FELICE LIFSHITZ

Department of History, Florida International University

Miami, Florida 33199

Tel: (305) 348 - 3557 FAX: (305) 348 - 3561

e-mail: Lifshitz@fiu.edu

COMPREHENSIVE CURRICULUM VITAE

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

Fall, 1995 - present Associate Professor of History, Florida International University

Fall, 1991 – Spring 1995 and Summer 2003 – present Fellow, Honors College, FIU

Spring, 1999 Guest Researcher, Forschungsstelle Mittelalter, Österreichische Akademie der

Wissenschaften

Calendar, 1998 Visiting Professor, Historisches Seminar, Universität Frankfurt/Main

Fall, 1997 Guest Researcher, Abteilung Landesgeschichte, Universität Freiburg/Breisgau

1989 - 1995 Assistant Professor of History, Florida International University

Fall, 1993 Visiting Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Toronto, Canada)

1988-89 Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Trinity College (Hartford)

Summer 1985 Chair, Committee for the Integration of Gender Issues into the Core Curriculum,

Columbia University (Ford Foundation Project)

1984-86 Preceptor, Contemporary Civilization Staff, Columbia University

Summer 1985 Instructor, Dept. of History, Columbia University

1983-84 Teaching Assistant, Dept. of History, Columbia University

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS:

Fall, 2002 Florida Humanities Council, Mini-Grant ($2000) and Jay I. Kislak Foundation

Mini-Grant ($2000), to fund symposium "Dialogues II/2002: Medieval Miami and

its Parallels: Crossroads Cities Around the Tropic of Cancer" (December, 2002)

Spring, 2001 Florida Humanities Council, Major Grant ($12, 833) to fund symposium

"Dialogues I/2001: Court and Plaza in the Spanish Atlantic" (November, 2001)

Spring, 2000 F.I.U. Faculty Senate Excellence in Research Award ($3000)

Calendar, 1998 Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Fellowship

Fall, 1997 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Study Visit Grant

Summer, 1995 Florida International University Foundation Grant

Fall, 1994 State of Florida Teaching Incentive Program Award

Fall, 1994 Academy for the Art of Teaching Grant, F.I.U.

Summer, 1994 American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant

Fall, 1993 Visiting Junior Fellowship, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto

Summer, 1990 Florida International University Foundation Grant

1989 - 1990 Florida International University Excellence Award ($1000)

1989 - 1993 Florida International University Faculty Development Mini-Grants

1987-88 Whiting Foundation Dissertation Year Grant

1986-87 Columbia University Travelling Fellowship

1981-84 Columbia University President's Fellowships

l982-83 Jewish Foundation for Education of Women Grant

1976-80 Barnard College Grants

EDUCATION:

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University

Ph.D. in History May 1988

M. Phil. in History May 1984

M.A. in History January 1983

Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris

1986 - 1987: coursework and tutorials

Barnard College, Columbia University

B.A. May 1981 cum laude in Medieval Studies

THESES:

"The Dossier of Saint Romanus of Rouen: the Political Uses of Hagiographical Texts" (Ph.D)

"The Franco-Gallic Missionaries to Anglo-Saxon England" (M.A.)

"Benzo of Alba's Libri VII ad Heinricum IV: A Translation and Commentary" (B.A.)

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

I.Books and Major Projects

Heteroreligiosity: Women, Men and Manuscript Culture East of the Middle Rhine (8th-9th

Century) (Book Manuscript in Progress)

The Name of the Saint: Martyrologies, Politics and Access to the Sacred in the European Early

Middle Ages (Forthcoming, University of Notre Dame Press)

Viking Normandy: Dudo of St. Quentin's Gesta Normannorum (Transcription and English

Translation of Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Ms. Philipps 1854; mounted since 1996 at

"http://the-orb.net/ORB_Library/Dudo.html"

The Norman Conquest of Pious Neustria: Historiographic Discourse and Saintly Relics (684 –

1090) (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Press, Toronto, 1995)

II. Articles and Book Chapters

“Gender Trouble in Paradise: The Case of the Liturgical Virgo” (article manuscript in progress)

“Gender and Baptismal Pedagogy in Carolingian Francia” (article manuscript in progress)

"Differences, (Dis)appearances and the Disruption of the Straight Telos: Medievalology as a

History of Gender" in Mediävistik im 21. Jahrhundert: Stand und Perspektiven eds. Jörg

Jarnut and Hans-Werner Goetz (Munich, 2003)

