Elizabeth Dachowski
Associate Professor of History
Dept. of History, Geography, and Political Science
Tennessee State University
3500 John A. Merritt Blvd.
Nashville, TN 37209
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Department of History, 1995
General field: Medieval Europe
Concentration: Early Middle Ages
Outside field: Renaissance-Reformation France
Minor: Latin, later Roman Empire
Dissertation: The Serpent and the Dove: The Career of Abbo of Fleury.
Committee: Bernard S. Bachrach (director), Barbara A. Hanawalt, James D. Tracy, Nita Krevans, Oliver P. Nicholson
M.A., University of Minnesota, Department of History, 1987
Medieval History
B.A., Indiana University, Department of Geography, 1984
Geography and Medieval Studies
Assistant Professor of History. Tennessee State University (full-time, tenure-track). 1999-present. World History I and II; American History I and II; Middle Ages and the Renaissance; Renaissance and Reformationn Europe; Ancient History; Women's History
Visiting Assistant Professor of History. Auburn University (full-time temporary). 1998-1999. World History I, II, and III, Modern Europe I and II.
Assistant Professor of History. Lock Haven University, Pennsylvania (full-time, temporary). 1992-95, 1997-98. World History I and II; Medieval Europe; The Renaissance and the Reformation; Women in Medieval Europe; Discovering the Ancient Mediterranean
Adjunct Instructor. Seton Hall University, New Jersey. 1996. Medieval Europe
Adjunct Instructor. Caldwell College, New Jersey. 1996. Western Heritage I and II
Adjunct Instructor. University of Minnesota. 1989, 1991, 1992. Medieval Europe; Women and Family in the Middle Ages
Adjunct Instructor. Independent Study. University of Minnesota. 1990-91. Europe Since the Middle Ages
Teaching Assistant. University of Minnesota. 1985-89. Medieval Europe; Europe Since the Middle Ages
First Among Abbots: The Career of Abbo of Fleury. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2008. [Review: http://www.h-france.net/vol8reviews/vol8no81davis.pdf] [Winner of Best First Book Award from the Southeastern Medieval Association, 2009.]
"Abbo of Fleury's Writings on Monarchy: English Influences." Revue bénédictine. 110:1-2 (2000), pp. 95-105.
"Tertius est optimus: Marriage, Continence, and Virginity in the Politics of Late Tenth- and Early Eleventh-Century France." In Medieval Purity and Piety: Essays in Medieval Clerical Celibacy and Religious Reform, ed. Michael Frassetto. Garland, 1998.
"Case Study Response to Young Tom Graysun's Awful Exasperation." National Teaching and Learning Forum 3.1 (1993), p. 8.
"Medieval Demography," section of "Medieval Women at Minnesota," with P. Price, S. Horner, S. Apgar. Medieval Feminist Newsletter 9 (Summer 1990: Teaching from a Feminist Perspective), pp. 7-10.
Gazeau, Véronique. Normania Monastica. Vol 1. Princes normands et abbés bénédictins (Xe-XIIe siècle). Preface by David Bates. Preface by Michel Parisse. Vol. 2. Prosopographie des abbés bénédictins (Xe-XIIe siècle). Publications du CRAHM, 2007 (2 volumes, boxed). Reviewed in The Medieval Review (October 2008, 08.10.18), http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=tmr;cc=tmr;q1=2008;rgn=main;view=text;idno=baj9928.0810.018.
Anne Reiber DeWindt and Edwin Brezette DeWindt. Ramsey: The Lives of an English Fenland Town, 1200-1600. Catholic University of America Press. Reviewed in Sixteenth Century Journal (2007).
Régine Pernoud and Marie-Véronique Clin. Joan of Arc: Her Story. Translated with an introduction by Jeremy du Quesnay Adams. Palgrave Macmillan. Reviewed in Sixteenth Century Journal (2006).
Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani. The Pope’s Body. Translated from the Italian by David S. Peterson. University of Chicago Press. Reviewed in Catholic Issues (www.adelphi.edu/ci/) 2001.
Alexandre Pahud, ed. Le cartulaire de Romainmôtier (XIIe siècle). (Cahiers Lausannois d'Histoire Médiévale, 21). Reviewed in Speculum 75:3 (July 2000), pp. 717-718.
Anne Wagner. Gorze au XIe siècle. Preface by Michel Parisse. (Atelier de Recherche sur les Textes Médiévales.). Reviewed in Speculum 75:1 (Jan. 2000), pp. 256-258.
Christine Fell with C. Clark and E. Williams. Women in Anglo-Saxon England and the Impact of 1066. WHOM [Women Historians of the Midwest] Newsletter 13.5 (Dec. 1985), pp. 10-11.
