Curriculum Vitae

Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer

Department of History

Western Kentucky

University

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Bowling Green, KY 42101 Office: 270-***-****

Fax: 270-***-****

E-mail: aboqj8@r.postjobfree.com

Website: http://www.wku.edu/~beth.plummer

EDUCATION

1996 Ph.D. in European History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Primary Fields: Early Modern Europe, Renaissance and Reformation, Social History

Secondary Field: Medieval Europe

Dissertation: Reforming the Family: Marriage, Gender and the Lutheran Household in Early

Modern Germany, 1500-1620

Advisor: H. C. Erik Midelfort

Committee: Carlos Eire, Duane Osheim, Lawrence Goedde 1988 M.A. in European History,

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Master s Thesis: Vera Famiglia : Familial Images in the Letters of Catherine of Siena

Advisor: Duane J. Osheim 1985 B.A. in History and English, University of Rochester,

Rochester, NY

Cum laude with Highest Distinction in History

Honors Thesis: Across the Round Table: A Vision of Kingship in the Middle Ages

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

2009-PresentAssociate Professor, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 2003-

2009Assistant Professor, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 1997-2002Assistant Professor, University of Maryland University College, Schwabisch Gmund

(Germany) University closed on June 30, 2002 1996-97Assistant Professor, Wingate

University, Wingate, NC 1993-96Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Charleston,

Charleston, SC 1993Instructor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 1986-89Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

TEACHING

Teaching Fields: Western and World Civilization; Medieval Europe;

Renaissance/Reformation; Early Modern Europe; History of Germany, 1450-1648; Early Modern

Cultural and Social History; History of Women in Pre-Modern Europe; Family, Sex and

Marriage in Early Modern Europe; Early Modern Crime and Punishment

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

Western Civilization to 1648 (WKU, CofC, UVA)

Western Civilization from 1648 (WKU, CofC, Wingate)

World Civilization to 1500 (UMUC-SG, Harlaxton)

World Civilization from 1500 to Present (UMUC-SG, Wingate)

Honors: Western Civilization to 1648 (WKU)

Honors: Humanities Semester Medieval and Renaissance Civilization (WKU)

Ancient Greece and Rome (UMUC-SG)

Europe in the High Middle Ages (UMUC-SG, Wingate)

Europe during the Renaissance and Reformation (UMUC-SG, Harlaxton)

Renaissance Europe (WKU)

Reformation Europe (WKU, CofC)

Europe in the Age of Absolutism (UMUC-SG)

Crime and Punishment in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Harlaxton, WKU)

Family, Sex, and Marriage in Early Modern Europe (CofC)

Women in Medieval Culture and Society (UMUC-SG)

Women in Early Modern Europe, 1300-1650 (UVA)

Modern European Women's History (UMUC-SG)

North Atlantic World, 1500-1800 (UMUC-SG)

Contemporary Issues in Germany (UMUC-SG)

Senior Seminar: Crime and Punishment in the West (WKU)

Historical Writing Seminar (UMUC-SG)

On-line

Western Civilization to 1648 (WKU)

Renaissance Europe (WKU)

Graduate

Seminar on Early Modern Europe (On-line) (WKU)

Reformation Europe (On-line) (WKU)

Research Seminar on Women in Pre-Modern Europe (WKU)

Readings Course on Lutheran Reformation in Germany (WKU)

Readings Course on English and Calvinist Reformations (WKU)

Readings Course on Medieval and Early Modern Monasticism (WKU)

Readings Course on Renaissance Venice and Byzantium (WKU)

B.A. Honors and M.A. Theses Supervised

Kathryn Dillinger, Protestant, Virginal, and Elite: Stiftsdamen in 17th Century

Germany, MA Thesis, (In process) first reader (WKU)

Carl Wicklander, On Luther and Supernatural, M.A. Thesis, (In process), first reader

(WKU)

Justin Matthews, Futile Honor: The Failure of the Third Crusade, M.A. Thesis, 2011,

second reader (WKU)

Rachealle Sanford, Edward I and the Appropriation of Arthurian Legend, B.A. Honors

Thesis, 2009, first reader (WKU)

Meghan Bishop, Sir Thomas More s History of King Richard III: An Educational Exercise,

B.A. History Honors Thesis, 2004, second reader (WKU)

