CURRICULUM VITAE OF FREDERICK SUPPE (June 10, 2017)
CONTACT INFORMATION: Department of History Ball State University Muncie, Indiana 47306 USA
Office telephone: (765) 285-8783 E-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION: Ph.D. in Medieval History, University of Minnesota, 1981. M.A. in Medieval History, University of Minnesota, 1973. A.B. in History, Princeton University, 1969.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT: 1989- present Department of History, Ball State University 1994 – present: Associate Professor 1989-1994: Assistant Professor 1988-1989 Department of History, Clemson University: Visiting Assistant Professor 1981-1988 Department of History, University of Minnesota 1983 -1988: Lecturer and Adjunct Assistant Professor 1981-1983: Visiting Assistant Professor
BOOKS: Military Institutions on the Welsh Marches: Shropshire, 1066- 1300 (Boydell and Brewer, Ltd, Monograph series “Studies in Celtic History,” David Dumville, series editior. 1994) [reviewed in Albion vol. 28 (1996); American Historical Review, vol. 101 (1996); English Historical Review, vol. 111 (1996); Speculum, vol. 72 (1997). Introduction and Chapter One are posted on the website of De Re Militari, a medieval Military history society, at http://www.deremilitari.org/resources/articles/suppe.htm.] The Celtic World, a 131-page course guide for a radio broadcast course, Department of Independent Study, University of Minnesota, 1984.
JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND ONLINE PUBLICATIONS: “Marriage Patterns in Interpreter Families on the Central Welsh Marches during the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries,” article commissioned by the editors, Marguerite Ragnow and Stephen Fanning, to appear in a festschrift to honor Bernard Bachrach (forthcoming, Medieval Institute Publications, Kalamazoo, Michigan) (5680 words). “[Medieval] Welsh Literature,” commissioned and refereed article for online encyclopedia, Oxford Bibliographies in Medieval Studies, ed. Paul E. Szarmach (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012 http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com) (3023 words). C.V. OF FREDERICK SUPPE Page Two
“Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare, ‘Strongbow’” and “Military Obligation,” two commissioned Articles (700 words, and 1980 words) for Medieval Warfare and Military Technology: an Encyclopedia, ed. Clifford Rogers (Oxford University Press, 2010). “Warfare in Ireland and Wales,” commissioned article for Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert Bjork (Oxford University Press, 2010) (347 words). Fourteen short articles (“Brycheiniog,” “Ceredigion,” “Deheubarth,” “Dyfed,” “Gruffudd ap Cynan,” “Gruffudd ap Llywelyn,” “Gruffudd ap Rhys,” “Gwynedd,” “Marcher Lords,” “Montgomery Family,” “Montgomery Rebellion, “Powys,” “Rhys ap Tewdwr,” “[The] Welsh” (8,300 words total) commissioned by the editor for Early Peoples of Britain and Ireland, ed. Christopher Snyder (Greenwood Press, 2008). “Interpreter Families and Anglo-Welsh Relations in the Shropshire-Powys Marches in the Twelfth Century,” Anglo-Norman Studies 30 (2007), pp. 196-212. Five commissioned articles (on Walter de Clifford, John Fitz Alan, Fulk Fitz Warin, John de Lacy, and William Pantulf) for Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004). “The Significance of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066,” in Events that Changed Great Britain to 1689, edd. Frank W. Thackery and John E. Findling (Greenwood Publishing, 2004) pp. 6-18. Co-author with Bernard Bachrach, “An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Meaning and Significance of Ptolemy’s Alkimoennis,” (special volume of Scripta Antiqva in Honorem A.Montenegro Duque et J.M. Blázquez Martínez, University of Vallodolid, Spain, 2004), pp. 681-691. “Roger of Powys, Henry II’s Anglo-Welsh Middleman, and his Lineage,” Welsh History Review, 21, June 2002, pp. 1-23. “The Persistence of Castle-Guard in the Welsh Marches and Wales: Suggestions for a Research Agenda and Methodology,” in a festschrift honoring Warren Hollister, The Normans and Their Adversaries at War, edd. Richard Abels and Bernard Bachrach (Boydell and Brewer, 2001), pp. 201-221. “Who was Rhys Sais? Some Comments on Anglo-Welsh Relations before 1066,” The Haskins Society Journal, 7 (1995), pp. 63-74. “Religious Continuity at Kelheim and the Foundation of Weltenburg Abbey,” Chapter 19 in Settlement, Economy and Change at the End of the European Iron Age: Excavations at Kelheim in Bavaria, 1987-1991, ed. Peter S. Wells, vol. 6 in the series “International Monographs in Prehistory,” Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1994). “The Cultural Significance of Decapitation in High Medieval Wales and the Marches,” Bulletin Of the Board of Celtic Studies (1989), pp. 147-160. English translation of Paul Butel, “La France, les Antilles et l’Europe aux XVIIee et XVIIIe Siècles. Renouvellments du commerce extérieur,” in The Rise of Merchant Empires, ed. James Tracy (Cambridge University Press, 1990). “Castle Guard and the Castlery of Clun,” The Haskins Society Journal, 1 (1989), pp. 123-134. [Reprinted in Anglo-Norman Castles, ed. Robert Liddiard (The Boydell Press, 2003), pp. 211-221. “Some Reflections on Interdisciplinary Studies,” Center for Ancient Studies Newsletter (University of Minnesota, Winter 1988), pp. 6-7. C.V. OF FREDERICK SUPPE Page Three
“The Garrisoning of Oswestry, a Baronial Castle on the Welsh Marches,” in The Medieval Castle. Romance and Reality, edd. Kathryn Ryerson and Faye Powe (Kendall/Hunt, 1984), pp. 63-78.
