CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Amy Livingstone

Associate Professor of History

 

 

 

 

Education:

 

1992                                Ph. D., Michigan State University, Medieval History

Dissertation: “The Nobility of Blois-Chartres: Family and Inheritance, 980-1140”

 

1985                                M. A., Michigan State University, History

 

1983                                B.A., Michigan State University, History, with Honors

 

Professional Experience:

 

2007-2010       Program Director for Pre-Modern and Ancient World Studies, Wittenberg

                         University

 

2004- 1/2007   Chair, Department of History, Wittenberg University

 

2001-               Associate Professor of History, Wittenberg University

 

1999-2001             Assistant Professor of History, Wittenberg University

 

1992-1999             Assistant Professor of History, Maryville College

 

1990-1991             Instructor, Department of History, Michigan State University

 

1983-1988             Graduate Assistant, Michigan State University

 

Professional Activities

 

Grants and Awards:

 

2007             Faculty Research Fund Board Research Grant, Wittenberg University

 

2007             New Course Development Grant, Wittenberg University, History 105, the

                      Pre-Modern World

 

2007             Supplemental Professional Enrichment Grant, Wittenberg University

 

2006             Professional Enrichment Grant, Wittenberg University

 

2006             New Course Development Grant, Wittenberg University for History 301,

                     The Age of Cathedrals

 

2005             Professional Enrichment Grant, Wittenberg University

 

2004             Faculty Research Fund Board Project Grant, Wittenberg University,

      “Family, Friends and Foes: Aristocratic Family Life in the Chartrain”

 

2004             Professional Enrichment Grant, Wittenberg University

 

2003             Faculty Research Fund Board Project Grant, Wittenberg University

                    “Ladies and Lords: Medieval Aristocratic Lives”

 

2002             Faculty Research Funding Board Project Grant, Wittenberg University,

                     “The Social Uses of Property: Medieval Aristocratic Families in the

                       Vendomôis and the Chartrain

 

2002                Professional Enrichment Grant, Wittenberg University

 

2001                Faculty Research Funding Board Project Grant, Wittenberg University,

                        “Chartrain Aristocratic Families in the Vend^mois”

 

2001               New Course Development Grant for History 312, From Constantine to the

      Vikings: The History of the Early Middle Ages

 

2001                Professional Enrichment Grant

 

2000                Faculty Research Funding Board Project Grant, Wittenberg University,

                        “Family, Friends and Foes: The Elite of the Chartrain, 1000-1200”

 

 2000               New Course Development Grant for History 390, Medieval Women

 

 1999               “Aristocratic Women in the Chartrain” was selected as “December’s

Article of the Month” by the Medieval Feminist Web site. The essay was selected for “the importance of the thesis, the skill with which it was written, and its appeal to undergraduates.”

 

1999                Professional Enrichment Grant, Wittenberg University

 

1996                               Faculty Scholars Travel Grant, Appalachian College Association

 

1995                                Mellon Faculty-Student Research Grant for construction of a database of information from medieval charters.

 

1993                                Faculty Scholars Travel Grant, University of Kentucky

 

1991                                College of Arts and Letters Dissertation Fellowship, Michigan State University  

 

1989                                Gilbert Chinard Scholarship, Institut Français de Washington

 

Memberships:

 

American Historical Association

Medieval Academy of America

Midwest Medieval History Conference

Charles Homer Haskins Society

 

Offices Held:

 

2005-2008       Editorial Board for Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques

 

2001-2004       Advisory and Editorial Board of the Society for Medieval

 Feminist Scholarship

 

1999-2000             Local Arrangements Coordinator for the Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Midwest Medieval History Conference, 

                        Wittenberg University, September 22-23, 2000.

 

1998-1999             President, Midwest Medieval History Conference

 

1997-1998             Vice President, Midwest Medieval History Conference

 

1996-1999      Editorial Board for French Historical Studies

 

1996-1997             Counselor of the Midwest Medieval History Conference

 

1995-1996             Program Chair for the Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Midwest Medieval History Conference

 

1992-1993             Counselor for the Midwest Medieval History Conference

 

Publications:

 

“Kith and Kin: An Examination of the Kinship and Family Structures of the Nobility of Eleventh and Twelfth-Century Blois-Chartres.” French Historical Studies, 20 (1997), pp. 419-58.

 

“Noblewomen’s Control of Property in Twelfth-Century Blois-Chartres.” Medieval Prosopography, 18 (1997), pp. 55-72.

 

“Pour une révision du “mâle” Moyen Age de Georges Duby.”  Clio, 19 (1998), pp. 139-154.