Hrvoje Pokupec, On Business Espionage, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2002, second reader (UMUC-

SG)

Nicola Bodner, "Reasons For the Gradual Transformation in the German-American

Relationship 1945-1960s," Senior History Thesis, 2002, first reader; Awarded Honorable

Mention, Hochschulpreis der Ostalb-Stiftung der Kreissparkasse Ostalb, 2003. (UMUC-SG)

Varupi Jain, The Role Played by Traditions and their Media Coverage in Shaping the

Identity of a City, B.A. Honors Thesis, 2001, first reader; Awarded Hochschulpreis der

Ostalb-Stiftung der Kreissparkasse Ostalb, 2002. (UMUC-SG)

Rebecca Pfleger, Das Verhaltnis zwischen Deutschen und Amerikanern in der Stadt

Schwabisch Gmund, Deutschland, von der Nachkriegszeit bis Heute, B.A. Honors Thesis,

1999, first reader; Awarded Hochschulpreis der Ostalb-Stiftung der Kreissparkasse Ostalb,

2000. (UMUC-SG)

Andreas Jobst, Currency Reform in Germany from 1949-now, B.A. Honors Thesis, 1998,

second reader (UMUC-SG)

RESEARCH

Publications

Books

From Priest s Whore to Pastor s Wife: Clerical Marriage and the Process of Reform in the

Early German Reformation. St. Andrews Series in Reformation History. Aldershot, Hambleton:

Ashgate Publishing, Forthcoming.

Editor (with Robin B. Barnes), Ideas and Cultural Margins: Essays in Honor of H.C. Erik

Midelfort. Aldershot, Hambleton: Ashgate Publishing, 2009.

Journal Articles (Peer Reviewed)

Clerical Marriage and Territorial Reformation in Ernestine Saxony and the Diocese of

Merseburg in 1522-1524, Archive for Reformation History 98 (2007): 45-70.

Partner in his Calamities : Pastors Wives, Married Nuns and the Experience of Clerical

Marriage in the Early German Reformation, Gender and History 20.2 (2008): 207-227.

Articles in Essay Collections

The Much Married Michael Kramer : Evangelical Clergy and Bigamy in Ernestine Saxony,

1522-1542. In Ideas and Cultural Margins: Essays in Honor of H.C. Erik Midelfort, edited

by Marjorie E. Plummer and Robin B. Barnes, 99-115. Aldershot, Hambleton: Ashgate

Publishing, 2009.

Nothing More than Common Whores and Knaves : Married Monks and Nuns in the Early German

Reformation, in Mixed Matches: Transgressive Unions in Early Modern Germany, edited by

David Luebke and Mary Lindemann. Forthcoming 2013.

Hans Galmair: Seduction, Bigamy, and Forgery in an Augsburg Workshop, A Sourcebook of

Early Modern History In Honor of Susan C. Karant-Nunn on her 70th Birthday, edited by Ute

Lotz-Heumann. Forthcoming.

Book Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries

Review of Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in Early Modern German Culture: Order and

Creativity, 1550-1750, edited by Randolph Head and Daniel Christensen. In Renaissance

Quarterly 62.2 (2009): 589-90.

Review of Klosteraustritte in der fruhen Reformation by Antje Ruttgardt. In H-German,

April 2009. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=23829

Review of Noble Strategies:

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, and GRANTS

External Fellowships

2010 James K. Cameron Faculty Fellow at the University of St. Andrews Institute for

Reformation Studies 2006 Hans und Helga Eckensberger-Stiftung, Herzog August Bibliothek (6

months) 2005 D.A.A.D. Reinvitation Grant (2 Months) 2002-2003 Post-doctoral Fellowship,

Herzog August Bibliothek (8 Months) 2000 Post-doctoral Fellowship, Herzog August

Bibliothek (3 months) 1997-1998 Post-doctoral Fellowship, Institut fur europaische

Geschichte in Mainz (6 months) 1996 D.A.A.D. Short Term Research Fellowship (6 Months)

1996Center for Reformation Research, Paleography Institute (Declined) 1992 Dr. Gunther

Findel-Stiftung Stipend, Herzog August Bibliothek (5 Months

)

1990-91D.A.A.D. Dissertation

Research Fellowship (14 Months)