WORK IN PROGRESS: Article length studies on the medieval Welsh ethnic nicknames, “Sais” [= “English”] and “Gwyddel” [= Irish]. Article, “Iorwerth Goch and the ‘Dream of Rhonabwy’”. Book project, A Cultural History of the Celtic Peoples from Antiquity to the Present.
BOOK REVIEWS: Review of David Stephenson, Political Power in Medieval Gwynedd to appear in Speculum, Vol. 92:3 (July 2017). Review of Michael Livingston and John K. Bollard, eds., Owain Glyndŵr: A Casebook in Speculum, Vol. 89:4 (October 2014), pp. 1175-6. Review of Cynthia Neville, Land, Law, and People in Medieval Scotland in online journal, The Medieval Review, posted online October 2014. Review of Sara Elin Roberts, Llawysgrif Pomffred: An Edition and Study of Peniarth MS 259B In online journal, The Medieval Review, posted online November 2011. Review of Charles Coulson, Castles in Medieval Society: Fortresses in England, France, and Ireland in the Central Middle Ages in The American Historical Review, December 2004. Review of Kelly DeVries, A Cumulative Bibliography of Medieval Military History and Technology, in The Journal of Military History, vol. 66 (October 2002), pp. 1190-1. Review of Alun Rhys Cownie, Geiriadur Idiomau. A Dictionary of Welsh and English Idiomatic Phrases in Ninnau, October 2002, p. 7. Review of Anthony Emery, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales 1300 -1500, Vol. II East Anglia, Central England, and Wales in The Historian 64 (Spring-Summer 2002), p. 814. Review of Murray Pittock, Celtic Identity and the British Image, in Scotia 23 (1999), pp. 53-4. Review of R. R. Davies, The Revolt of Owain Glyn Dŵr, in Speculum (January 1999), p. 153-5. Review of A.D. Carr, Medieval Wales in Speculum (January 1999), pp. 137-8. Review of Roger Turvey, The Lord Rhys, Prince of Deheubarth in Speculum, January 1999, pp. 259-60. Review of Benjamin T. Hudson, Kings of Celtic Scotland in Scotia 19 (1997). Review of J.R. Maddicott, Simon de Montfort in Albion (1995). Review of Stephen Morillo, Warfare under the Anglo-Norman Kings in American Historical Review (June 1996). Review of Huw Pryce, Native Law and the Church in Medieval Wales in Speculum (April 1995),pp. 414-6. Review of T. H. Lloyd, England and the German Hansa 1157-1611. A Study of Their Trade and Commercial Diplomacy, in Albion (Winter 1993), pp. 663-5. Review of N.J.G. Pounds, The Medieval Castle in England and Wales: A Social and Political History, in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, vol. 14 (1993), pp 221-224. C.V. OF FREDERICK SUPPE Page Four
Review of Elissa Henken, The Welsh Saints, A Study in Patterned Lives, in Speculum, (January 1994), pp 172-3. Review of A.D. Carr, Owen of Wales: The End of the House of Gwynedd, in Speculum, (October 1993), pp. 1078-9. Review of Michael J. O’Kelly, Early Ireland: An Introduction to Irish Prehistory, in Eire- Ireland (Fall 1992), pp. 136-8. Review of Robert Bartlett and Angus Mackay, edd. Medieval Frontier Societies, in Albion (Fall 1991). Review of Hilda Ellis Davidson, The Seer in Celtic and Other Traditions, in Scotia vol. 13 (1990), pp. 57-8. Comparative Review of Anne Ross, The Pagan Celts, and Miranda Green, The Gods of the Celts in Archaeology (March-April 1988), pp. 72-4. Review article of David Stephenson, The Governance of Gwynedd, and Alexander Grant, Independence and Nationhood. Scotland 1306 – 1469, in Medieval Prosopography (Spring 1987), pp. 111-118. Review of R.R. McIan and James Logan, The Clans of the Scottish Highlands, in Minnesota Daily, (May 19, 1981).
