LINDA A. MCMILLIN
History Department
Susquehanna University
Selinsgrove, PA 17870
(570) 372-4193 - office
(570) 372- 2743 - fax
http://www.susqu.edu/history/faculty/mcmillin/
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Ph.D, Medieval History, University of California, Los Angeles, May 1990
Dissertation: “Cloister and Society in Thirteenth-Century Barcelona: The Women of Sant Pere de les Puelles”
B.A., magna cum laude, Theology and English, Loyola Marymount University, June 1981
Susquehanna University
History Department
Head, 1993-1999, 2001 to present
Professor, 2002-present
Associate Professor, 1996 to 2002
Assistant Professor, 1989 to1996
Middle States Accreditation Self-Study Coordinator, 2002-2004
Honors Program Director, 1998-2000
Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Teaching Associate, 1987-1988
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Editor, 1986-1987 (Edited: Comitatus, Volume 18)
Chaminade College Preparatory, Canoga Park, California
Teacher,
1984-1985
Escuela
de Idiomas Berlitz de España, Barcelona, Spain
Teacher, 1983-1984
Louisville High School, Woodland Hills, California
Teacher, 1981-1983
American Council on Education Fellowship, 2000-2001.
Served as Special Assistant to the President of Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, The Literary Traditions of Medieval Women, Rice University, Houston, Texas, June 9-July 18, 1997.
Academic Leadership Scholarship from the Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to attend the Management Development Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education, June 18-30, 1995.
Susquehanna University Teaching Award, 1993-94.
Susquehanna University Research Grant for research in Spain, June 1991.
National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant for research in Spain, June 1991.
Fulbright-Hays Fellowship/Spanish Government Grant for doctoral research in Spain, 1988-89.
Del Amo Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1988-89.
Research Grant from the Comité Conjunto Hispano-Norteamericano para la cooperación Cultural y Educativa for a project administered jointly by the Arabic Department of the University of Alicante in Spain and the Institute of Medieval Mediterranean Spain, Playa del Rey, California, 1985-86.
Del Amo Foundation Entering Graduate Student Fellowship, 1985-86.
Member, Advisory Board, Association of Governing
Boards Academic Affairs Project, supported by a grant from the James S. Kemper
Foundation, 2001-2003.
Consultant, Program Review Process, Wheeling Jesuit University, March 27, 2002.
Participant, American Association for Higher Education Roundtable, October 26-27, 2001.
Consultant, Department of History, University of Dayton, September 18-20, 2001.
Consultant, Faculty Workload Project, Bates College, March 23-24, 2001.
National Project Manager, Associated New American Colleges Faculty Work Project II, funded by a grant from the PEW Charitable Trusts, Summer 1999-Spring 2001.
Consultant, Workload Committee, Elizabethtown College, August, 1999.
Campus Coordinator, Associated New American Colleges Project on Faculty Workload, Roles and Rewards, funded by a grant from the PEW Charitable Trusts, Fall 1996-Summer 1998.
Participant, Management Development Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education, June 18-30, 1995.
Faculty Participant, National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education triple initiative, a two-year project for the development of innovative courses integrating science and the humanities for elementary teachers at Susquehanna University, 1993-1995.
Member, American Historical Association Family Leave Task Force, 1994.
Chair, Susquehanna University Team, the Lilly Endowment Workshop on the Liberal Arts at Colorado College, June 12-26, 1993.
Susquehanna University Representative in the Association of American Colleges Project on Strong Foundations for General Education, a two-year study, 1992-1994.
Editor, Hrotsvit 2000, with Katharina
Wilson and Phyllis Brown, (Toronto: Toronto University Press), forthcoming.
Editor, A New Academic Compact:
Re-visioning the Relationship Between Faculty and Their Institutions, with
Jerry Berberet, (Bolton, MA: Anker Press), 2002.
“‘Weighed Down with a Thousand Evils’: Images of Muslims in Hrotsvit's Pelagius,” in Hrotsvit 2000 ed. Phyllis Brown, Linda McMillin, and Katharina Wilson, (Toronto: Toronto University Press), forthcoming.
