CURRICULUM VITAE

Charles F. Briggs

Department of University of Vermont Wheeler House 133 South Prospect Street Burlington, VT 05405-0164

Email: [email protected]

EDUCATION Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1993 M.Litt. University of Edinburgh, 1989 B.A. Grinnell College, 1983

EMPLOYMENT Senior Lecturer, Department of History, 2016- Lecturer, Department of History, University of Vermont, 2009-2016 Professor, Department of History, Georgia Southern University, 2005-2008 Associate Professor, Department of History, Georgia Southern University, 1999-2005 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Georgia Southern University, 1993-1999 Lecturer, Department of History, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1991-1993

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Cultural and intellectual history of thirteenth- to early sixteenth-century Europe; history of education; history of political thought; medieval historical writing; history of the book; history of texts and reading; paleography and codicology; textual criticism

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, 2011- Leslie Humanities Fellow, Dartmouth College, 2009 GSU Office of Research Services and Sponsored Programs and GSU College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences grants for project, “Developing a Humanities Center at Georgia Southern University,” 2005-2006 GSU Educational Leave (sabbatical), academic year 2005-2006 Vatican Film Library Mellon Fellowship, Saint Louis University, June-July 2003 Starr Foundation Visiting Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, January-June 2001 GSU Faculty Research Leave Stipend, fall term 2000 GSU Award for Excellence in Research, 2000 GSU College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences’ Special Projects Grant in the Humanities, 2000 American Philosophical Society General Research Grant, 1996 GSU Faculty Research Grant, 1996 GSU Faculty Research Leave Stipend, fall term 1996 GSU Faculty Research Grant, 1994 On-Campus Dissertation Fellowship, UNC-Chapel Hill, Summer-Fall 1992 Mowry Award, Department of History, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1991 Research Abroad Fellowship, Department of History, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1991

PUBLICATIONS Books: A Companion to Giles of Rome. Co-edited with Peter S. Eardley. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016 The Body Broken: Medieval Europe 1300-1520. Routledge History of the Middle Ages. London and New York: Routledge, 2011

1 Giles of Rome’s De regimine principum: Reading and Writing Politics at Court and University, c. 1275- c. 1525. Cambridge Studies in and Codicology, 5. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 207. The Governance of Kings and Princes: John Trevisa’s Middle English Translation of the De regimine principum of Aegidius Romanus, Vol. 1—Text. Co-edited with David C. Fowler and Paul G. Remley. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1997. Pp. xxix, 439.

