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Craig Nakashian

Curriculum Vitae

 

Education:

 Ph.D. Candidate

Department of History, University of Rochester, New York, June 2010 (expected)

Major Field:   Medieval European History

Minor Fields: Archaeology, Art History, Medieval Japan

Primary Advisor: Richard W Kaeuper; Secondary Advisor: David Walsh   

Doctoral Dissertation: “’A new kind of monster…part-monk, part-knight’: The Paradox of Clerical Militarism in the Middle Ages” 

M.A. in Medieval History

History Department, University of Durham, 2001

Advisor: Michael Prestwich  

B.A. in History; B.A. in Government, summa cum laude

Department of History and Government, Western New England College, 2000

 

Publications

 

“The Use and Impact of Non-feudal Levied Soldiers in Anglo-Norman England”, Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Vol. 37 (2006) 

“Aethelred ‘the Unready’ (978-1016)”, The International Encyclopedia for the Middle Ages- Online (2007) 

Review of Medieval Knights: The Age of Chivalry, by Jose Sanchez Toledo, for De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History, http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/bookreviews.htm 

Review of Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Brooks, eds Julia Barrow and Andrew Wareham, for De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History (forthcoming)  

Review of The Castles of Edward I in Wales 1277-1307, by Christopher Gravett, for De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History (forthcoming)

 

Awards and Honors

 Nominee, Meredith Professors Teacher Recognition Award, Syracuse University (2009) 

Dean’s Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of Rochester (2008-2009) 

Dean’s Graduate Fellowship, University of Rochester (2004-2008) 

Willson Coats Book Prize for historical imagination and the capacity for research in British history, European intellectual history, or the philosophy of history, University of Rochester (2007) 

Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Rochester (2007) 

Professor Stanford Elwitt Memorial Prize for European History, University of Rochester (2006) 

Harold Heye History Award, Western New England College (2000) 

Excellence in Government Award, Western New England College (2000)

 

Conference Presentations

 Presenter, “’A new kind of monster…part monk and part knight’”: Contemporary Reactions to Two 12th Century Warrior-Bishops”, Episcopus Panel at the 44th Annual International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo (2009)  

Presenter, “The Impact of Ecclesiastical Figures in the Military Affairs of England: 1066-1154”, at the 29th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum (2008) 

Panel Organizer, “The Use and Abuse of Propaganda in the Middle Ages”, at the 42nd Annual International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo (2007)  

Presenter, “The Myth of Harold Godwineson’s Oath to William of Normandy”, at the 24th Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium (2007) 

Presenter, “Sworn Association: Knightly Military Behavior On and Off Crusade”, The Society for the Study of the Crusades Panel at the 41st Annual International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo (2006) 

Presenter, “The Importance and Use of the Native English Levies in Anglo-Norman England”, at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Charles Homer Haskins Society (2001) 

Teaching Experience

Visiting Instructor, Southeast Missouri State University, 2009-2010

WH 101- Early European Civilization

WH 103- Modern European Civilization 

Half-Time Professor, Syracuse University, 2006-2009

HST 210- The Ancient World

HST 211- Medieval and Renaissance Europe

HST 212- Religion in Medieval and Reformation Europe

HST 354- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

HST 490- Independent Study Advisor

HST 496- Senior Thesis Distinction in History Reader/Examiner

HST 690- Graduate Student Independent Study Advisor

 

Writing Instructor, Eastman School of Music, 2007

FWS 121- The History and Legends of King Arthur 

Summer Instructor, University of Rochester, 2005-2009

HIS 100- Europe Before 1492

HIS 113- Medieval Europe

HIS 131- Re-imagining the Medieval World: The Medieval World in Film

HIS 218- Europe in the High Middle Ages

HIS 231- British History to 1485

HIS 275- Medieval Japan

HIS 285- Medieval Society and Culture

 

Public Lecture Series, Highlands Retirement Community, Pittsford, NY, 2007

The History of King Arthur 

Teaching Assistant, University of Rochester (2005-2007)

HIS 217/AH 239/REL 280- Gothic Europe

HIS 100- Medieval Europe

HIS 100- Europe Before 1492

HIS 101- West and the World Since 1492  

Professional Memberships and Experience

 

Research Assistant for Professor of History Richard Kaeuper, 2005-2009  

Medieval Academy of America

Charles Homer Haskins Society

De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History

Episcopus: Society for the Study of Episcopal Power and Culture in the Middle Ages

 

Languages and Requisite Skills

 English (Native)

French (Reading)

Latin (Reading)

Middle English (Reading)

Paleography- Medieval