 

“Powerful Allies and Dangerous Adversaries: Aristocratic Women and Power in Medieval France” in Women in Medieval Western European Culture, edited by Linda Mitchell, Garland Press, 1998, pp. 12-35.

 

“Diversity and Continuity: Family Structure and Inheritance in the Chartrain, 1000-1200,” in Mondes de l’ouest et villes du monde: Regards sur les sociétés médiévales, Presse Universitaire de Rennes, France, 1998, pp. 415-430.  

 

“Aristocratic Women in the Chartrain,” in Aristocratic Women in Medieval France, edited by Theodore Evergates, The University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999, pp. 44-75.

 

Review of W. Scott Jessee, Robert the Burgundian and the Counts of Anjou, ca 1025-1098, The Medieval Review, Fall 2002.  This is an on-line review of approximately 2450 words.

 

Review of J. Everard, Brittany and the Angevins, Medieval Prosopography,

Fall 2003, pp. 271-275.

 

“The View from the Family Room: The Life and Times of Frank B. Livingstone,” in Michigan Discussions in Anthropology, Spring 2006, pp. 136-174.

 

“For Better or For Worse: Women in Medieval Northern France, 1000-1500 C.E., Fall 2006, Routledge Encyclopedia of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe, pp. 298-302.

 

Medieval Monks: Ideals and Realities, Essays in Honor of Richard E. Sullivan, co-edited with David Blanks and Michael Frassetto.  Essays contributed: “We Stand on the Shoulders of Giants,” pp. 1-7 and “Brother Monk: Monks and their Family in the Chartrain, 1000-1200 AD, ” pp. 93-118,  Brill, 2006.

 

Review of Joanna H. Drell, Kinship and Conquest, Medieval Prosopography, Forthcoming.

 

           

In Preparation for Publication:

 

Aristocratic Family Life in the Lands of the Loire, 1000-1200 AD.

Currently under review 

 

Medieval Lives: The Lords and Ladies of Beaugency

 

 

 

Invited Lectures:

 

November 2006    Historical Consultant for the National Geographic Documentary

                             “Engineering the Impossible: Chartres Cathedral,” which aired air on the National Geographic Channel June 28, 2007.

 

October 2006       Endowed Lecture on Western Civilization,  Ohio Northern University.

                            “’What me Worry?’ The Undistressed Damsels of the Middle Ages.

 

February 2004      Endowed Lecture on Western Civilization, Ohio Northern University.    

                            “Ditch the Chastity Belts and Forget about Damsels in Distress: The Real Women of the Middle Ages”

 

February 2003      Loew Lecture, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

     (endowed lecture). “New Wine in an Old Bottle: Re-conceptualizing the

     Medieval Aristocratic Family”

 

Presentations:

 

October 2007   “Where’s Daddy? Family Commemoration by the Aristocratic Men of

                        the Lands of the Loire, 1050-1150 AD,” Forty-Sixth Annual meeting of

                         the Midwest Medieval History Conference, St. Louis, MO.

 

June 2007        “Family Memory: Commemoration Among the Eleventh-Century

                         Chartrain Aristocracy,” Third Meeting of the International Medieval

                         Society – Paris, Paris, France.

 

April 2007     “Who the Aristocracy of the Chartrain Commemorated in their Gifts and

                         Why,” Ohio Medieval Colloquium, Granville, Ohio.

 

June 2006        Respondent and Chair from the session “Women in Academia and the Academy,” Second Meeting of W(G)HOM:

                         Women and Gender Historians of the Midwest, St. Louis, MO.

 

May 2006        “Brothers and Mothers: Monks and their Family in the Chartrain,” Forty-First International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan

 

March 2005     “Contented Spouses: Aristocratic Marriage in the Chartrain,” 

Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Miami, Florida

 

February 2005 “History is a Full Contact Sport: Wrestling the History of Medieval Women from the Sources,” Cynthia Behrman Colloquia Series, 

                        Wittenberg University.

 

September 2004   “Forget the Chastity Belts: The Lives of Real Medieval Women,”

 Women Studies Colloquium, Wittenberg University

 

June 2004        Organizer and Participant in the session “Re-examining the Boundaries of Medieval Charters: Families, Forgeries and Forests,” 

                        Fiftieth Annual meeting of the Society  for French Historical Studies, Paris, France. Paper to be presented: “More than  

                        Genealogy: Recovering Aristocratic Family Life from Medieval French Charters.”

 

April   2003      Respondent and Chair for the session “Written Communication and the

Lay Aristocracy: Regional Approaches to Administration,” Annual

Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

 

July 2002   “’She who holds these honors': Aristocratic Women and Succession in the

                     Chartrain."  International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, England.

