Maryanne Kowaleski
Joseph Fitzpatrick S.J. Distinguished Professor of History
[email protected]
77-79 Seaman Avenue
Garden Apt. Rear
New York, NY 10034
(212) 942-7547
History Department
Fordham University
Bronx, NY 10458
(718) 817-3925
fax: (718) 817-4680
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION:
University of Toronto:
Pontifical Institute of
Medieval Studies (Toronto):
Ph.D. in Medieval Studies, 1982, M.A. in Medieval Studies, 1976
M.S.L. (Medieval Studies Licentiate), 1978
University of Michigan:
A.B.1974: double major in French & Medieval/Renaissance Studies
University of Exeter (England):
Université d'Aix-Marseille (France):
Fulbright Scholar, 1978/79
Exchange Fellow, 1972/73
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
Visiting Scholar Fellowship, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (June 2015)
Joy Foundation Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 2015/16
Huntington Library Andrew W. Mellon Short-Term Fellowship (2015, declined; 2010-11)
American-Scandinavian Foundation Grant for Medieval Studies conference (2010)
Delmas Fellowship, National Humanities Center, North Carolina (2005/06)
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2001/02)
Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2001)
Fellowship, National Humanities Center, North Carolina (2001/02, declined)
Fellowship, Shelby Cullom Davis Center, Princeton University (1998)
Fordham University Faculty Summer Research Grant (2004, 1998, 1995, 1987, 1985, 1983)
Fordham University Faculty Fellowship (2015/16, 2010/11, 2005/06, 1996/97, 1992)
American Philosophical Society Grant (1995, 1983)
NEH Travel to Collections Grant (1989, 1985)
NEH Fellowship for University Teachers (1987/88)
ACLS Travel Grant to Humanists (1987, 1983)
NEH Summer Stipend (1986)
ACLS Grant-in-Aid (1986, declined)
NEH Summer Fellowship, Newberry Library (1980)
Fulbright-Hays Scholarship to United Kingdom (1978/79)
SSRC International Doctoral Fellowship (1978/79)
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (1979/80)
University of Toronto Open Fellowship (1977/8)
Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies Bursary and Scholarship (1974-77)
HONORS AND AWARDS:
President, Medieval Academy of America (2012-13)
Fordham Funded Research Scholar Award in the Humanities (2012)
First Vice-President, Medieval Academy of America (2011-12), Second Vice-President (2009-10)
Henrietta Harvey Distinguished Lecturer, Memorial University, Newfoundland (2011)
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Fellow, Medieval Academy of America (elected 2005)
Medieval Academy, Centers and Regional Associations Award for Outstanding Service (2005)
Rivette Visiting Scholar, Women’s Center of the University of Missouri-Kansas City (2004)
Award for Distinguished Contribution to Graduate Teaching and Service, Fordham University (2003)
Senior Scholar, Mellon Foundation Seminar in the Humanities, Huntington Library (Summer 2002)
Honorary Visiting Professor, Centre for South West Historical Studies, Univ. of Exeter (1999-2001)
Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London (Fall term, 1996)
Undergraduate Teacher of the Year in the Humanities, Fordham University (1995)
Fellow, Royal Historical Society (elected 1994)
Graduate Teacher of the Year, Fordham University (1990)
EMPLOYMENT:
History Department, Fordham University:
Joseph Fitzpatrick, S.J., Distinguished Professor of History: 2005 Professor: 1996 - 2005
Associate Professor: 1988 - 1996
Assistant Professor: 1982 - 1988
PUBLICATIONS:
Books
Peasants and Lords in the Medieval English Economy: Essays in Honour of Bruce M. S. Campbell, eds.
Maryanne Kowaleski, John Langdon and Phillipp Schofield. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, The Medieval
Countryside Series. In press.
Medieval Domesticity: Home, Housing and Household in Medieval England. Edited with P.J.P. Goldberg.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Medieval Towns: A Reader. Editor and Translator. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2006.
Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages. Edited with Mary Erler. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2003.
The Havener’s Accounts of the Earldom and Duchy of Cornwall, 1287-1356. Editor and Translator. Exeter:
Devon and Cornwall Record Society, n.s. vol. 44, 2001.
Local Markets and Regional Trade in Medieval Exeter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Paperback edition in 2003. Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 1996.
The Local Customs Accounts of the Port of Exeter, 1266-1321. Editor and Translator. Exeter: Devon and
Cornwall Record Society, new series, vol. 36, 1993.
Women and Power in the Middle Ages. Edited with Mary Erler. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1988.
Articles and Book Chapters
“Peasants and the Sea,” in Peasants and Lords in the Medieval English Economy: Essays in Honour of Bruce M.
S. Campbell, eds. Maryanne Kowaleski, John Langdon and Phillipp Schofield. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols,
2015, pp. 353-76.
“Medieval People in Town and Country: New Perspectives from Demography and Bioarchaeology,” Speculum:
The Journal of the Medieval Academy of America, 89:3 (2014): 573-600.
“Coastal Communities in Medieval Cornwall,” in A Maritime History of Cornwall, edited by Helen Doe, Alston
Kennerly, and Phillip Payton. Exeter and London: University of Exeter Press, 2014, pp. 43-59
“Bibliography of the Medieval Maritime History of British Isles and Ireland,” International Journal of Maritime
History (2014): 322-52.
“Gendering Demographic Change in the Middle Ages,” in Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in the
Middle Ages. Ed. Judith M. Bennett and Ruth Mazo Karras. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, 181-96.
“The Demography of Maritime Communities in Medieval England,” in England In the Age of the Black Death:
Essays in Honour of John Hatcher. Ed. Mark Bailey and Stephen Rigby. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012, pp. 74-97.
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“Developing an Online Database on a Shoestring: Growing Pains at the Online Medieval Sources Bibliography,”
with Morgan Kay, in The Digital Medievalist 7 (2011), published Feb. 2012 at
http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/7/kay/
“The Shipmaster as Entrepreneur in Medieval England,” in Commercial Activity, Markets and Entrepreneurs in
the Middle Ages. Ed. Ben Dodds and Christian Liddy. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011, pp. 165-82.
“Sources for Medieval Maritime History,” in Reading Primary Sources: The Interpretation of Texts from the
Middle Ages. Ed. Joel Rosenthal. London and NY: Routledge, 2011, pp. 149-62.
“The Medieval Cinque Port of Hythe.” Romney Marsh Irregular 38 (2011): 4-13.
