Education
Fields of specialization and areas of interest:
Medieval Europe, 300-1450 (social and cultural); ecclesiastical and urban history of northern France and Flanders (eleventh and twelfth centuries); hagiography and the cult of saints; social and religious minorities, religious dissent, authority
University teaching experience
Associate Professor of History, Portland State University, Spring 2006 - present
Assistant Professor of History, Portland State University, Fall 1999 - Spring 2006
Lecturer, University of California-Santa Cruz, Fall 1998
Instructor, Stanford University, Fall 1995
Teaching Assistant, Stanford University, 1994-1995
Select grants, fellowships, and honors
- NEH Summer Institute participant (Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies), 2008
- Faculty Professional Development Grant, Portland State University, June 2008
- Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Ontario, 2004-2005
- Internationalization Grant Recipient, PSU, 2004
- John Eliot Allen Outstanding Teacher in History, 2003
- NEH Summer Stipend, June 2002
- Faculty Professional Development Grant, Portland State University, June 2001
- Honorable Mention, John Tracy Ellis Dissertation Prize, American Catholic Historical Association, December 1998
- Dissertation Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, January - June 1998
- Mellon Dissertation Fellow, Stanford University, 1997-1998
- Oakford Fellowship recipient, Stanford University, 1996-1997
- Centennial Teaching Award, Outstanding Teaching Assistant in History, Stanford University, 1995-1996
Selected conferences and formal presentations
Eighty-third Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Vancouver, BC, 3-5 April 2008
Paper title: "An Armenian Archbishop in Seditious Flanders: Imagining Sacred Landscapes in the Eleventh-Century vitae of St. Macarius of Antioch"
Forty-second International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 10-13 May 2007
Paper title: "Saints, Borders, and Ecclesiastical Reform: The Case of Cambrai"
Fifty-third Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Houston, TX, 15-17 March 2007
Paper title: "After Flodoard: Historiography and Archiepiscopal Identity in Eleventh- and Early Twelfth-Century Reims"
International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England, 10-13 July 2006
Paper title: "Archbishop Gervais of Reims: Politics, Papacy, and the Realities of Reform"
Spring Seminar, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 17 March 2005
Paper title: "Varieties of Episcopal Community in Northern France and Flanders, ca. 1100"
Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, San Francisco, 10-12 March 2005
Paper title: "Both Mary and Martha: Bishop Lietbertus of Cambrai and the Construction of Episcopal Sanctity in a Border Diocese"
Invited lecture, University of Puget Sound, 7 February 2005
Paper title: "Bishops, Church Reform, and the Construction of Episcopal Authority in Northern France around 1100"
Winter Seminar, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2 December 2004
Paper title: "Representing Episcopal Community in an Age of Reform"
International Medieval Congress, Leeds University, Leeds, England, 14-17 July 2003
Paper title: "Unheralded Saints: Creating an Apostolic Community in an Age of Ecclesiastical Reform"
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 8-11 May 2003
Paper title: "Models of Episcopal Authority and Conduct in the Hagiography of Soissons, ca. 1125-1150"
"City Limits: Urban Culture in the Middle Ages," Annual Conference of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, 1-2 March 2002
Paper title: "What Can Episcopal Hagiography and Gesta Tell Us About Urban Culture in Early Communal France, ca. 1100-1150?"
Medieval Academy of America, Arizona State University, 15-17 March 2001
Paper title: "Heresy, Devotion, and Authority: The Lay-Episcopal Relationship in Le Mans"UCLA Medieval History Seminar, Huntingdom Library, 27 May 1999
Paper title: "Urban Space, Identity, and Episcopal Authority at Amiens, 1073-1164"Medieval Academy of America, Stanford University, 26-28 March 1998
Paper title: "Commune, Community, and Episcopal Authority: Amiens, c. 1075-1150"Center for Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Studies, Univ. of Miami, 20-21 February 1998
Paper title: "Matrices of Urban Identity in Medieval Flanders: Bruges, 1127-28"
Conference panels organized
13-16 July 2009: Sixteenth International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England:
7-10 May 2009: Forty-fourth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI: "Codex, Church, and Charter: Bishops as Patrons in the Middle Ages"; "Pastors and Masters: Bishops and Education in the Middle Ages"; "War and the Bishop / The Bishop at War"
8-11 May 2008: Forty-third International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI: "Bishops as 'Builders'"
10-13 July 2006: Thirteenth International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England : "Medieval Episcopacy and Reform I and II" (with Diane J. Reilly, Hope School of Fine Arts, Indiana University)
31 March - 2 April 2005: Eightieth Annual Meeting, Medieval Academy of America, Miami Beach, Florida : "The Bishop Reformed: Conceptions of Episcopal Power and Office in the Central Middle Ages"
