Curriculum Vita

Dissertation : “‘Afflicted with Insanity': The Care and Custody of the Feeble Minded in Late Medieval England,” PhD dissertation, UCLA, December 2000.

Committee members: Scott L. Waugh (Chair), Muriel McClendon, V.A. Kolve

Exam Fields: Medieval England , Early Modern Europe, Tudor-Stuart England, Church history, Women's history

2000 Ph.D. in History, University of California , Los Angeles

1993 M.A. in History, University of California , Los Angeles

1990 M.A. in History, California State University , Sacramento

1989 B.A. in History, California State University , Sacramento

Minor: Religions Studies

1986 A.A. in Liberal Studies, American River College , Sacramento

Recent Fellowships, Honors, Grants & Awards:

2009 Honor. Nominated for Distinguished Teaching Award. Augusta State University .

2001-09 Grants. Conference travel (competitive). Augusta State University Faculty Research & Faculty Development. (10 awards to date, ea. $500-$1200)

2007 Award. Cashin Faculty Award. Augusta-Richmond County Historical Society. ($375)

2004 Fellowship. Research travel. British Academy Fellow. Nominated by the Huntington Library. ($2000)

2004 Fellowship. Research travel. Mayer Fellow at the Huntington Library ( San Marino , CA). ($2000)

2004 Grant. Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs at Augusta State University . Travel to Harvard Law School . ($1500)

2003-04 Grant. Faculty Development Institute. Augusta State University Faculty Technology. ($5000)

2003 Honor. Most Valuable Professor (1 of 25 annually). Augusta State University Student Ambassador Board.

2002 Grant. Augusta State University Faculty Technology. ($500)

2001 Fellowship. Research Post-Doc. Evelyn S. Nation Fellowship in the History of Medicine, Huntington Library ( San Marino , CA). ($2000)

2000-01 Nomination. Distinguished Teaching Award. California State University , Northridge.

Publications:

Co-Editor with Tory Vandeventer Pearman, Disability in Medieval Europe , ( Lewiston , NY and Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales : Edwin Mellen Press). [Under contract summer 2008; Due fall 2009.]

“Defining Mental Afflictions in Medieval English Administrative Records,” in Disability and Medieval Law: History, Literature, Society , edited by Cory James Rushton, ( Newcastle upon Tyne , England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing). [Under contract spring 2008; Expect 2009]

“A Cure for the King means Health for the Country: The Mental and Physical Health of Henry VI” in Mental Afflictions in Medieval Law and Custom , edited by Wendy J. Turner , Brill. [Under contract; In review; Expect 2009]

“Silent Testimony: Emotional Displays and Lapses in Memory as Indicators of Mental Instability in Medieval English Investigations,” in Mental Afflictions in Medieval Law and Custom , edited by Wendy J. Turner , Brill. [Under contract; Due fall 2008; Expect 2009]

“Town and Country: A Comparison of the Treatment of the Mentally Disabled in Late Medieval English Common Law and Chartered Boroughs,” in Mental Afflictions in Medieval Law and Custom , edited by Wendy J. Turner , Brill. [Under contract; In review; Expect 2009]

Editor, Mental Afflictions in Medieval Law and Custom, ( Leiden and Boston : Brill). [Preliminary Contract; Due fall 2008.]

“The Legal Regulation and Licensing of Alchemy in Late Medieval England,” in Law and Magic: A Collection of Essays , edited by Christine Corcos, ( Durham , NC : Carolina Academic Press, 2009). [In press.]

“Emotion, Violence, and Mistakes in Medieval English Courts,” abstract, AVISTA Forum Journal , November (2008).

“Mental Incapacity and Financing War in Medieval England,” in The Hundred Years War: A Wider Focus, vol. 2 , edited by L.J. Andrew Villalon and Donald Kagay, ( Leiden and Boston : Brill, 2008).

Book Reviews:

Monica H. Green, Making Women's Medicine Masculine: The Rise of Male Authority in Pre-Modern Gynaecology ( Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008) for the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences , Oxford Journals, 2009.

