John Howe
October 18, 2007
CURRICULUM VITAE
JOHN MCDONALD HOWE
Department of History,
Texas Tech University (TTU), Lubbock,
Texas 79409-l0l3
Office in Holden Hall 143 or Administration Building 301
Home Address: 3109 25th Street, Lubbock, Texas 79410-2134
Telephone: 806 742-1004 ext. 233 (Office); 806 742-3744 (History Dept.); or 806 438-1321 (Home)
E-Mail: john.howe@ttu.edu;
fax: 806-742-1060; web:
http://www2.tltc.ttu.edu/howe
UNIVERSITY STUDY:
Academic Degrees (History):
Ph.D. (1979), C.Phil.
(1973), and M.A. (1971, M.A.) from the University of California at Los Angeles
(UCLA). Honored as Social Sciences M.A. of the Year by the UCLA Alumni Association.
B.A. (1969) from the University of San Francisco.
Magna Cum Laude, member of Alpha Sigma Nu Honor Society.
Doctoral Dissertation: "Greek Influence on the
Eleventh-Century Western Revival of Hermitism," directed by
Gerhart B. Ladner. Doctoral examination fields in Roman History,
Early Medieval History, Later Medieval History, History of
Religions.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT:
Fall 1981-. Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Department of History, TTU. Teaching medieval Europe and history of Christianity.
2003-2004 Senior Research Associate, Erasmus Institute, University of Notre Dame. Researcher.
Spring 2001 Fellow, School of Historical Studies, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton. Researcher.
Spring 1981. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of
Religious Studies, Arizona State University. Teaching history of
Christianity.
PUBLICATIONS (IN PRINT OR IN PROGRESS):
Monograph:
The Revival of the Latin Church: The "Pre-Gregorian" Reform. In
progress.
Church Reform and Social Change in Eleventh-Century Central Italy: Dominic of Sora and His Patrons. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Recipient of the Catholic Historical Association's John Gilmary Shea Prize for best book in Church history, 1998. Translated into Italian by Paolo Golinelli as Riforma della Chiesa e trasformazioni sociali nell'Italia dell'XI secolo: Domenico di Sora e i suoi patroni. Sora: Centro Studi Sorani Vincenzo Patriarca, 2007.
Edited Volume:
Inventing Medieval Landscapes: Senses of Place in Western
Europe. Edited by John Howe and Michael Wolfe. Gainesville:
University Press of Florida, 2002.
Articles (Last Decade):
"Music of the Spheres?
Astronomical Antecedents of the Staff System of Musical
Notation." In progress.
"L’autoflagellation volontaire au Moyen Age: une origine élitaire ou des racines populaires?" In progress.
“Martyrs.” Submitted to the Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming, 2009.
“Anjou,” “Amatus of Montecassino,” “Heriger of Lobbes (d. 1007),” “Rather of Verona (887-974),” and “Wolfger of Prüfening.” Submitted to the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, edited by Robert E. Bjork. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2009.
"Baronio e San Domenico di Sora." To be published in Baronio e le sue fonti: Relazioni del Convegno internazionale di studi, Sora (Italy), 10-13 ottobre 2007. Sora: Centro di Studi Sorani "Vincenzo Patriarca," 2008.
"St Berardus of Marsica (d. 1130): 'Model Gregorian Bishop'." Accepted for publication by the Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 58 (2007): 400-416.
“Der heilige Benedikt als Eremit und Modell für italienische Heiligkeit: Einige hagiographische Zeugnisse.” Monastische Informationen, no. 130 (2007): 20-25 [See "St. Benedict as a Model for Italian Benedictine Life," listed below].
"Gaudium et Spes: Ecclesiastical Reformers at the Start of a 'New Age'." In Reforming the Church before Modernity: Patterns, Problems, and Approaches, Edited by Christopher M. Bellitto and Louis I. Hamilton. Burlington, VT / Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. 21-35.
"St. Benedict as a Model for Italian Benedictine Life: Some Hagiographical Witnesses." The American Benedictine Review, 55 (2004): 42-54.
"Creating Symbolic Landscapes: Medieval Development of Sacred Space." In Inventing Medieval Landscapes (see above), pp. 208-23.
"The Hagiography of Jumièges (Province of Haute-Normandie) (Sources Hagiographiques de la Gaule VII)." In L'hagiographie du haut moyen âge en Gaule du Nord: manuscrits, textes et centres de production. Edited by Martin Heinzelmann. Beihefte der Francia 52. Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2001. Pp. 91-125.
"The Hagiography of Saint-Wandrille (Province of Haute-Normandie) (Sources Hagiographiques de la Gaule VIII)." In L'hagiographie du haut moyen âge en Gaule du Nord: manuscrits, textes et centres de production. Edited by Martin Heinzelmann. Beihefte der Francia 52. Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2001. Pp. 127-92.
"Review Article: Revisiting the Holy Man." Catholic Historical Review, 86 (2000): 640-44.
"Oblates" and "Saints, Italian Benedictine." Encyclopedia of Monasticism. Edited by William M. Johnston. 2 vols. Chicago / London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000. 2:945-46; 2:1113-15.
