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DR. CONNIE S. EVANS

Marting 312
Phone: 440-826-2282
E-Mail: csevans@bw.edu
FAX: 440-826-3264

"The dedicated social historian is second cousin to a tabloid journalist."

                                       ---Sir Geoffrey Elton

"History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat each other. There is a vast difference."
                                      ---Oscar Wilde

"Well-behaved women seldom make history." 

                                       ---Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
 
 

TEACHING SCHEDULE:


FALL, odd-numbered years (2007, 2009)

  • HIS 121I History of Europe I
  • HIS 260D Culture of the South
  • HIS 349I Victorian and Modern Britain
  • HIS 461 Historiography

SPRING, even-numbered years (2008, 2010)

  • HIS 121I History of Europe I
  • HIS 122I History of Europe II
  • HIS 313I Renaissance & Reformation
  • HIS 323I Enlightenment, French Revolution, and Napoleon

FALL, even-numbered years (2006, 2008)

  • HIS 121I History of Europe I
  • HIS 271I British History
  • HIS 347I Celtic and Medieval Britain

SPRING, odd-numbered years (2007, 2009)

  • HIS 121I History of Europe I
  • HIS 122I History of Europe II
  • HIS 235I Women in Western Civilization (evening)
  • HIS 348I Tudor-Stuart England

VITA

B.A., History, Louisiana State University, December, 1987
M.A., History, Louisiana State University, May, 1990
Thesis : "An Elizabethan Courtier: Sir Francis Knollys"
Ph.D., History, Louisiana State University, May, 1996
Major field: British History; Specialty area: Tudor-Stuart England
Minor fields: Colonial America to 1714; The Reformation in Europe
Dissertation: "Poverty and Social Control in Early Modern Europe: Exeter, 1558-1625"
 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio, 2002-present
Assistant Professor, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio, 1998 to 2002
Visiting Assistant Professor, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, 1997-1998
Visiting Assistant Professor, Arkansas Tech University, Russellville, Arkansas, 1996-1997
Instructor, LSU Evening School and Continuing Education Division, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1992-1996
Graduate Teaching Assistant, LSU History Department, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1988-1991, 1992-1995
 

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, 2000-2002

Published articles on "Claudius," "Cleopatra VII," "Galen of Pergamum," "Herodotus," "Mary (Virgin)," "Sappho of Mytilene" in From Polis to Empire--The Ancient World c. 800 B. C. - A. D. 500: A Biographical Dictionary, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

Article published: "Impact of the Spanish Armada," in Events that Changed the World in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.

Article published in national British history journal: "'An Echo of the Multitude': The Intersection of Governmental and Private Poverty Initiatives in Early Modern Exeter," Albion 32, no. 4 (winter 2000).

Treasurer, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, 2000-present.

Attending SCSC conference, Oct. 24-27, 2002, San Antonio, TX. 

Attending North American Conference on British Studies and Southern Conference on British Studies, Baltimore, MD, Nov. 8-10, 2002.

Presenting paper entitled "'At the Day of My Death': Wills and Poor Relief in Early Modern England" to the Cleveland Renaissance and Early Modern Society at Mather Mansion, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, on Nov. 15, 2002.

Presenting paper (working title) "The Efficacy of Wills: Evidence for Early Modern English Philanthropy" at the South/Central Renaissance Conference in New Orleans, LA, March 6-8, 2003. 

Completing work on manuscript on the link between poverty and philanthropy in early modern England, and continuing research on the topic for a second manuscript.

Preparing review article on Norman Jones' The English Reformation: Religious and Cultural Adaptation for the Dutch Review of Church History.

Preparing interpretive article on "Elizabethan England, 1558-1603," for Events that Changed Great Britain Before 1714, Greenwood Press, forthcoming.

Developing program for "Gender and Minority Studies" minor. 
 

COLLEGE SERVICE

Senator for Humanities Division, 2005-present; Senate Secretary, 2005-present
Executive Committee (2001-2004), Secretary, 2001-2004 
Faculty Committee on Race and Diversity (2000-03); Chair, 2002-03 
Honors Council (1999-present)
B-W Department of Education Grant, European Studies Section
Lifelong Learning Program 
Honors Program
Carmel Program
 

DEPARTMENT SERVICE

AHA Liaison
Phi Alpha Theta, Delta Upsilon Chapter, Faculty advisor, 1998-2004 
Marting Lectures Coordinator