“The Seasonality of Fishing in Medieval Britain,” in Ecologies and Economies in Medieval and Early Modern
Europe: Studies in Environmental History for Richard C. Hoffmann, ed. Scott G. Bruce, Leiden: Brill, 2010,
pp. 117-47.
“The French of England: A Maritime lingua franca?” in Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French
of England, c. 1100-c. 1500. Ed. Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Co-ed. C. Collette, M. Kowaleski, L. Mooney, A.
Putter, and D. Trotter. York: York Medieval Press, 2009, pp. 103-17. Paperback edition 2013.
“Introduction. Medieval Domesticity,” with P.J.P. Goldberg in Medieval Domesticity: Home, Housing and
Household. Ed. Maryanne Kowaleski and P.J.P. Goldberg. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009, 1-13.
“Shipping and the Carrying Trade in Medieval Dartmouth,” in Von Nowgorod bis London: Studien zu Handel,
Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft im mittelalterlichen Europa. Festschrift für Stuart Jenks zum 60. Geburtstag. Ed.
Marie-Luise Heckmann and Jens Röhrkasten. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2008, pp. 465-87
“Polish Ships in English Waters in the Late Middle Ages,” in Britain and Poland-Lithuania Contact and
Comparison from the Middle Ages to 1795. Ed. Richard Unger. Leiden: Brill, 2008, pp. 39-64.
“’Alien’ Encounters in the Maritime World of Medieval England,” Medieval Encounters 13 (2007): 96-121.
“Warfare, Shipping, and Crown Patronage: The Impact of the Hundred Years War on the English Port Towns,” in
Money, Markets and Trade in Late Medieval Europe: Essays in Honour of John H.A. Munro. Ed. Lawrin
Armstrong, Ivana Elbl and Martin M. Elbl. Leiden: Brill, 2007, pp. 233-54.
“Working at Sea: Maritime Recruitment and Remuneration in Medieval England,” in Ricchezza del mare,
ricchezza dal mare. Secoli XIII-XVIII. Ed. S. Cavciocchi. Atti delle Settimane di Studi e Altri Convegni, Prato,
11-15 aprile, 2005.Florence: Le Monnier, 2006, pp. 907-36
“A Consumer Economy,” in The Social History of England 1200-1600. Ed. Rosemary Horrox and Mark Ormrod.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 238-59.
“The Commercialization of the Sea Fisheries of Medieval England and Wales,” International Journal of Maritime
History, 15:2 (2003): 177-231.
“’A New Economy of Power Relations:’ Female Agency in the Middle Ages,” (co-authored with M. Erler) in
Gendering the Master Narrative: Medieval Women and Power. Ed. M. Erler and M. Kowaleski. Itaca: Cornell
Univ. Press, 2003, 1-16.
“The Expansion of the South-Western Fisheries in Late Medieval England,” Economic History Review, second
series 53:3 (2000): 429-54.
“Port Towns in Medieval England and Wales" in The Urban History of Britain, vol. 1. Ed. David Palliser.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000: 467-94.
"The Western Fisheries" in The Commercial Sea Fisheries of England and Wales Since 1300. Ed. David Starkey
et al. Grimsby: National Fishing Heritage Centre, 2000: 23-8, 243-5.
"The Fish Trade: Internal Markets and Domestic Trade," in The Commercial Sea Fisheries of England and Wales
Since 1300. Ed. David Starkey et al. Grimsby: National Fishing Heritage Centre, 2000: 29-32, 245-6.
"Singlewomen in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: The Demographic Perspective," in Singlewomen in the
European Past. Eds. J. M. Bennett and A. Froide. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999: 3881, 325-44.
"The Grain Trade in Fourteenth-Century Exeter," in The Salt of Common Life: Essays in Honor of J. Ambose
Raftis. Ed. Edwin DeWindt. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Press, 1996: 1-52.
"An Exeter Man Renounces the Freedom of the City, May 1312," in Devon Documents in Honour of Margery M.
Rowe. Ed. Todd Gray. Exeter: Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries, 1996: 110-16.
"Introduction: Vill, Guild, and Gentry: Forces of Community in Later Medieval England," Special Issue of
Journal of British Studies, 33 (1994): 337-9.
"Port Towns in Fourteenth-Century Devon" in The New Maritime History of Devon, Eds. M. Duffy, Basil
Greenhill, Stephen Fisher, David Starkey, and Joyce Youings. London and Exeter: Conway Press and
University of Exeter, 1992, pp. 62-72.
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"Town and Country in Late Medieval England: The Hide and Leather Trade," in Work in Towns, 850-1850. Eds.
P. Corfield and D. J. Keene. Leicester: University of Leicester Press, 1990: 57-73.
"Crafts, Gilds, and Women in the Middle Ages," Signs 14:2 (1989): 474-88; co-authored with Judith M. Bennett;
reprinted in Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages, eds. J. Bennett et al. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1989: 11-25.
"The History of Urban Families in Medieval England," Journal of Medieval History, 14 (1988): 47-63.
"The Exeter Port Customs Database Project," History and Computing Today, 3 (Fall 1987): 24-7.
"Women and Work in a Market Town: Exeter in the Late Fourteenth Century," Women and Work in PreIndustrial Europe. Ed. Barbara Hanawalt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986: 145-64.
"The 1377 Dartmouth Poll Tax," Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries, 25:8 (1985): 281-92.
"The Commercial Dominance of a Medieval Provincial Oligarchy: Exeter in the Late Fourteenth Century,"
Mediaeval Studies, 46 (1984): 355-84; reprinted in The Medieval Town, ed. Richard Holt and Gervase Rosser.
London: Longman, 1990: 184-215.
"Taxpayers in Late 14th Century Exeter: The 1377 Murage Roll," Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries, 34
(1980): 217-22.
Accepted for Publication
“The Early Documentary Evidence for the Commercialization of the Sea Fisheries in Medieval Britain,” in Cod
and Consequences: The Archaeology and History of Medieval Sea Fishing. Ed. J. H. Barrett and David Orton.
Forthcoming in 2015.
Maritime London in the Middle Ages, edition of maritime accounts under contract for the London Record Society,
to be published in 2016.
“Port Labour in Medieval England,” Medieval Maritime History, Paris: Océanides. Forthcoming in 2016.
“London as a Maritime Metropolis in the Late Middle Ages,” in The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade
around Europe, c. 1300 to 1600: Commercial Networks and Urban Autonomy. Ed. Wim Blockmanns, Mikahil
Krom and Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz. Routledge, forthcoming in 2016.
