Department of History
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA 01610
508-793-2358
FAX 508-793-3881
e-mail: lattreed@holycross.edu
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Ph.D., 1984, Harvard University (History)
A.M., 1981, Harvard University (History)
M.A., 1980, University of York, England (Medieval Studies)
B.A., 1976, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (Anthropology)
Medieval Europe, 500-1500; England, medieval and early modern; Medieval Spain; Renaissance Europe; Medieval France; Ancient Near East & Greece; all in fields of political, social, institutional, urban and constitutional; film and history.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2004+, Professor, History Department, College of the Holy Cross.
Courses given at Holy Cross : introductory: Rise of the Christian West
to A.D. 1000; Emerging Europe 1000-1500. intermediate: Later Middle
Ages, Medieval England I to 1216, Medieval England II 1216-1485, Medieval France,
Renaissance Europe, Medieval Lives, War and Cinema. advanced: Calamitous
14th-Century Europe, The Age of Richard III, Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years'
War, Medieval Women and Family, Making History. tutorials: Medieval
Documents, The Age of Ambition. First-Year Program 1996-97: Medieval
Renaissances (autobiographies 4th-12th centuries); Past Is a Foreign Country
(medievalism and museum theory). College Honors Program Fall 2000: Making
History: Interpreting the Past and Explaining Ourselves.
1992-2004, Associate Professor, History Department, Holy Cross College.
1986-92, Assistant Professor, History Department, Holy Cross College.
1984-85, Lecturer on History, Harvard University.
Course given: History 1140, Social and Economic Medieval Europe 500-1500.
1981-86, Teaching Fellow/Teaching Assistant, History Department, Harvard University.
1981-87, Freelance consultant on acquisition of rare manuscripts for private New York collectors. Evaluated documents' potential worth and edited them with attention paid to their historical significance.
Books:
The York House Books, 1461-1490, 2 vols., London and Gloucester,
England, and Wolfeboro, N.H.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1991.
The King's Towns: Identity and Survival in Late Medieval English
Boroughs, New York and London: Peter Lang, 2001.
Pamphlet:
Perspectives on Audiovisuals in the Teaching of History, ed.
Susan Gillespie (Washington D.C.: American Historical Association, 1999):
contributed revised and rewritten article “Lessons in the Dark: Teaching
the Middle Ages with Film,” pp. 59-68, originally published 1997.
Encyclopedia Entries:
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Robert E. Bjork, gen. ed. (London: Oxford University Press, forthcoming): entries on “Barnet, battle of;” “Blore Heath, battle of;” “Clarence, dukes of;” “Elizabeth Woodville;” “Margaret of Anjou;” “Plantagenet, George;” “Shrewsbury, battle of;” “Simnel, Lambert;” “Tewkesbury, battle of;” “Towton, battle of;” “Woodville Family;” and “Woodville, Anthony.”
Reader's Guide to British History: David Loades, ed., 2 vols. (New
York & London: FitzRoy Dearborn, 2003), pp. 71-73, 1130-1133, 1135-37, 1407-8:
entries on "Architecture III: Medieval Military;" "Roman Britain:
British Tribes; Crafts, Trade and Agriculture; Defence; Government and Social
Structure; Invasion and Conquest;" and "York."
American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature, 3rd
ed., Mary Beth Norton gen. ed., 2 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press,
1995), pp. 629-30, 640-41, 646-48, 658-59: sections: "Medieval Europe--General
Studies: Urban World, Commerce and Industry; Europe 1000-1500: General Studies,
Economies and the Urban World; Northwestern Europe 1000-1500: Urban World, Commerce
and Industry; Scandinavia, Central and Eastern Europe 1000-1500: General Studies,
Urban World, Commerce and Industry."
"Cade and Cade's Rebellion," Dictionary of the Middle Ages,
gen. ed. Joseph R. Strayer, 12 vols. (New York, 1982-89), III, 4-5.
Articles:
(With Alexandra Winkler) “Faith and Forgiveness: Lessons in Statecraft for Queen Mary Tudor,” Sixteenth-Century Journal, 36 (2005): 971-89.
“Rival Jurisdictions, Disputed Spaces: The Definition of Urban Identity in Medieval English Towns,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 32 (Spring 2002): 571-92.