Articles and Chapters: “Introduction” and “Chapter 1: Life, Works, and Legacy.” In A Companion to Giles of Rome, ed. Charles F. Briggs and Peter S. Eardley, pp. 1-5 and 6-33. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016 “Moral Philosophy and Wisdom Literature.” In The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, vol. 1, 800-1558, ed. Rita Copeland, pp. 299-321. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016 “Scholarly and Intellectual Authority in Late Medieval European Mirrors.” In Global Medieval: Mirrors for Princes Reconsidered, ed. Regula Forster and Neguin Yavari, pp. 26-41. Cambridge, Mass.: Ilex Foundation/Harvard University Press, 2015 “The Clerk.” In Historians on Chaucer: The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, ed. Stephen H. Rigby and Alastair Minnis, pp. 187-205. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014 “History, Story, and Community: Representing the Past in Latin Christendom, 1050-1400.” In The Oxford History of Historical Writing, Volume 2: 400-1400, ed. Sarah Foot and Chase F. Robinson, pp. 391-413. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012 “Moral Philosophy in England after Grosseteste: An ‘Underground’ History.” In The Study of Medieval of England: Festschrift in Honor of Richard W. Pfaff, ed. George H. Brown and Linda E. Voigts, pp. 359-88. Tempe, Arizona: Medieval and Texts and Studies, 2010 “Knowledge and Royal Power in the Later Middle Ages: From Philosopher-Imam, to Clerkly King, to Renaissance Prince.” In Power in the Middle Ages: Forms, Uses, Limitations, ed. Susan J. Ridyard, pp. 81-97. Sewanee, Tennessee: University of the South, 2010 “Literacy, Reading and Writing in the Medieval West.” In The History of the Book in the West: 400AD- 1455, ed. Jane Roberts and Pamela Robinson, pp. 481-504. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2010; reprint of article, originally published in 2000 “Philosophi in Adiutorio Fidei: Pastoral Uses of Pagan Moral Teaching in the Later Middle Ages.” LATCH: A Journal for the Study of Literary Artifacts in Theory, Culture, or History 1 (2008) [Online]: 31-48 “Aristotle’s Rhetoric in the Later Medieval Universities: A Reassessment.” Rhetorica 25 (2007): 243-68 “Translation as Pedagogy: Academic Discourse and Changing Attitudes toward Latin in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries.” In Frontiers in the Middle Ages, ed. Outi Merisalo, pp. 495-505. Louvain-la- Neuve: Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales, 2006 “Moral Philosophy and Dominican Education: Bartolomeo da San Concordio’s Compendium moralis philosophiae.” In Medieval Education, ed. Ronald B. Begley and Joseph W. Koterski, pp. 182-96. New York: Fordham University Press, 2005 “Teaching Philosophy at School and Court: Vulgarization and Translation.” In The Vulgar Tongue: Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularity, ed. Fiona Somerset and Nicholas Watson, pp. 99-111. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003 “Learned Commentaries for the Laity: Translators’ Glosses on Giles of Rome’s De regimine principum.” In Reading and the Book in the Middle Ages, ed. Susan J. Ridyard, pp. 65-77. Sewanee Mediaeval Studies 11. Sewanee, Tennessee: University of the South Press, 2001 “Historiographical Essay: Literacy, Reading, and Writing in the Medieval West.” Journal of Medieval History 26 (2000): 397-420

2 “MS Digby 233 and the Patronage of John Trevisa’s De regimine principum.” English Studies, 1100-1700 7 (1998): 249-63 “The Manuscript as Witness: Editing Trevisa’s De regimine principum Translation.” Medieval Perspectives 11 (1996): 42-52 “Late Medieval Texts and Tabulae: The Case of Giles of Rome, De regimine principum.” Manuscripta 37 (1995 for 1993): 253-75 “Manuscripts of Giles of Rome’s De regimine principum in England, 1300-1500: A Handlist.” Scriptorium 47 (1993): 60-73

Short Articles/Entries: “Giles of Rome.” In Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, vol. 10, Genocide-Hakkoz, ed. Dale C. Allison et al., p. 276. Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2015

Completed and Forthcoming: “History at the Universities: Oxford, Cambridge, and Paris.” In Medieval Historical Writing: Britain and Ireland, 500-1500, ed. Emily Steiner, Jennifer Jahner, and Elizabeth Tyler (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

Book Reviews: Fifty-eight reviews, published or forthcoming in Albion, Catholic Historical Review, Choice, Envoi, The Historian, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Journal of British Studies, Journal of Church and State, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Journal of English and Germanic , Journal of Medieval Latin, Manuscripta, The Medieval Review [online], Medieval Perspectives, and Speculum

WORK IN Book: The Body Broken: Medieval and Renaissance Europe, 1300-1520. Expanded second edition. Under contract (Routledge) Book: The Hundred Years War, in the series Passages: Key Moments in History. Under contract (Hackett Publishing) Edition/Translation: Giles of Rome, De regimine principum. Three-volumes, under contract (Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations/Peeters) Book Chapter: (with Cary J. Nederman) “Mirrors of Princes in the Christian Occident (12th-15th Century).” In A Companion to Mirrors of Princes Literature, ed. Noëlle-Laetitia Perret and Stéphane Péquinot (Brill) Conference /Book: “The Mirror Compiled: Exempla as Political Advice on Tempered Rule in Roger Waltham’s Compendium morale.” Invited paper for conference on medieval political thought, in honor of Cary J. Nederman, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 13-14 February 2017 (the from this conference will form the basis for chapters in a published Festschrift volume)

