Education

Doctorate, Medieval History Emory University

Dissertation: “’Orate Pro Nostris’: The Medieval Mortuary Roll Text and Ritual”

Advisor: Stephen D. White

Major Field: Medieval History Minor Field: Premodern Family History

Master of Arts, History West Georgia College

Master’s Thesis: “’The Remedy of Holy Prayer’: The Mortuary Roll of Abbess Mathilda of Holy Trinity, Caen (d. 1113)”

Master of Arts University of Kentucky Library Science

Bachelor of Arts University of Kentucky History, English, & Classical Civilizations

With Highest Distinction

Teaching Experience

Instructor University of West Georgia Fall 2000 to present

History 1111 (World Civ I), 1112 (World Civ II)

Instructor Emory University Fall 1997

History 101 (Western Civ I)

Teaching Assistant Emory University Fall 1995

History 101 Supervisor Dr. James Melton

Graduate Assistant West Georgia College 1991-93

One quarter History 252 (U.S. History II), 2 quarters History 101 (Western Civ I)

Publications

The Medieval Women’s Calendar Workman Press 2000, 2001, 2002

Articles on Matthew Paris, itineraries, Mount Etna, breviators, and mortuary rolls in Trade, Travel and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia. Ed. John Friedman. Garland Press, 2000.

“Mortuary Rolls as Source for Medieval Women’s History,” Proceedings and Papers of the Georgia Association of Historians 16 (1983): 116-24.

Selected Presentations

“Appropriate Responses to Death: Explaining Anomalous Entries on Mortuary Rolls”

Southeastern Medieval Association Decatur, GA Fall 1998

“Memorialization and the Creation of Prayer Networks in the High Middle Ages”

Thirty-Second International Congress on Medieval Studies

Kalamazoo, MI Spring 1998

“The Daily Life of Medieval Monks and Nuns”

Presentation to Sixth Grade Classes, Carrollton Junior High School

Carrollton, GA Spring 1997

“Death and the Abbess: Responses to Death on a Twelfth-Century Mortuary Roll”

Sixth Annual Columbia Medieval Guild Conference on “Death, Judgment, and the Eschatological Imagination” New York, NY Fall1996

“Women Memorializing Women: An Obituary from the High Middle Ages”

Southeastern Medieval Association Charleston, SC Fall 1995

“Columbus and the Isle of Women: The Search for Amazons in the New World”

Georgia Association of Historians Jekyll Island, GA Spring 1995

“’All abbesses deserve to die’: Voices of Women on a Twelfth-Century Mortuary Roll”

Twenty-Ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies

Kalamazoo, MI Spring 1994

“’Taken from the rib of man, a virago was created’: Images of Women on a Twelfth-Century Mortuary Roll”

Ninth Biennial Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies

Sarasota, FL Spring 1994

Other Professional Activities

Panel Commentator—“The Role of Women in Medieval and Early Modern Europe”

Southern Historical Association Atlanta, GA Fall 2005

Referee, Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians, 2001-2003.