“Telling Old Tales About Something New: The Vocation of a Feminist and a Catholic Historian” in Reconciling Catholic Women and the Church: Personal Reflections on Tradition and Change, (South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press), 2003, forthcoming.
“Compacts and Collaboration Across the Faculty/Administrator
Divide,” Liberal Education,
88:3 (2002), 42-47.
“Anonymous Lives: Benedictine Documents from Sant Pere de les Puelles” in Women Writing In Latin, ed. Laurie Churchhill, Jane Jeffrey, and Phyllis Brown, (New York: Routledge), Volume 2, 265-280.
“Alfonso X”, “James I of Aragon”, “Ramon
Llull”, “Ramon Berenguer IV”, and “Ramon Penyafort” in The Rise
of the Medieval World 500-1300, ed. Jana K. Schulman (Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press), 2002, 27-28, 242-243, 273-274, 360-362.
“The American Professoriate in Transition”
with Jerry Berberet, Priorities (Spring 2002), 1-16.
“Gènere i autonomia
monacal a la Barcelona del segle tretzè: l’abadessa en front del bisbe” in Aproximació
a la Història de Montmeló Segle XIII La Lluita per l’eglésia, ed. Amanç
Fernàndez, Ángel Piñero, and Josep Umbert, (Montmeló: Centre d’Estudis de
Montmeló), 2001, 47-67.
“Equal in Otherness: Medievalist-Feminism in a Small School Setting,” Medieval Feminist Forum, 29 (2000), 18-20.
“Castles and Kids: Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Teaching the Middle Ages in the Elementary School,” with Patricia Nelson and Peggy Holdren, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, 8:1 (2000), 71-83.
“Changing Vocations: Studying Medieval Nuns at the Close of the Millennium,” America, 181:17 (1999), 19-21.
“Virtual Lais: A
Transcontinental Collaboration in Teaching Medieval Studies,” with Daniel
Kline, Literary and Linguistic Computing,
14 (1999), 161-178.
“Transforming the University: Feminist Musings on Pragmatic Liberal Education” with Laurie Crumpacker and Francine Navakas, Liberal Education, 84:4 (1998), 32-39.
“The Susquehanna Children’s Center: An Example of University-Community Collaboration,” The History Teacher, 49 (1996), 24-29.
“Not a Damsel in Distress: Feminist Medieval Studies at a Small Liberal Arts College,” with Karen Mura, The Feminist Teacher, 10 (1996), 49-58.
“Sant Pere de les Puelles: A Medieval Women’s Community,” The American Benedictine Review, 47 (1996), 200-222.
“Sacred and Secular Politics: The Convent of Sant Pere de les Puelles in Thirteenth-Century Barcelona” in Iberia and the Mediterranean World of the Middle Ages, Volume 2, ed. Paul Chevedden and Donald Kagey, (Lieden: E.J. Brill), 1996, 225-237.
“Gender and Monastic Autonomy in Thirteenth-Century Barcelona: Abbess vs. Bishop,” Journal of Medieval History, 18 (1992), 267-278.
“Women on the Walls: Women and Warfare in the Catalan Grand Chronicles,” International Catalan Review, 3 (1989), 123-136.
“Portrait of an Enemy: 'Saracens' in the Catalan Grand Chronicles,” Sharq al-Andalus, 4 (1987), 49-57.
“Alfonso El Sabio and The Primera Partida: A Thirteenth-Century View of the Church,” Comitatus, 17 (1986), 52-69.
Workshop Leader, “Rethinking Faculty Work for a World in Transition,” American Council on Education Workshop for Department Chairs, June 17-20, 2003, Washington, DC.
Keynote Speaker, “Learning, Technology, and the Changing Role of Faculty”, South Eastern Pennsylvania Consortium for Higher Education, January 8, 2003, Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania.
Plenary Speaker, “Revisioning Faculty Work and Professionalism for a World in Transition,” AAC&U Network for Academic Renewal Conference: Faculty Work and Student Learning: Meeting New Challenges of a World in Transition, November 7-9, 2002, Indianapolis, Indiana.