Luke Demaitre, Leprosy in Premodern Medicine: A Malady of the Whole Body , ( Baltimore Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007) for the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences , Oxford Journals, 2008.

Naked before God: Uncovering the Body in Anglo-Saxon England , ed. Benjamin C. Withers and Jonathan Wilcox, Medieval European Studies III, ( Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2003) for Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 35 (2004): 251-254.

Timothy J. Reiss, Mirages of the Self: Patterns of personhood in Ancient and Early Modern Europe , (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003) for Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 35 (2004): 271-273.

The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England , ed. E. Steiner and C. Barrington ( Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press, 2002) viii + 257 pp. for Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 34 (2003): 253-4.

Joseph Biancalana, The Fee Tail and the Common Recovery in Medieval England 1176-1502, Cambridge Studies in English Legal History, ed. J. H. Baker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001) 498 pp. for Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 34 (2003): 206-7.

Witchcraft in Europe 400-1700: A Documentary History , 2nd ed. by Alan Charles Kors and Edward Peters, revised by Edward Peters ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2001) xiv + 451, ill. for Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 32 (2001): 228-232.

Keechang Kim, Aliens in Medieval Law: The Origins of Modern Citizenship ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000) 262 pp. for Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 32 (2001): 199-201.

Work in Progress & Relevant Research:

The Care and Custody of the Mentally Incapacitated in Medieval England , monograph manuscript; revisions complete spring 2009; to press for review in 2009.

“Licensing Intellectual Property: The Alchemical Licenses of Henry VI”; article; completion in spring 2009.

“Angry Wives of Madmen: The Economic Constraints of Families under Royal Guardianship,” to be published in Mental and Physical Disabilities of Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe , edited by Wendy J. Turner and Tory Vandeventer Pearman, (Lewiston, NY and Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press). [Expect: 2010]

“Unhealthy Minds: Medieval English Perceptions of the Mentally Ill”; monograph manuscript; research in progress.

“The Competence of Physicians Treating Incompetent Patients in Medieval England”; article in progress.

“Early Medieval Treatment of Doctors and their Mentally Ill Patients in Ireland ”; article in progress.

 Invited Talks:

2009 “Families Coping with Disability in Medieval England ” for the University of Sweden-Augusta State University Scholarship Exchange, Spring 2009

2006 “A Brief History of Medicine: From Antiquity to the Invention of the Microscope”; Health and Health Care in the New Millennium “ Cullum Lecture Series” at Augusta State University

2004 “Madness in Medieval England”; Huntington Library's Scholarly Sustenance summer program

2003 “The Treatment of the Insane in Late Medieval and Early Modern England ”; University of South Carolina at Aiken , SC

2002 “Medieval Psychology: Mixing Magic and Science”; Psychology 2002 Fall Lecture Series, Augusta State University

2002 “Late Medieval Medical Recipes and Dietary Attempts at Wellness”; Augusta District Dietetic Association, Medical College of Georgia

2009 [Scheduled for May] “Angry Wives of Madmen: The economic constraints of families living under royal guardians” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo , MI

Papers and Presentations:

2009 “Families Coping with Disabilities in Medieval England” for the exchange conference with Mid-Sweden University at Augusta State University , GA

2009 “Dealing with Pain in the Middle Ages” at the History of Anesthetics meeting at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA

2009 “A Comparison of the Fifteenth-Century English Administrative and Medical Terminology for the Mentally Afflicted” at the Renaissance Society of America meeting, L.A., CA

2009 “Melancholy as a Late Medieval & Early Modern Condition” at the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, University of Alabama , Birmingham

2008 “Defining Mental Incapacity in Medieval English Administration and Medicine” at the Southeastern Medieval Association Conference in St. Louis , MO

2008 “Licensing Intellectual Property: The Alchemical licenses of Henry VI” at the International Medieval Congress at the Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds ( England )

2008 “Disability in the Middle Ages,” roundtable presentation at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo , MI

2008 “Emotion, Violence, and Mistakes in Medieval English Courts” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo , MI

