AY 2007-08                                                                                      

                                                                                                                    

                                                                                     LISA WOLVERTON

 

Department of History                                                                       lwolvert@uoregon.edu               

1288 University of Oregon                                                             http://uoregon.edu/~lwolvert

Eugene, OR  97403                                                                                               

(541) 346-6158

 

 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

 

Associate Professor of History, University of Oregon, 2007-present

Assistant Professor of History, University of Oregon, 2000-7

Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University, 1996-99

 

 

EDUCATION

 

University of Notre Dame, Medieval Institute, Notre Dame, Indiana

Ph.D., Medieval History, January 1997

Dissertation: “In Manu Sancti Wenceslai:  Power in the Czech Lands, 1004-1198”

M.M.S., Medieval Studies, August 1991

 

Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, Washington, D.C.

B.S.F.S. cum laude, December 1986

Concentrated in Comparative and Regional Studies (USSR and Eastern Europe).

 

 

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

 

Summer Research Award, University of Oregon, 2007

Spencer Brush Fund Award, History Department, University of Oregon, 2004

Meihoff Fellowship, History Department, University of Oregon, 2001

Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University, 1996-99

International Research and Exchanges Board, Short-Term Travel Grant to the Czech Republic, August 1997

Graduate Student Research Award, Notre Dame Alumni Association, 1996

Graduate Teaching Fellow, Freshman Writing Program, University of Notre Dame, Fall 1995-Spring 1996

Participant, Summer Graduate Seminar, American Numismatic Society, June-August 1995

Dissertation Fellowship, Joint Committee on Eastern Europe of the American Council of Learned Societies and Social Sciences Research Council, June 1994-May 1995.

Dissertation Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, Spring 1994

Fulbright Fellow to Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, September 1992-June 1993; extension, July-December 1993

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Cosmas of Prague, The Chronicle of the Czechs (Washington, D.C.:  Catholic University of America Press, 2009—in press).

Reinventing Knowledge:  From Alexandria to the Internet, with Ian McNeely (New York:  W. W. Norton and Co., 2008—in press)

Hastening toward Prague:  Power and Society in the Medieval Czech Lands (Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).

“From Duke to King:  Transforming the Iconography of Rulership in the Medieval Czech Lands,” Majestas 6 (1998): 51-77.

 

 

IN PREPARATION

 

Cosmas of Prague and the Birth of a National History

 

 

PRESENTATIONS

 

“’Queen Money’ and the Emperor’s Anger:  The Characterization of Emperors in the Chronica Boemorum,” Medieval Academy of America, Annual Meeting, Toronto, April 14, 2007.

“Moravia’s Bohemian Legacy (according to Cosmas of Prague),” 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 8, 2006.

“’Hawks Eat Doves’:  Power as Predation and Extortion in the Chronica Boemorum,” 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 6, 2005.

“The Czechs and Christendom: A Twelfth-century View from the ‘Frontier’,” American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 5, 2002.

“Germans and Slavs in Thirteenth-Century Bohemia:  A Question of Race?” Medieval Academy of America, Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, April 14, 2000.

“Starting from Scratch:  Reading Medieval Czech Society through its Artifacts,” Center for Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, February 3, 2000.

“Identity and Politics in the Twelfth-Century Czech Lands:  Cosmas of Prague’s Chronica Boemorum,” Seventh Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Studies, University of Miami, February 20, 1998.

“From Duke to King:  Transforming the Iconography of Rulership in the Medieval Czech Lands,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, National Convention, Seattle, November 22, 1997.

Panelist, “Becoming Interdisciplinary in a Departmental World:  Necessary? Desirable? Possible?”  32nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 10, 1997.

“The Role of Charters and the Paradox of Centralized Power in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Czech Lands,” Medieval Academy of America, Annual Meeting, Toronto, April 19, 1997.

“The Power of Political Community in the High Medieval Czech Lands,” Medieval Literature and Culture Seminar, Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, November 18, 1996.

“Minting Practice in Twelfth-Century Bohemia,” 31st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 9, 1996.

“The Role of Bishops in the Medieval Czech Lands,” Midwest Medieval History Conference, DeKalb, Illinois, October 13, 1995.

“Authority and Community in the Czech Lands, 1050-1200,” 30th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 6, 1995.

“Needs and Opportunities for Research in the Czech Republic,” Medieval Academy of America, Committee on Centers and Regional Associations, Columbus, Ohio, October 7, 1994.

 

 

BOOK REVIEWS

 

Gesta Principum Polonorum/The Deeds of the Princes of the Poles, trans. Paul W. Knoll and Frank Schaer (Budapest, 2003), Speculum 81 (2006): 217-9.

Florin Curta, The Making of the Slavs:  History and Archeology in the Lower Danube Basin c. 500-700 (Cambridge, 2001), Journal of Interdisciplinary History 34 (2003): 92-3.

 

 

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

 

Full command of Latin and Czech

Reading knowledge of German, French, and Spanish

 

 

TEACHING

 

World History I

Europe in the Early, High and Late Middle Ages (sequence)

The Crusades 

Medieval Spain

Late Medieval Holy Women

Graduate Colloqium in Medieval History

 

 

DISSERTATIONS AND MASTER’S THESIS

 

Dissertation Advisor:  Michael Furtado, “Castilian Perceptions of the Sea, 1250-1450”

M.A. Advisor:  Tyler Fall, “Negotiating Legitimacy:  The Leges Edwardi Confessoris and the 1136 Charter of Liberties” and “Medieval Norwegian Politics:  Regional Domination and St. Olaf’s Legacy,” August 2004.

M.A. Thesis Advisor:  Michael Furtado, “Castile Adrift:  The Sea and its Place in the Realm of Alfonso X,” May 2004.

Dissertation Committee Member:  Ian Rush, “The Effect of Commercialization on Peasant Wages and Diet,” University of Oregon, History Department, May 2001.

 

 

ACADEMIC SERVICE

 

Affirmative Action Officer, History Department, 2006-7

Member, Graduate Policy Subcommittee, History Department, 2005-6

Member, Search Committee, Early Modern Mediterranean Europe, History Department, 2004-5

Member, Travel Committee, History Department, 2003-4, 2004-5

Member, Advisory Committee, History Department, 2002-3

Member, Graduate Committee, History Department, 2002-3

Member, Search Committee, Renaissance/Early Modern Europe, History Department, University of Oregon, 2000-1

 

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

 

Medieval Academy of America

American Historical Association

Societas Rerum Imperii