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 Stipend, April 2011 (taken 2012)
- Faculty Professional Development Grant, Portland State University, June 2011
- John Eliot Allen Outstanding Teacher in History (PSU), 2010, 2003
- 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
- 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 (1999-2011)
Eighty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, ACMRS, Scottsdale, AZ, 14-16 April 2011
Paper title: "Archbishop Manasses I of Rheims, Rome, and the Recovery of the True Cross"
Hagiotheca International Hagiography Conference, Porec, Croatia, 27-29 May 2010
Paper title: "Episcopal Sanctity in the Archdiocese of Reims, 1050-1150"
Forty-fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 13-16 May 2010
Paper title: "Band of Brothers: Episcopal Solidarities and the Limits of Papal Intervention in Northern France around 1100"
Eighth Annual Marco Symposium on "The Building Blocks of France," University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 26-27 March 2010
Paper title: "'Reims and Rome are Equals': Considerations on a Structural Failure"
UC Medieval History Seminar, Huntington Library, 27 February 2010
Paper title: "Becoming Bishop: Clerical Culture and Episcopal Formation in the Archdiocese of Reims around 1100"
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, Huntington Library, 27 May 1999
Paper title: "Urban Space, Identity, and Episcopal Authority at Amiens, 1073-1164"
Conference panels organized
10-13 May 2012: Forty-seventh International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI: "Men of the Cloth: Vestments and the Performance of Episcopal Power" (Co-sponsored by DISTAFF, with Maureen Miller); "Re-thinking Reform: Bishops, Issues, Texts" (Co-sponsored with ICMAC/International Society of Medieval Canon Law and Maureen Miller); "Monks against Bishops? Reconsidering Episcopal-Monastic Relationships"
12-15 May 2011: Forty-sixth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI: "The Bishop at Work: Tasks, Trials, and Transformations of Diocesan Administration" (Co-sponsored with ICMAC/International Society of Medieval Canon Law); "From Regulars to Seculars: The Monk-Bishop in the Middle Ages"
13-16 May 2010: Forty-fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI: "Bishops and the Papacy, 900-1100"; "Bishops and their Men"; "Bishops and their Men (and Women)"
13-16 July 2009: Sixteenth International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England: "Episcopal Historiography and Memory between Orthodoxy and Heresy"
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
Bishops, Authority and Community in Northwestern Europe, c.1050-1150 (under contract with academic press)
Editor, with Trpimir Vedriš, Saintly Bishops and Bishops' Saints. Proceedings of the 2010 Hagiotheca Conference, Poreč, Croatia (forthcoming, 2012/2013)
Editor, with Anna Trumbore Jones, The Bishop Reformed: Studies of Episcopal Power and Culture in the Central Middle Ages (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2007)
Reviews and summaries of the book: Sehepunkte 8:3 (2008) [Jürg Peltzer]; The Medieval Review (08.16.08) [Sarah Hamilton]; Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 64:1 (2008): 263-65 [Gerhard Schmitz]; Early Medieval Europe 17 (2009): 359-60 [Scott Bruce]; Journal of Ecclesiastical History 60:3 (July 2009): 584-85 [Uta-Renate Blumenthal]; Francia 2009/2 [Stefan Burkhardt]; Parergon 27:1 (2010): 235-37 [Marcus Harmes]; Kyrkohistorisk Årsskrift 110 (2010): 212-214 [Anna Minara Ciardi].
Articles and book chapters
"'Reims and Rome are Equals': Archbishop Manasses I (c. 1069-1080), Gregory VII, and the End of Historical Exceptionalism," in Envisioning the Medieval Bishop, ed. Sigrid Danielson and Evan A. Gatti (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming)
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
Reviews of the book: Parergon 21:2 (2004): 199-202 [Mary Scrafton]
"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, 2010), 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 Ludger Körntgen and Domink Wassenhoven, eds., Patterns of Episcopal Power. Bishops in Tenth and Eleventh Century Europe / Strukturen bischöflicher Herrschaftsgewalt im weslichen Europa des 10. und 11. Jahrhunderts (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011), to appear in The Catholic Historical Review
Review of Detlev Jasper, ed., Die Konzilien Deutschlands und Reichsitaliens, 1023-1059, Monumenta Germaniae Historica Concilia, vol. 8 (Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2010), in The Catholic Historical Review 98:1 (2012), 95-96
Review of Karin Fuchs, Zeichen und Wunder bei Guibert de Nogent. Kommunikation, Deutungen und Funktionalisierungen von Wundererzählungen im 12. Jahrhundert (Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 2008), in Francia-Recensio 2011/1 (Mittelalter - Moyen Age)
Review of Bruce C. Brasington and Kathleen G. Cushing, eds., Bishops, Texts and the Use of Canon Law around 1100. Essay in Honour of Martin Brett (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2008), in The Medieval Review, 9 June 2010
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), in The Medieval Review, 3 December 2008
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 Register 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 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
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
Work in Progress and unpublished papers
"Imagining Episcopal Community in an Age of Reform: The Archdiocese of Reims, ca. 1050-1150" (Unpublished essay for L.M.S, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2007)
General/Public History 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