New York University, Department of History

Ph.D., September 1998

B.A., 1990

City University of New York Graduate Center, Diploma in Latin, 1989


Dissertation

Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe, 1100-1389: Interpreting the Case of Chartres Cathedral
Director: Penelope D. Johnson


Scholarships & Grants



Separately Budgeted Research Award (Montclair) - 2005

NEH Summer Institute for College Teachers: Anglo-Saxon England (at Cambridge University) - 2004

Global Education Grant (Montclair) - 2004 (Fall)

Summer Grant Proposal Development Award (Montclair) – 2004

Global Education Grant (Montclair) - 2004 (Spring)

Student Faculty Research Award (Montclair) - 2004

PSC-CUNY Research Award (BMCC, City University of New York) - 2003

Collegium Fellowship (Iona College) - 2001

Arts Council Grant: Conference on Eastern Catholic Churches (Iona College) - 2000

Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant (American Historical Association) - 2000

Faculty Travel and Research Summer Grant (Iona College) - 1999

Faculty Instructional Technology Initiative Grant (Iona College) - 1999

NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers/Andrew W. Mellon New Media Program: Gothic in the Ile-de-France – 1998

New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science Student Travel Grant – 1998

Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant (American Historical Association) – 1996

New York University Graduate Assistantships, 1991 – 1994


Honors & Awards

Faculty Instructional Technology Award (Iona College) - 2000

New York University Golden Dozen Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award – 1994

Phi Alpha Theta – 1989 -

Books

Medieval Maternity: Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Middle Ages, 500-1500. A work-in-progress to be published by the University Press of Florida, 2009.

Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe, 1100-1389: Interpreting the Case of Chartres Cathedral, Studies in Medieval History and Culture Series (New York: Routledge, 2003). A brief summary of the book.


Chapters

"Christian Sanctuary and Repository of France's Political Culture: The Construction of Holiness and Masculinity at the Royal Abbey of St.-Denis." Published in Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages, edited by Patricia Cullum and Katherine Lewis (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004), 127-42. Paperback published by the University of Toronto Press, 2005.

"Body as Champion of Church Authority and Sacred Place: The Murder of Thomas Becket." In 'A Great Effusion of Blood'?: Interpreting Medieval Violence, Oren Falk, Mark Meyerson and Daniel Thiery, eds. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), 190-215.

Articles

"Childbirth" and "Midwives." Forthcoming in the Encyclopedia of Sex, Love and Culture in the Medieval World (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005).

"Thomas Becket" and "Francis of Assisi." In Holy People of the World: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia, edited by Phyllis Jestice ( Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2004).

"The Crusades." Published in the Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, edited by Dinah L. Shelton, Howard Adelman, Frank Chalk, Alexandre Kiss, and William A. Schabas (New York: Macmillan Reference, 2004).

"From Boundaries Blurred to Boundaries Defined: Clerical Emphasis on the Limits of Sacred Space in the Later Middle Ages." In Alex Smith and Alison Brookes, eds., Holy Ground: Theoretical Issues Relating to the Landscape and Material Culture of Ritual Space (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports International Series 956, 2001): 85-90.

"Protestant Monasticism: Waldensian" in the Encyclopedia of Monasticism. ed. William M. Johnston (London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000).

"Mundane Uses of Sacred Spaces in the Central and Later Middle Ages, with a Focus on Chartres Cathedral." Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 30 (1999): 11-36.

"Birth, Flesh & Bodies: The Construction of Sacred Space in The Miracles of Our Lady of Chartres." Medieval Perspectives 14 (1999): 98-114.

Reviews

"Medieval European Pilgrimage: A Student's Guide to 'Who?', 'What?', 'When?', 'Where?', and 'Why?'." Review of Diana Webb, Medieval European Pilgrimage, c. 700-c. 1500, H-NET review for H-CATHOLIC, October 2004.

"The Formation of a Persecuting Microcosm: Cluny and Intolerance in the Medieval World." Review of Dominique Iogna-Prat, Order and Exclusion: Cluny and Christendom Face Heresy, Judaism, and Islam (1000-1500), H-NET review for H-CATHOLIC, June 2003.

"The Medieval Heresy that Refuses to Die: Catharism, Then and Now." Review of Malcolm Barber, The Cathars: Dualist Heretics in Languedoc in the High Middle Ages, H-NET review for H-CATHOLIC, June 2001.

"Reuniting Genders." Review of John Kitchen, Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender: Male and Female in Merovingian Hagiography, in Cross Currents: The Journal of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life, 51 (spring 2001): 139-41.

"Heresy, Conquest and the Unification of France: The Albigensian Crusade." Review of Jonathan Sumption, The Albigensian Crusade, H-NET review for H-CATHOLIC, February 2001.

Electronic Publications

MedievalMaternity.org (under construction)

"The Crusades." ProQuest History Online KnowledgeNotes, 2002.