 

2001     Organizer and Participant in three sessions on “The Social Uses of Property in Medieval Europe,” Thirty-Sixth International Congress of Medieval Studies,

             Kalamazoo, Michigan. Paper to be presented: “’All those who may dispute the gift’: Contestation of Gifts and Elite Family Structure in the Chartrain.”

 

2000    “ A Distant Mirror: Women and Family in the Middle Ages”, History Colloquium, Wittenberg University.

 

1999    Participant in “The Academic Job Search: A Roundtable,” Thirty-Fourth International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan. 

            My role was to offer suggestions on how job candidates can present themselves successfully to a small Liberal Arts college. 

 

1998    Organizer and Participant in two sessions on “The Legacy of Georges Duby,” Thirty-Third International Congress of Medieval Studies,

            Kalamazoo, Michigan. Paper presented: “Beyond Primogeniture and Patrilineage: Reevaluating Duby’s Model of the Noble Family.”

 

1997    “Diversity and Continuity: Inheritance in the Chartrain, 1000-1200.” Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

 

1996    “Rescuing Them from the Margins: Medieval Women and the Western Civilization Survey.” Tennessee Conference of Historians, Knoxville, Tennessee.

 

1996    Organizer and Participant in the panel “Aristocratic Women and Power in Medieval France.” International Medieval Congress,

            University of Leeds. Paper presented: “Life Stages: Noblewomen and Power in Eleventh and Twelfth-Century Blois-Chartres.”

 

1995    “Heirs, Usurpers and Lords: Noblewomen and the Control of Property in Twelfth-Century Blois-Chartres.” One Hundred and Ninth 

            Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois.

 

1994    “The Noblewomen of Twelfth-Century Blois-Chartres: Political Players and Ecclesiastical Patrons.” Twenty-Ninth International Congress 

                of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

 

1993    “Kith and Kin: An Examination of the Kinship and Family Structures of the Nobility of Eleventh and Twelfth-Century Blois-Chartres.” 

            Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Tucson, Arizona.

 

1992    Chair and organizer of the panel: “Women in the Medieval Family: A Reassessment.” Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the 

            Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, Binghamton, New York. Paper presented: “Noblewomen’s Control of 

            Property in Twelfth-Century Blois-Chartres.”

 

1991    “Inheritance Patterns and Transformations among the Noble Families of Twelfth-Century Blois-Chartres.” Thirtieth Annual Meeting 

              of the Midwest Medieval History Conference, Collegeville, Minnesota.

 

1991    “Noblewomen in Eleventh-Century Blois-Chartres.” Twenty-Sixth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

 

1991    “Politics and Marriage: The Marital Alliances of the Nobility of the County of Blois-Chartres in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries.” Ninety-Fifth 

              Annual Meeting of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, Ypsilanti, Michigan.

 

1990    “The Noble Families of Chartres: Inheritance in the Eleventh Century.” Twenty-Fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

 

Related Academic Activities:

 

 

2005-2008             Editorial Board, Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques

 

2005                Reviewed book manuscript for Catholic University Press

 

2005                Organizer of the conference “Richard Sullivan: Scholar and Teacher,

                         Mentor and Friend,” held at Michigan State University, December 1-2.

 

2004                Reviewed book manuscript for Palgrave Press

 

2001-2004          Member of the Advisory and Editorial Board of the Society for Medieval

 Feminist Scholarship

 

1993-present   Article Reviewer for The Journal of French Historical Studies

                        (Currently Reviewing an article for this journal)

 

2003-2004             Faculty Mentor for First Year Faculty (D’Arcy Fallon), Wittenberg

 University

 

Spring 2002     Reviewer for The Historian

 

2001/2002       Mentor in the Preparing Future Faculty Program, The Ohio State University

 

2001-2002       Faculty Mentor for First Year Faculty (Marcia Frost), Wittenberg University

 

1996-1999       Editorial Board, French Historical Studies

 

1995-1996             Design and construction of an electronic database based upon charters from the region of Chartres in collaboration with a Maryville College history major. The Mellon Foundation funded this research.

 

1989                 Participant, XXXVIP session d’Ete, Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de

                  Civilisation Médiévale, Université de Poitiers. This was a multi-

                  disciplinary program on the middle ages. The contributors were notable

                   medievalists from all over the world.

 

 

Professional Meetings (last ten years):

 

January 1997    One Hundred and Eleventh Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York, New York.

 

May 1997        Thirty-Second International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan

 

October 1997  Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Midwest Medieval History Conference, Peoria, Illinois.

 

1998                Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Midwest Medieval History Conference, South Bend, Indiana.

 

January 1999    One Hundred and Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, D. C..

 

May 1999        Thirty-Fourth International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo,

 Michigan.