“Henry VII and the ‘New Found Island’: England’s Atlantic Exploration and the Anglo-Azorean Syndicate,” Mediterranean Studies 9 (2001): 65-78..
“Friends in Need or in Deed?: Anglo-Portuguese Relations in the Fifteenth Century,” Mediterranean Studies 8 (2000): 143-56.
(With James F. Powers) "Lessons in the Dark: Teaching the Middle Ages with Film," American Historical Association Perspectives 35:1 (Jan. 1997): 12-16.
"Poverty, Payments, and Fiscal Policies in English Provincial Towns," in Portraits of Medieval Living: Essays in Memory of David Herlihy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996), pp. 325-48.
American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature, 3rd ed., Mary Beth Norton gen. ed., 2 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), sections: "Medieval Europe--General Studies: Urban World, Commerce and Industry; Europe 1000-1500: General Studies, Economies and the Urban World; Northwestern Europe 1000-1500: Urban World, Commerce and Industry; Scandinavia, Central and Eastern Europe 1000-1500: General Studies, Urban World, Commerce and Industry," pp. 629-30, 640-41, 646-48, 658-59.
"The Politics of Welcome -- Ceremonies and Constitutional Development in Later Medieval English Towns," in City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe, ed. Barbara Hanawalt (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1994), pp. 208-31.
"Arbitration and the Growth of Urban Liberties in Late Medieval England," Journal of British Studies, 31 (1992), 205-35.
"England's Official Rose: Tudor Concepts of the Middle Ages," in Hermeneutics and Medieval Culture, ed. Patrick Gallacher and Helen Damico (Albany, State University of New York Press, 1989), pp. 85-95.
"A New Source for Perkin Warbeck's Invasion of 1497," Mediaeval Studies, 48 (1986), 514-521.
"Medieval Bureaucracy in Fifteenth-Century York," York Historian, 6 (1985) 24-31.
"Sweating Sickness of 1485," and "Medieval Children and Mortality," in Richard III: Crown and People, ed. J. Petre (London, 1985), 380-92.
"An Indenture between Richard Duke of Gloucester and the Scrope Family of Masham and Upsall, Yorkshire," Speculum, 58 (1983), 1018-25.
"From Pearl Maiden to Tower Princes: Towards a New History of Medieval Childhood," Journal of Medieval History, 9 (1983), 43-58.
"Cade and Cade's Rebellion," Dictionary of the Middle Ages, gen. ed. Joseph R. Strayer, 12 vols. (New York, 1982-89), III, 4-5.
"Preparation for Death in Sixteenth-Century Northern England," Sixteenth-Century Journal, 13 (1982), 37-66.
"The King's Interest--York's Fee Farm and the Central Government, 1480-1492,"
Northern
History, 17 (1981), 24-43.
2008:
Sandy Bardsley, Venomous Tongues: Speech and Gender in Late Medieval England, in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 38 (2008): 104-5.
2007:
Christian D. Liddy, War, Politics and Finance in Late Medieval English Towns, in Urban History, forthcoming.
Anne F. Sutton, The Mercery of London: Trade, Goods and People, 1130-1578, in Speculum, 82.2 (2007): 487-88.
Choice reviews:
Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200-1425, May 2007.
Jarbel Rodriguez, Captives and Their Saviors in the Medieval Crown of Aragon, forthcoming.
Nigel Saul, The Three Richards, July 2007.
Jennifer Ward, Women in England in the Middle Ages, forthcoming.
2006:
John O. Prestwich, The Place of War in English History, 1066-1214, in The Medieval Review, 3 February 2006.
Michael Prestwich, Plantagenet England 1225-1360, in Speculum 81.4 (Oct. 2006): 1243-45.
Andrew P. Scheil, The Footsteps of Israel: Understanding Jews in Anglo-Saxon England, in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 24.4 (2006): 152-54.
Choice reviews:
Anne Curry, Agincourt, in Choice, September 2006.
George Logan, trans., Thomas More’s Richard III, in Choice, November 2006.
2005:
Caroline Barron, London in the Later Middle Ages, in Speculum 80 (2005): 1233-35.
Christopher Daniell, From Norman Conquest to Magna Carta, in Speculum 80 (2005): 1258-59.