"William the Conqueror and the Norman Conquest." ProQuest History Online KnowledgeNotes, 2002.

Translated selections (from the Latin) of Edward Grim's account of the murder of Thomas Becket. The Internet Medieval Sourcebook, ed. Paul Halsall.


Papers Presented

"Didactic or Experiential?: Literacy and the Maternal Cultures of Christians, Jews and Muslims in Medieval Europe." To be given at Siena College's conference "Children of Abraham: Christiams, Jews and Muslims in the Middle Ages and Early Moderm Europe", Loudonville, New York, October 7-8, 2005.

"Maternity Across Cultures: Jewish and Christian Approaches to Pregnancy and Childbirth in Medieval Western Europe." Given at the Nineteenth Barnard Medieval and Renaissance Conference, "Medicine Across Cultures: 600-1600", New York City, December 4, 2004.

“Pregnancy and Childbirth in Medieval Jewish, Christian and Muslim Sources.” Paper delivered at SUNY Binghamton’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies conference, "Science, Literature, and the Arts in the Medieval and Early Modern World", Binghamton, New York, October 22-23, 2004.

"Medieval Maternity through Modern Eyes." Paper presented at the Thirty-Ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 6-9, 2004.

"Burying the Bodies of the Most Christian Kings: Capetian Corpses and the Construction of Politics and Sacredness at the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis." Paper presented at the Thirty-Seventh International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2-5, 2002.

"Christian Sanctuary and Repository of France's Political Culture: The Construction of Holiness and Masculinity at the Royal Abbey of St.-Denis." Paper given at the University of Huddersfield as part of "Holiness and Masculinity," July 12-14, 2001.

"Mundane and Profane Uses of Chartres Cathedral in the Later Middle Ages." Given at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, July 9-12, 2001.

"Negotiating the Powers of Good & Evil in Twelfth-Century Europe: The Purifying & Fortifying Liturgy of Church Consecration." Paper delivered at the Convivium Center for Medieval & Early Modern Studies at Siena College, Loudonville, New York, October 13-14, 2000.

"Violent Deaths as Commentaries on Vice-Ridden Lives in the Memoirs of Guibert of Nogent." Paper given at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, July 10-13, 2000.

"From Boundaries Blurred to Boundaries Defined: Clerical Emphasis on the Limits of Sacred Space in the Later Middle Ages." Paper given at the 1999 annual meeting of the Theoretical Archaeological Group, School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, December 14-17, 1999.

"The Political Clout of a Martyr’s Body in Twelfth-Century England: The Assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket." Paper given at Iona College's Dean’s Symposium, December 2, 1998.

"Body as Champion of Church Authority and Sacred Place: The Murder of Thomas Becket." Paper given at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Medieval Studies Annual Conference, "Violence in Medieval Society," October 24, 1998.

"Using the Body to Elevate Space: The Pious Propaganda of Thirteenth-Century Chartres Cathedral." Paper given at the Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA) Conference, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia, October 15-17, 1998.

"Raising Money and Generating a Cult in Thirteenth-Century Northern France: The Miracles of Our Lady of Chartres." Paper given at the New York Friends of the Saints, New York, New York, October 9, 1998.


Invited Lectures

"The Crusades through Medieval and Modern Eyes." PowerPoint lecture given as part of Montclair State University's "Humanities in the Schools Day, 2004". December 7, 2004.

"Monarchy, Monastery and Mutuality: Relationships between Politics and Religion at the Medieval Abbey of Saint-Denis." Lecture to be given to The Archaeology Society of Staten Island and the Staten Island Society, Archaeological Institute of America, Wagner College, January 12, 2003.

Tour of The Cloisters. Staten Island Archaeological Society, June 15, 2002.

Speaker in the Humanities, New York Council for the Humanities, 2000-2003: "The Profane History of a Sacred Place: The Civic Context of Chartres Cathedral."

• The Archaeology Society of Staten Island and the Staten Island Society, Archaeological Institute of America, Wagner College, March 4, 2001
• Orange County Community College, Middletown, New York, April 11, 2001
• Senior Citizens of Bronxville, Bronxville, New York, March 26, 2002
  

Professional Meetings

Organizer and Chair: Medieval Religion Discussion List Session "Dispersion and Reception: The Fate of Constantinople's Relics after the Sack of 1204" at the 39th Meeting of the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 6-9, 2004.

Invited Roundtable Participant: The Virtual Canterbury Cathedral Website: Future Directions for a Western Michigan University Teaching Project", at the 39th Meeting of the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 6-9, 2004.

Organizer: "Medieval Maternity, I: Pregnancy and Childbirth in Song, Spirituality and Sculpture" and "Medieval Maternity, II: Pregnancy and Childbirth in Medical and Other Manuscripts," two sessions to be held at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, July 14-17, 2003.

