Fall 2008 (click link for reading list):

Hist 265 - World History
Hist 334 - Renaissance Europe
Hist 594 - Early Modern Europe

DAVID MAYES, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

David Mayes received his Ph.D. in 2002 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied with Reformation scholars Robert Kingdon and Lee Wandel. Prior to his arrival at Sam Houston State, he resided in Mainz as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institut für Europäische Geschichte, in Bern while studying at the University's Historisches Institut, and in Marburg as a researcher at several German archives. At SHSU he teaches the World History surveys as well as upper-level and graduate courses in European history.

CONTACT

Email: his_dcm@shsu.edu
Phone: 936.294.1485
Fax: 936.294.3938
Office: Academic Building IV #457

Department of History
SHSU Box 2239
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, TX 77341-2239

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002
M.A., University of Richmond (Virginia), 1996
B.A., University of Richmond (Virginia), 1994

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Sam Houston State University, Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track), 2004-
University of Montana, Adjunct Assistant Professor, 2003-2004
University of Richmond, Lecturer, Fall 1999

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Communal Christianity: The Life & Loss of a Peasant Vision in Early Modern Germany. Studies in Central European Histories, vol. 35. Editors: Thomas A. Brady Jr. & Roger Chickering. Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2004.

“Kommunale Konfessionalisierung im bäuerlichen Oberhessen im Zeitalter des Landgrafen Karls, 1677-1730.” Zeitschrift des Vereins für Hessische Geschichte und Landeskunde 110 (2005): 129-158.

“Confessionalization and Central European Peasantry.” Article on rural history for the Confessionalization Forum,
H-German. 6 April 2005.

“Heretics or Nonconformists? State Policies Toward the Anabaptists in Sixteenth-Century Hesse.” Sixteenth Century Journal 32/4 (2001): 1003-1026.

RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS

Central European history during the Reformation and down to the 20th century; particularly the community and parish life of German-speaking peasantries. More broadly the role of religion in European history from the 4th century into the 20th century.

594 Graduate Seminar: Early Modern Europe (Religion & Society in Reformation Europe)
594 Graduate Seminar: Early Modern Europe (Lost Worlds: Peasant Europe 14thc -20thc)
537 Graduate Seminar: Pre-Modern History (Religion & Society in Medieval Europe)
334 Renaissance Europe
337 Reformation Europe
367 Europe in the Age of Absolutism and Revolution 1648-1815
371 Medieval History
265 World History I: from the Ancient Civilizations to the Middle Ages
266 World History II: from the Renaissance to the Age of Imperialism

FELLOWSHIPS

2006-2007 Enhancement Grant for Professional Development
2002-2003 Postdoktorand-stipendium, Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz.
2000 Fulbright Grant Renewal
1998-1999 Fulbright Commission Grant
1998 Center for Reformation Research Grant. Saint Louis, Missouri.

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