Markku Peltonen, The Duel in Early Modern England, in Canadian Journal of History 40 (2005): 100-102.
Choice reviews:
L. Olson and K. Kirby-Fulton, eds., Voices in Dialogue: Reading Women in the Middle Ages, in Choice 43.3 (November 2005).
2004:
Peter Coss, The Origins of the English Gentry, in Albion 36.4 (Winter 2004): 672-73.
Stephen Knight, Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography, in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 35 (2004): 638-39.
Mary-Rose McLaren, The London Chronicles of the Fifteenth Century: A Revolution in English Writing, in Speculum 79 (2004): 1114-15.
Gwilym Dodd and Douglas Biggs, eds., Henry IV: The Establishment of the Regime, 1399-1406, in Albion, 36 (2004): 284-86.
2004:
Stephen Knight, Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography, in Journal of Interdisciplinary
History 34 (2004), forthcoming.
Peter Coss, The Origins of the English Gentry, in Albion 36 (2004),
forthcoming.
Mary-Rose McLaren, The London Chronicles of the Fifteenth Century: A Revolution
in English Writing, in Speculum 79 (2004): 1114-15.
Gwilym Dodd and Douglas Biggs, eds., Henry IV: The Establishment of the Regime,
1399-1406, in Albion, 36 (2004): 267-69.
2003:
Michael Hicks, ed., Revolution and Consumption in Late Medieval England,
in The Medieval Review, April 2003.
J. F. Merritt, ed., Imagining Early Modern London: Perceptions and Portrayals
of the City from Stow to Strype, 1598-1720, in Journal of Interdisciplinary
History, 33 (2003): 464-66.
2002:
D. M. Palliser, ed., The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, Volume I, 600-1540,
in Medieval Prosopography 23 (2002): 298-300.
2001:
Bruce M. S. Campbell, English Seigniorial Agriculture 1250-1450,
in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 32 (2001), 456-58.
2000:
Gordon Kipling, Enter the King: Theatre, Liturgy, and Ritual in
the Medieval Civic Triumph, in The Medieval Review, March 2000.
1999:
Michael Hicks, Warwick the Kingmaker, in Albion, 31 (1999):
450-52.
1998:
Chris Given-Wilson, The Chronicle of Adam Usk, in The Medieval
Review, April 1998.
1996:
Judith Ferster, Fictions of Advice: The Literature and Politics
of Counsel in Late Medieval England, in The Bryn Mawr Medieval Review,
October 1996.
"The Wars of the Roses: A Review Essay," in Albion, 28 (1996):
679-82.
1995:
Barbara A. Hanawalt, Growing Up in Medieval London: The Experience
of Childhood in History, in Journal of Interdisciplinary History,
26 (1995): 88-89.
1994:
P. J. P. Goldberg, Women, Work, and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy,
in Speculum, 69 (1994), 1173-76.
R. H. Hilton, English and French Towns in Feudal Society: A Comparative
Study, in Speculum, 69 (1994), 174-75.
Michael K. Jones and Malcolm G. Underwood, The King's Mother: Lady
Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, in Speculum,
69 (1994), 184-86.
Jonathan Sumption, The Hundred Years' War: Trial by Battle,
in Medievalia et Humanistica, 21 (1994): 199-200.
1993:
Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death,
in Medievalia et Humanistica, 20 (1993): 211-12.
Norman Housley, The Later Crusades: From Lyons to Alcazar 1274-1580,
in The Historian, 55 (1993), 748-49.
1992:
Maurice Beresford and John Hurst, Wharram Percy: Deserted Medieval
Village, and Maurice Beresford and John Hurst, Deserted Medieval
Villages: Studies (joint review) in Speculum, 67 (1992), 934-36.
1991:
A. L. Brown, The Governance of Late Medieval England 1272-1461,
in The Historian, 53 (1991), 320-21.
1989:
Michael Bennett, Lambert Simnel and the Battle of Stoke, in
Speculum,
64 (1989), 117.
Chris Given-Wilson, The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages,
in Albion, 21 (1989), 483-84.
Marjorie K. McIntosh, Autonomy and Community: The Royal Manor of
Havering, 1200-1500, in Speculum, 64 (1989), 187-89.