"Le rôle des traditions orales et populaires dans les cultes des saints évêques de Rouen" in

Actes du Colloque: XVIe Centenaire de la Cathédrale de Rouen (1996) ed. Yves

Lescroart (Rouen, 2003)

"Demonstrating Gun(t)za: Women, Manuscripts, and the Question of Historical 'Proof'" in

Vom Nutzen des Schreibens. Soziales Gedächtnis, Herrschaft und Besitz eds. Walter Pohl

and Paul Herold (Vienna, 2002) pp. 67 - 96

"Apostolicity Theses in Gaul: The Histories of Gregory and the "Hagiography" of Bayeux" in

The World of Gregory of Tours eds. Kathleen Mitchell and Ian Wood (Leiden, 2002) pp.

211 - 228

"The Martyr, the Tomb and the Matron: Constructing the (Masculine) Past as a Female Power

Base" in Medieval Concepts of the Past: Ritual, Memory, Historiography eds. P. Geary,

G. Althoff and J. Fried (Cambridge, 2002) pp. 311 - 341

"Translating Feudal Vocabulary: Dudo of St. Quentin" Haskins Society Journal 9 (2001 for

1997) pp. 39 - 56

"Gender, Exegesis and Exemplarity East of the Middle Rhine: Jesus, Mary and the Saints in

Manuscript Context" Early Medieval Europe 9 (2000) pp. 325 - 344

"Bede's Martyrologium: Translation and Historical Introduction" in Medieval Hagiography: A

Sourcebook ed. Thomas Head (New York, 2000) pp. 169 - 198

"La Normandie carolingienne. Essai sur la continuité, avec utilisation de sources negligés"

Annales de Normandie 48 (1998) pp. 505 - 524

"The Politics of Historiography: The Memory of Bishops in Eleventh-Century Rouen" History

and Memory 10 (1998) pp. 118 - 137

"Is Mother Superior? Towards a History of Feminine Amtscharisma" in Medieval Mothering

eds. Bonnie Wheeler and John Carmi Parsons (N.Y., 1996) pp. 117 - 138

"The Migration of Neustrian Relics in the Viking Age: The Myth of Voluntary Exodus, the

Reality of Coersion and Theft" Early Medieval Europe 4 (1995) pp. 175 - 192

"Beyond Positism and Genre: Hagiographical Texts as Historical Narrative" Viator 25 (1994)

pp. 95 - 113

"Dudo's Historical Narrative and the Norman Succession of 996" Journal of Medieval History

20 (1994) pp. 101 - 120

"S. Romain: Missionnaire franc dans la Normandie des Vikings" in Voix d'Ouest en Europe,

Souffles d'Europe en Ouest ed. Georges Ces bron (Angers, 1993) pp. 23 - 30

"The 'Exodus of Holy Bodies' Reconsidered: The Translation of the Relics of St. Gildard of

Rouen to Soissons" Analecta Bollandiana 110 (1992) pp. 329 - 340

"Eight Men In: Rouennais Traditions of Archiepiscopal Sanctity" The Haskins Society Journal 2

(1990) pp. 63 - 74

"The Acta Archiepiscoporum Rotomagensium: A Monastic or Cathedral Product?" Analecta

Bollandiana 108 (1990) pp. 337 - 347

"The Encomium Emmae Reginae: A Political Pamphlet of the Eleventh Century?" Haskins Society

Journal 1 (1989) pp. 39 - 50

"The `Privilege of Saint Romanus:' Provincial Independence and Hagiographical Legends at

Rouen" Analecta Bollandiana 107, (1989) pp. 161 - 170

"Des Femmes Missionnaires: L'Exemple de la Gaule" Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique 83 (1988)

pp. 5 - 33

III. Short Notices, Encyclopedia Articles and Pedagogical Essays

“CARA at William & Mary: A Hyperseminar in Pragmatic Pre-Modernism" (Medieval

Academy News, February 2001)

"Geoffrey Barraclough," "Bruno Krusch," "Wilhelm Levison," “Robert S. Lopez," "Walter

Ullmann" in Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing ed. Kelly Boyd (London,

1999)

Habilitationsbesprechung: Andreas Schwarcz, Gesammelte Aufsätze "Frühmittelalterliche

Studien" (Historicum, Spring 1998)

"Dudo of St. Quentin," "Gerald of Wales," "Walter Ullmann" in A Global Encyclopedia of

Historical Writing ed. D. R. Woolf (New York, 1998)

"Interdisciplinary Teaching: Intertextuality or Strange Attractors?" (with Charles Elkins, Robert

Hogner and Joe Wisdom) in Perspectives on the Unity and Integration of Knowledge eds.

