DAVID MAYES, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
David Mayes received his Ph.D. in Reformation and Early Modern Europen history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to his 2004 arrival at SHSU 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 in archives around central Germany. At SHSU he teaches the World History surveys as well as upper-level and graduate courses in European history. At present he is researching local parish and religious life in central Germany across the 16th-20th centuries.
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 - Associate Professor 2009-, Assistant Professor 2004-2009
University of Montana - Adjunct Assistant Professor, 2003-2004
University of Richmond - Adjunct Assistant Professor, 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.
(forthcoming) “Über die Konfessionen hinaus: ein Entwurf über den Pfad der ländlichen Pfarreien Hessens.” Jahrbuch der Hessischen Kirchengeschichtlichen Vereinigung
(forthcoming) “The Consistory in Central, Reformed Territories of the Holy Roman Empire.” Collection of essays in honor of Robert M. Kingdon.
(forthcoming) “Zwei Arten der Konfessionalisierung: der 1605er Marburger Kirchentumult und der 1705er Frankenberger Kirchhoftumult im Vergleich.” Jahrbuch der Hessischen Kirchengeschichtlichen Vereinigung
“Kommunale Konfessionalisierung im bäuerlichen Oberhessen im Zeitalter des Landgrafen Karls, 1677-1730.” Zeitschrift des Vereins für Hessische Geschichte und Landeskunde 110 (2005): 129-158.
“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 from the sixteenth to twentieth century, particularly the local community and parish life of German-speaking peasantries; more broadly, religion, politics and society in European history.
5394 - Early Modern Europe (Reformation Europe; Peasant Europe 13th-19thc)
5333, 5336 - Pre-Modern World, Pre-Modern Europe (Early Medieval Europe; High & Late Medieval Europe)
3334 - Renaissance Europe
3337 - Reformation Europe
3367 - Europe in the Age of Absolutism and Revolution 1648-1815
3371 - Medieval History
2311 - World History I: from the Ancient Civilizations to the Middle Ages
2312 - World History II: from the Renaissance to the Age of Imperialism
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS
2013 NEH Summer Seminar
2013 (Spring) Faculty Development Leave, SHSU
2006-2007 Enhancement Grant for Professional Development, SHSU
2002-2003 Postdoktorand-stipendium, Institut für Europäische Geschichte. Mainz, Germany.
2000 Fulbright Grant Renewal
1998-1999 Fulbright Commission Grant
1998 Center for Reformation Research Grant. Saint Louis, Missouri.