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Biography
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Linda Mitchell, Professor of History, came to Alfred in 1991 from Indiana University, where she had just completed a Ph.D. in medieval history, with minors in ancient history and medieval studies. Since then, she has become involved in many programs and departments. Presently, she teaches courses in ancient, medieval, and early modern European history (everything from the ancient Greeks to the Enlightenment), in Fine Arts, in Women's Studies, and in Critical Discourse Studies, the latter two being interdisciplinary minor programs in LAS, and in Dance, where she teaches Ballet. In 2006, Professor Mitchell succeeded Stuart Campbell as Senior Editor of Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, an international journal of history produced at Alfred University.
Professor Mitchell has been the recipient of several university awards for excellence. In 1995, she received the Alfred University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award, and in 1998 was elected to be included in Who's Who Among America's Teachers. From 2003 until 2007, Professor Mitchell was also appointed to the Hagar Chair in Humanities.
Professor Mitchell's research and publications focus on noble families, law, and the structures of political culture in medieval Britain from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. An active scholar who presents several papers a year at national and international conferences in history and medieval studies, she has also published three books, numerous articles and book reviews, and is expecting publication of two more books in the next few years. Her most recent and significant publications include Family Life in the Middle Ages (Greenwood Press, 2007), Portraits of Medieval Women: Family, Marriage, and Politics in England 1225-1350 (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003), and Women in Medieval and Western Culture (Garland Books, 1999). Currently, Professor Mitchell is working on a project about the ways in which aristocratic families shaped the English medieval political community from the twelfth to the end of the fourteenth centuries and co-writing a textbook entitled Plantagenet England for Longmans Press. She has received a number of awards and grants for her research, among them a Fulbright-Hays dissertation fellowship, several Alfred University Summer Research grants, and an NEH Summer Stipend grant.
With as busy a schedule as she maintains, you'd think there wasn't time for anything else. But Professor Mitchell is enthusiastic about her hobbies and outside activities, which include singing (she sings as a choir member and soloist at a local church), exercise of all kinds, from ballet and biking to golf and hiking, gardening, bookbinding, cooking, and hanging out with her two cats, Bohemond Blundeville and Margaret Marshall.
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Classes Taught
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The Ancient Mediterranean;
The Ancient Greeks;
The Roman World;
Women in the Ancient World (cross-listed in Women's Studies);
Medieval Culture;
The Early Middle Ages;
The High Middle Ages and the Renaissance;
Reformation and Enlightenment;
Women in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (cross-listed in Women's Studies);
Crusaders and Pilgrims;
The British Isles in the Middle Ages;
Text, Image, Binding: History of the Book (cross-listed in Fine Arts);
Ballet I;
Ballet II
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