Home Address:

409 Woodlawn Avenue
Greensboro, NC 27401
(336) 274-8318

Department of History
212 McIver Building
P.O. Box 26170
U.N.C.G.
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
(336) 334-5203

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., History, University of California, Santa Barbara, June 1997

Comprehensive areas include: Medieval History, Early Modern British History,
and Cultural Anthropology

M.A., History, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1990

Fields Include: Medieval History and Ancient History

B.A., Magna Cum Laude, History, Williams College, 1988

DISSERTATION:

Power and Lordship in Maine, c. 890-1110

Directed by C. Warren Hollister
Research conducted in Paris, Le Mans, Laval, and Angers, September 1993 to February 1994

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EMPLOYMENT:

Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Dept. of History, 1998-

Lecturer, Yale University, Department of History, 1997-1998

Part-Time Lecturer, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of History, 1996-97

PUBLICATIONS:

"Lordship in Maine: Transformation, Service, and Anger," Anglo-Norman Studies, 17 (1995), 41-63.

"'Zealous Anger' and the Renegotiation of Aristocratic Relationships in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century France," in Anger's Past: the Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages, ed. Barbara H. Rosenwein (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998), 153-170.

AWARDS:

New Faculty Research Grant, Univ. of North Carolina at Greensboro, May-June 1999

Graduate Fee Fellowship, Graduate Division, UCSB, Winter 1996

Humanities Research Assistantship, Graduate Division, UCSB, 1994-1995

Ellison Prize (for best Graduate Student Paper), History Department, UCSB, June 1994

Richard K. Mayberry Award (for Outstanding Graduate Student), History Department, UCSB, June 1994

Dissertation Year Fellowship, History Department, UCSB, 1993-1994

Regents Fellowship, UCSB, September 1988

Graves Essay Prize, for Senior Honors Thesis (entitled "Legitimacy and Succession in Fifteenth-Century England"), Williams College, June 1988

CONFERENCE PAPERS:
 

"The Asocial Virtues: Anger, Enmity and Violence among the Twelfth-Century Aristocracy," paper presented at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1999

"What Can Be Said About Land, Law, and Lordship: in the County of Maine?," Annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Washington, DC, March 1999

"Courts, Communities and Consensus: Procedure and Adjudication in Western French Curiae, 950-1150," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History, Washington, DC, October 24, 1998

"Duby and Power," paper presented at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1998.

"Regional Identity: Lordship and Community in Maine," paper presented at the 16^th International Conference of the Charles Homer Haskins Society, Houston, November 7, 1997

"The Normans in Maine, 1063-1135," paper presented in sessions on "The Culture of Conquest" at the International Medieval Conference, Leeds, England, July 16 1997

"Political and Monastic Memory in Maine: 'Count David' and the Foundations of Saint-Pierre de la Couture and Saint-Pierre-de-la-Cour," Paper presented at the meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, Hawaii, March 14, 1997

"Helias of Maine, Henry I, and the Importance of Friendship," Paper presented at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 11, 1996

"Bad Lordship and the Counts of Maine, c.893-1035," Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, San Diego, CA, March 17, 1996

"English Royal Patronage of Manceaux, 1066-1135," Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Sacramento, CA, March 25, 1995

"Zealous Anger and the Renegotiation of Aristocratic Relationships in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century France," Paper presented at the 1995 meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, IL, January 7, 1995

"Lordship in Maine: Transformation, Service, and Anger," Paper presented at the XVIIth Battle Conference, Battle, England, July 30, 1994

"The Lords of Mayenne: Baronial Identity in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries," Paper presented at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1993

"Lordship and Pacification: the Norman Dukes in Maine, c.1060-1135," Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Charles Homer Haskins Society Conference, Houston, TX, November 1992

"The Entourage of Henry I," Paper presented at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1991

"The Entourage of William Rufus," Paper presented at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1990

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND COURSES TAUGHT:
 

University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of History (1998- )

The Medieval Legacy (History 221): Fall 1998, Spring 1999, Fall 1999

The Medieval Legacy: Writing Intensive (History 221W): Spring 1999

Daughters of Eve: Women and the Family in Medieval Europe (History 310): Fall 1999

Medieval Church and State (History 393): Fall 1998

Honor, Love and Violence: the High Medieval Aristocracy (History 511b): Spr. 1999

Yale University, Department of History

Violence in the Middle Ages (History 408A - Junior Seminar): Fall, 1997

Urban Culture in the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance (History 213A - Lecture): Fall, 1997

Women, the Body and the Family in the Middle Ages (History 203B - Lecture): Spring, 1998

Text and Society in the Middle Ages (History 554B: Graduate Research Seminar): Spring, 1998

Instructor of Record, Department of History:

Historical Methodology (History 6 - Seminar): Winter, 1997

The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe, c.200-1100 (History 115 - Lecture): Fall, 1996

Towns, Trade and Urban Culture in the Middle Ages (History 117A - Lecture): Winter, 1996

Teaching Assistant, Department of History:

Honors Section, Western Civilization, 1050-1715 (History 4B): Winter, 1991

Western Civilization from Mesopotamia to 1050 (History 4A): 1989-1992

Western Civilization, 1050-1715 (History 4B): 1989-1992

Western Civilization, 1715 to the present (History 4C): 1992, 1994

Grader and Note-taker:

Understanding Cultural Difference (Anthropology 147): Fall, 1992

Hellenistic Greece (History 111B): Spring, 1990

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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

The American Historical Association

The Medieval Academy of America

The Charles Homer Haskins Society

The South-Eastern Medieval Association

The Society for French Historical Studies

The American Society of Legal History

The Selden Society

Phi Beta Kappa Society
 

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