LISA
WOLVERTON
Department
of History lwolvert@uoregon.edu
1288
University of Oregon http://uoregon.edu/~lwolvert
Eugene,
OR 97403
(541)
346-6158
ACADEMIC
APPOINTMENTS
Associate
Professor of History, University of Oregon, 2007-present
Assistant
Professor of History, University of Oregon, 2000-7
Junior
Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University, 1996-99
EDUCATION
University
of Notre Dame,
Medieval Institute, Notre Dame, Indiana
Ph.D.,
Medieval History,
January 1997
Dissertation: “In Manu Sancti Wenceslai: Power in the Czech Lands, 1004-1198”
M.M.S.,
Medieval Studies,
August 1991
Georgetown
University,
School of Foreign Service, Washington, D.C.
B.S.F.S.
cum laude,
December 1986
Concentrated in Comparative and Regional Studies
(USSR and Eastern Europe).
FELLOWSHIPS
AND AWARDS
Endeavour
Faculty Fellowship, History Department, University of Oregon, 2008
Summer
Research Award, University of Oregon, 2007
Spencer
Brush Fund Award, History Department, University of Oregon, 2004
Meihoff
Fellowship, History Department, University of Oregon, 2001
Junior
Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University, 1996-99
International Research
and Exchanges Board, Short-Term Travel Grant to the Czech Republic, August 1997
Graduate
Student Research Award, Notre Dame Alumni Association, 1996
Graduate Teaching
Fellow, Freshman Writing Program, University of Notre Dame, Fall 1995-Spring
1996
Participant, Summer
Graduate Seminar, American Numismatic Society, June-August 1995
Dissertation Fellowship,
Joint Committee on Eastern Europe of the American Council of Learned Societies
and Social Sciences Research Council, June 1994-May 1995.
Dissertation Fellowship,
University of Notre Dame, Spring 1994
Fulbright Fellow to
Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, September 1992-June 1993; extension,
July-December 1993
PUBLICATIONS
“Germans and Slavs in
Thirteenth-Century Bohemia: Some
Preliminary Remarks on Immigrants and Law,” in Central Europe in Expansion, ed. Nora Berend (Burlington:
Ashgate Publishing Limited, under contract).
“Cosmas of Prague” and
“Vincent of Prague”, entries in Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle (Leiden: Brill, in press).
Cosmas of Prague, The
Chronicle of the Czechs, trans. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2009).
Reinventing
Knowledge: From Alexandria to the
Internet,
with Ian McNeely (New York: W.W.
Norton and Co., 2008).
—Korean
translation (Seoul: Sallim
Publishing Co., 2009).
—Indonesian
translation (Tengerang: Literati,
2010).
—Arabic
translation (Beirut: Dar Al Kitab
Al Arabi, 2010).
—Japanese
translation (forthcoming, 2010).
Hastening toward
Prague: Power and Society in the
Medieval Czech Lands
(Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2001).
“From Duke to King: Transforming the Iconography of
Rulership in the Medieval Czech Lands,” Majestas 6 (1998): 51-77.
IN
PREPARATION
PRESENTATIONS
Panelist, [Title
TBA: Review of Jan Klapště’s
book], 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo,
Michigan, May 2011 (forthcoming).
“Cosmas on the See of
Prague,” Charles Homer Haskins Society Conference, Boston, November 6, 2010
(forthcoming).
“Czechs But No
Germans: Cosmas of Prague’s
Fantasy of Bohemia’s Earliest History,” American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies, Annual Meeting, Boston, November 13, 2009.
“Who are the
Czechs? Defining Ethnicity in
Cosmas of Prague’s Chronica Boemorum,” 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo,
Michigan, May 8, 2009.
“St. Adalbert and the
See of Prague in Cosmas’s History of the Czechs,” 43nd International
Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 8, 2008.
“’Queen Money’ and the
Emperor’s Anger: The
Characterization of Emperors in the Chronica Boemorum,” Medieval Academy of
America, Annual Meeting, Toronto, April 14, 2007.
“Moravia’s Bohemian
Legacy (According to Cosmas of Prague),” 41st International Congress
on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 8, 2006.
“’Hawks Eat Doves’: Power as Predation and Extortion in the
Chronica Boemorum,”
40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo,
Michigan, May 6, 2005.
“The Czechs and
Christendom: A
Twelfth-century View from the ‘Frontier’,” American Historical Association,
Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 5, 2002.
