Dr. Eric Wolever (Ph.D.)
Leverhulme PostDoc-Stipendiat
- Telefon
- +49 561 804-3099
- ericwolever[at]gmail[dot]com
- Standort
- Untere Königsstr. 86 (Durchgang zur Mosenthalstr)
34125 Kassel
- Raum
- Untere Königsstraße 86, Raum 2030
CURRENT POST
2021-22 Postdoctoral Researcher with the Universität Kassel
Project: ‘The Idea of the West in the Long Twelfth Century’ funded by the Leverhulme Trust
EDUCATION
- 2014-18 PhD, Medieval Studies
University of York (UK)
Dissertation: ‘The Cardinal Points and the Structure of Christian History in the Early-Twelfth Century’
Awarded on 20 July 2019 - 2012-13 MA, Medieval Studies
University of York (UK)
Dissertation: ‘The Notion of Christendom in Bishop Otto of Freising’s Philosophy of History’ - 2008-12 BA (Hons.), History
Queen’s University (Kingston, ON)
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
- 2021-22 Leverhulme Overseas Studentship
- 2019 Mark Ormrod PhD Prize
For the best PhD in Medieval Studies each year. - 2017-17CMS Scholarship
- 2012-13 CMS Dissertation Award
For the highest mark among MA dissertations. - 2011-12The Osborne Studd Book Prize in History
Awarded annually to the student deemed to have the highest standing in a course in medieval history. - 2010-11 Arts 1909 School in History
Awarded annually to the student in History with the highest standing in history courses taken in the penultimate year.
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
- ‘Spatial Constructions of Christian Identity: Europa and Occidens around the First Crusade’. Oberseminar ‘Neues aus der Mittelalterforschung’, Universität Kassel. June 2021.
- ‘Est enim gens cunctorum occidentalium facile princeps: A community of western peoples in the aftermath of the First Crusade?’. Aberystwyth Medieval Conference, Aberystwyth University. June 2020/21.
- ‘Ut temporibus, ita locis: Reconsidering a Westward Progression of History in the Twelfth-century’. Aberystwyth Medieval Conference, Aberystwyth University. June 2019.
- ‘What’s in a name? Etymologising Normannus in the Duchy of Normandy’. Aberystwyth Medieval Conference, Aberystwyth University. June 2018.
- ‘The cardinal points and the structure of geographical knowledge in the early twelfth century’. History of Cartography Seminar, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. May 2018 (Invited).
- ‘Western Identity in the Aftermath of the First Crusade’. SCRAMS, Post-Graduate Seminar, University of York. October 2017.
- ‘Ut gelidus aquilo: Normans and the North in Orderic Vitalis’. Aberystwyth Medieval Conference, Aberystwyth University. June 2017.
- ‘Does Evil Break Forth from Out of the North? Identity and Alterity in Twelfth-Century Universal Histories’. International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. May 2017.
- ‘Historicising the Heavenly Jerusalem’. SCRAMS, Post-Graduate Seminar, University of York. July 2016.
- ‘Spatializing History: The Cardinal Points and the Location of Empire in the 12th Century’. International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds. July 2016.
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
- 2019 Research Assistant
Assisting Dr Sethina Watson with a forthcoming monograph. I was responsible for editing the Latin material used throughout the monograph. This involved checking the relevance of citations, the accuracy of quotations and copy-editing the final references. - 2014-16, 2019 Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of History, University of York (UK) - Spring Term 2019 Module Tutor on ‘Rome to Renaissance’
Led three discussion groups of fifteen students for a first-year survey course and chose seminar topics to provide a range of case studies relating to the module themes, developed classroom activities, answered student queries and provided informal pastoral support. I marked and gave feedback on one procedural essay, an assessed essay and an open exam for each student. - Spring Term 2016 Module Tutor on ‘Rome to Renaissance’
Led two discussion groups of fourteen students for a first-year survey course and chose seminar topics to provide a range of case studies relating to the module themes, developed classroom activities, answered student queries and provided informal pastoral support. I marked and gave feedback on two procedural essays, an assessed essay and an open exam for each student. - Autumn Term 2014 Module Tutor on ‘Making Histories’
Taught a first-year skills module, leading two discussion groups of up to fourteen students on the ways in which historians work and how history is written and conceived. I developed seminar activities, worked with students to create their research topics for the final assessed essay. I marked and gave feedback on formative assignments and the assessed essay and provided informal pastoral support. - Research Assistant
2015 On the British Academy Project: ‘Finding your place in history and politics: the life of universal chronicles in the high Middle Ages’. Directed by Dr Michele Campopiano. I was involved in developing a bibliography on universal chronicles to augment the project and in editing the prose of non-anglophone scholars for the edited collection.
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