Garth Benson, Ronald Glasberg and Bryant Griffith (Frankfurt, 1997)

"The Martyr, The Tomb and The Matron: Gendering the Past, 313 - 794" Medieval Feminist

Newsletter 21 (1996) pp. 30 - 32

"My Teaching Philosophy" (F.I.U. Journal for the Art of Teaching 1994: Special Issue)

"Le serment de fidelité de la ville de Toulouse: Quelques notes sur un texte et sa transmission"

Annales du Midi 172 (1985) pp. 427 - 433

IV. Invited Lectures, Conferences and Workshops

"Differences, (Dis)appearances and Disruptions of the Straight Telos: Mediävistik as Gender

Studies" (Mediävistik im 21. Jahrhundert: Stand und Perspektiven der internationalen

und interdisziplinären Mittelalterforschung; Universität Paderborn, October 2001)

"Becoming (of) a Christian Man or Woman: Gender Ideology, Liturgical Performance and

Baptismal Pedagogy in Eighth- Century Francia" (Universität Bamberg, June 2000; Florida International University, November 2000)

"The Name of the Saint: The Oldest Latin "Martyrologies" and Access to the Sacred" (UCLA

Humanities Consortium, June 2000)

"Gender, Imitation and Identity: Identificatory Exegesis in the Early Middle Ages" (Central

European University, Budapest, April 1999)

"Marien- und Märtyrinnengedächtnis im historischen und handschriftlichen Kontext:

‘Frauenbewegung’ und Heiligenverehrung in Mainfranken um 750" (Österreichische

Akademie der Wissenschaften (Vienna), March 1999)

"Schreibende Frauen und Handschriften im 8. Jahrhundert" (Universität Wien, February 1999)

"Négotier le Don/Negotiating the Gift" (Institut Historique Allemand/Max Planck Institut für

Geschichte, Paris, Dec. 1998)

"Frauenbewegung und Heiligenverehrung im Mainfranken im 8. Jahrhundert. Beobachtungen

an zeitgenössischen Handschriften, Archäologie und Landesgeschichte" (Konstanzer

Arbeitskreis für Mittelalterforschung, Universität Frankfurt am Main, Dec. 1998)

"Frauenbewegung und Heiligenverehrung in dem Würzburger Sprengel im 8. Jahrhundert?"

(Universität Freiburg/Breisgau, June 1998)

"Les saints évêques de Rouen entre 396 et 996" (Colloque Internationale: 396 - 996: Seizième

Centenaire de la Cathédrale de Rouen; Rouen, December 1996)

"The Martyr, The Tomb and The Matron: Inventing and Constructing 'the Past' as a Female

Power Base" (Vorstellung, Ritual, Erinnerung, Geschichtsschreibung/Imagination,

Ritual, Memory, Historiography; Heidelberg, September 1996)

"Les débuts du christianisme en Gaule: tradition et histoire" (Université Francois Rabelais de

Tours; April 1995)

"Topos and Reality: Dead Bodies and Holy Tombs as Female Power Bases" (Universiteit

Utrecht, March 1995)

"Medieval Studies in the United States" (Jihoceska Universita, Ceske Budejovice; March 1995)

"The Norman Conquest of Pious Neustria" (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto;

November 1993)

"Monty Python and the Holy Grail/ The Quest of the Holy Grail" (Phi Alpha Theta, F.I.U.;

October 1992)

"The Politics of Evangelization in Gaul: History, Hagiography, Historiography" (Florida

International University, February 1989)

"Women Missionaries in Gaul?" (Columbia University; April, 1986)

V. Conference Papers and Panels Organized

“Becoming (of) a Christian Man or Woman: Gender Ideology and Baptismal Pedagogy in Eighth-Century Francia” (EMERGE – Early Medieval Europe Research Group; University of St. Andrews, September 2003)

“Paradigms of Medieval History I – II” (Medieval Academy of America; Minneapolis, 2003)

"The Most Horrible Book in all of Antiquity: Making Sense of the Martyrology of Pseudo-

Jerome in the Context of the Three Chapters Schism" (International Congress on

Medieval Studies, May 2002)

Chair/Commentator, "Periodizing Pre-Modernities: Some Variations of Chronology Across

