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Dr. Catherine Clark

Office: 123 Albert W. Brown Building
Phone: 585.395.2880
E-Mail: kaclark@brockport.edu

Specialization

  • Medieval European History

Education

  • Ph.D. 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

 

Awards and Honors

  • 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.
  • 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.

 

Courses Taught

  • 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.

 

Publications

  • 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.

 

Papers

  • 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.
  • "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.

 

Current Projects

  • 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).