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Spring 2012:

HIST 2311 - World History
HIST 3371 - Medieval History
HIST 5336 - Pre-Modern Europe

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 and writing about German peasant parish life across the 17th-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.

“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 dynamic between 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

2006-2007 Enhancement Grant for Professional Development
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.

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