Disciplines and Cultures" (Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Studies Symposium,

University of Miami, February 2001) [Session Organizer]

Respondent, Round Table "No More Hagiography?" on Lifshitz, "Beyond Positivism and

Genre" (Viator, 1994) (International Medieval Congress; Leeds, 2000)

"Early Medieval Martyrologies: Public or Private Commemoration?" (International Medieval

Congress; Leeds, 1999)

"Mit den Heiligen, "Geschlecht" zu Lernen: Die Lesungen und Predigten im Laufe des

Kirchenjahres im 8. Jahrhundert im Maingebiet" (Arbeitskreis für Hagiographische

Fragen; Stuttgart, April 1999)

"Anonyma of Karlburg's Deus per angelum: Women and the Sponsorship of Saints' Cults in the

Eighth Century (International Medieval Congress; Leeds, 1998) [Session Organizer, Three

Sessions, "Medieval Matronage I - III"]

"Translating 'Feudal' Vocabulary: The Case of Dudo of St. Quentin" (Haskins Society;

November, 1996) [Session Organizer]

"Explorations at the Center. The Centro Campesino and the (De)Marginalization of South

Florida's Migrant Labor Force after Hurricane Andrew" (National Collegiate Honors

Council; San Francisco, 1996) [Session Organizer]

"Welcome to Medieval Life! Dungeons, Crafts and Instruments of Torture in Sunny Florida"

(The Middle Ages in Contemporary Popular Culture; McMaster University, March 1996)

"Representations of Christianization. Apostolicity Theses in Gaul" (Southeastern Medieval

Association; Charleston, 1995)

"The Destruction of Tradition. The Episcopal War against 'Secular' Influence over the 'Holy' in

Late Antiquity" (American Historical Association; Chicago, 1995)

"The Politics of Historiography: Bishops vs. Monks in Eleventh-Century Rouen" (Modern

Languages Association; San Diego, 1994)

"'Pardon Me, Do You Have Any Grey Poupon?' - Middle American Professoriate, Culturally-

Diverse Students" (National Col legiate Honors Council; San Antonio, 1994)

"The 'Transition from Paganism to Christianity' in Gaul: The Clementine Thesis from the

History of Gregory of Tours to the Ghetto of 'Hagiography'" (International Medieval

Congress; Leeds 1994; panel sponsored by the Hagiography Society)

"Interdisciplinary Teaching: Intertextuality or Strange Attrac tors?" (Learned Societies of

Canada/Association for the Unity and Integration of Knowledge; Calgary June 1994)

"A Clear and Present Danger: Demonic Infestation in the Tenth Century" (International

Congress of Medieval Studies; May 1994; panel sponsored by the Hagiography Society)

"Hugh of St. Denis, "prosapia clarus sed ignobilis cunctis operibus." An Underappreciated

Archbishop of the Tenth Century" (Sarasota/New College Medieval and Renaissance

Studies Conference; March 1994)

"Beyond Positivism and Genre: Hagiographical Texts as Historical Narratives" (Sewanee

Mediaeval Colloquium; The University of the South, April 1993)

"What Does it Mean When a Woman has Virtus?" (Women's History Month Conference;

Florida International University, March, 1993)

"Writing in the Discipline of History" (Writing Across the Disciplines; Florida International

University, February 1993)

"S. Romain: Apôtre franc dans la Normandie des Vikings" (Colloque International d'Angers,

"La France à l'Ouest," May 1992)

"What Dudo Wrote, or, On Hacking Through the Wild Thistles of Useless Superfluity in the

Works of Medieval Historians" (American Historical Association; Chicago 1991) [Session

Organizer]

"Eight Men In: Rouennais Traditions of Archiepiscopal Sanctity" (Haskins Society; November,

1989)

"The Encomium Emmae Reginae: A Political Pamphlet of the Eleventh Century?"(Haskins

Society; November, 1988)

VI. Book Reviews

Richard Landes, Andrew Gow and David C. Van Meter, eds. The Apocalyptic Year 1000. Religious Expectation and Social Change, 950 – 1050 (Speculum)

Isabelle Crété-Protin, Église et vie chrétienne dans le diocèse de Troyes du IVe au IXe siècle (Speculum)

Freculf of Lisieux, Opera Omnia ed. Michael I. Allen (Journal of Medieval Latin)

Bonnie Wheeler and John Carmi Parsons, eds. Eleanor of Aquitaine. Lord and Lady (The International History Review)