David Nicholas, The Metamorphosis of a Medieval City: Ghent in the
Age of the Arteveldes, 1302-1390, in Speculum, 64 (1989), 473-75.
C. J. Wickham, The Mountains and the City: The Tuscan Appennines
in the Early Middle Ages, in The Historian, 52 (1989), 102-3.
1988:
Judith M. Bennett, Women in the Medieval English Countryside,
in Albion, 20 (1988), 82-83.
P. R. Coss, ed., The Early Records of Medieval Coventry, in
Speculum,
63 (1988), 646-47.
1987:
R. H. Britnell, Growth and Decline in Colchester 1300-1525,
in Speculum 62 (1987), 907-908.
George Cuttino, English Medieval Diplomacy in The Historian,
49 (1987), 246-47.
Martha C. Howell, Women, Production, and Patriarchy in Late Medieval
Cities in The Historian, 49 (1987), 546-47.
J. G. Rowe, ed., Aspects of Late Medieval Government and Society:
Essays Presented to J. R. Lander, in Albion, 19 (1987), 400-401.
Ronald E. Zupko, A Dictionary of Weights and Measures in the British
Isles, in Speculum, 62 (1987), 522.
CONFERENCE
ACTIVITIES, PAPERS AND LECTURES SINCE 1990
2007: Paper “Sex and the Foreign Ambassador: Gendering Diplomatic History & Other Challenges to Traditional Studies” at the 10th annual conference of the Mediterranean Studies Association, Évora, Portugal, 30 May to 2 June.
2004: Paper, "More Pleasant in the Mouth than in the Ear: Advice from the Mediterranean World to Queen Mary Tudor," Catalonia and the Mediterranean," 7th annual conference of the Mediterranean Studies Association, Barcelona, Spain, 26-30 May.
2003: Chaired session, "Land, Law and Identity," Midwest Medieval
History Conference, Notre Dame University, South Bend Indiana, 10-11 Oct.
Commentator, "Understanding the Medieval World Through Ritual and Performance,"
New England Historical Association, Holy Cross College, 25 Oct.
2002: Paper, “Ship of Fools: Juana la Loca, Henry Tudor, and the Evolution
of Anglo-Mediterranean Diplomacy," Iberia & the Mediterranean, 5th annual
conference of the Mediterranean Studies Association, Granada, Spain, 31 May.
Paper, "Gendered Patronage: Searching for Women of Power and Influence in Medieval
English Towns,” International Medieval Conference, Leeds, England, 9 July.
2001: Chaired session, “Iberia at the End of the First Millennium: Religious
Change and the Beatus Manuscripts,” American Historical Association, Boston,
Mass., 5-7 January.
Chaired session, “Tangiers, 1437: A Disaster in Multi-Media,” Annual
meeting of the Society of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Sante
Fé, NM, 19-22 April.
Paper, “Bastides and Bastidors: New Towns and their Builders in Medieval
Britain and Gascony,” Occitania-Provence and the Mediterranean: Contributions,
Exchanges, And Relationships, Aix-en-Provence, France, 22-26 May.
1999: Paper, “Rival Jurisdictions and the Definition of Urban Identity
in Medieval English Towns,” conference on Fertile Space: The City in Northern
Europe, 1100-1650, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 15-16 May.
Paper, “Henry VII and the ‘New Found Island’: England’s Atlantic Exploration
and the Anglo-Azorean Syndicate,” conference on Crossing Boundaries: Europe
Encounters New Worlds, Coimbra, Portugal, 26-29 May.
1998: Paper: "Marriages of True Minds: Anglo-Portuguese Relations,"
Mediterranean XX Conference, Valencia, Spain, 6-10 July.
Paper: "Friends in Need or in Deed?: Anglo-Portuguese Relations in
the Fifteenth Century," conference on Discovery, New Frontiers, and Expansion
in the Luso-Iberian World, Lisbon, Portugal, 27-30 May.
Paper: "Mirrors of Identity, Gauges of Development: The Charters of
Late Medieval English Towns," Medieval Academy of America, Stanford University,
26-28 March.
Chaired session "Pages Past and Present: Communication Arts from the
Middle Ages to the Internet," held at the Higgins Armory Museum, 21-22
March.
