W. Newton and Hazel A. Long Associate Professor of History
History Department
Juniata College
Huntingdon, PA 16652
(814) 641-3536
tuten@juniata.edu
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Ph.D., History, May 1997
M.A., History, May 1994
Dissertation: "Holy Litigants: The Nuns of Ronceray d'Angers and their
Neighbors, 1028-1200."
College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
B.A. cum laude, European History before 1715, May 1991
PUBLICATIONS
"Fashion and Benefaction in Twelfth-Century Western France," in Emilia Jamroziak and Janet Burton, eds., Religious and Laity in Western Europe 1000-1300: Interaction, Negotiation and Power. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2006, pp. 41-62.
“Who was Lady Constance of Angers? Nuns as poets and correpondents at the monastery of Ronceray d’Angers in the early twelfth century,” Medieval Perspectives 19(2004): 255-268.
"Women and Ordeals," in Conflict in Medieval Europe, ed. Piotr Górecki and Warren Brown. London: Ashgate, 2003, pp. 163-174.
"Politics, Holiness and Property in Angers, 1080-1130," French Historical Studies 24, no. 4 (Fall 2001): 601-619.
"Convents," in The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature,ed. Eva Martin Sartori. New York: Greenwood Press, 1999, 125-6.
"Disputing Corpses: Le Ronceray d'Angers versus Saint-Nicolas d'Angers, 1080-1145," Medieval Perspectives 10 (1995): 178-188.
REVIEWS
Review of Konrad Eisenbichler, ed., The Premodern Teenager: Youth in Society 1150-1650 (Toronto, 2002), Arthuriana 14, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 100-101.
Review of Jacqueline Murray ed., Love, Marriage and Family in the Middle Ages: A Reader (Peterborough, Ontario, 2001), Arthuriana 14, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 111-112.
PRESENTATIONS
“Intermonastery conflicts and Papal Policies in western France, 1000-1200,” Southeastern Medieval Association, Daytona Beach, FL, September 2005.
”Who was Lady Constance of Angers?” Southeastern Medieval Association, Little Rock, Arkansas, October 2003.
"Women and Ordeals," at "Conflict in Medieval Europe," Invitational conference sponsored by the Huntingdon Library and the University of California-Davis, April 7, 2001.
"Snubbing the Pope: the Dispute over the Priory of Pruniers, 1090-1125," Southeastern Medieval Association, Asheville, NC, September 29, 2000.
"An Example of Peace and Concord: Inter-Monastery Relationships in Medieval Anjou," American Society for Legal History, Seattle, WA, October 1998.
"Remembering the Blessed Girard of Angers," 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1998.
"Gender, Local Politics, and the Gregorian Reform in Eleventh-century France," Southeastern Medieval Association, Nashville, TN, September 1997.
"Corpse Theft and Benedictine Nuns in the Twelfth Century," featured speaker for Women's History Month, Mercer University, Macon, GA, March 12, 1997.
"Politics, Property Disputes and Female Monastics in France, 1000-1200," 31st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1996.
"How to Make a Nun: Professions to the Abbey of Le Ronceray d'Angers," Southeastern Medieval Association, Charleston, SC, October 1995.
"A Feud over Corpses: Le Ronceray d'Angers versus Saint-Nicolas
d'Angers, 1080-1145," Southeastern Medieval Association, September 29,
1994, Marymount University, Arlington, VA, and the George P. Cuttino Seminar,
October 15, 1994, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
Board member, Baker Institute for Peace, 2004-present.
Presenter, NITLE seminar, “Projected Selves, Reflected Others: an al-Musharaka seminar on Collaboration and Technology in Teaching about Arab, Islamic, and Middle Eastern cultures,” June 15, 2005.
NITLE seminar participant, July 2003: “Arab and Islamic Cultures: An Initiative to Develop Online Curricular Offerings and Inter-Institutional Collaboration.”
"Using Technology in the Classroom," Feb. 4, 1999, Juniata College Technology Series.
Contributor to Matrix, a web-based project on women's monastic communities, 500-1500. Yale University, ed. Katharine Gill; Fall 1998.
Text for The Medieval Woman: An Illuminated Calendar, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999. With Sally Fox. New York: Workman Publishing, 1995-1998.
W. Newton and Hazel A. Long Endowed Chair, 2003
2001
Beachley Junior Faculty Teaching Award
1999 May Day Faculty Woman of the Year
Teaching/Learning Technology Grant, Juniata College, Summer 1999
Faculty Professional Development Grant, Juniata College, Summer 1999
Emory University Research Grant, Spring 1996
Emory University Summer Research Grant, May-September 1994
Emory University History Department Fellowship, 1991-1995
last update 07-15-05