2008 “Medical Attempts at Mental Health in the Fourteenth Century Medical Tract: Royal ms. 12B xxv”; Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science; Gainesville , Florida

2008 “Law, Administration, and Madness in Medieval England,” at the inaugural meeting of the Georgia Medievalists' Group in Washington , GA

2007 “The Legal Regulation and Licensing of Alchemy in Late Medieval England” at the Texas Medieval Association annual meeting at Texas A&M, College Station , TX

2007 “Custody of the Mentally Ill and their Property in Medieval English Cities” at the International Medieval Congress at the Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds ( England )

2007 “Medieval English Legal Perceptions of Criminal Insanity and the Ill who Commit Crimes” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo , MI

2007 “Medieval and Early Modern Licensing of Medical Practitioners” at the Southern Association of the History of Medicine and Science meeting at the University of Virginia

2006 “The Mentally Incapacitated as the Key to Unlocking the Connection between the Mind and the Soul in Late Medieval England ” at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds ( England )

2006 “Pre-Bedlam Wardship of the Mentally Incompetent in England ” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo , MI

2006 “The Mental Health of the Men at Arms in the Long Fourteenth Century in England ” at the Georgia Association of Historians annual meeting in Morrow, GA

2006 “Licensing of Alchemy in Fifteenth-Century England” at the Biannual National Phi Alpha Theta Conference in conjunction with the American Historical Association meeting in Philadelphia, PA

2005 “Living with Mental Incapacity in Late Medieval England ” at the International Medieval Congress at the Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds ( England )

2005 “Alchemy, Medicine, Administration, and Madness surrounding the Illness of Henry VI of England” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI

2005 “The Competence of Physicians Treating Incompetent Patients in Medieval England” at the Georgia Association of Historians annual meeting in Columbus , GA

2005 “Early Medieval Treatment of Doctors and their Mentally Ill Patients in Ireland” at the Southern Association of the History of Medicine and Science meeting in Augusta, GA

2004 “Administrating the Lands and Medicating the Minds of the Feeble Minded,” published in advance of the conference of the California Medieval History Seminar at the Huntington Library in San Marino , CA

2004 “Avoiding the King's Hand: Self-Awareness of Inheritances & Mental Problems” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo , MI

2004 “‘ The Mind is in the Brain ': Medical attempts at Mental Health in Fourteenth-Century England” at the Biennial Phi Alpha Theta National Convention in New Orleans , LA

2004 “The Alchemical, Surgical, and Dietary Treatments of the Mental and Physical Collapse of King Henry VI of England ” at the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science meeting in Augusta , GA

2003 “Madness, Magic, Medicine, and Money from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century in England ” at the Georgia Association of Historians in Americus , GA

2003 “The Challenge of Mixing History and Mathematics” co-authored with Prof. Michelle Benedict for the Southern Regional Honors Council, Greensboro , NC

2002 “Many are the Sicknesses of the Middle Part of a Man's Head” at the Georgia Association of Historians conference, Jekyll Island , GA

2002 “Imagining Medieval Madness” at the Citadel Conference, “Icons of Change: Word and Image in the Middle Ages and Renaissance,” Charleston , SC

2001 “‘Lacking of Good Wit': Medical Knowledge of Insanity in Late Medieval England ” at the Biennial Phi Alpha Theta National Convention in San Antonio , TX

Archival Research:

1997, 2004-08 Public Record Office at The National Archives, Kew , England

1997, 2004-08 The British Library and Museum in London

2004-07 The Wellcome Trust Institute, London

2007 Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library: University of Georgia

2006 Canterbury Cathedral Archives

1999, 00, 04 Huntington Library, Pasadena , California

2004 Harvard Law Library Special Collections

Language Abilities:

Reading knowledge of Latin, French, Legal French, Italian, and Middle English

Some: Old English, German, Spanish (Catalan & Castilian), Greek, and Hebrew

 

Teaching Interests:

Medieval and Early Modern Britain; Medieval European Society and Culture; Medieval and Early Modern Medicine, Science, & Pseudo Science; Foundations of World Religions; History of Women; History of Gender; and Historical Research Methodology; among others.