Bonnie Effros, Merovingian Mortuary Archeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages (American Historical Review)

Pádraig Ó Riain, Four Irish Martyrologies. Drummond, Turin, Cashel, York (The Medieval Review)

Robert Morrissey, Charlemagne and France. A Thousand Years of Mythology (History: Reviews of New Books)

Bonnie Effros, Creating Community with Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul (Medieval Feminist Forum)

Philippe Buc, Dangereux rituel. De l’histoire médiévale aux sciences sociales (English Historical Review)

Barbara Newman, God and the Goddesses. Vision, Poetry and Belief in the Middle Ages (The Historian)

Martin Heinzelmann, Klaus Herbers and Dieter R. Bauer, eds. Mirakel im Mittelalter. Konzeptionen, Erscheinungsformen, Deutungen (Speculum)

Michael Borgolte, ed. Das europäische Mittelalter im Spannungsbogen des Vergleichs. Zwanzig internationale Beiträge zu Praxis, Problemen und Perspektiven der historischen Komparatistik (The Medieval Review 03.05.06)

Matthew Innes, State and Society in the Early Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley, 400 - 1000 (The Medieval Review)

Rebecca Krawiec, Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery. Egyptian Monasticism in Late Antiquity (History. Reviews of New Books)

Victor Saxer, Saint Vincent diacre et martyr. Culte et légendes avant l'An Mil (English Historical Review)

Conrad Leyser, Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great (History. Reviews of New Books 30 (2002) p. 81)

Mary T. Malone, Women & Christianity vol. I: The First Thousand Years (Catholic Historical Review 87 (2001) pp. 706-707)

J. Japps ed. Encyclopedia of Medieval Germany (The Heroic Age)

Timothy Reuter, ed. The New Cambridge Medieval History (c. 900 - c. 1024) vol. III (Bulletin of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain)

Elizabeth van Houts, Memory and Gender in Medieval Europe, 900- 1200 (The Medieval Review 00.11.10)

Roger Collins, Charlemagne (The Heroic Age)

Dick Harrison, The Age of Abbesses and Queens. Gender and Political Culture in Early Medieval Europe (Early Medieval Europe 9 (2000))

Dudo of St. Quentin: History of the Normans trans. Eric Christiansen (The Historian 1999)

Linda L. Coon, Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in late Antiquity (Historische Zeitschrift 1998)

Martin Eggers Das "Großmährische Reich:" Realität oder Fiktion? and Das Erzbistum des Method. Lage, Wirkung und Nachleben der kyrillomethodianischen Mission (Historicum, Spring 1997)

Dudone di San Quintino eds. Paolo Gatti and Antonella degl'Innocenti (Speculum 72 (1997))

The "Gesta Normannorum ducum" of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni ed. and trans. Elizabeth M.C Van Houts (Speculum 72 (1997))

Queens, Regents and Potentates ed. Theresa M. Vann (Arthuriana 6 (1996))

Herwig Wolfram Grenzen und Räume. Geschichte Österreichs vor seiner Entstehung (378 - 907) (Historicum. Zeitschrift für Geschichte Winter 1996/97)

Holly Beachly Brear Inherit the Alamo. Myth and Ritual at an American Shrine (Hispanic American Historical Review 76 (1996))

Soldiers of Christ. Saints and Saints' Lives from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages eds. Thomas F.X. Noble and Thomas Head (History: Reviews of New Books 24 (1996))

Karl Brunner Herzogtümer und Marken. Österreichische Geschichte, 907 - 1156 (Historicum. Zeitschrift für Geschichte, Spring 1995)

Michael Camille Image on the Edge. The Margins of Medieval Art (Bryn Mawr Medieval Review 93.10,30)

T. Finan and V. Twomey, eds. The Relationship Between Neoplatonism and Christianity (Bryn Mawr Classical Review 93.9,12)

Candace Slater City Steeple, City Streets: Saints' Tales from Granada and a Changing Spain (Hispanic American Historical Review 71.3 (1991)

RELATED EMPLOYMENT:

Historical Consultant, Educational Video: "Of Chateaux and Kings: The Mute Walls Speak,"

Unicorn Productions (Montclair, New Jersey, 1991)

Summer ,1986 Member of archaeological team excavating the cathedral of St. Nazaire of Autun

(project director: Christian Sapin)

Summer, 1981 Research Assistant to Suzanne Wemple (Barnard Col lege), for the NEH-funded