1997: Chaired session, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical
Studies, Minneapolis, Minn., April.
Paper: "Looking for Richard and Pedro: Creating New Realities in English
and Castilian Historiography," Mediterranean XIX Conference, Bordeaux,
France, July.
Paper: "Jurisdiction, the Crown, and the Search for Urban Identity
in Late Medieval English Towns," International Medieval Conference, Leeds,
England, July.
1996: Paper: "The Demands of Rome: Towns, Bishops, and the Questions
of Identity in Late Medieval England," Mediterranean XVIII Conference,
Rome, Italy, July.
Chaired session "The Lives of Medieval Women: Bodies and Selves," for
(Re)searching Ourselves: A Women's Studies Conference, Holy Cross College,
March.
1995: Chaired session "In Search of the Spiritual," Tenth meeting of the Studies in Medievalism Conference, Worcester, Mass., September.
1994: Chaired session "Heroes of the Hundred Years' War," The 21st New
England Medieval Conference: Joan of Arc and the Age of the Hundred Years'
War, Worcester, Mass., November.
Chaired and commented on session "Use and Abuses of Films About the
Sixteenth Century," Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Toronto Canada,
October.
Paper: "Episcopal Conflict and the Search for Urban Identity in Medieval
English Towns," American Catholic Historical Association, Worcester, Mass.,
April.
1993: Paper: "Anglo-Iberian Diplomacy During the Fifteenth Century:
Outreach to the Mediterranean World," Mediterranean XV Conference, Syracusa,
Sicily, July.
"Gateway to the Past: The Atlantic and Mediterranean Ports in the Age
of Discovery," a series of six historical lectures for Sunline Cruises,
Primavera Cruise 20-day Atlantic crossing, Florida to Athens, May-June.
1992: Paper: "Lessons in the Dark: Teaching the Middle Ages with Film,"
Harvard University Medieval Doctoral Conference, Cambridge Mass.
Paper: "Towns, Trade and Toffs: Financial Strategies of Medieval English
Boroughs," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan
University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Chaired session "Vice and Virtue in the Middle Ages," New England Conference
on British Studies.
1991: Paper: "Lessons in the Dark: Teaching the Middle Ages with Film,"
American Historical Association, Chicago, IL.
Paper: "The Politics of Welcome -- Ceremonies and Constitutional Development
in Later Medieval England," NEH-sponsored conference on "City and Spectacle
in Medieval Europe," University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
1990: Paper: "Black Legends and Historiography in Late Medieval Castile and England," Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, New Orleans, LA.
2007: Research and Publication grant for travel to The National Archives, London, for work on Anglo-Iberian diplomacy.
2006: Elected member of the International Institute in Spain.
2005: Spring semester Faculty Fellowship research leave.
2003: Research and Publication grant for photocopies of British Library documents
for article on Mary Tudor's statecraft, and renewal of Widener Library card
for research.
2002: Research and Publication grant for travel to conferences in May (Granada, Spain) and July (Leeds, England), to present papers, leading to publication of research.
2001: Research and Publication grant for travel to conference in May in Aix-en-Provence, France, to present paper, leading to publication of the research.
1997: Fall semester Faculty Fellowship research leave.
Research and Publication grant for two conference papers given July
in Bordeaux, France, and Leeds, England, leading to publication of the
research.
1996: Hewlett-Mellon grant for Medieval and Renaissance Concentration
Faculty Development Workshop, held August.
Research and Publication grant for conference paper given July in Rome,
Italy, leading to publication of the research.
1995: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of England, one of the foremost historical associations in the world.
1987-93, eight Research and Publication grants, Holy Cross College, for editing and preparing for publication the medieval council records of York, and for archival work in Exeter, England leading to publication of article and book (see PUBLICATIONS, above, Journal of British Studies and York House Books).
1992: National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections grant, for travel to English archives June-July 1993.
1988: Batchelor (Ford) Summer Faculty Fellowship, Holy Cross College, for archival work in York, England.
1986: Fellowships from American Bar Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities, for editing medieval council records of York.
1982: Fellowship from Krupp Foundation for archival research in Britain.