Teaching Experience:

2001-present Associate Professor, Augusta State University , Georgia – Department of History, Anthropology, & Philosophy [Tenure & Promotion: 2006]

2006, 04, 02 Honors Program Cross-Disciplinary Courses. Augusta State University

2007, 06 Summer Abroad Program; London , UK ; European Union Summer Abroad Program in coordination with the Georgia University System

2002 Summer Abroad Program; University of Aristotle , Thessaloniki , Greece

1996-01 Instructor, California State University , Northridge & Channel Islands

1997-98 Instructor, Loyola Marymount University – History Department

Service to History (Selected):

2008-10 President. Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science. Vice President, Program Chair, Webmaster and -Designer (2005-08); Co-chair of local arrangements in 2004 and 2005 national meetings (2003-05); Program Committee Member (2004-05).

2007-present Doctoral Thesis Committee Member. Pen Pugno. University of Houston . Subject: “Anglo-Saxon Ecclesiastical Texts as Medical Texts.”

2006-2009 Organizer. Panels at the ICMS for the Texas Medieval Association including two in 2009: “Domestic Unrest” and “Pilgrimage”; three in 2008: “Emotional Outbursts in Medieval Law,” “The Scientific Grounding of Medieval Medicine,” and “Royal Saints in Late Medieval England”; and one in 2007: “(Dis)ability and (Ab)normality of the Mad in the Middle Ages.

2009 Peer Reviewer. Strayer, Ways of the World , new edition with documents & images, for press.

2008 Peer Reviewer. World Civilizations Textbook.

2008 Peer Reviewer. New edition. Mary Pat Fisher, Living Religions , 7 th edition, ( Upper Saddle River , NJ : Prentice Hall, 2008).

2007 Peer Reviewer. Book proposal. Aberth, The Triumph of the Middle Ages: How Europe survived one thousand years of medieval history .

2007 Peer Reviewer. New Edition. Clayton Roberts, David Roberts, and Douglas R. Bisson, A History of England , Volume I: Prehistory to 1714 , Prentice Hall.

2005-06 Treasurer. Georgia Association of Historians.

2003, 2004 Peer Reviewer. Book proposal. Gregory S. Aldrete and Jennifer J. Popiel, After the Fact: Western Civilization , McGraw-Hill.

2004 Peer Reviewer. Book manuscript of Ruled by the Sword: William the Conqueror for Enslow Publishing.

2003 Peer Reviewer. Article for the Georgia Journal of Science .

Service to University, Department, and Students (Selected):

2001-present Committee Member. ASU Permanent Committee for the Honors Program at Augusta State . Chair of best thesis committee (2007-08); Theses panels: Chair, Representative, Advisor, or Outside Field member (2002-09); Committee to find new director (2003, 2005); Holsten Award Committee (2005-6); Committee to find interim director (2004); Designed website (2002-03).

2002-present Committee Member. ASU Permanent Committee for Women's Studies Program at Augusta State . WMST Student Award's Committee (2004-06).

2008-09 Chair. Post-Tenure Review. Arts & Sciences. Social Sciences departments & Library.

2008-09 Chair. Scholarship & Funding Group of the Department of History, Anthropology, and Philosophy.

2007-08 Committee Member. Search committee for an Assistant Professor in Anthropology in the Dept. of History, Anthropology, and Philosophy.

2007-08 Committee Member. Search Committee for an Assistant Professor in Social Science Education. School of Education.

2007-08 Committee Member. Student Awards Committee. Department of History, Anthropology, & Philosophy.

2007 Presentation. “A History of the Purpose of Universities” at the Phi Kappa Phi Forum at Augusta State .

2006-07 Mentor . New faculty member (1-year instructor in Latin American History) in the Dept. of History, Anthropology, and Philosophy.

2006-07 Committee Member. Search committee for an Assistant Professor of Latin American History in Dept. of History, Anthropology, and Philosophy.