“Creating a Prosopography of Alien Immigrants: Foreigners in Medieval Exeter,’ in Resident Aliens in Medieval
England. Ed. Nicola McDonald, W. Mark Ormrod, and Craig Taylor. Brepols, forthcoming in 2017.
Current Research Projects
Living from the Sea: An Ethnography of Maritime Communities in Medieval England, book manuscript in
preparation.
“Gender, Gossip, and the Economy: The Origins of Scolding Indictments in Medieval England,” article
manuscript to be submitted to a journal in 2015.
“The Medieval Cinque Port of Hythe,” article under preparation for Archaeologia cantiana
“The Distribution and Integration of French Immigrants in Fifteenth-Century Devon,” in Essays on the French of
Medieval England in Honor of Jocelyn Wogan-Browne. Ed Thelma Fenster and Carolyn Collette. Boydell and
Brewer, forthcoming in 2016-17.
Web Publications
Publisher, editor and contributor, The Online Medieval Sources Bibliography@
http://medievalsourcesbibliography.org/
Publisher and contributor, The French of England Website @ http://www.fordham.edu/frenchofengland/
Publisher, The French of Italy Website @: http://www.fordham.edu/frenchofitaly/
Publisher, The French of Outremer Website @ http://www.fordham.edu/frenchofoutremer/
Publisher, The Internet Medieval History Sourcebook@ http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
Contributor, Ménestrel@ http://www.menestrel.fr/?lang=fr
Encyclopedia and Reference Articles
“Memoirs of Fellows: Olivia Remie Constable,” with Teo Ruiz and John van Engen, Speculum (2015)
“Memoirs of Fellows: John Munro,” Speculum 89:3 (2014): 872-73.
“The Hundred Years War: Costs,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology,
ed. Clifford Rogers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 281-2.
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“Memoirs of Fellows: J. A. Raftis,” Speculum 84:3 (2009): 836-7.
“Demography,” and “Urban Records,” in Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia. Ed.
Margaret C. Schaus. NY and London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 197-197-200, 701-2.
"Nicholas Radford" and "Robert Wilford" for The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H.C.G.
Matthew. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004:
"Assize of Weights and Measures", "Exeter, City of", "Fairs and Markets". Medieval England: An Encyclopedia.
Ed. Joel Rosenthal et al. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1998:
"Family and Gender, Bourgeoisie," and "Food Trades". In Medieval France: An Encyclopedia. Ed. W. W. Kibler,
G. A. Zinn, L. Earp and J. B. Henneman. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1995: 336, 359-60.
"Food Trades," (1985), vol. V: 115-27; "The English Poll Tax," (1987), vol. IX: 26-27; "Markets," (1987), vol.
VIII, 143-47. The Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Ed. Joseph Strayer. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Book Reviews
Richard Gorski, ed. Roles of the Sea in Medieval England. Woodbrige: Boydell Press, 2012 in Mariner’s Mirror
99:2 (2013): 238-9.
Simon Blatherwick and Richard Bluer, eds. Great Houses, Moats and Mills on the South Bank of the Thames:
Medieval and Tudor Southwark and Rotherhithe. Museum of London Archaeology, Monograph 47. London:
Museum of London, 2009, in The Medieval Review, 11.02.26 (February 2011), at
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/13031/11.02.26.html?sequence=1
Lisa Jefferson, ed. and trans. The Medieval Account Books of the Mercers of London: An Edition and Translation.
2 vols. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2009, in The Medieval Review 10.03.2 (March 2010), at
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/6774/10.03.02.html?sequence=1.
Patrick Gautier Dalché. Du Yorkshire à l’Inde: une ‘géographie’ urbaine et maritime de la fin du XIIe siècle
(Roger de Howden?). Ėcole Pratique des Hautes Ėtudes, Science historiques et philologiques, V, Hautes
études médiévales et modernes, 89. Geneva: Droz, 2005 in Speculum, 84:3 (2009): 716-18
Marjorie Keniston McIntosh. Working Women in English Society, 1300-1600 (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2005) in Journal of British Studies 45: 4 (2006): 881-2.
P. R. Schofield and N. J. Mayhew, eds. Credit and Debt in Medieval England c. 1180-1350 (Oxford, Oxbow
Books, 2002) in Business History Review, 77 (2003): 550-51.
T. R. Slater, ed., Towns in Decline AD 100-1600 (Aldershot, Ashgate Press, 2000) in History, 87:3 (2002), 420-1.
M. E. Basile, J. F. Bestor, D. R. Coquillette and C. Donahue, eds. Lex Mercatoria and Legal Pluralism: A Late
Thirteenth-Century Treatise and Its Afterlife (Cambridge, MA: The Ames Foundation, 1998) in American
Journal of Legal History, 43: 2 (2001): 225
Heather Swanson, Medieval British Towns (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1999) in Albion: A Quarterly Journal
Concerned with British Studies, 32: 4 (2000): 623-4.
Colin Richmond. The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: Fastolf's Will (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
in Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies 30 (1998).
Laurence Keen, ed. ‘Almost the Richest City’ Bristol in the Middle Ages (British Archaeological Association,
1997) in Centre for South-Western Historical Studies Newsletter, 24 (1998).
Pamela Nightengale. A Medieval Mercantile Community: The Grocers' Company and the Politics and Trade of
London 1000-1485 (Yale University Press, 1995) in Medieval Prosopography (1997):253-56.
Martha Carlin. Medieval Southwark (Hambledon Press, 1996) in American Historical Review 102 (1997): 1467-8.
Nicholas Orme and Margaret Webster. The English Hospital 1070-1570 (New Haven and London: Yale
University Press, 1995) in Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries, 37 (1996): 307-08.
Richard H. Britnell and Bruce M.S. Campbell, eds. A Commercialising Economy: England 1086 to c. 1300
(Manchester and New York, 1995) in Economic History Review, 2nd series, 48 (1995): 819.
David Gary Shaw, The Creation of a Community: The City of Wells in the Middle Ages (Oxford, 1993),
Speculum: Journal of the Medieval Academy of America, 70:2 (1995): 426-8.
Sue Sheridan Walker, ed., Wife and Widow in Medieval England (Ann Arbor, 1993) in American Journal of Legal
History, 39 (1995): 109-10.
P.J.P. Goldberg, Women, Work and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and Yorkshire c. 13001520 (Oxford, 1992) in Social History of Medicine, 7 (1994): 322-3.
Margaret Bonney, Lordship and the Urban Community: Durham and Its Overlords, 1250-1540 (Cambridge,
1990) in American Historical Review, 97 (1992), 538.
