Curriculum Vitae

Yujuan Chen
Professor of History
Dept. of History, Political Science, Geography, and Africana Studies
Tennessee State University
3500 John A. Merritt Blvd.
Nashville, TN 37209

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EDUCATION

 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

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor to 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 Reformation 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

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PUBLICATIONS

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.

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BOOK REVIEWS

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.

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