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Professor Gervers' scholarly interests include Medieval economic and social history (military orders, monasticism), textual criticism; textile history and historical ethnography, and the computer assisted analysis of medieval property exchange documents.  He is currently the Director of the DEEDS Project; and Co-director of the Central & Inner Asian Seminar (CIAS).  He is a recipient of research grants from the Killam Programme, the Connaught Fund, SSHRC, the CFH, the British Academy, the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies (Amman), and Collegium Budapest/Institute for Advanced Study. He has published The Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England Part I (1982), and Part II (1996), Conversion and Continuity: Indigenous Christian Communities in Islamic Lands, Eighth to Eighteenth Centuries (ed., 1990), The Second Crusade & the Cistercians (ed., 1992), Dating Undated Medieval Charters (ed., 2000).