“Shaping Faculty Work to Enhance Student Learning and Faculty Satisfaction,” Workshop with Jon Wergin, AAC&U Network for Academic Renewal Conference: Faculty Work and Student Learning: Meeting New Challenges of a World in Transition, November 7-9, 2002, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Panelist, “Reconciling Catholicism and Feminism, ” 2002 Midwest ACIS Conference, October 24-26, 2002, St. Louis, Missouri.
“Bridging Values: Academic Professionalism for Faculty and Administrators,” Eighty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, January 23-26, 2002, Washington, DC.
Chair, “Technology and Pedagogy Workshop and Roundtable Discussion: Virtually Medieval College Campuses? It's Not Just the Trivium and Quadrivium Anymore!” Thirty-Six International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 3-6, 2001, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
“Sharing the Faculty Workload: Differentiated Staffing” Workshop with Jon Wergin, Ninth American Association for Higher Education Conference on Faculty Roles and Rewards, February 1-4, 2001 Tampa, Florida.
“Meeting the Challenges of the Information Society: A ‘New Compact’ between Faculty and University,” Eighty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, January 17-20, 2001, New Orleans, LA.
“A New Compact Between Faculty and Their Institutions,” Chief Academic Officer’s Institute, Council of Independent Colleges, November 4-7, 2000, Tampa, Florida.
“Equal in Otherness: Medievalist-Feminism in a Small School Setting,” Thirty-Fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 4-7, 2000, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
“Creating the Other: Muslims and Pagans in the Work of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim,” Hrotsvit 2000 Conference, February 11-13, 2000, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California.
Panelist, “Improving Faculty Work Policies and Practices: Renewing the Compact between Faculty and Their Institutions,” Eighth American Association for Higher Education Conference on Faculty Roles and Rewards, February 3-6, 2000, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Panelist, “Reframing the Faculty-Institutional Compact to Achieve Greater Expectations,” Eighty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, January 20-22, 2000, Washington, D.C.
“Virtual Lais: A Transcontinental Collaboration in Teaching Medieval Studies,” with Daniel Kline, 1999 Association for Integrative Studies Conference, September 30-October 3, 1999, Lisle, Illinois.
“Anonymous Lives: Documents from the Benedictine Convent of Sant Pere de les Puelles,” 1999 International Medieval Congress, July 12-15, 1999, Leeds, England.
“Middle Age Women and Women’s Studies: Placing Medieval Women in the Women’s Studies Curriculum,” 1999 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June 4-6, 1999, Rochester, New York.
Chair, “Autobiographical Criticism and Medieval Studies,” Thirty-Fourth International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 6-9, 1999, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Panelist, “Adapting Faculty Governance and Administrative Leadership to New Realities,” Eighty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, January 28-30, 1999, San Francisco, California.
“Teaching and Producing Hrotsvit in the Classroom,” Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, October 15-17, 1998, Decatur, Georgia.
“Castles and Kids: Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Teaching the Middle Ages in the Elementary School” with Patricia Nelson and Peggy Holdren, Eighth Conference on Teaching the Middle Ages, September 10-12, 1998 at Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas.
“Case Studies from the ANAC Faculty Work Project: Susquehanna University,”
Associated New American Colleges Conference on Faculty Work, June 11-14, 1998
at St. Mary's College, Moraga, California.
“Medieval Women and the Humanities Core: Gendering the History of Civilization,” Thirty-Third International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 8-12, 1998 at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
“Changing Vocations: Studying Medieval Nuns at the Close of the Millennium,” Illinois Medieval Association, February 20-21, 1998, Charleston, Illinois.
“The Faculty Time Crunch: A Study of Faculty Workload at Susquehanna University,” Sixth American Association for Higher Education Conference on Faculty Roles and Rewards, January 29-February 1, 1998, Orlando, Florida.
“Feminist Musings on Pragmatic Liberal Education: Transforming Practice and Structure in Higher Education” with Laurie Crumpacker and Francine Navakas, Nineteen Annual Conference of the Association For Integrative Studies, October 23-25, 1997, Boone, North Carolina.