"La Vita Leopardini (BHL 4882), source pour la Paix de Dieu.'" Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, 40 (1997): 175-80.
"Peter Damian and Monte Cassino." Revue bénédictine, 107 (1997): 330-51.
"The Conversion of the Physical World: The Creation of a Christian Landscape." In Varieties of Religious Conversion in the Middle Ages. Edited by James K. Muldoon. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1997. Pp. 63-78.
Complete List of Articles, including American Benedictine Review (2004); American Historical Review (1988); Analecta Bollandiana (1986, 1984, 1983); Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevi (1982); Cahiers de civilisation médiévale (1997); Catholic Historical Review (2000, 1994, 1992, 1990, 1986, 1984); Dictionary of the Middle Ages (1982-89 [4x]); Encyclopedia of Modern Pilgrimage (2009); Encyclopedia of Monasticism (2000 [2x]); Journal of Ecclesiastical History (2007); Medieval Prosopography (1995); Monastische Informationen (2007); Numen (1983); Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (1991 [4x]); Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (2009[5x]); and Studi medievali (1984).
Signed Reviews:
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2006), Catholic Historical Review (2006, 2004, 1999, 1996, 1992, 1990, 1989,
1988, 1987 [2x]); English Historical Review (2005); Francia (2001, 1996); H-Net Review:
H-Catholic (2004, 2002, 2000) [online]; History Teacher
(1995, 1984 [2x], 1983); The International
History Review (2004); Medieval Review [online] (2006, 2003,
1999 [2x]); Mediaevistik (2001, 2000 [2x]); Religious
Studies Review (1995, 1993 [2x], 1988); Speculum (2008, 2007, 2006, 2004, 2003, 1995,
1994 [2x], 1986 [3x]); Theological Studies (2004).
Presentations:
American Catholic Historical Association Annual Meeting (1996,
1995); American Historical Association Annual Meeting (1983);
American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch (1983);
Association of Ancient Historians Annual Meeting (1986);
Byzantine Studies Association Annual Conference (1986); Center
for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies of the State
University of New York at Binghamton Conference(1989); Charles
Homer Haskins Society for Viking, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and
Angevin History International Conference (1996, 1993, 1990, 1989, 1987, 1982);
Conference of Texas Medievalists (1982); Ecclesia Semper Reformanda: Vatican II.
Aggiornamento, and Church Reform before Modernity. A Conference
on the Fortieth Anniversary of Vatican II (2002); Erasmus Institute
Seminar of the University of Notre Dame (2004, 2003); French
Historians in Texas Conference (1999); German Institute in Paris
Seminar (1995); Illinois Medieval Association (2000);
International Congress on Medieval Studies (2006, 2004, 2002, 2001, 1998,
1997, 1996, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1988, 1986, 1985, 1984,
1982, 1981, 1979); Institute for Advanced Study, School of
Historical Studies Luncheon Colloquium (2001); Institute for
Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies Medieval Seminar
(2001); Medieval Academy of America (2005); Medieval Academy of America / Medieval Association of the
Pacific Annual Convention (1998); Medieval Institute of the University of Notre
Dame (2004); Mid-America Medieval
Association (1992); Pennsylvania State University Medieval
Conference (1999); Rice University Medieval
Colloquium (2002); Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance
Association (1992); Society for French Historical Studies (2007); Southeastern Medieval Association (1996,
1982); Southwestern Social Science Association (1987, 1982);
Texas Medieval Association (2005, 1999, 1996, 1992); TTU History
Department Faculty Research Colloquium (1999, 1982); TTU Honors
Program "Pizza with the Profs" (1996, 1995); UCLA
Medieval Latin Colloquium (1995, 1988); Western Association of
Faculty Governance (1997); Western Society for French History
Annual Conference (1988); Women's Council of the West Texas
Museum Association Art Seminar (1997 [2x], 1996, 1986 [2x], 1985,
1984).
Grants:
American Philosophical Society (1989); Big 12 Faculty Fellowship
(2002); Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris hospitality grants
(1998, 1995); Dumbarton Oaks Institute (1982); Erasmus Institute [Notre Dame]
Carey Faculty Fellowship (2003-2004); Fulbright travel
grant (1989); Getty Center for the History of Art (1995); Gloria Lyerla Memorial Fund Library Research Travel Grant (1998);
Helen Jones
Foundation, Lubbock TX (2007); Humanities Texas (2007); National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute
"Writing as Quest" (1991); NEH Summer Stipends (1992);
NEH Travel-to-Collections Grants (1988); Program for Cultural Cooperation
between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and U.S. Universities (2007); School of Historical
Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (2001); TTU Arts & Sciences New Faculty Development Fund (1982); TTU
Faculty Development Leaves (2007, 2001, 1995, 1988); TTU Graduate School
Summer Research Award, 1992 (for Howe and Cynthia Rosser); TTU
Research Enhancement Funds (1991-92 and 1984-85); TTU University
Task Force on Student Retention (1990); UCLA Center for Medieval
and Renaissance Studies Post-Doctoral Fellow (1995 and 1979-82).
SERVICE:
Regular participant in the work of the Texas Tech History Department, of Texas Tech University, of the Lubbock community, and of the national/international scholarly community.