“Germans and Slavs in
Thirteenth-Century Bohemia: A
Question of Race?” Medieval Academy of America, Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas,
April 14, 2000.
“Starting from
Scratch: Reading Medieval Czech
Society through its Artifacts,” Center for Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central
Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, February 3, 2000.
“Identity and Politics
in the Twelfth-Century Czech Lands:
Cosmas of Prague’s Chronica Boemorum,” Seventh Annual
Interdisciplinary Symposium in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Studies,
University of Miami, February 20, 1998.
“From Duke to King: Transforming the Iconography of Rulership in the Medieval
Czech Lands,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies,
National Convention, Seattle, November 22, 1997.
Panelist, “Becoming
Interdisciplinary in a Departmental World: Necessary? Desirable? Possible?” 32nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo,
Michigan, May 10, 1997.
“The Role of Charters
and the Paradox of Centralized Power in the Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Czech
Lands,” Medieval Academy of America, Annual Meeting, Toronto, April 19, 1997.
“The Power of Political
Community in the High Medieval Czech Lands,” Medieval Literature and Culture
Seminar, Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University, November
18, 1996.
“Minting Practice in
Twelfth-Century Bohemia,” 31st International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 9, 1996.
“The Role of Bishops in
the Medieval Czech Lands,” Midwest Medieval History Conference, DeKalb,
Illinois, October 13, 1995.
“Authority and Community in the Czech Lands,
1050-1200,” 30th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo,
Michigan, May 6, 1995.
“Needs and
Opportunities for Research in the Czech Republic,” Medieval Academy of America,
Committee on Centers and Regional Associations, Columbus, Ohio, October 7,
1994.
BOOK REVIEWS
The Clash of
Cultures on the Medieval Baltic Frontier,
ed. Alan V. Murray (Burlington, 2009), TMMR, forthcoming.
Gesta
Principum Polonorum/The Deeds of the Princes of the Poles, trans. Paul W. Knoll and Frank Schaer (Budapest,
2003), Speculum 81 (2006): 217-9.
Florin Curta, The
Making of the Slavs: History and
Archeology in the Lower Danube Basin c. 500-700 (Cambridge, 2001), Journal of Interdisciplinary History 34 (2003): 92-3.
FOREIGN
LANGUAGES
Full
command of Latin and Czech
Reading
knowledge of German, French, and Spanish
TEACHING
The
Crusades
Medieval
Spain
Medieval
Women Thinking
Late
Medieval Holy Women
The
Cultural History of Dogs (Freshman Seminar)
Dissertation Advisor: Michael Furtado, “Castilian Perceptions
of the Sea, 1250-1450”
M.A. Advisor: Tyler Fall, “Negotiating
Legitimacy: The Leges Edwardi
Confessoris and
the 1136 Charter of Liberties” and “Medieval Norwegian Politics: Regional Domination and St. Olaf’s
Legacy,” August 2004.
M.A. Thesis Advisor: Michael Furtado, “Castile Adrift: The Sea and its Place in the Realm of Alfonso X,” May 2004.
Dissertation Committee
Member: Ian Rush, “The Effect of
Commercialization on Peasant Wages and Diet,” University of Oregon, History
Department, May 2001.
Member, Oregon
Humanities Center, Advisory Board, 2009-10
Member, Graduate Policy
and Admissions Committee, History Department, 2009-10
Member, UO Conflict of
Commitment Working Group, 2009-10
Member, Executive
Committee, Center for the Study of Women in Society, 2008-9, 2009-10
Member, Summer Research
Awards Committee, University of Oregon, 2008-9, 2009-10
Member, Graduate Policy
Committee, History Department, 2008-9
Member, Search
Committee, Islamic World, History Department, 2008-9
Member,
Advisory Committee, History Department, 2008-9
Affirmative Action
Officer, History Department, 2006-7
Member, Graduate Policy
Subcommittee, History Department, 2005-6
Member, Search
Committee, Early Modern Mediterranean Europe, History Department, 2004-5
Member,
Travel Committee, History Department, 2003-4, 2004-5
Member,
Advisory Committee, History Department, 2002-3
Member,
Graduate Committee, History Department, 2002-3
Member, Search
Committee, Renaissance/Early Modern Europe, History Department, University of
Oregon, 2000-1
PROFESSIONAL
AFFILIATIONS
Medieval
Academy of America
American
Historical Association
Societas
Rerum Imperii
American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
COMMUNITY
SERVICE
Member,
Advisory Committee, Lane County Animal Services (Eugene, OR), 2009-