2006-08 Group Member. Future Study of Department of History, Anthropology, and Philosophy.

2005-06 Committee Member. Search committee for an Assistant Professor of Social Science Education in the Department of Secondary Education.

2005 Professional Assessment and Advice. Augusta State Reese Library Special Collections. Document Recovery and Preservation.

2002-06 Founder and Chair. “Writers of ASU.” Organized group; set meetings; delivered papers to group members; read and commented on numerous papers by colleagues from across the campus.

2002-06 Faculty Advisor. Phi Alpha Theta local chapter (Alpha Eta Xi): Student to National Convention in New Orleans (2004); Students to Regional Conferences (2003-05).

2004-05 Committee Member. Search committee for an Assistant Professor of Colonial American History. Dept. of History, Anthropology, and Philosophy.

2004-05 Committee Member. Search committee for an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology. Dept. of History, Anthropology, and Philosophy.

2003-05 Elected Member. Faculty Policies Committee. Co-Chair: Committee on Committees (2004-05); Member: Committee on Committees (2003-04); Sub-committees on Fall Break, On-line grades, Faculty Professional Leave Policy, Evaluation of Dept. Chairs, Teaching Abroad, Reorganization and design of paperless faculty manual, New Faculty packet and CD introduction, Campus posting policy, and others. FPC Rep. to departmental meetings (Nursing, History); FPC Rep. to New Faculty Luncheon (2003, 2004).

2002-04 Member. Search committee for Assistant Professor of Latin American history. Dept. of History, Anthropology, and Philosophy.

2002-03 Committee Member. Appointment by the Dean of Arts and Sciences. Search Committee for Assistant/Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Philosophy minor.

2003 Presentation. “Genetically Modified Foods: a fight between the US and the EU?” Augusta State Faculty Colloquium (formerly Bell South).

2002 Promotional Interview. Augusta State University Public Relations videos. Filmed by Channel 6. Appeared in Commercial Promotional Video and Television Advertisement.

2002 Presentation. “The Madness of Researching Medieval Insanity,” Augusta State Faculty Colloquium.

2002 Speaker. “Intellectual Passions Series,” Phi Kappa Phi Forum at Augusta State .

Professional Memberships:

2002-present President. Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science

2002-present Member. The American Association for the History of Medicine

1996-present Member. American Historical Association. [Intermittent membership]

2007-present Founder and Co-Director. Georgia Medieval Group

2007-present Founding Member. Disabilities in the Middle Ages Group

1998, 2008 Member. Renaissance Society of America

2008-09 Member. Seigneurie : Group for the Study of Nobility, Lordship, & Chivalry

2008-09 Member. Church, Law and Society in the Middle Ages Research Network (CLASMA)

2004-present Member. Societas Magica : History of Magic in the Medieval & Renaissance World

2002-present Member. North American Conference on British Studies & Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies

2004-2007 Member. Medica : Medieval Medical Group

2002-2007 Member. Georgia Association of Historians. [Intermittent membership]

Professional Honor Societies:

2004-2009 Member. Phi Kappa Phi

Life member Member. Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society. (Since 1987)

1989-present Member. Golden Key National Honor Society

Other Related Activities to Profession:

2009 Conference. Harriette Austin Writers Conference. UGA. Athens, GA.

2009 Contest & Author. YA SF short story manuscript. "The Mystery of Meeting." Porter Fleming Writers Competition; Westobou Festival, Augusta, GA.

2009 Contest & Author. Short story manuscript. "Pierced." Entered in L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contest.

2009 Author. Unpublished manuscript. Tentative title: “Twin Alchemists” Book 3 of series: “Center of Royal Education”

2009 Contest & Author. SF/Fantasy Writers. UK . Short Story. “Can't see the Forest for the Trees.”

2009 Conference. Sand Hill Writers Conference. ASU. Augusta, GA.

2008 Author. Fiction manuscript. “Secret Keeper” Book 2 of series: “Center of Royal Education”

2007 Author. Fiction manuscript. “First Oath” Book 1 of series: “Center of Royal Education”; under review.