International Project: Women in Medieval Monasticism (now: MATRIX ed. Lisa Bitel

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

I. To the Department

Fall, 1989 – present, French Language Examiner, Graduate Program

2000 - 2001 Member, Search Committee, Junior Position, African History

Spring, 2001 Member, Constitutional Committee, Dept. of History

1999 - 2000 Chair, Search Committee, Junior Position, Modern Continental Europe

Fall, 1997 Member, Search Commitee, Junior Positions, Ancient and Medieval History

1996 - 1997 Member, Search Committee, Senior Position, U.S. History

Summer, 1995 - Spring 1997 Co-Chair, Tenure and Promotion Com mittee, Department of

History

Spring, 1994 - Spring, 1997 Faculty Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta, Alpha Beta Pi Chapter

1990 - 1993 European Representative, Committee on Graduate Studies

1992 - 1993 Member, Search Committee, Junior Position, Latin America (Field Open)

1991 - 1992 Member, Search Committee, Junior Position, Modern Europe

1990 - 1991 Member, Search Committee, Junior Position, Early Modern Europe

II. To the University (at FIU)

Spring 2003 – present, Member, Student Research and Artistic Initiative Committee, Honors

College

Fall, 2002 – present, Faculty Advisor, The FIU Medieval Society (student group)

Summer, 1999 - present, Founding Coordinator, Working Group for Pre-Modern Histories and

Cultures; Director, Certificate Program in Pre-Modern Cultures

(http://www.fiu.edu/~lifshitz)

Fall, 1999 - present, Member, Steering Committee, European Studies

Spring, 2003 Faculty Judge, FIU Foundation Faculty Research Project Competition

2000 - 2001 Member, Search Committee, Senior Position, Women's Studies

Fall, 2000 Member, Kislak Foundation Committee, Office of the Provost/Development Office

1995 - 1997 Faculty Senator, College of Arts and Sciences

Fall, 1996 - Fall, 1997 Co-Steward, Department of History, United Faculty of Florida

Spring, 1996 - Fall, 1997 Alternate Senator, United Faculty of Florida

1995 - 1996 History Representative, Gateway Engineering Program: Writing Across the

Disciplines, School of Engineering

1995 - 1996 Faculty Mentor, The Women's Center

1990 - 1993 Member, Provost's Committee on Faculty Development

1989 - 1992 Member, Budget Committe, College of Arts and Sciences

At Columbia University:

1984-85 Member, Curriculum Review Committee, Contemporary Civilization Program

1984 Member, Committee on the Teaching of the Bible in the Core Curriculum

III. To the Profession

Spring 2003 – present, Member, Advisory Board, MATRIX (A Resource for the Study of

Women’s Religious Communities)

Spring 2003 – present, Member, Advisory Board, Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship

Spring 2002 – Spring 2005 Co-Chair, Program and Local Arrangements Committees, Medieval

Academy of America Annual Meeting (Miami Beach, 2005)

Spring 2001 - present, Member, Publications Board, Medieval Academy of America

Manuscript Assessor: Speculum, Exemplaria, University of North Carolina Press

Grant Evaluator: National Endowment for the Humanities, Fund for the Improvement of Post-

Secondary Education

IV. To the Community

“Women and Manuscripts in Medieval Europe. The Case of the Scribe Gunza” (MiamIntelligence, March 2003)

Fall 2002 Organized and Produced Conference, "Dialogues II/2002: Medieval Miami and its

Parallels - Crossroads Cities around the Tropic of Cancer" (First Presbyterian Church,

Miami, Dec. 2002)

Fall 2001 Organized and Produced Conference, "Dialogues I/2001: Court and Plaza in the

Spanish Atlantic" (St. John's on the Lake United Methodist Church, Miami Beach,

November 2001)

Summer 2001 - present, Member, Exhibitions and Programs Committee, Bass Museum of Art,

Miami Beach

Fall, 1999 - present ,Volunteer Lecturer in European History, Hebrew Home for the Aged,

Miami Beach

Fall, 1999 - present, Member, Steering Committee, The Arts at St. John's, Miami Beach

Fall 1991 - Spring 1992 Reading Tutor, Feinberg-Fischer Elementary School, Miami Beach

Fall 1989 – Present Interviews with WAMI TV, Radio Martí

CURRENT COURSE REPERTOIRE:

The Freshman Experience Seminar

Lecture: Europe in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Lecture: Europe in the Central Middle Ages

Lecture: England to 1688