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Joel T. Rosenthal, ed. Medieval Women and the Sources of Medieval History (Athens, GA, 1990) in Envoi: A
Review Journal of Medieval Literature, 3 (1991): 208-12.
John M. Wasson, ed. Devon. Records of Early English Drama (Toronto, 1986) in Devon and Cornwall Notes and
Queries, 36:4 (1988): 148-9.
Derek Keene, A Survey of Medieval Winchester (Oxford, 1985) in Speculum, 61:4 (1986): 947-9.
Dorothy Owen, The Making of King's Lynn: A Documentary Survey (London, 1984) in Speculum, 61:4 (1986):
1031-32.
Robin Stanes. A History of Devon (Phillimore, 1986) in Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries, 30 (1986): 399.
SCHOLARLY PAPERS:
Invited Presentations
“Living by the Sea: Women, Work and Family in Medieval English Maritime Communities,” Radcliffe Institute
for Advanced Study Public Talk, Harvard University, Cambridge (November 18, 2015)
“A Merchant’s World: London as a Maritime Metropolis in Late Medieval Europe,” Conference on Linkages of
Maritime Metropolises in Late Medieval Europe, University of Saint-Petersburg, Russia (June 4-7, 2015)
“The Place of Alien Immigrants in Medieval Towns: The Example of Exeter,” British Academy Conference in
London, on Aliens, Foreigners and Strangers in Medieval England, c. 500-1500 (March 26-27, 2015)
“Foreign Immigrants to Southwestern England in the Later Middle Ages,” England’s Immigrants, 1330-1550
Workshop, York University, UK (February 12-14, 2015)
“Peasants and the Sea in Medieval England,” Harvard University Medieval History Workshop, November 2015;
also given at Late Medieval Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London (January 2015);
Yale University Medieval History workshop, February 5, 2014, and 10th Anglo-American Seminar in
Medieval Economic and Social History, Wells, UK (July 2013)
“New Perspectives on Town and Country,” Presidential Address, Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of
America , University of Tennessee, Knoxville (April 2013)
“Gendering Demographic Change in Medieval Europe,” The Medieval Institute Lecture Series, University of
Notre Dame (October 2012)
“A Long Line on the Problem of Fish: What Might the Medieval Period Reveal of the Commercialization of
Fishing?” Seminar of the History Department and Maritime Studies Unit, Memorial University of
Newfoundland, Canada (October 2011)
“Words and Women Out of Line: How Gossip Became a Crime in Medieval England,” Henrietta Harvey Lecture
for Women’s Studies and the Department of History, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada (October
2011) and King’s College in London Ontario (February 2013)
“The Demography of Maritime Communities in Medieval and Early Modern England,” Conference on Early
Modern Atlantic Communities, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, at Chateau de la Bretesche,
Missillac, Brittany (June 2011).
“The Medieval Cinque Port of Hythe,” Romney Marsh Research Trust Spring Lecture, Hythe, Kent (March 2011)
“The Vanishing Harbor of the Medieval Cinque Port of Hythe,” Pathways: The Cultural Dynamics of Everyday
Life,” Claremont Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Claremont Graduate University
(February 2011)
“Living by the Sea: Women and Family in Medieval English Maritime Communities,” California Medieval
History Seminar, UCLA and the Huntington Library (February 2011) and Henrietta Harvey Lecture, Memorial
University of Newfoundland, Canada (October 2011)
“Credit and the Consumer Economy,” Workshop on Credit, Money, and Consumption, Harvard University (May
2010)
“Gossip, Gender, and the Economy: The Origins of Scolding Indictments,” J. Jean Hecht Lecture Series on
British Area Studies, St John’s University, NY (April 2011) and SUNY NewPaltz (April 2010)
“The Coastal Demography of Medieval England,” England in the Age of the Black Death: Conference in Honour
of John Hatcher, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (August 2009)
“The Seasonality of Fishing in Medieval Britain,” Lakes, Rivers and Fish: Conference on Environmental History
in Honor of Richard C. Hoffmann, York University, Canada (May 2009)
“Port Towns and Their Regions in Medieval England: Maritime Labour and Industry in London,” plenary lecture
for Conference: “CMH@20. Metropolitan History: Past, Present Future”, University of London (October
2008)
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“Women and Work in Medieval English Coastal Communities,” Annual Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies
Conference, Southern Connecticut University (November, 2008)
“Women, Family, and Seamen in Coastal Communities” Talk at the Exeter University Centre for Maritime
Historical Studies (June, 2008)
“Medieval Dartmouth: Shipping, Shipmasters and Mariners,” Memorial Conference in Honor of Professor
H.S.A. Fox, Exeter, England (June 2008)
“The Commercialization of England’s Medieval Fisheries: The Documentary Evidence,” Conference on Cod and
Herring: The Medieval Origins of Commercial Fishing, Medieval Origins of Commercial Fishing Project, The
Orkney Islands (June 2008)
“Women and Children in Seafaring Communities in Medieval England,” Conference on: The Social History of
the Sea, Center for Early Modern History at the University of Minneapolis (May 2008)
“Shipping and Investment in Medieval England,” Workshop in Honor of Richard Unger, University of British
Columbia (April 2008).
“The French of England: A Maritime lingua franca?” Conference on “The French of England: Linguistic
Accommodation and Cultural Hybridity, c. 1100-c.1500,” University of York, UK (July 2007)
“Gossip, Gender, and the Economy: The Origin of Scolding Indictments in Medieval England,
Annual Boyle Lecture sponsored by Amici, Friends of the Library, Pontifical Institute of Medieaval Studies,
Toronto, Canada (April 21, 2006). Also given in the Fall 2006 Lecture Series of the National Humanities
Center (October 2005), and Undergraduate Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Moravian
College (December 2007), Dominican University (March 2009).