Presider/organizer, "A Millennium Ago: Thought 1010: Political, Philosophical, Scientific." Medieval Academy of American, 2010, New Haven, Connecticut.
"Stranger in a Strange Land: Getting to Know Henricus de Darbato." Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA), October 2009, Nashville, Tennessee.
Presider, "Irish Literature and Culture," Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA), October 2009, Nashville, Tennessee.
Organizer and moderator. “Round-Table Discussion: Teaching the Middle Ages at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.” Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA), October 2006, Oxford, Mississippi.
“Living with Multiple Sclerosis in the Middle Ages: Miracle Collections as Evidence.” Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA), September-October 2005, Daytona Beach, FL.
Presider, “East Meets West in Medieval Legend and Literature, Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA), September-October 2005, Daytona Beach, FL.
“Pre-writing Assignments: Renaissance and Reformation Europe,” Tennessee Conference of Historians, September 2004, Memphis, TN.
Presider, “Monastic Reforms,” International Congress of Medieval Studies, May 2004, Kalamazoo, MI.
“Danish Monastic Patronage in the Twelfth Century: The Intersection of International and Royal Interests,” International Congress of Medieval Studies, May 2004, Kalamazoo, MI.
Presider, “Anglo-Latin Grammar-School Education: In Honor of A. G. Rigg,” Medieval Academy of America, April 2003, Minneapolis, MN. "Culture Shock: The Experience of Abbo of Fleury in England," International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2002, Kalamazoo, MI.
"Imitators of P. Optatianus Porfyrius in the Early Middle Ages," 26th Annual Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA), September 2001, Asheville, NC.
"Spreading Monastic Reform Abroad," 25th Annual Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA), October 1999, Knoxville, TN.
"Franks and Gascons: Ethnicity and Religious Colonialism in the Central Middle Ages," Western Society for French History, November 1998, Boston, MA.
"Monks and Monarchs," Fordham Medieval Studies Lecture Series, February 27, 1997, Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y.
Commentator, "Regions and Global Connections," Mid-Atlantic World History Association First Annual Meeting, October 1996, Lincroft, N.J.
Organizer and moderator, "Saints and Civic Identity," Hagiography Society Session, International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 1996, Kalamazoo.
Organizer and moderator, "The Motif of the Crowd in Hagiography," Hagiography Society Session, International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 1995, Kalamazoo.
"Barbarous in Descent and Name: The Murderer of Abbo of Fleury." International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 1994, Kalamazoo.
"Murdered Monks, Murderous Monks." Violence in the Middle Ages, conference at Fordham University, April 1994, New York City.
"Social Class in the Hagiography of Fleury." International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 1992, Kalamazoo.
"My Brother's Keeper: Abbo of Fleury's Intervention in Monasteries." Haskins Society, November 1990, Houston.
Roundtable discussion: "Teaching Women in the Middle Ages," with P. Price, S. Horner, and S. Apgar. Southeastern Medieval Association, September 1990, Raleigh.
"Abbo of Fleury's Writings on Monarchy: English Influences." International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 1989, Kalamazoo.
Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on "Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and Texts." 2001.
Fordham Medieval Fellow. Fordham University, Medieval Studies, 1996
Endowed Fellowship. University of Minnesota, Department of History, 1992
Newberry Library Summer Institute Grant. Minnesota Newberry Committee. For participation in seminar on the French Archival Sciences and the Ancien Régime, taught by B. Barbiche of the Ecole des Chartes, 1991
Grant for Research Abroad. University of Minnesota Graduate School and Minneapolis Foundation-Frances E. Andrews-Hunt Fund. For research in French and British archives, 1991
University Fellowship. University of Minnesota Graduate School, 1984-5
Lecturer, "Saints and Sinners in the Middle Ages." Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Winter 2010.
Chair, Departmental Curriculum Committee, Department of History, Geography, and Political Science, Tennessee State University, 2003-present
Search Committees, Department of History, Geography, and Political Science, Tennessee State University, 2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2005-2006, 2009
Faculty Senate, Tennessee State University, 2000-2003.
Facilities and Resources Committee (Chair), Department of History, Geography, and Political Science, Tennessee State University, 2001-2003.
Student Outreach Committee, Department of History, Geography, and Political Science, Tennessee State University, 2000-present.
General Education Committee, Lock Haven University, 1993-95.
Chair, Multicultural Subcommittee of General Education Committee, Lock Haven University, 1994-95 .
Visual Education Committee, Department of History, Political Science, Economics, and Management, Lock Haven University, 1992-95.
Multicultural Explorations Student-Faculty Discussion Group, Lock Haven University, 1994-95 .
Gender, Race, and Class Discussion Group, Lock Haven University, 1994.