PAPERS, SEMINARS, AND INVITED LECTURES “Seminar on A Companion to Giles of Rome: Charles F. Briggs in Conversation with Antonia Fitzpatrick, Cecilia Trifogli, and George Garnett,” Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK, 9 June 2016 “A Tree of Wars: The Violence at the Heart of Late Medieval Europe.” Conference on “Prosecuting War in the Long Fourteenth Century,” Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 31 October, 2015 “History at Oxford and Paris.” Historical Writing in Britain and Ireland, 500-1500: Interdisciplinary Questions and Approaches. International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, 9 July 2015 “Thinking Globally about the Hundred Years War.” The Annual Norbert A. Kuntz Memorial Lecture in History, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, Vermont, 24 March, 2015 “Towards a Reassessment of Giles of Rome’s Influence on Later Medieval Intellectual Culture.” Dartmouth Medieval Seminar, Hanover, New Hampshire, 19 February 2014

3 “Scholarly and Intellectual Authority in late Medieval European Mirrors.” New Approaches to the History of Political Thought: Mirrors of Princes Reconsidered, Freie Universität, Berlin, 2 November 2012 (unable to attend, owing to flight cancellations from Hurricane Sandy: paper submitted and read in absentia) “The Textual Culture of the Universities, 13th-15th Centuries.” Invited lecture, Graduate Seminar on Scribal Texts, sponsored by the Textual Studies Program and the Department of English, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 23 May 2012 “Morality, Politics, and Scholarly Authority in Later Medieval Compendia of the Virtues.” Dartmouth Medieval Seminar, Hanover, New Hampshire, 18 April 2012 “Between Scholasticism and Humanism: Academic Moral Philosophy in the Later Middle Ages.” Invited lecture, Seminar in Medieval Studies, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, 7 March 2011 “The Problematic Publishing Background of the Bible in English, from Wyclif through the Mid- Sixteenth Century.” Panel on Authorized Versions: Perspectives on the King James Bible, cosponsored by the UVM Friends of Special Collections and the Durick Library, St. Michael’s College, in coordination with an NEH-funded traveling exhibit on the King James Bible, Manifold Greatness: the Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible. Burlington, Vermont, 27 March 2012 “‘Be ye prudent as serpents’: The Cardinal Virtues and the Languages of Politics.” Invited paper for the workshop, “Translating Political Thought in the Middle Ages,” Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen, Norway, December 2010. (Note: I was unable to attend this workshop owing to flight cancellations resulting from bad weather; however, my paper and the introduction I prepared for it were read at the workshop and I participated by reading all the other contributors papers and making comments via email.) “The Written Culture of the Medieval Universities.” Invited lecture, Graduate Seminar on Scribal Texts, sponsored by the Textual Studies Program and the Department of English, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, May 2010 “Reconstructing the Role of Moral Philosophy in Medieval England and Beyond, One Manuscript at a Time.” Annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, New Haven, Connecticut, March 2010 “Christ’s Broken Body: A Unifying Myth and Narrating the End of the Middle Ages.” Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire January 2010 “Wandering in/from the Footsteps of Ferguson, Holmes, Hay, and Waley: (Re-)Writing the History of the Later Middle Ages.” Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, October 2009 “Globalizing the Study of ‘Medieval’ Historical Writing: The Shape of the Oxford History of Historical Writing.” The Vermont Medieval Colloquium, Colchester, Vermont, February 2009 “Latin and Vernacular 11th-14th Century .” Globalizing the History of Historical Writing: The Plenary Conference of the Oxford History of Historical Writing, Edmonton, Alberta, September 2008 “Aristotle, Politics, and the Dominicans in the Later Middle Ages.” 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2008 “Philosophi in adiutorio fidei: Pastoral Uses of Pagan Moral Philosophy in the Later Middle Ages.” 33rd annual meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Spartanburg, South Carolina, October 2007. “The Political Virtues and Their Public in Late Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century England.” 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2007 “Organization, Reception, and Uses of Manuscripts of Moral Philosophy, s. XII-XV.” Everything But the Text: A Manuscript Workshop, Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, February 2007