“Women and Family in Town and Country in Medieval England: The Demographic and Paleodemographic
Evidence,” Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Toronto) Invited Seminar (April 2006)
“Living from the Sea: An Ethnography of Maritime Communities in Medieval England,” Fall Medieval Studies
Lecture of the Medieval Studies Curriculum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (November 2005)
“Women, Family, and Household in Medieval English Towns: The Demographic and Paleodemographic
Perspective,” Rutgers University Medieval Studies Lecture Series (April 2005)
“Research in the Public Record Office and the County Record Offices of England,” Medieval Studies Lecture
Series, Princeton University (February 2005)
“Gossip, Gender and the Economy in Medieval England,” Columbia University Medieval Studies Seminar
(October 2004) and Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City (March 2004)
“The Impact of Computing and IT on Medieval Studies,” Panel on “The Future of Medieval Studies,” Medieval
Club of New York (April 2004)
“Women and Gossip in Medieval England,” invited speaker at the Center for Patristic, Byzantine, and Medieval
Studies at Catholic University, Washington, D.C. (October 2003)
“Breaking the Peace of the Neighborhood: Women’s Gossip in Medieval English Towns,” plenary talk for UCLA
conference on “Women’s Works and Networks” (February 2003)
“Maritime Communities in Medieval England: The Ethnographic Approach,” History Dept. Lecture Series,
University of Southern California (February 2003)
“Using Database Analysis in Medieval History” Mellon Seminar on Power, Text and Community in Medieval
Europe, Huntingdon Library, San Marino, CA (August 2002)
“Gossip, Gender, and the Economy: The Origin of Scolding Indictments in Medieval England,”
Medieval/Renaissance Studies Seminar, Univ. of Pennsylvania (Oct. 2002); Medieval Studies Lecture Series,
Princeton Univ. (March 2002); Social and Economic History Seminar, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Univ. (Jan. 2002).
“Nurseries of Seamen? Maritime Labor in Medieval Port Towns,” Pre-Modern Towns Conference, Univ. of
London (January 2002)
“Living from the Sea: Constructing an Ethnography of Maritime Communities in Medieval England,” Medieval
History Seminar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (October 2001)
“Gossip, Gender, and the Economy in Late Medieval England,” Plenary speaker at Fordham University Faculty
Day (February 2000)
“A Living from the Sea: The Expansion of Marine Fishing in Southwestern England during the Later Middle
Ages,” Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University (March 1998)
“The Demographic History of Singlewomen in Medieval and Early Modern Europe,” Women’s Studies Lecture
Series, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (February, 1998)
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“The Development and Growth of the Maritime Economy of Devon and Cornwall in the Late Middle Ages,”
University of York, Centre for Medieval Studies (November 25, 1996); also delivered at the University of
Birmingham (October 25) and University of Exeter, Centre for Maritime Historical Studies (October 18)
“The Rise of the West Country Fisheries in the Later Middle Ages,” Medieval Economic and Social History
Seminar, University of Cambridge (November 6, 1996) and Economic and Social History of Pre-Industrial
England Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London (1 November)
“Response: London and Its Market Areas, c. 1400,” Conference on Systems of Markets in the Metropolitan
Region of Medieval England, Centre for Metropolitan History, University of London (July 1996)
“Lives Dominated by the Sea: Port Towns in Medieval England,” University of Minnesota, Center of Medieval
Studies Lecture Series (April 1996)
“Lives Dominated by the Sea: Port Towns in Medieval England,” University of Minnesota, Center of Medieval
Studies Lecture Series (April 1996)
“Butchers, Bakers, and Candlestick Makers: Occupations and Commerce in Medieval English Towns,” New York
Medieval Club, New York City (November 1994)
“Transaction Costs in a Medieval English Town,” Indiana University Economic History Workshop, Bloomington,
IN (October 1994)
“Women, Work, and Power in Medieval Towns,” Columbia Univ. Medieval Studies Seminar (February 1989)
“Women, Power, and Gilds in Medieval Towns,” Princeton University Conference on Authority and Marginality
(October, 1988)
“Town and Country in Late Medieval England: The Example of the Hide and Leather Trade” Conference on
Work in Towns, 900-1800 (London, July 1987)
“The Use of Legal Records for the History of the Urban Family in Medieval England,” Conference on British
Legal Manuscripts (Chicago, April 1986)
“Women and Work in Medieval English Towns,” University of Rochester Medieval Lecture Series (Rochester,
Oct. 1983)
Conference Papers
“Quayside Labor in Medieval English and Welsh Port Towns,” Annual conference of the National Conference of
British Studies, Montreal, Quebec (November 2012)
“Working on the Waterfront: Quayside Labor in Medieval English Port Towns,” 6th International Congress of
Maritime History, University of Ghent, Belgium (July 2012)
“The Online Medieval Sources Bibliography,” with Morgan Kay. Third International MARGOT conference on
The Digital Middle Ages in Teaching and Research, Barnard College (June 2010)
“Panel: The Toronto Feminists,” Annual Conference of the Medieval Academy of America, Yale Univesity
(March 2010)
“Seamen and the Realm: Were Medieval Mariners “Political?” Annual Conference of the National Conference of
British Studies, Louisville, Kentucky (November 2009)
“Privateers in the Maritime Economy and Society of Medieval England,” 5th International Congress on Maritime
History, University of Greenwich (June 2008)
“Gendering the Maritime: Women in Medieval English Seaports,” Annual conference of the National Conference
on British Studies, San Francisco (November 2007)
“Medieval Historiography: Old and New Classics,” panel member, American Historical Association Annual
Meeting, Atlanta (January 2007)
“Polish Ships in English Waters in the Later Middle Ages,” Conference on Britain and Greater Poland/Lithuania
Compared, Krakow, Poland (September 2005).
“Working at Sea in the Middle Ages: Changes in Remuneration and Labor Conditions,” XXXVII Settimana di
Studi, Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica ‘F. Datini’, Prato, Italy (April 2005)
“Family and Household in Medieval English Towns: The Demographic Perspective,” NACBS Annual
Conference, Philadelphia (October 2004)
“Warfare, Shipping, and Crown Patronage: The Impact of the Hundred Years War on the English Port Towns,”
Conference on Money, Markets and Trade in Late Medieval Europe, Univ. of Toront0 (March 2004)
“Shipowners and Shipping in Medieval England,” 38th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western
Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo (May 2003).