SELECTED UNPUBLISHED CONFERENCE PAPERS: “Sizing up ‘Sais’ in Dyffryn Clwyd: ‘English’ Welshmen in Late Medieval Wales,” presented At the annual conference of the Celtic Studies Association of North America at the University of California at Berkeley, March 2009. “Anglo-Welsh Relations during the Twelfth Century: the Role of Interpreter Families,” invited Plenary address to annual conference of the Midwest Medieval History Association, at the University of Evansville, October 2006. “Boundaries Used by Authors of Surveys,” presented in a session on “The Ambit of ‘Celtic’: Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” at the International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2005. “Iorwerth Goch, A Mirror of Twelfth Century Anglo-Welsh Relations,” presented at annual Haskins Society conference at Cornell University, November 2002. “Iorwerth Goch and the ‘Dream of Rhonabwy’,” presented at annual conference of the Celtic Studies Association of North America, University of Notre Dame, May 2002. “Historical and Prosopographical Significance of Medieval Welsh Llysenwau (nicknames),” Refereed paper presented at Eleventh International Congress of Celtic Studies, University of Cork, Ireland, July 1999. “Evolution in the Usage and Social Significance of the Soubriquet ‘Sais’ in Medieval Wales During the Age of the Princes,” invited paper presented at the “Wales in the Age of the Princes” conference at the University of Wales, Bangor, July 1997. “Medieval Anglo-Welsh Intermarriage,” invited paper presented at the Institute for Historical Research, University of London, February 5, 1997. “Anglo-Welsh Cross-Cultural Marriages in Wales and the Marches, 1050 – 1300,” Tenth International Congress of Celtic Studies, Edinburgh, July 1995. C.V. OF FREDERICK SUPPE Page Five
“Anglo-Welsh Cross-Cultural Marriages, 1050 – 1300,” annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Tucson, Arizona, April 1, 1993. “Sizing up ‘Sais’: Comments on the Cultural Meaning of the Welsh Soubriquet, 1050 -1300,” Annual meeting of the Celtic Studies Association of North America, Seattle, Washington, April 23, 1993. “Anglo-Welsh Marriages, 1050 -1300,” Wabash Medieval Studies Group, Wabash College, Indiana, October 8, 1991. “Cross-Cultural Marriages in High Medieval Wales and the Marches, with an Excursus upon ‘Sais’,” International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1991. “Interpreters, Guides, and Cultural Intermediaries on the High Medieval Welsh Marches,” Annual conference of the Celtic Studies Association of North America, UCLS, May 1990. “The Wardens of the Welsh Marches,” International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1989. “A Universal Model for Celtic Societies?” Center for Ancient Studies, University of Minnesota, January 6, 1988. “Decapitation in Medieval Wales and the Marches,” International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1983. “Negotiations at Fords on the Welsh Marches,” Haskins Society conference, November 1982. “The Muntatores of Oswestry,” International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1978.