8-11 May 2003: Thirty-eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI : "Episcopal Hagiography and Historiography in the High Middle Ages"
Books
Editor, with Anna Trumbore Jones, The Bishop Reformed: Studies of Episcopal Power and Culture in the Central Middle Ages (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2007)
Reviews of the book: Sehepunkte 8:3 (2008) [Jürg Peltzer]; The Medieval Review (08.16.08) [Sarah Hamilton]
Articles and book chapters
With Anna Trumbore Jones, "Introduction: The Bishop Reformed," in The Bishop Reformed: Studies of Episcopal Power and Culture in the Central Middle Ages, ed. John S. Ott and Anna Trumbore Jones (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2007), 1-20
"'Both Mary and Martha': Bishop Lietbert of Cambrai and the Construction of Episcopal Sanctity in a Border Diocese around 1100," in The Bishop Reformed: Studies of Episcopal Power and Culture in the Central Middle Ages, ed. John S. Ott and Anna Trumbore Jones (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2007), 137-160
"Educating the Bishop: Models of Episcopal Authority and Conduct in the Hagiography of Early Twelfth-Century Soissons," in Teaching and Learning in Northern Europe, 1000-1200, ed. Sally N. Vaughn and Jay Rubenstein, Studies in the Early Middle Ages, vol. 8 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006), 217-253
Reviews of the book: Catholic Historical Review 93:4 (October 2007): 922-23 [Marcia Colish]; The Medieval Review (4.24.08) [Constant Mews]; Parergon 24:2 (2007): 224-26 [Clare Monagle]
"Writing Godfrey of Amiens: Guibert of Nogent and Nicholas of Saint-Crépin between Sanctity, Ideology, and Society," Mediaeval Studies: an Annual Journal of Scholarship 67 (2005): 317-65
"Authority, Heresy, and Popular Devotion: Le Mans (1116) Reconsidered," in Varieties of Devotion in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Susan Karant-Nunn, Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, vol. 7 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003), 99-124
"Urban Space, Memory, and Episcopal Authority: The Bishops of Amiens in Peace and Conflict, 1073-1164," Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 31 (2000): 43-77
Co-Winner, 2002 Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize, Medieval Academy of America, Best First Article in Medieval Studies (2000)
Encyclopedia articles
Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert E. Bjork (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), s.v. "Cambrai," "Guillaume of Rheims, cardinal of Champagne," "Guy of Bazoches (d. 1203)," "Laon," "Le Mans," "Odo of Tournai," "Prémontré," "Rheims," "Soissons," "Valenciennes"
"Amiens, bishops of, 11th-12th c.," in International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages-Online. A Supplement to LexMA-Online. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2006, in Brepolis Medieval Encyclopaedias <http://www.brepolis.net/bme>
Book Reviews
Review of Erik van Mingroot, ed., Les chartes de Gérard Ier, Liébert et Gérard II, évêques de Cambrai et d'Arras, comtes du Cambrésis (1012-1092/93), forthcoming for The Medieval Review
Review of Werner Verbeke, et al., eds., Medieval Narrative Sources. A Gateway into the Medieval Mind (Louvain: Louvain University Press, 2005), in The Medieval Review, 6 February 2007
Review of Heather J. Tanner, Families, Friends and Allies. Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England, c. 879-1160 (Leiden: Brill, 2004), Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 81:2 (April 2006), 613-15
Review of Eva Elm, Die Macht der Weisheit. Das Bild des Bischofs in der Vita Augustini des Possidius und anderen spätantiken und frühmittelalterlichen Bischofsviten (Leiden: Brill, 2003), in The Medieval Review, 3 December 2004
Review of H. E. J. Cowdrey, trans., The Correspondence of Pope Gregory VII, 1073-1085 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), in Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies 79:4 (October 2004), 1059-1062
Review of Sharon Farmer, Surviving Poverty in Medieval France: Gender, Ideology and the Daily Lives of the Poor (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002), H-France Book Reviews, October 2002
Review of Karl Heinrich Krüger, Studien zur Corveyer Gründungsüberlieferung, Abhandlungen zur Corveyer Geschichtsschreibung, Band 9 (Aschendorff-Münster, 2001), in Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies 78:3 (July 2003), 930-31
Work in Progress and unpublished papers
"Imagining Episcopal Community in an Age of Reform: The Archdiocese of Reims, ca. 1050-1150" (70 pp. essay written in partial fulfillment of Licentiate in Mediaeval Studies [2007])
"Archbishop Gervais of Reims (1055-1067): Politics, Papacy, and the Realities of Reform" (journal article currently being reworked for publication)
Guardians Upon Jerusalem's Walls: Bishops, Authority, and Community in Northern France, 1050-1150 (Book manuscript currently being reworked for solicitation of publication)
General Publications
The Tacoma Public Utilities Story: The First 100 Years, 1893-1993 (Tacoma, Washington, 1993), with Dick Malloy
1994 Totem Award, Public Relations Society of America, Puget Sound Region
First Prize, 1994 Special Publications, Utility Communicators International
The Story of the Tacoma Municipal Belt Line Railway (Tacoma, Washington, 1996)
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