4 “Knowledge = Power? The Clerkly King as a Problematic Model in the Later Middle Ages.” Sewanee Medieval Colloquium: Power in the Middle Ages, Sewanee, Tennessee, April 2006 “Kingship and Knowledge in the Later Middle Ages: From Philosopher-Imam, to Clerkly King, to Renaissance Prince.” Invited public lecture, sponsored by the Textual Studies Program, Comp Lit Program, and English Department, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, February 2006 “Moral Philosophy and Secularization in Later Medieval Education.” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England, July 2005 “Moral Discourse: Academic Uses of Aristotle’s Rhetorica in the Later Middle Ages.” Annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Seattle, Washington, April 2004 “De Divortio Mercurii et Philologiae: Changing Attitudes toward Language and Latinity in the Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Schools.” Invited Lecture to the Medieval Studies Program, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2003 “‘Selonc mon oppinion la coustume de Juys soit en ce point meilleur’: A Favorable Assessment of Jewish Education in France ca. 1330.” 29th annual meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Fayetteville, Arkansas, October 2003 “Translation as Pedagogy: Academic Discourse and Changing Attitudes toward Latin in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries.” IIIrd European Congress of Medieval Studies, Jyväskylä, Finland, June 2003 “Reading and Teaching Aristotle’s Moral Philosophy, c. 1200-1450: The Manuscript Evidence.” 28th annual meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Tallahassee, Florida, September 2002 “Written Culture of the Scholastics, I: Material Culture and the Book Trade, Pecia System--Scribal Labor--Economic Issues--Tools of the Trade” and “Written Culture of the Scholastics, II: Development of Textual Culture, Literacy--Discourse--Memorization.” Invited lectures, seminar on Scribal Texts, sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Textual Studies Program, University of Washington, Seattle, May 2002 “Popularizing the Philosopher: Aristotle, Medieval Academic Discourse, and Translation.” Invited public lecture, sponsored by the Textual Studies Program, Department of English, and the Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, May 2002 “Moral Lore by Other Means: Manuscripts of Compendia Moralis Philosophiae and Their Function.” 27th annual meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 2001 “‘La plus profitable science’: Moral Philosophy and Its Utility in the Middle Ages.” Medieval Research Seminar Group, University of Cambridge, May 2001 “Moral Philosophy and the Schools: What the MSS Tell Us.” Palaeography Seminar, University of London, April 2001 “Popularizing the Philosopher: Moral Discourse and the Vernacular in the Later Middle Ages.” Denys Hay Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance History, University of Edinburgh, April 2001 “Mediating the Philosopher, from Brunetto to Christine.” English Medievalists Graduate Seminar, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, March 2001 “Using Moral Philosophy in England, 1150-1450.” History Department Research Seminar, University of Reading, Reading, England, January 2001 “In Praise of Trifles . . . or Why Humanities Research Matters.” Georgia Southern University Focus on Excellence Series Lecture, Statesboro, Georgia, November 2000 “Bartolomeo da San Concordio’s Compendium moralis philosophiae and Early Fourteenth-Century Dominican Education.” 20th Annual Medieval Studies Conference (“Education in Middle Ages”), Fordham University, New York, New York, March 2000

