Erin Kathleen Rowe

Assistant Professor

Office: 309 McKenzie Hall
Phone: (541) 346-6149
Email: erowe@uoregon.edu

Biographical Information

With the U of O since 2005
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 2005
Dissertation: "Disrupting the Republic: Santiago, Teresa de Jesus and the Battle for the Soul of Spain, 1617-1630"
B.A., Washington College, 1996

Publications

"The Spanish Minerva: Imagining Teresa of Avila as Patron Saint in Seventeenth-Century Spain," The Catholic Historical Review, vol. XCVII, no. 3 (October, 2006), 416-38.

"St. Teresa and Olivares: Patron Sainthood, Royal Favorites, and the Politics of Plurality in Seventeenth-Century Spain," Sixteenth Century Journal, 37, no. 3 (2006), 721-37.

Work in Progress

Saint and Nation: Teresa of Avila, Santiago, and Plural Identities in Early Modern Spain, Book manuscript.

Teaching

Current Courses and Courses Under Development
HIST 310 - Early Modern Women: Perceptions/Realities HIST 327 - The Age of Exploration
HIST 329 - Mediterranean World, 711-1453 HIST 330 - Mediterranean World, 1453-1650
HIST 439/539 - Renaissance Europe HIST 407 - The Inquisition
HIST 410/510 - Slavery in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean HIST 410/510 - The Ottoman Empire
HIST 410/510 - Saints and Society in Pre-Modern Europe HIST 410 - Sex in Pre-Modern Europe
HIST 438/538 - Golden Age Spain

Current Research Interests

African saints
National patron saints
Political and cultural history of Early Modern Spain
Catholic Reformation historiography
Forgery
Church and state conflict

Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

NEH Summer Institute (Berber North Africa) (2007)
Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society (2006)
New Faculty Award, University of Oregon (2006)
Spencer Brush Fellowship, University of Oregon (2005-2007)
The Johns Hopkins University Dean's Teaching Fellowship (2005)
William J. Fulbright Grant (2002-3)
Program for Cultural Cooperation Research Grant (2002)

 

 

 


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