“Scolding Women and the Creation of a Legal Category in Medieval England,” annual AHA conference, San
Francisco (January 2002)
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“Port Towns and International Trade,” 7th Anglo-American Seminar on Medieval History, Dublin (July 2001)
“The Rise of the Western Ports,” Anglo-American Conf., Inst. of Historical Research, London (July 2001)
“The Development of the Sea Fisheries in Medieval England,” International Commission of Maritime History at
the 19th Congress of Historical Sciences, Oslo, Norway (August 2000)
“A Prosopography of Scolds in a Medieval English Town,” 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies,
The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI (May 1999)
"Peasants and the Sea in Medieval England," at the Medieval Academy of America, Toronto (April 1997)
"The Fish Trade in the Urban Economy of South-Western England," 31st International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (May 1996)
"Comment: Single Women: A Different Gender?," Conference on Studying the Middle Ages: What Difference
Does Gender Make," University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (October 1995)
"The Great Famine and the Grain Trade in Medieval Exeter," 28th Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI
(May 1994)
"Meat, War, Fashion and the Demand for Leather in Late Medieval England," AHA annual meeting, San
Francisco (January 1994)
"Coastal Trade and Overseas Trade in Medieval England," 27th Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI
(May 1992)
"Tanners and Tanning in Late Medieval England," Medieval Academy of America Conference (April 1989)
"The Trade in Hides and Leather in Medieval Devon," 20th Int'l. Conference on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo,
May 1985)
"Retailers and Artisans in a Medieval English Town," Centre for Medieval Studies, Toronto ( March 1985)
"Social Groupings and Legal Participation in a Medieval English Town," American Society of Legal History
Conference (Newark, October 1984)
"Women Merchants in Three Medieval English Seaports," 6th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
(Mt Holyoke, June 1984)
"Local Markets and Merchants in Late 14th Century Exeter: The Court Roll Data," Historical Geography
Research Group Conference (Exeter, England, 1983)
"Women's Work in a Market Town: Exeter in the Late 14th Century," American Historical Association
(Washington, D.C., December 1982)
"Regional Networks of Trade: The Economic Hinterland of Medieval Exeter," 16th International Conference on
Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, May 1981)
"The Extraneus or `Foreigner' in English Medieval Towns," Scarborough College Colloquium on Medieval
Civilization (Toronto, 1981)
"The Merchant Oligarchy in 14th-Century Exeter," 15th International Conference on Medieval Studies
(Kalamazoo, May 1980)
Recent Conference Sessions Organized
“New Perspectives on Customary Law in Medieval Europe,” Co-organizer of two sessions for the annual meeting
of the Medieval Academy of America at UCLA (April, 2014).
“Medieval Maritime History,” Co-organizer of four sessions for the 6th International Congress of Maritime
History, Ghent, Belgium in July 2012
“The Politics of the Unrepresented in Medieval England.” Session Organizer. Annual Meeting of the National
Conference of British Studies, Louisville, Nov. 2009.
“Medieval Maritime History,” Co-organizer and chair of five sessions at the 5th International Congress of
Maritime History, University of Greenwich, UK (June 2008)
“Women and the Economy: A Roundtable,” Session Organizer and Chair, Annual Meeting of the Medieval
Academy of America, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (April 2008)
“Women in European History: Past, Present, and Future,” Session Co-organizer and chair, American Historical
Association, Washington, D.C. (January 2008)
Other Talks
“ From Paper to Presentation: Your Research at a Conference, “ presented with Alex Novikoff, History
Department, and Janine Peterson, History Department, Marist College, Medieval Studies Professional Issues
Workshop (February 2014).
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“Medievalists and Methodology,” Grad Student Workshop, The Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame
(October 2012)
“How to Write an Academic CV,” Professional Issues in Medieval Studies Workshop, Fordham University
(September 2012)
“The Digital Media Projects of the Center for Medieval Studies,” Workshop for the Center for Digital
Transformation, Fordham University (November 2011)
“Finding Funding and Writing Grant Applications,” Fordham HSGA Professional Development Series
(November 2011)
“The Online Medieval Sources Bibliography,” for Teaching the Middle Ages Workshop: Keeping Up with Digital
Resources in Medieval Studies. Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University (October 2011)
“Compiling an Academic CV,” Workshop for the Fordham University Graduate School (November 2009)
“Presenting Your Teaching Credentials for an Academic Position,” Workshop (with Dr. Vlasta Vranges, English
department) for the Fordham University Graduate School (April 2009)
“Getting Your Research Paper Published,” GSAS Workshop Savvy Student, Skillful Professional - Molding and
Building Your Professional Self , Fordham University (December 2006)
“Compiling a Teaching Portfolio for an Academic Position,” Teaching the Middle Ages Workshop of the Center
for Medieval Studies and English Dept. Medieval Area Group (November 2006)
“Women and Gossip in Medieval Exeter,” Friends of the Devon Archives, Exeter (England), February 2002.
"Nuns, Beguines and Mystics in the Middle Ages," Lutheran Women Clergy of New Jersey Association, March
1997
"Medieval Women in Religious Life," Lutheran Women Clergy of New Jersey Association, September 1995
"History That Stands Still: Women and Work in the Middle Ages", Dean's Day, Fordham University, April 1993
"The Impact of Economic Development on Peace and Justice in the Middle Ages," Fairfield University Honors
Program, September 1987
"Women and the Medieval Church," Fordham Elder Hostel Program, July 1984
COURSES TAUGHT (at Fordham University)
Undergraduate:
Development of Medieval Europe
Worlds We Have Lost: The Social History of England
Medieval London: Archaeology and History (ICC course)