5 “The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Prince: Moral Philosophy and the Translation of Learned Discourse.” Invited lecture, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, February 2000 “Reading, Writing, and Literacy in the Middle Ages: An Interdisciplinary Approach.” Invited lecture to the Departments of History and English, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, October 1999 “Teaching Philosophy at School and Court: Medieval Vulgarization and Translation.” Conference presented by the Medieval and Renaissance Seminar, University of Western Ontario (“Vernacularity: The Politics of Language and Style”), London, Ontario, March 1999 “Aristotle Made Easy: Vulgarization, Vernacularity, and Translatio Studii in the Later Middle Ages.” Invited lecture, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Medieval Studies Curriculum Program, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, January 1999 “Towards a Reception History of Aristotle’s Moral Philosophy in Later Medieval Europe.” 24th annual meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Decatur, Georgia, October 1998 “Learned Commentaries for the Laity: Translator’s Glosses in Books of Moral Philosophy.” Sewanee Mediaeval Colloquium: Reading and the Book in the Middle Ages, Sewanee, Tennessee, April 1998 “Scribal Labor and Book Provision at the Medieval Universities,” and “Textual Transmission and Reception at the Medieval Universities.” Invited lectures, seminar on Scribal Texts, sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Textual Studies Program, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, January 1998 “The Memory of Books: Reassessing Memory and Mnemotechnique in the Later Middle Ages.” 32nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1997 “Giles of Rome’s Legacy: Reading De regimine principum in the Later Middle Ages.” Annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Kansas City, Missouri, April 1996 “Interdisciplinary Study and the Middle Ages: One Historian’s Thoughts.” Roberts Lecture in Western European Studies, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, April 1996 “Towards a Critical Edition of Trevisa’s De regimine principum Translation: Problems, Solutions, Contributions.” 21st annual meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Charleston, South Carolina, October 1995 “Medieval Manuscripts and the Modern-Day Historian.” Georgia Southern University Humanities Forum, Statesboro, Georgia, May 1995 “‘Faciliter poteris librum quotare’: Aids to the Reader in the Margins of Giles of Rome’s Speculum.” The Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500: Undefined Fields in Medieval Books - Margins, Borders, Spaces, Oxford, England, July 1994 “Getting It Half Right: An English Replacement Leaf in Charles V’s De regimine principum (Cambridge, Jesus College MS Q.B.9).” 29th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1994 “Texts, Tabulae, and Late Medieval Scholarship: The Case of Giles of Rome’s De regimine principum.” Nineteenth Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, St. Louis, Missouri, October 1992 “Princely Mirrors and Diverse Readers: The Late Medieval English Audience of Giles of Rome’s De regimine principum.” 27th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1992 “Giles of Rome’s De regimine principum and Its Royal Audience in Late Medieval England.” Carolinas Symposium on British Studies, Birmingham, Alabama, October 1991 “Clerici Armati in Fourteenth-Century England: The Background to the Creation of a Clerical Militia during the Hundred Years War.” 25th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1990

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PANELS AND SESSIONS Session chair and respondent, Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages. 32nd annual meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Oxford, Mississippi, October 2006 Commentator of session, Medieval Queenship. Sewanee Medieval Colloquium: Power in the Middle Ages, Sewanee, Tennessee, April, 2006 Organizer, presider, and commentator of session, Cultural Intersections of Script and Print in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England. Thirty-First Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, St. Louis, Missouri, October 2004 Presider of session, Medieval Antiquity. 29th annual meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Fayetteville, Arkansas, October 2003 Presider and commentator of session, Lincoln: The University That Never Was. 27th annual meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 2001 Co-organizer and commentator of session, Classical Texts and Their Transmission. 25th annual meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 1999 Presider of session, Looking to a New Age. Sewanee Mediaeval Colloquium: Last Things: Apocalypse, Judgment, Millennium, and Millennialism in the Middle Ages, Sewanee, Tennessee, March 1999 Co-organizer of session, The Transmission of Texts at the Medieval Schools and Beyond. 24th annual meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Decatur, Georgia, October 1998 Presider of session, Iconography II. 32nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1997 Panelist, Western Civilization vs. World Civilization: History and the Core Curriculum. Meeting of the Georgia Deans of Arts and Sciences, Statesboro, Georgia, February 1996

