KEVIN UHALDE

Curriculum Vitae

 

Contact Information

History Department, Ohio University, Athens  OH 45701

740-593-0220, uhalde@ohio.edu, http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~uhalde/

 

Current and Past Positions

2007-present   Associate Professor, Department of History, Ohio University

2002-2007       Assistant Professor, Department of History, Ohio University

1999-2002       Assistant Professor, Department of History, Northern Illinois University

 

Education

1999                Ph.D. History and Program in the Ancient World, Princeton University

1996                M.A. History and Program in the Ancient World, Princeton University

1993                B.A. History and Classical Civilization, Mary Washington College

 

Awards and Honors

2006-7             Fellow, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Post-Doctoral Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome

2005                Faculty Development Award, Ohio University

2003                Fellow, Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Junior Faculty, American Council of Learned Societies

2002-3             (declined) Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame

2001                Council for the Humanities Summer Research Stipend, Northern Illinois University

2000                Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute, Northern Illinois University

1998-9             Junior Fellow, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University

1997                Graduate Seminar Fellowship, American Numismatic Society

1994-5             Stanley J. Seeger Fellowship in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University

1993                Departmental and Final Honors, History & Classical Studies

1992-3             Outstanding Historical Research Award, Mary Washington College

1992                Latin Summer Studies Fellowship, City University of New York

                                                                                                                               

Publications

Books

2007. Expectations of Justice in the Age of Augustine. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Reviewed in American Historical Review, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Catholic Historical Review, Choice, Early Medieval Europe, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Speculum.

Articles and Essays

forthcoming 2010. "Barbarian Traffic, Demon Oaths, and Christian Scruples (Aug. Ep. 46-47)," in Romans and Barbarians, ed. R. W. Mathisen, D. Shanzer. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, submitted to the editors.

forthcoming 2010. "The Sinful Subject: Doing Penance in Rome," Studia Patristica, submitted to the editors.

forthcoming 2010. "Justice and Equality," in The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity, ed. S. Johnson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, submitted to the editor.

2009. "Pope Leo I on Power and Failure," Catholic Historical Review 95(4): 671-88.

2008. "Juridical Administration in the Church and Pastoral Care in Late Antiquity," in A New History of Penance, ed. A. Firey. Leiden: Brill. Pp. 97-120.

2001. "Quasi-Imperial Coinage and the Administration of Merovingian Provence," in Society and Culture in Late Antique Gaul: Revisiting the Sources, ed. R. W. Mathisen, D. Shanzer. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Variorum. Pp. 134-65.

1999. "Proof and Reproof: The Judicial Component of Episcopal Confrontation," Early Medieval Europe 8: 1-11.

Reviews and Other Publishing Activity

in progress 2010. Review of Richard Price and Mary Whitby (eds.), Chalcedon in Context: Church Councils 400-700 (Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2009); Richard Price (ed.), The Acts of the Council of Constantinople, ed. Richard Price, 2 vols. (Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2009), commissioned and due to the editors 5.10.

in progress 2010. Review of Mayke de Jong, The Penitential State: Authority and Atonement in the Age of Louis the Pious, 814–840 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009); Courtney Booker, Past Convictions: The Penance of Louis the Pious and the Decline of the Carolingians (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009); Natalie Molineaux, Medici et Medicamenta: The Medicine of Penance in Late Antiquity (Lanham, MD: University Press of America), in The Medieval Review, commissioned and due to the editors 2.10.

forthcoming 2010. Review of Carlos García Mac Gaw, Le problème du baptême dans le schisme donatiste (Paris: De Boccard, 2008), in Journal of Ecclesiastical History, submitted to the editors.

forthcoming 2010. Review of Eric Gregory, Politics and the order of love: An Augustinian ethic of democratic citizenship (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), in Journal of Ecclesiastical History, submitted to the editors.

2009. Review of Chiara Torre (ed., trans., comm.), Martini Bracarensis De ira: introduzione, testo, traduzione e commento [Studi e testi tardoantichi; 7] (Rome: Herder, 2008), in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.10.45.

2009. Review of Philippe Henne, Léon le Grand (Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 2008), in Catholic Historical Review 95(4): 786-7.

2009 [for 2008]. Review of Noel Lenski (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), in Phoenix 62: 412-14.

2008. Review of Peter Norton, Episcopal Elections 250-600: Hierarchy and Popular Will in Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), in Church History 77(4): 1025-7.

2008. Review of Caroline Humfress, Orthodoxy and the Courts in Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), in Catholic Historical Review 94(4): 776-7.

2008. "Franks" and "Lombards," in World Book Encyclopedia.  Chicago: World Book.

*2004. "Brunhild," "Euskara," "Fredegunda," "Hypatia," "Latifundia," "Martin of Tours, St.," "Original Sin," "Ovens," "Radegunda, St.," "Tonsure," in Dictionary of the Middle Ages: Supplement 1, ed. W. C. Jordan. New York: Scribner's. Pp. 81-2, 190-1, 203-4, 286-7, 306-7, 370-1, 434-7, 449-50, 518-19, 609-10.

 

Papers and Lectures

2009 (conference paper) "The Feeling of Regret, ca. 400-600," Medieval Academy, 26-28 March (Chicago, IL).

2008 (conference paper) "Leo I on the ‘True Justice of the Perfect’ (Serm. 40.1)," North American Patristics Society, May 22-24 (Chicago, IL).