1979: Sheldon Memorial Trust award, given by University of York after public competition, for paper on the history of York (see PUBLICATIONS, above, York Historian and Northern History articles).
1977: Marshall Scholarship to University of York for graduate work (2 yrs.).
1976: Election to Phi Beta Kappa, University of New Mexico chapter.
1975: Election to Phi Alpha Theta, honor society in history.
MEMBERSHIP
IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Association of State and Local History; American Association of University
Professors; American Association of University Women; American Historical Association;
Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections; De Re Militari;
Film and History; Friends of the Institute of Historical Research (London);
Haskins Society; Historical Society; International Institute in Spain; Medieval Academy of America; Mediterranean
Studies Association; North American Council on British Studies; Phi Alpha Theta;
Phi Beta Kappa; Society of Marshall Scholars; Society for Spanish and Portuguese
Historical Studies; Urban History Society; Western Front (World War I studies).
SERVICE AND
ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE PROFESSION OF HISTORY
Offices, Committee Work, Steering Committees:
2005-06: Member of selection committee for William Schallek Memorial Graduate Fellowship, which supports the study of topics in the later Middle Ages. Committee members now review applications every February/March for the smaller grant for dissertation research, and every November for a full-year grant.
2004-05: Selected as a reviewer for Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.
Member of selection committee for William Schallek Memorial Graduate Fellowship, which supports the study of topics in the later Middle Ages, currently able to award a total of $40,000 in scholarships (recipient of two Schallek fellowships while at Harvard University).
2003-04: Member of selection committee for William Schallek Memorial Graduate Fellowship.
2002-03: General Secretary, New England Medieval Conference (sixth of a 5 year term).
Member of selection committee for William Schallek Memorial Graduate Fellowship.
2001-02: General Secretary, New England Medieval Conference (fifth of a 5 year
term).
Member of Board of Directors of the Urban History Association (term expired
12/01).
Member of selection committee for William Schallek Memorial Graduate Fellowship.
2000-2001: General Secretary, New England Medieval Conference (fourth of a
5 year term).
Member of Board of Directors of the Urban History Association.
Member of selection committee for William Schallek Memorial Graduate Fellowship.
1999-2000: General Secretary, New England Medieval Conference (third of a 5
year term).
Member of Board of Directors of the Urban History Association.
Member of selection committee for William Schallek Memorial Graduate Fellowship.
1998-99: Elected to Board of Directors of the Urban History Association (term
expires 2001).
General Secretary, New England Medieval Conference (second of a 5 year term);
helped to create its website: http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/nemc/default.htm.
Member of selection committee for William Schallek Memorial Graduate Fellowship.
1997-98: Elected General Secretary, New England Medieval Conference (first
of a 5 year term), October 1997.
Member of selection committee for William Schallek Memorial Graduate Fellowship.
Member of planning committee and session chair for conference "Pages Past
and Present: Communication Arts from the Middle Ages to the Internet,"
held at the Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, 21-22 March 1998.
1996-97: Member of selection committee for William Schallek Memorial Graduate Fellowship.
1995-96: Re-elected President, New England Medieval Conference.
Member of selection committee for William Schallek Memorial Graduate Fellowship.
1994-95: Elected President, New England Medieval Conference.
Member of planning committee for the 1995 Studies in Medievalism conference
(10th annual meeting), to be held at the Higgins Armory Museum September 1995.
Member of selection committee for William Schallek Memorial Graduate Fellowship.
1993-94: Elected Vice-President, New England Medieval Conference, and co-organizer
of its 1994 (21st annual) meeting at the Higgins Armory Museum (see "Conference
Papers and Lectures," above).
Member of "Best Book in Non-North American Urban History" prize committee,
Urban History Association.
Member of selection committee for William Schallek Memorial Graduate Fellowship.
1992-93: Reader of medieval entries for the David Pinkney Prize of the Society
for French Historical Studies, Best Book published 1991.
Member of selection committee for William Schallek Memorial Graduate Fellowship.
1991-92: Treasurer of the New England Historical Association.
Member of the Urban History Association committee to award prize for best article
in urban history published 1990.
Member of selection committee for William Schallek Memorial Graduate Fellowship.
1990-91: Treasurer of the New England Historical Association.
Member of selection committee for William Schallek Memorial Graduate Fellowship.