TEACHING FIELDS: Comparative Celtic History & Culture Western Civilization (Including history of Wales, Scotland Renaissance and Reformation And Ireland) Historical Research and Writing Medieval European History Graduate Seminar on Europe, 1300 -1700 British History Welsh Language Medieval English Constitutional History Celtic Folklore Honors Colloquium on Castles
ADDITIONAL PEDAGOGY AT BALL STATE UNIVERSITY: 2016-17 Supervised Honors Thesis for Claudia Nicholas 2016- 17 Chair of MA Committee for Alexis Robertson (History) 2016-17 Chair of MA Committee for Hayden Shaw (History) 2014-15 Chair of MA Committee for Cortney Cantrell (History) 2014-15 Member of MA committee for Alison Galbari (Anthropology) 2014-15 Member of MA Committee for Nathanial Pass (History) 2013-14 Chair of MA Committee for Alysha Page (History) 2013 Member of MA Committee for Janna Söder (History) 2013 Member of MA Committee for Richard Usdowski (History) 2012-13 Member of MA Committee for Thomas Draper (History) 2012 Member of MA Committee for Michael-Lee Brockhouse (History) C.V. OF FREDERICK SUPPE Page Six
2010-13 Member of doctoral committee for Stephen Jones (English) 2010-12 Member of doctoral Committee for Abigail Comber (English) 2010-14 Member of MA Committee for Kimberley Finzel (Anthropology) 2010-13 Member of MA Committee for Kevin Crafton (Anthropology) 2009-14 Member of MA Committee for Jennifer Morrill (History) 2009-10 Member of MA Committee for Lon Brown (History) 2009-10 Member of doctoral committee for Diana Romito (Educational Leadership) 2009-10 Supervised Honors Thesis for Sarah Means Summer 2009 Taught Welsh to English Department doctoral student, Stephen Jones. 2006-2014 Chair of MA Committee for Elizabeth Miller (History) 2005- 09 Member of doctoral committee for Laura Schwartz (English) 2003 Chair of MA Committee for Kevin Brooks (History) 2003 Supervised Honors Thesis for Eric Efaw 2002 Weekly tutorial on medieval Welsh history for two Indiana Academy Students, Leah Schwebach and Mimi Zhang 2001-02 Member of doctoral committee for Warren Moore (English) 2000 Member of MA committee for Andrew Gage (History) Fall 1999 Taught 3-credit Welsh language course to graduate student, Kevin Brooks 1998-99 Member of doctoral committee for Anastasia Smith (Educational Leadership) 1998 Member of MA committee for Theodore Petro (History) 1995 Supervised Honors thesis for Laura Ward 1994-95 Member of MA committee for Aaron Hoffman 1994 Supervised Honors Thesis for Mark Hayes 1994 Member of MA committee for Lisa Minichillo 1994 Chair of MA committee for Maria Gonzalez 1993-94 Supervised Honors Thesis for Sara Croasdaile 1993 Supervised Kerry McDonald’s Honors Thesis 1992 Supervised Honors Thesis for Jennifer Hughes
HONORS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS: Fall 2003 Sabbatical Leave Spring 1997 Sabbatical Leave as Visiting Fellow at Harris-Manchester College, Oxford University. Summer 1995 American Council of Learned Societies [competitive] Travel Grant To present paper at tenth International Congress of Celtic Studies at Edinburgh University. Summer 1993 Ball State University Summer Research Grant for research at Newberry Library, Chicago. C.V. OF FREDERICK SUPPE Page Seven
Summer 1990 Ball State University New Faculty Research Grant for research at Munich and Kelheim in Bavaria. 1982 St. Andrew’s Society Fellowship (Minneapolis, Minnesota). 1974-76 Fulbright Fellowship, University College of Wales, Aberystywth. 1972-73 Thomas F. Wallace Fellowship, University of Minnestoa.
SELECTED CONSULTING AND REVIEWING ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC PEDAGOGY: 2016 Referee for article manuscript “Welsh Marches” for online journal, History Compass. 2016 Outside Reader for Honors Thesis of Alexandrea Kord at University of Colorado, Boulder. 2014-16. Member of Editorial Review Board for The Medieval Review, an online review journal for books on medieval topics. 2012, 2015 Reviewer of book proposal and manuscript “Seals and Society” for University of Wales Press. 2009-10. Historical Consultant to Ball State University Theater Department for production of Shakespeare’s “MacBeth”. 2010. Referee for article manuscript “Medieval Welsh Law and Lawbooks” for online journal, History Compass. 2008. Paid consultant and presenter for Washington-Centerville Public Library, Dayton, Ohio, for their programming associated with donated replica of Book of Kells. Presentations on “Where History Meets Art,” and “The Tribes of Ireland.” 2002, 2003. Referee for Cambridge University Press for book manuscripts. 2003. Referee for University of Toronto Press for book manuscript. 1999. Referee for Boydell & Brewer, Ltd. For book manuscript. 1998 Consultant to Wells BDDP [Advertising Agency] for History Channel campaign for series on the Celts. 1996. Consultant for Ball State University Theater Department production of Brian Friel’s “Dancing at Lugnasa”. 1995. Referee for Penn State University Press for book manuscript. 