Medieval Urban History
Medieval Warfare
Medieval Women
Sem: Medieval Warfare and Society
Sem: Medieval England
Graduate:
Medieval Economic and Social History
Social and Economic History to 1300
Social and Economic History, 1300-1500
Social and Economic History, 1350-1700
Proseminar/Seminar: Medieval England
The Medieval Town
The Medieval and Early Modern City
Medieval Warfare and Society
Medieval Women and Family
Women and Family to 1700
Medieval English Paleography
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Member of: American Historical Association; Centre for South-Western Historical Studies; Columbia University
Medieval Studies Seminar; Devon and Cornwall Record Society; Devon Archaeological Society; Devonshire
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Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and the Arts; Digital Medievalist; Economic History
Society; History and Computing Association; London Record Society; Medieval Academy of America; North
American Conference on British Studies; Richard III Society; Royal Historical Society
ADMINISTRATIVE AND COMMITTEE WORK
ADMINISTRATION:
--Director, Center for Medieval Studies (1998-2001, 2002-05, 2007-10, 2011-14)
--Co-Director, Women’s Studies Program (1998/99)
--Associate Chair for Undergraduates, History Department (Fall 1997)
--Chair, History Department (1993-96)
--Director of Graduate Studies, History Department (1988-93)
--Acting Director, Center for Medieval Studies (Fall 1985, Spring 1989)
--Co-Organizer of Annual Medieval Studies Conference (1984-87)
--Coordinator or Organizer of Medieval Studies Conference (1998- )
COMMITTEES:
University:
Web Development Committee (2013- )
Web Core Development Committee (2013- )
Board of Trustees Committee on Student Life and Athletics (2013- )
University Librarian Search Committee (2012-13)
Board of Trustees Athletic Committee (2004-12)
University Web Policy Committee (2004-07)
University Research Council (1998-2001)
University Library Committee (1994-2004)
President's Advisory Board on Athletic Affairs (1987/8-1994, 1997- )
Arts and Science Council (1995-6, 1998-2001, 2002- )
Faculty Senate (1995-97)
Search Committee for Dean of Graduate School (1993-96)
Select Committee on Interdisciplinary Programs, Chair (2000-01)
University Committee on Academics for Athletes (1990/1)
Faculty Senate Election Committee (1986/7)
Faculty Interview Committee, Director of Instructional Technology (1999)
College:
Core Curriculum Committee (2006-2015)
Chair, Evaluation of the Self-Study of the Office of Student-Athlete Advising for NCAA Report (2010)
Digital Humanities Steering Committee (2011- )
Digital Humanities Working Group (2010- )
Nominating Committee for the Core Curriculum Revision Committee (2006)
Graduate School Academic Affairs Committee (2001-2002 )
Graduate School Enrollment and Financial Aid Committee (1993/4-96)
Fulbright Fellowships Committee (1986-88)
GSAS Council (1993-7, 1998-2001, 2002- )
FCRH Council (1993-7, 1998-2001, 2002-04)
Departmental:
History Dept., Webmaster (2014- )
History Dept. Committee for Graduate section of Self-Study (2013-14)
History Dept. Map Committee (2011)
History Dept., Webmaster (2006-10)
History Dept. Executive Committee (Spring 2007)
History Dept. Strategic Planning Committee (2007-08)
Modern Languages & Literature Dept. Hiring Committee—Medieval French and Medieval German Literature
positions (2006/07)
Graduate Student and Admissions Committee (2004/05)
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English Dept. Hiring Committee—Medieval English Literature (2004/05, 2008, 2011/12)
Modern Languages & Literature Dept. Hiring Committee-Medieval Italian (2004/05)
Web Coordinator, History Department (1996-9)
Women’s Studies Executive Committee (1998-9)
Women's Studies Steering Committee (1984/5-1986/7)
Modern Languages & Literature Dept. Hiring Committee—Medieval German (2000)
Modern Languages & Literature Dept. Hiring Committee—Medieval Italian (2002, 2004/05)
Art & Music Dept. Hiring Committee—Medieval Music History (2001/02), Medieval Art History (2003/04)
English Dept. Hiring Committee—Medieval Literature (1998-9, 2004/05)
History Department Library Representative (2000/01)
History Dept. Planning Committee (1999)
History Dept. Graduate Committee (1986/7-1995/6. 1998-2001)
History Dept. Graduate Admissions Committee (1987-96)
History Dept. Committee on M.A. in Gender History (1993/4)
History Dept. Hiring Committee (1984/5; 1990/1; 1992/3-Chair; 1993/4; 1994/5-Chair; 1999/00; 2003/04)
History Dept. Merit Committee (1990/1, 1993-6, 2002-08)
History Club Moderator (1985/6-1986/7)
Center for Medieval Studies:
Conference Organizer for “Reading and Writing in City, Court and Cloister: Conference in Honor of Mary C.
Erler” (March 2015); “New Perspectives on Urban Entertainments,” (March 2009); “Remembering the
Crusades: Myth, Image, and Identity,” (March 2008); “The French of England: Multilingualism in Practice,
1000-1500,” (March 2007); “Medieval Domesticity: Home, Housing and Household,” (March 2005); “The
Discourse of Law and Justice in Medieval Europe,” (March 2004); “The Virgin Mary in Cross-Cultural
Perspective” (March 2003); “Medieval Women and Power Revisited: Challenging the Master Narrative”
(March 2001); “Education in the Middle Ages” (March 2000); “Women and Power: Intrigue, Influence, and
Insubordination in Medieval and Early Modern Europe” (March 1985).
Conference Logistics for: “The French of Outremer: Communications and Communities in the Crusading
Mediterranean” (March 2014); “Putting England in Its Place: Cultural Production and Cultural Relations in the
High Middle Ages” (March 2013); “Think Romance! Re-conceptualizing a Medieval Genre ,” (March 2012);
“The Metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas” (March 2011); “New Directions in Medieval Scandinavian Studies,”
(March 2010); “Orthodox Constructions of the West, (June 2010); “Authorship and Authority: Barking Abbey
and Its Texts,” (September 2009); “Augustine in Orthodoxy,” Fordham University (June 2007); Ecclesia
Semper Reformanda: Vatican II, Aggiornamento, and Church Reform before Modernity” (August 2002);
“Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe” (March 1999); “The Debate about Women,
Men and Gender in Medieval Culture” (March 1999); “The Liturgy of Rome in the Eleventh Century” (Sept.
