a stovetop. There are white goose feathers sticking out of it. The caption reads: Quill Making in 3 parts, Heating up the quills.
Black text on white background reading: Fantasy Conclave: Pick 3 Edition How to Play: - Each player picks three Cardinals ranked A, B, and C - Each player picks a team name - Each player will submit a guess for the number of days it will take to choose a new pope - Picks must be locked before the conclave starts Scoring - If your A pick becomes pope, you win! - If no A picks hit, check B picks - If no B picks hit, check C picks - If no picks hit, the player with the closest number of days without going over wins There is an example of how it all works, but I think it's pretty self explanatory, so I'm leaving it out of the alt text Summary 3 picks. 1 days guess. 1 hilarious team name First correct pick wins, or closest days guess wins Good luck and may your cardinal ascend faster than a smoke signal!
Picture of a white, orange-haired woman with glasses with a ridiculous smile posing next to the Absolute Unit
A woman with red hair and a stupid smile taking a selfie next to a drawer containing 2 pictures of an enormous ram
A selfie of an orange-haired, white, middle-aged, woman in a maroon coat in front of the mappamundi
It is a medieval TO map with east facing up. It doesn't look recognizable as an accurate map, but you can see from the middle going straight to the bottom is awide dark patch that is the Mediterranean, with various rivers coming off of it. There are many landmarks and text.
Large oak tree with an owl sitting on a horizontal limb. Behind the tree is a brick academic building and a clear blue sky
Pile of Tudor blackwork kits with directions, images, and a stitched model
Bingo card for 2025 with the Bayeux Tapestry as a heading image. The 5x5 squares include a heart in the middle for the free space, various numbers between 1 and 24, with some numbers replaced with motifs of a book, silhouette of someone doing a split, hand heart,fountain pen, winding road, lace, and a fiddle.
Image of a box of Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cakes. The white ones with the red stripes and green sugar sprinkles
Cross stitched version of medieval marginalia image. A creature with the top half of a woman in a black wimple holding a distaff and spinning wool. The legs and butt of a chicken, and a giant face where her crotch should be. She's wearing a lively blue and coral dress
A christmas float with a giant open book standing in the back. The book has the lyrics to You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch painted on it. In front looks like a large, red sleigh filled with presents. The whole thing looks to be pulled by Max the dog and is covered in white Christmas lights
Picture of a scruffy brown terrier mutt with a black nose and perky ears. He is lying on his belly with his head up lookjng directly at the camera. He looks remarkably like the bat in the repost, in my humble opinion
Stitched image of a medieval nun picking penises off a tree
PowerPoint slide with Fabio on the left. His leather jacket is open, his gair is flowing, and his chest is gleaming. He's looking right at the camera. On the right it says "the hair, the chest, the legend! Fabio top 10 Romance novel covers
A 12 pound brown scruffy terrier with nervous eyes on a tile floor looking at the camera.
Email advertising the book, Puerto Rico: A National History by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo from Princeton University Press
Cover of Barbara Hanawalt's The Ties that Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England
A hoplite shield made of corrogated plastic and duct rape with a silhouette of a hoplite on it. There is additional information about the shield on it: "3 ft in diameter, 14-18 lbs", and "Used by ancient Greeks from ~7th to ~3rd centuries".
A gray-blue wall with 31 pieces of art semi-randomly hanging. Including a wooden Mississippi in the middle, 3 woven wall hangings, a sketch of a lobster, and various other things
Man (mid 20s) in a grey shirt and jeans looking very pleased with himself standing behind a homemade trebuchet in front of a brick college building
Picture of a scruffy brown terrier looking at the camera with his small dragon frenemy on the floor behind him
Small scruffy brown dog looking at the camera with a Darth Vader toy between his paws
Cover of Ann McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern
A map of New Jersey in the stule of Tolkien's maps of Middle Earth
Handspun yarn in the foreground with out of focus students spinning in the background
Cross stitched medieval-looking nun picking giant penises out of a green tree and putting them in a basket. The original image is from a medieval manuscript