1995. External MA Committee member for student Laura Radiker at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. 1993-94. Compensated consultant to Time-Life Books for The Celts: Europe’s People of Iron (volume in series “Lost Civilizations”, published 1994). 1993 Referee for Speculum for journal article manuscript. 1993, 1999, 2001. Referee for Haskins Society Journal for article manuscripts. 1992. As compensated consultant reviewed proposal for new Western Civilization text Under development by Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press. 1990, 1992. As compensated consultant reviewed 7 chapters of new Western Civilization text Under development by West Publishing. Also reviewed proposed revised map Program for second edition of this text. C.V. OF FREDERICK SUPPE Page Eight
1991. Referee for journal Scotia for article manuscript. 1991. Referee for journal Albion for article manuscript. 1989. As compensated consultant reviewed chapters of new Western Civilization text For D. C. Heath.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES: French German Latin and Medieval Latin Welsh and Middle Welsh I have also studied Irish and Old Irish.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS: American Historical Association Celtic Studies Association of North America Charles Homer Haskins Society De Re Militari Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion Medieval Academy of America Powysland Club Societas Celtologica Europaea Society for Military History
ADMINISTRATIVE AND COMMITTEE SERVICE EXPERIENCE:
1.Outside the Ball State University Community: 2010, 2013, 2014. Member of US Student Fulbright National Screening Committee (for Ireland) for Institute for International Education. 1994-2011. Treasurer and Council Member of the Charles Homer Haskins Society (an international organization of medieval historians). 2003-5, 2010 Council member of the Celtic Studies Association of North America. 2008-10 President of the Celtic Studies Association of North America. 2006- 8 Vice President of the Celtic Studies Association of North America. April 1999 Invited Commentator for session of papers on medieval military topics at Annual conference of the Medieval Academy of America at Georgetown University. 1997 Conference Organizer for the Haskins Society annual conference in Houston, Texas. 1993 – present Organizer of sessions at the International Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan for the Celtic Studies Association of North America C.V. OF FREDERICK SUPPE Page Nine
2.Within Ball State University: 2010-present Member of Ball State University Fulbright Screening Committee. 2012-13 Member of University Grade Appeal Committee. 2002-09 Member of University Senate 2007-08 Member of Senate Ad Hoc Task Force to draft rules and procedures for e-meetings. 2002-06 Member of University Senate Governance Committee. 2005-09 Member of University Senate Agenda Committee 2006-08 Member of Undergraduate Education Committee 2005 -07 Member of Subcommittee on the University Core Curriculum. 1992-96 Member of Professional Affairs Council. 1992-94 Member of Salary and Benefits Committee 1994-96 Member of Teaching Evaluation Committee. 1991-92 Member of “Europe Year” Social Sciences College Subcommittee (Acting Chair, Spring 1991) Chair, United Kingdom Subcommittee. Acting Chair, Ireland Subcommittee, Spring 1992. Acting Chair, Wales Subcommittee, Spring 1992. 1990 -2005 Member of Organizing Committee for annual Conference for the Advancement of Early Studies held at Ball State University.
3.Within the History Department: 2014 – present Assistant Chair, History Department. 2012-14 Member of Honors and Merit Committee. (Chair of Committee, 2012-13.) 2006-14 Coordinator of Academic Advising for History Department. 2009-10 Chair of Search Committee for position in Early Modern European History 2004-06 Acting Director of Program in Ancient Studies. 2003-05 Member of Search Committee for Bracken Chair in American History. 2003-04 Member of Search Committee for position in Ancient History. 2002-03 Member of Search Committee for position in Russian History. 2001-05 Member of History Department Graduate Programs Committee. 1998-2006 Academic Advisor to assigned History and Social Studies majors (10-20 students per year). 1997-2002 Faculty Co-Advisor for Phi Alpha Theta (national history honors Society). 1997- 2003 Chair of History Department Library and Information Sciences Committee. 1997-8, 1999-2000, Member and Secretary of History Department Promotion and Tenure 2000-01, 2002-03, Committee 2006-7, 2007-8, 2008-9, 2010-11. C.V. OF FREDERICK SUPPE Page Ten
1995-96 Chair of Search Committee for position in French History. 1994-96, 2004-6 Member of Merit Committee. 1990-91 Member of Search Committee for position in Non-Western History. 1990-96, 1998-2002, Member of History Department Advisory Committee 2006 - present 1990-96 Recording Secretary for History Department.