2008 (workshop presentation) "Gender and Martyrdom in Late Antiquity (The Passio Anastasiae)," Women's Studies Colloquium, Ohio University, 18 April (Athens, OH).

2008 (public lecture) "Sin, Novelty, and History," Inauguration Address, Phi Alpha Theta Society, Ohio University, 10 April (Athens, OH).

2008 (conference paper) "Control over Forgiveness: Varieties of Penance in Late Antiquity," American Society of Church History / American Historical Association, January 6 (Washington, D.C.).

2007 (conference paper) "A New Look at the Epigraphic Evidence for Early Medieval Penance," Texts and Contexts, Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, Ohio State University, October 26-27 (Columbus, OH).

2007 (conference paper) "The Sinful Subject: Doing Penance in Rome," 15th International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford University, August 7-10 (Oxford, UK).

2007 (public lecture) "Sinners and Penitents in Late Antiquity," American Academy in Rome, 24 January (Rome, Italy).

2006 (conference paper) "Christian Problems with Sex and Forgiveness," 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI).

2006 (invited talk) "Failure of Authority, Triumph of Forgiveness in the Early Church," Late Antiquity Research Seminar, University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN).

2005 (conference paper) "Bishops, Discernment, and the Law," 31st Annual Byzantine Studies Conference (Athens, GA).

2005 (conference paper) "Barbarian Traffic, Demon Oaths, and Christian Scruples: Aug. Ep. 46-47," Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity VI (Urbana, IL).

2005 (invited talk) "The Search for Life in the Dark Ages," Classics & World Religion Undergraduate Seminar, Ohio University (Athens, OH).

2004 (conference paper) "The Failure of Justice: Bishops at Work between Legal Cultures," International Medieval Conference (Leeds, UK).

2004 (panel organizer with Christopher MacEvitt) "Bishops in the Lurch: The Formation of Christianity between Cultures," 2 sessions, International Medieval Conference (Leeds, UK).

2004 (invited talk) "How Christians handled justice in early medieval Europe: theory and practice," Charles J. Ping Institute for the Teaching of the Humanities: "Plain Language" Humanities Talk, Ohio University (Athens, OH).

2001 (conference paper) "Christian Morality and Judicial Process: The Early Medieval Exemplar of  Susanna," Midwest Medieval History Conference (St. Louis, MO).

2001 (conference paper) "Social History between Liturgy and the Law," 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI).

2000 (invited talk) "Performing Penance in the Early Middle Ages," William S. Paley Lecture in Ancient History and Medieval Studies, Tulane University (New Orleans, LA).

2000 (conference paper) "Penance and the Public in Early Medieval Society," Early Medieval Europe Research Group 2000 (Edinburgh, UK).

2000 (conference paper) "The Pagan Regulus and Augustine's Rules for Swearing (Augustine, DCD 1.15 and 24)," North American Patristics Society (Chicago, IL).

1998 (conference paper) "Adhibe Medicinale Purgatorium: Late Antique Oaths and Private Spirituality," Byzantine Studies Conference (Lexington, KY).

1998 (conference paper) "The Quasi-Imperial Coinage of Merovingian Provence," 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI).

1997 (conference paper) "Proof and Reproof: The Repertoire of Confrontational Bishops," Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity II (Columbia, SC).

 

Professional Service and Experience

2009-present      Faculty Member, Center for Law, Justice & Culture

2007-present      Director of Undergraduate Studies, History Department

2007-present      Chair, Undergraduate Committee

2007-present      Undergraduate Advising Coordinator

2007-present      Member, University Academic Advising Council

2007-present      Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Arts & Sciences

2007-2009          President, O.U.-A.A.U.P.

2006-8                Co-Director, Fall Term in Rome

2006                   Summer Planning Committee, Scholars Program in Arts & Sciences

2005-7                Senator, Faculty Senate

2005-6                Arts & Sciences Strategic Planning Committee on Undergraduate Priorities

2005-6                Finance & Facilities Committee, Faculty Senate

2005-6                Chair, Undergraduate Advising Committee, Department of History

2005-6                Executive Committee, O.U.-A.A.U.P.

2004-8                Member, Department Curriculum Committee

2004-5                Personnel Evaluation Committee, Department of History

2003                  Search Committee (Renaissance-Reformation)

2003-present     Undergraduate Faculty Adviser

2002-4               Graduate Committee

2002-6               Library Committee

2002                  Search Committee (British History, N.I.U.)

2001                 General Education Committee Workshop (N.I.U.)

2000                  Multi-Cultural Curriculum Transformation Institute (N.I.U.)

2000                  Outside Examiner: Ph.D. Defense (Princeton)

1999-2002         Graduate Committee (N.I.U.)

1998                  Instructor, Lawrenceville School (Lawrenceville, NJ)

 

Undergraduate and Graduate Theses Directed

2008 (BA) Steve Palmer, “Imitate the Good, Eschew the Perverse: Seeing Virtuous Christian Kings among Bede’s English People.”

2006 (BA) Todd Hopkins, “1 Enoch and Christianity: How 1 Enoch Influenced Christian Concepts and Beliefs.”

2004 (MA) Eric Limbach, “Political Opposition to Ludwig the Bavarian in the Chronicles of Heinrich von Diessenhoven, Matthias von Neuenberg, and Johann von Viktring.”