1998); “Europe in the Age of the Hundred Years War” (March 1989)
Web Coordinator, Medieval Studies (1998-2001, 2002- )
Medieval Studies Executive Committee (1994-6, 1999-2014)
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National Screening Committee for Fulbright Awards to the U.K. (2014- )
Board of Advisors, Journal of British Studies (2014- )
Editorial Board, Boydell and Brewer monograph series, Working in the Middle Ages: Crafts, Trades and
Professions (2013- )
Chair, Sub-Committee on Digital Taxonomy, Digital Advisory Initiatives Board, Medieval Academy of
America (2013- )
International Board, England’s Immigrants1350-1550 , University of York, UK (2011- )
Advisory Board, The Anglo-American Legal Tradition (http://aalt.law.uh.edu/) (2010-)
Advisory Board, Mapping the Medieval (http://users.drew.edu/lhamilto/cincproject/opening_page.html)
Executive Committee, Medieval Academy of America (2010-13)
Planning Committee, Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America (2010, 2011)
Search Committee for Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America (2010-11)
Editorial Board, Speculum: The Journal of the Medieval Academy America (2003-2010)
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North American Representative to the Comitato Scientifico, Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica
Francesco Datini da Prato, Italy (2009- )
Final Review Panel for National Humanities Center (2008)
Chair, Nominating Committee, National Conference on British Studies (2006)
Nominating Committee, National Conference on British Studies (2004-2006)
Co-Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, New Chaucer Society annual meeting in NYC, 2006 (2004-06)
Chair, Nominating Committee, Medieval Academy of America (2003)
Executive Committee, Centers and Regional Associations, Medieval Academy of America (2000-2004)
Program Committee, 2002 annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America
Co-Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, 2002 annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America
Nominating Committee, Medieval Academy of America (1997-99)
Board of Editors for Journal of British Studies (1990-96)
External Assessor for Center of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, SUNY Binghamton (2012)
External Assessor for Medieval Studies Graduate Programs, Univ. of Toronto (2002)
External Evaluator for Department of History Review, University of Oregon (1998)
Reader/Assessor for:
American Historical Review (1997, 2013)
Canadian Journal of History (1990, 1995, 1996)
Economic History Review (1999, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012)
English Historical Review (2015)
Gender and History (1989)
Journal of Women’s History (2008)
Journal for Maritime Research (2002)
Journal of British Studies (1991-96)
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012)
Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching (2001-02)
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (1987-90)
Speculum: Journal of Medieval Academy of America (1990, 1993-95, 1997, 1998, 2003-2010)
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History (1988)
Thought: A Review of Culture and Idea (1986-87)
Traditio (1998, 1999)
Irish Council on Humanities and Social Sciences, Peer Reviewer (2012)
L'Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France, Peer Reviewer (2012)
AAUW Educational Foundation Grants (1987, 1988, 1991)
Economic and Social Research Council, UK (2011)
European Union Research Council (2013)
NEH Division of Preservation and Access (1998)
NEH Division of Research Conferences (1990, 1994)
NEH Division of Research Programs (1990, 1994, 1995)
SSHRC Council of Canada (1991, 1992, 1994, 2002, 2004)
National Humanities Center Fellowships (2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowships, Harvard University (2011, 2012, 2013)
Broadview Press (2000)
Cambridge University Press (2000, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2015)
Longman Press (1995)
Oxford University Press (2007, 2008, 2009)
Penn State Press (1991)
Routledge Press (2010, 2014)
St Martin’s Press (1999)
University of Exeter Press (2000, 2011)
University of Florence Press (2013, 2014)
University of Minnesota Press (1990)
University of Pennsylvania Press (1996, 1998)
Promotion/Tenure Referee for universities in the U.S. (18), UK (6), Canada (3) and Denmark (1)
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PHD THESES MENTORED:
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Marilyn Oliva, “The Convent and the Community in the Diocese of Norwich, from 1350 to 1540” (1991)
Peter Hatlie, “Theodore of Studios and the Studiite Monks in Constantinople, 787-843” (1993)
Judy Ann Ford, “The Community of the Parish in Late Medieval Kent” (1993)
Paul Halsall, “Women’s Bodies, Men’s Souls: Sanctity and Gender in Byzantium” (1999)
David G. Sylvester, “Maritime Communities in Medieval England: Winchelsea and the Cinque Ports” (1999)
Elizabeth Kunz, “Hospitality, Conviviality, and the English Gentry: Social Networks of the Landed Gentry in
Late Medieval Suffolk” (2001)
Steven Spishak, “Urban Lordship in England: Lay Seigneurs in the West Midlands and Welsh March, 10661348” (2002)
Gilbert Stack, “English Minters and the Monetary Administration of Henry II, 1154 to 1189” (2004)
Caroline Dunn, “Damsels in Distress or Partners in Crime? The Abduction of Women in Medieval England”
(2007)
Rebecca Slitt, “Masculinity and Friendship in the Anglo-Norman World” (2008)
Laurel Ann Wilson, “De novo modo: The Birth of Fashion in the Middle Ages” (2011)
Christopher Beck, “Private War for Public Interests: Letter of Marque and State Formation in Medieval
Marseille” (2012) [co-mentor with Daniel Lord Smail]
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Elizabeth Keohane, “A Re-interpretation of the Power and Function of Late Medieval English Convocation”
Samantha Sagui, “Law, Order, and the Development of Urban Policing in Medieval England”
Esther Liberman-Cuenca, “Borough Customary Law in Medieval England”
Kirsten Uscinski, “Recipes for Women’s Health in Medieval England”
Richard Hresko, “The Development of the Ferrous Arms and Armor Industry in Medieval England, 12721483”
M.A. THESES MENTORED (IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES):
• Tobias Hrynick, “The Customs of Romney Marsh: Compromise and Common Interest in Wetland
Administration” (2015)
• Abigail Sargent, “According to the Custom of the Manor: Customary Inheritance in Medieval England”
(2015)
• Jacqueline Trailes, “’Rude Mechanicals?’ Local Players in Six Southeastern Towns, 1450-1550” (2015)
• Rachel Butcher, “New Approaches to the Late Medieval English Bedchamber” (2015)
• Madelyn Burt, “Gentrifying the Neighborhood: Cornish Office Holders in the Age of the Wars of the Roses
(2014)
• Yvonne Rode, “The Importation of Books into London, 1450-1540 “ (2009)
• Anna M. Moscatiello, “Wealth and Status in Pre-Plague London: A Prosopography of the 1319 Lay Subsidy
Taxpayers” (2009)
• Richard P. Hresko, “London Arms and Armor-Makers in the Fourteenth Century: A Portrait of a Medieval
Industrial Sector” (2009)
• Edward Harvey, “A Call for Paving: Pavage Grants and the Development of Street Paving in Medieval
England “ (2007)
• Louisa P. Wilson, “John of Gaunt's Urban Affinity in Fourteenth-Century Norfolk” (2003)
• Katherine Brown, “Sex, Status, and Society: Gendered Morality in the Fifteenth-Century Diocese of
Salisbury” (2003)
• Daniel Bornstein, “Labourers Asserting Themselves: Labour Mobility in Post-Black Death Lincolnshire”
(2000)
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• Rebecca Slitt, “Jousts of War: Chivalric Ritual on the Battlefield” (2000)
• Brian Klinzing, “The Tin Industry of Early Fourteenth-Century Cornwall: Miners, Merchants, and
Entrepreneurs” (1996)
• Claire E. Suplee, “The Dyestuffs Trade of Fifteenth-Century Southampton” (1995)
• Kevin Larkin, “Gender, Marriage and Ale Brewing in Small Town and Village Communities in the East
Midlands 1287-1312” (1994)
Currently under Direction:
• David Levine, “Lay Ownership and Exploitation of Essex Woodland, 1247-1447”
• Joseph Madonna, “Clerks for Hire: A Prosopography of Late Medieval English Guild Chaplains”
• Christina Stith, “The Use and Iconography of Seals Owned by Female Religious Houses in Medieval England”
I also have been on the PhD boards of an additional eighteen students, been a Reader for eight MA theses, and
have mentored four BA honors theses.