Dr. Katherine Clark
Department of History
SUNY College at Brockport
(585) 395-2880; Fax: (585) 395-2620
Office: 123 Albert W. Brown Building
E-Mail: kaclark@brockport.edu
- PhD Indiana University, 2002 -
Department of History
Dissertation: "Pious Widowhood in the High and Later Middle Ages"
- MA Indiana University, 1995 - Medieval History
- BA magna cum laude University of Richmond, 1991 - History and
Music
- General Education Thematic Studies Development Grant, Winter 2001.
- Andressohn Fellowship and Hill Dissertation Fellowship, Department
of History, Indiana University, 1998.
- Outstanding Teaching Award, Department of History, Indiana University,
1998.
- College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, Indiana University,
1998.
- College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship. Indiana University,
1998.
- German Academic Exchange Service Annual Grant and Extension, 1995-1996.
- Annual Anderssohn Awards, Department of History, Indiana University,
1995-1997.
- Fulbright Finalist, 1995.
- Newberry Consortium Grant, Indiana University, 1994.
- Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Fellowship, 1992-1993.
- The Ancient World
- Medieval Europe
- Research Seminar: Medieval Sexuality and Gender
- The High Middle Ages
Future courses I would like to offer at Brockport include Ancient
Rome, Tolerance and Persecution in Premodern Europe, and The Middle
Ages Through Literature and Film.
| Recent Publications, Papers, and Presentations |
- Invited Paper, "Piety, Prophecy, and Punishment: The Purgatorial
Visions of Holy Widows in the High and Later Middle Ages," German
Historical Institute, Washington D.C., October 2003.
- Review of Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity, eds.
Cindy Carlson and Angela Jane Weisl in The Medieval Review,
http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/
, 2000.
- "Danger and Discretion: Pious Widows in Preachers' Exempla,"
Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference, Colorado
Springs, Colorado, April 2003.
- "The Widow and the World: Secular Models of Medieval Widowed
Piety," 35th International Medieval Studies Conference, Western
Michigan University, May 2000.
Dr. Clark is currently working on revising and publishing
her dissertation, "Pious Widowhood in the Middle Ages," as a
book. She is also working on a journal article based on a paper she wrote
on the relationship between pious widows and prophetic visions of souls
in Purgatory, and an encylopedia article on the subject of "Vowesses"
- women who took voluntary sacred vows of chastity - for the volume Women
and Gender in Medieval Europe (forthcoming).