Internal Grants and Fellowships

2010, 2008, 2007, 2005 Faculty Summer Research Grant, Western Kentucky University 2009,

2006Regular Faculty Research Grant, Western Kentucky University2003-2004Junior Faculty

Research Grant, Western Kentucky University 1990, 1992 Academic Enhancement Fellowship,

University of Virginia 1989 Academic Enhancement Travel Fellowship, University of Virginia

1985-87, 1992Dupont Fellowship, University of Virginia

Awards

2001-02Favorite Professor, Student Choice Awards, UMUC-SG2000-01 Faculty of the Year

Recognition Award, UMUC-SG 1996 Carl Meyer Prize for Best Paper presented by Graduate

Student or Recent Ph.D., Sixteenth Century Studies Conference

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Departmental Service

2010 Writing Standards Committee 2009 Chair, Search Committee for Islamic World 2008-2009

Ad Hoc Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Majors 2008-2010Phi Alpha Theta Faculty

Pre-Modern European History Test, History Contest 2008 Search Committee for Latin American

History

2007 Search Committee for Women s History 2005 Undergraduate Advisor 2000-2002

One UMUC History Major Curriculum Committee, UMUC-SG 2000 Chair, Search Committee for

Modern European History, UMUC-SG 1998-2002Coordinator and Advisor,

History and European

Studies Programs,

UMUC-SG1993-1995 History Club Advisor, College of Charleston 1993-1995

Outside Speaker Committee, College of Charleston

University Service

2008-2010Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, WKU 2008-2010

At-Large Senator,

Faculty Senate, WKU

2008-2010Potter CollegeSenate Representative, University Curriculum

Committee, WKU 2008-2010Member, Senate Executive Committee, WKU 2009 Search Committee for

Coordinator of Undergraduate Research, Honors College 2008 Fulbright Interview Committee

for Germany and Low Countries, WKU 2008 Search Committee for Assistant Director of

Academics, Honors College, WKU 2007-2008Academic Policy Subcommittee, UCC, WKU2005-2008

Potter College Faculty Writing Group, WKU2006-2007UCC Steering Committee, WKU 2006-2008

Potter College Professional Development Committee, WKU 2006-2008,

2004-2005 At-Large

Representative, University Curriculum Committee,

WKU

2004-2006Boyd-Lubker Steering

Committee, WKU 2001-2002UMUC-SG Representative on UMUC Curriculum Committee, UMUC-SG2001-

2002Webmaster, UMUC-SG2000-2002Academic Area Coordinator, UMUC-SG1998-2002Chair,

Library Advisory Committee, UMUC-SG 1998 Search Committee for Librarian, UMUC-SG 1998-1999

Chair, Faculty Development Committee,

UMUC-SG1998-1999Coordinator,

Faculty Workshops,

UMUC-SG 1997 Honors Award Committee, Wingate University1995-1996Assistant Director,

Women Studies,

College of Charleston1994-1996Coordinator,

Women s History Month,

College

of Charleston1994-1996

Women Studies Steering Committee, College of Charleston

International Programs and Student Affairs Service

2009Visiting Faculty at Harlaxton College, Harlaxton, England 2003-2005Co-Author,

Faculty Handbook for Study Abroad, Office of International Programs, WKU 2001 Search

Committee for Director of University Counseling Center, UMUC-SG 2000-2002 Study Abroad

Coordinator and Advisor, UMUC-SG2000-2002Faculty Advisor, Student Senate, UMUC-SG2000

Search Committee for Student Activities Coordinator, UMUC-SG 1999-2002Coordinator,

Field

Studies Program,

UMUC-SG1994-1996Academic Advisor,

College of Charleston1994-1996SNAP

(Students Needing Access Parity) Advisor, College of Charleston 1991, 1992 Dozent

(Instructor of English), Sommerschule fur Englisch in Wust (former DDR). 1988-89Peer

Advisor Mentoring and Transition Program, University of Virginia

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: Fruhe Neuzeit Interdisziplinar; Sixteenth-Century Studies

Council; Society for Reformation Research; Society for the Study of Early Modern Women;

American Friends of the Herzog August Bibliothek

LANGUAGES: German (fluent, reading and speaking), French (reading), Italian (limited

reading), Latin (limited reading)REFERENCES: Available upon request

Updated: 22 July 2011

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