“Orienting New Faculty: A Department Head’s Perspective,” Eighty-Third Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, January 16-18, 1997, Atlanta, Georgia.
“The House on Sant Pere Street: Four Generations of Women’s Land Holding in Thirteenth Century Barcelona,” Thirty-First International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 8-12, 1996 at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
“Medieval Studies as an Interdisciplinary Program for Undergraduates,” presented with Karen Mura at the Second Annual Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference: The Future of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Problems, Trends, and Opportunities in Research, February 15-17, 1996 at Tempe, Arizona.
“The Susquehanna Children’s Center: An Example of University-Community Collaboration,” 1996 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, January 4-7, 1996, Atlanta, Georgia.
“Prosperity Against the Odds: Benedictine Life for Women in Late Medieval Spain,” Communities and the Ideas of Communities in the Middle Ages, March 6, 1993 at the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University, New York, New York.
“Cloister and Society in Medieval Barcelona: The Women of Sant Pere de les Puelles,” Susquehanna Faculty Colloquium, 22 February 1993.
Chair, “Public Space and Urban Identity in Aragon/Catalonia: Medieval and Modern” session at the 1991 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, December 27-30, 1991, Chicago, Illinois.
“Sacred and Secular Politics: The Convent of Sant Pere de les Puelles in Thirteenth-Century Barcelona,” Medieval Spain in the Western Mediterranean: A Conference in Honor of Robert I. Burns, S.J., October 25-26, 1991 at the University of California, Los Angeles, California.
“Sant Pere de Les Puelles: A Thirteenth-Century Women's Community,” Sixteenth International Conference on Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies, September 20-22, 1991 at Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania.
“Gender and Monastic Autonomy in Thirteenth-Century Barcelona: Abbess vs. Bishop,” Seventeenth New England Medieval Conference, November 3-4, 1990 at The University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.
“Women in the Walls: Women and Warfare in the Catalan Grand Chronicles,” Twenty-Third International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 5-8, 1988 at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Europe, 800-1648
The Middle Ages
Medieval People and Culture
(team-taught with Karen Mura)
Social-Economic History of Early Modern Europe
Gender in European History
Collective Inquiry: Inquisition
Collective Inquiry: Pilgrimage
Thought and Civilization
Honors Futures Seminar
Women in the 21st Century
Topics in Spanish History: Spain and the World of the Americas
Curriculum Review
(team-taught with Jack Holt)
Urban Culture in European Society
(team-taught with Jack Longaker)
Coordinator, Middle States Accreditation Self-Study, 2002-2004.
Chair, History Department, 1993-1999, 2001-present.
Member, Administrative Computing Taskforce, 2001-present.
Member, Faculty Personnel Committee, 2001-present.
Member, Salary and Compensation Working Group, 2001-present.
Member, Faith and
Learning Group, 1995-present.
Member, Women’s Studies Working Group, 1990-2000.
Director, University Honors Program, 1998-2000
Advisor, History Club, 1990-1998.
Member, University Council, 1996-2000.
Speaker of the
Faculty, 1996-1999.
Member, Planning Committee for the 1994 Faculty Retreat.
chair, Curriculum Committee, 1994-1996.
Member, Curriculum Committee, 1990-1996.
Member, Faculty Advisory Committee for Academic Computing, 1992-1995.
Member, Apple-Zimmerman Lecture Committee, 1989-1995.
Chair, Women’s Studies Working Group Subcommittee for Women’s History Month, 1992-1994.
Member, Strategic Planning Priorities Drafting Group, 1993-1994.
Chair, University Day Planning Group, 1993-1994.
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on the Diploma, 1992-1993.
Member, Ad Hoc Committee for Policy on Sexual Harassment, 1992-1993.
Member, Planning Committee for Columbus Quincentenary, 1992.
Member, Information Technology Planning Group, 1992-1993.
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Benefits, 1991-1992.
Member, Library
Automation Taskforce, 1990-1991.
American Historical Association; Medieval Academy of America; Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship; American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain; Coordinating Council for Women in History