1989-90: Treasurer of the New England Historical Association.
Member of selection committee for William Schallek Memorial Graduate Fellowship.
1988-89: Member of selection committee for William Schallek Memorial Graduate Fellowship.
1987-88: Representative of the Medieval Academy of America at the 175th anniversary
celebrations of the American Antiquarian Society.
Member of selection committee for William Schallek Memorial Graduate Fellowship.
1986-87: Member of selection committee for William Schallek Memorial Graduate Fellowship.
Peer Review of Books, Texts, and Articles:
Sept. 2006: Reviewed book-length manuscript “Personalities and Perspectives of Fifteenth-Century England” for the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies publication series.
May 2006: Reviewed manuscript of primary source reader in ancient Greek history for Oxford University Press.
Feb. 2006: Reviewed article manuscript on medieval Coventry for Journal of British Studies.
Jan. 2006: Reviewed proposal for urban history encyclopedia for Routledge Publishers.
Oct. 2005: Reviewed manuscript of primary source reader on Thomas Cromwell for Longman Publishers.
Feb. 2005: Reviewed manuscript (850 pp.) of medieval history textbook for Pearson Longman Publishers.
Jan. 2005: Reviewed manuscript of primary source reader in medieval history for Broadview Press.
Sept. 2003: Reviewed revised prospectus for textbook The Black Death for Houghton Mifflin Publishing.
August 2002: Reviewed prospectus for textbook The Black Death for Houghton Mifflin Publishing.
April 2001: Reviewed article manuscript "Lordship and Wardship: The Mowbray Inheritance and the Crown, 1398-1413" for journal Speculum.
May 2000: Reviewed article manuscript "The Rhetoric of the Royal Chamber," for the journal Speculum.
Feb. 2000: Reviewed eighth edition of C. Warren Hollister's textbook Making of Medieval England for Houghton Mifflin.
Feb. 1997: Reviewed article manuscript "Image and Reality during the Wars of the Roses," for journal Speculum.
Feb. 1996: Reviewed Norman Cantor's Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, for Oxford University Press.
Feb. 1995: Reviewed article manuscript "The Origins of William Longchamp," for journal Speculum.
Sept. 1993: Reviewed sixth edition of C. Warren Hollister's textbook The Making of England, for DC Heath.
Service and Activities within the Greater Community:
Feb. 2004: invited talk to St. Michael's Episcopal Church, Worcester, on
Lady Margaret Beaufort, Henry VIII's Grandmother.
August 2001: slide lecture "War or Commerce? Urban Development from Medieval Towns to Today's Retirement Communities," to Westminster-Canterbury of the Blue Ridge Residential Living Community, Charlottesville, Virginia.
August 2000: slide lecture "A Maid for All Seasons: Joan of Arc and Her Enduring Legacy," to Westminster-Canterbury of the Blue Ridge Residential Living Community, Charlottesville, Virginia.
March-April 2000: History lecturer, Primavera Trans-Atlantic/Mediterranean and Greek Islands Cruises, Royal Olympic Cruise Line.
October 1999: slide lecture "Multiculturalism in the Middle Ages: The Experience of 'The Other' in Northern Europe," to Westminster-Canterbury of the Blue Ridge Residential Living Community, Charlottesville, Virginia.
August 1998: slide lecture "Art, War and History: What Endures?" to Westminster-Canterbury of the Blue Ridge Residential Living Community, Charlottesville, Virginia.
August 1997: slide lecture "The Bible in Stone: Illustrations in 12th-Century Romanesque Art" to Westminster-Canterbury of the Blue Ridge Residential Living Community, Charlottesville, Virginia.
January and February 1997: two papers (with slides and film clips), "A Knight at the Movies: Henry V, From Hero to Anti-Hero," and "A Knight at the Movies: Richard III, From Demon to Dictator," for Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, Shakespeare and Chivalry series.
May-June 1990, Tour leader and history lecturer, Great Journeys/Jameson Travel,
Paris to Madrid, "Pilgrim Route to Santiago de Compostela."
COLLEGE AND DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
2006-07:
On sabbatical leave
2005-06:
Member, Planning Steering Council (an off-shoot of Holy Cross’s Finance and Planning Council)
Member, board of selection for Phi Beta Kappa.