COURSES TAUGHT Encountering the Other in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. First-year Honors College seminar (UVM) The Pursuit of Knowledge. First-year Honors College seminar (UVM) Europe Goes Global, 1200-1550. First-year TAP seminar (UVM) Books, Reading, and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Senior seminar (UVM) The Renaissance. Intermediate-level course (UVM) The British Isles, 1350-1688. Intermediate-level course (UVM) Early Europe in Film. Introductory survey (UVM) Warfare and Crusades in the Middle Ages. UVM summer school Crisis and Change in Late Medieval Europe. Intemediate-level course on the history of late medieval Europe (UVM) Medieval Latin Historians. Graduate guided reading course in medieval Latin(GSU) The Representation and Reality of Rulership in the Middle Ages. Graduate guided reading course (GSU) Readings in European History: Plague, War, and Piety in Later Medieval Europe. Graduate reading colloquium (GSU) The Age of Chivalry: Europe, 1000-1300. Seminar for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students on society and culture in the central Middle Ages (GSU) Communication and Culture to A.D. 1600. Senior seminar which traces developments in written culture from its beginnings until the early modern period. It also takes a comparative approach, giving due consideration to non-written forms of communication and to the role of writing in cultures outside the West (GSU). History Methods. Required seminar for history majors (GSU and UVM) History of England to 1603. Upper-level survey (GSU) Ancient and Medieval Cultures. Honors seminar (GSU) The Middle Ages. Upper-level survey (GSU)

7 Early Europe, 500-1648 CE. Introductory survey (UVM) Western Civilization to 1650. Introductory survey (GSU) Global History to 1500. Introductory survey (GSU and UVM) Global History since 1500. Introductory survey (GSU and UVM)

SERVICE ON THESIS COMMITTEES AT UVM Andrew Bowen history honors thesis committee member, May 2015 Emily Stoneking MA thesis committee member, May 2015

MA THESIS DIRECTED James W. Dudley, The Military Economy of Roman Britain. 2004.

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE AT GSU Acting Director of Honors Programs, 2004-2005 Duties and Accomplishments: directing a University-wide program, serving over 300 students. Duties included student recruitment and admissions; program development, curriculum development, and fund- raising; enlisting faculty from all Colleges to teach in program; management of budget and office staff (administrative assistant, graduate student assistant, and two undergraduate assistants); evaluation of student performance and student advising; arranging student trips and activities. Accomplishments include creation of a full-time Assistant Director of Honors position, and getting approval from the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs for a radical restructuring of the Honors Program, which includes the incorporation of freshman and junior Honors seminars, a Freshman Year Experience, and a redirection of funds from small but broadly distributed student scholarships to larger, multi-purpose targeted scholarships, a faculty buyout scheme, and an Honors Lecture series.

MAJOR POSITIONS AND COMMITTEES CHAIRED AT GSU Chair, Modern Chinese History Search Committee, 2006-2007 Chair, University Honors Council, 2004-2005 Chair, Departmental Tenure Guidelines Revision Committee, 2004 Member, GSU College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Promotions Committee, 2002-2003 Member, GSU Honors Committee, 2001-2005 Member, GSU Faculty Research Committee, 2001-2003 Chair, Departmental Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2001, 2002, 2007 Associate Coordinator, Classical and Medieval Studies Minor Program, 1998-2004 Faculty Coordinator, GSU Humanities Forum, 1997-2004 Chair, Early Modern European Religious History Search Committee, 1998-1999 Chair, History Dept. Publications Committee, 1997-1998

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Expert external evaluator for European Research Council Advanced Grant proposal, 2015 Book reviewer for Lyceum Books, 2014 Book reviewer for Brepols, 2014 Submission reader for Journal of Medieval History, 2013 Submission evaluator for Routledge, 2013 Consultant for Oxford Analytica, 2011. Project title: “Education and the Vernacular Languages in Medieval and Renaissance Europe.” Submission reader for Journal of Medieval History, 2011 Book reviewer for University of Notre Dame Press, 2011 Book reviewer for Routledge, 2011 Submissions reader for Journal of Religious History, 2010 Book proposal evaluator for Yale University Press, 2010 Book reviewer for Brill, 2010 Submissions reader for Chaucer Review, 2010 Steering Committee Member, New England Medieval Conference, 2009-2015 Editorial Board Member, LATCH, 2009-2012

8 Review Board Member, The Medieval Review, 2006-2009 Book reviewer for Böhlau Verlag Book proposal reader for Routledge Submissions reader for Speculum Executive Council Member, Southeastern Medieval Association, 2000-2003 Editorial Board Member, Medieval Perspectives, 2000-2003

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Medieval Academy of America New England Medieval Conference Royal Historical Society

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