Invited Chair and Commentator: "Real and Imagined Topographies: Mapping Social Space," a session held at the Medieval Academy of America's annual meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 10-12, 2003.

Organizer and Chair: "Mundane and Profane Uses of Medieval Sacred Spaces I: Misuses and Abuses of Churches and their Precincts," "Mundane and Profane Uses of Medieval Sacred Spaces II: Synagogue, Mosque and Shrine in the Central Middle Ages," and "Mundane and Profane Uses of Medieval Sacred Spaces III: (Re)Negotiating Boundaries for the Holy," three sessions held at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, July 9-12, 2001.

Roundtable Participant: "Exile in the Middle Ages: Definitions, Representations." International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, July 9-12, 2001.

Organizer of Conference: "Same but Different: Exploring the Cultures and Histories of the Eastern Catholic Churches," Iona College, November 6, 2000.

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor of Medieval History, Montclair State University, Fall 2003 -

Graduate

Castle, Cathedral and Crusade: Europe in the High Middle Ages - Spring 2005

Undergraduate

Foundations of Western Civilization - Fall 2003/Spring 2004/Fall 2004/Spring 2005/Fall 2005

Medieval European Civilization - Fall 2003/Spring 2004/Fall 2004/Fall 2005

Assistant Professor of History, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, Fall 2002 - Spring 2003

Western Civilization: From Ancient to Early Modern Times - Fall 2002/Spring 2003

Western Civilization: The Emergence of the Modern World - Fall 2002/Spring 2003

Assistant Professor of European History, Iona College, Fall 1998 – Spring 2002

Graduate

Europe in the Middle Ages - Fall 2000

The Shaping of Contemporary Europe - Spring 2000

The Shaping of Modern Europe: 1789-1914 – Spring 1999



Undergraduate

Honors Humanities Seminar II: The Middle Ages - Spring 2001/Spring 2002

Jews and Christians in Ancient and Medieval Europe - Spring 2001

Western Civilization - Fall 1999/Spring 2000/Fall 2000/Spring 2002

Age of Ideology - Spring 2000/Spring 2002

Early Modern Europe - Fall 1999

Europe in the Middle Ages – Spring 1999/Fall 2000

Contemporary Civilization I (to 1600) – Fall 1998

Contemporary Civilization II (since 1600) – Fall 1998/Spring 1999

Europe since 1929 – Fall 1998

Adjunct Lecturer, College of Staten Island, 1996 – 1998

History of Western Civilization, Antiquity to 1500 – Spring 1998

Medieval and Early Modern Culture – Fall 1997

World Civilization Since 1500 – Spring 1997

Past and Present – Fall 1996/Fall 1997/Spring 1998

Teaching Assistant, New York University, 1991 – 1994

The Foundations of English Common Law – Spring 1994

The Foundations of English Common Law – Spring 1993

The Civilization & Culture of the Middle Ages – Spring/Fall 1992

The Crusades – Fall 1991

Teaching Fields

Survey of Medieval History

Western Civilization (classical – present)

Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Church History to 1519

English Common Law

Jews and Christians in Ancient and Medieval Europe

History of Women in the Middle Ages

Medieval Legacies to the Modern World

European History, 1789 – Present

Academic Research

Freelance Writer: ProQuest, KnowledgeNotes (Online Study Guides for History), 2002

Writer: History of the World Timeline -- The History Channel -- 1999
(500 BCE - 1799 CE and 1990 - 1999 CE)

Independent Researcher – Professor Norman F. Cantor, 1995 – 1996

Graduate Research Assistant – Professor Norman F. Cantor – Fall 1994


Academic Administration

Director, Sicily Summer Study Abroad Program, Montclair State University, 2006 -

Newsletter Editor, Montclair State University, Department of History, 2005 -

List Editor, H-Catholic, a member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine, http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~catholic/, 2004 -

Web Designer and Webmaster, Iona College, Department of History and Political Science, 1999 - 2002

http://www.iona.edu/academic/arts_sci/departments/hist_pol/index.html

Web Designer and Webmaster, Department of History, New York University, 1996 – 1997

http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/history/

Assistant to Professor Norman F. Cantor – Spring 1996

Assistant to the Chair of the Department of History, New York University, – Fall 1993


Languages

French

Latin

Some Spanish

Professional Societies

Medieval Academy of America

American Historical Association

American Association for the History of Medicine

American Catholic Historical Association

The Hagiography Society

The Medieval Club of New York

Professional Activities

Reviewer, "Canterbury and Saint-Denis: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Two Churches at the Intersection of Medieval Culture," an interactive, web-based teaching project of The Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, June 2003

Study Abroad Committee, Iona College, 2000 - 2002

Middle States' Libraries and Learning Centers Task Force, Iona College, 2000 - 2001

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