Member, board of selection for the John Crowley Prize for best student paper in History.
Member, History Department Honors Committee
2004-05:
Member, Planning Steering Council (an off-shoot of Finance and Planning Council)
Co-Facilitator, Curriculum Review subcommittee on College Honors and Departmental Honors Programs.
Worked with members of the Classics, Sociology/Anthropology, and History Departments, under the coordination of CISS, to create a Museum Studies course and internship.
History department representative, Holy Cross Open House for prospective students
Department representative on plagiarism appeals board.
Member, hiring committee, Russian and Eastern European History position.
Spring, on semester leave, Faculty Fellowship.
2003-04:
Member, Finance and Planning Council; Member, Planning Steering Committee (an
off-shoot of FPC)
Member, Committee on Graduate Studies and Fellowships
Member, Committee on Honors Programs (Curricular Review project)
Chair, History Department Curriculum Committee
History representative, Holy Cross Open House for prospective students
2002-03:
Member, Finance and Planning Council; Member, Planning Steering Committee (an
off-shoot of FPC)
Chair, Committee on the Center for Interdisciplinary and Special Studies (CISS)
Member, Committee on Graduate Studies and Fellowships
Member, Curricular Goals Committee (Intellectual Maturation sub-group)
Member, Steering Committee, Medieval and Renaissance Interdisciplinary Minor
Chair, History Department Curriculum Committee
History Department Graduate Advisor
United Way Team Captain (third time since 1986)
2001-02:
Member, Committee on Graduate Studies and Fellowships
Chair, History Department Honors Committee
History Department Graduate Advisor
2000-01:
Chair, History Department Honors Committee
History Department Graduate Advisor
1999-2000:
On sabbatical leave
1998-99:
Vice-President, Pi Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa
Member, steering committee, Medieval and Renaissance Interdisciplinary Minor
History Department Graduate Advisor
Member of History Department's Honors Committee
1997-98:
Fall, on semester leave, Faculty Fellowship.
Chair, History Department Graduate Advising Committee.
1996-97:
Member of Language Requirement Evaluation Ad-Hoc Committee, appointed by the
Curriculum Committee.
Member of the faculty of the First Year Program.
Co-writer and co-organizer, Hewlett-Mellon grant, for discussion of creation
of the Medieval and Renaissance Interdisciplinary Minor.
Chair, History Department Graduate Advising Committee.
Faculty Advisor, Holy Cross chapter of Phi Alpha Theta.
Participant and discussant in the Women's Studies Film Series.
1995-96:
Chair, History Department Graduate Advising Committee.
Faculty Advisor, Holy Cross chapter of Phi Alpha Theta.
Chair, Departmental Film Committee.
1994-95:
Member of nominating committee, Pi Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa.
Chair, History Department Graduate Advising Committee.
Faculty Advisor, Holy Cross chapter of Phi Alpha Theta.
Study Abroad interviews for England and Scotland.
1993-94:
Member of nominating committee, Pi Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa.
Chair, History Department Graduate Advising Committee.
1992-93:
On sabbatical leave
1991-92:
President, Pi Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa.
Member of nominating committee, Pi Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa.
Faculty Marshal, Commencement Exercises.
Member of the Student Personnel Policies Committee.
Member of the College Committee on Film.
Chair, History Department Graduate Advising Committee, (Spring semester).
Chair, History Department Honors Committee (Fall semester).
1990-91:
President, Pi Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa.
Member of nominating committee, Pi Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa
Member of the College Judicial Board.
Member of the Student Personnel Policies Committee.
Member of the College Committee on Film.
History Department Graduate Studies Advisor.
1989-90:
Vice-President, Pi Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa.
Member of nominating committee, Pi Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa.
Member of the Research and Publication Committee.
Interviewer for Junior Year Abroad candidates to England.
Member of the Campus Advisory Council.
Member of the College Committee on Film.
Member of the College Judicial Board.
History Department Graduate Studies Advisor.
Head of the History Department's Committee on Film.
Liaison for the History Department with Dinand Library.
Member of History Honors Program Steering Committee.
History Department representative for Hanselman House Majors Night (discussion
of majors available, nature of study and requirements).
Last revised
July 26, 2007