JACE STUCKEY

Education

• 2005 – Ph. D. Candidate History Department; University of  Florida
• Dissertation in Progress:  Charlemagne: The Making of an Image 1100-1300 (Defense date - spring/2006)
  
• 2000 – M.A.  University of Central Florida (August 2000), Department of History European History
• Thesis:  Medieval Crusading: The Origin and Inspiration of the First Crusade  (Defended July 2000).
•  1997 – B.S.   Thomas University, Thomasville, Georgia. Liberal Studies

Articles & Essays:

• "The Legend of Charlemagne: Entertainment or Crusade Propaganda" in Themes in European History: Essays Presented at the 2nd International Conference on European History.  Ed. Nicholas C.J. Pappas. Forthcoming, fall 2005.

Papers Presented or in Progress:

• "Memory and Kingship: The Image of Charlemagne in the Twelfth-Century," to be presented at the 41st Annual Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, forthcoming (May 2006).
• Organizer for the Session; "Charlemagne: History and Legend," International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, forthcoming (May 2006).
• "Canon Law, Kings, and Sainthood in the Twelfth-Century: When Does Canonization Not Count?"  To be presented at the New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, forthcoming (March 2006).
  
• "From Anger to Sorrow: The Role of Emotion in Medieval Epic," Presented at the 12th Mediterranean Ethnological Summer Symposium (MESS) in Piran, Slovenia, (September 18-25, 2005).
  
• "Popular Literature, Crusading and the Image of Charlemagne," presented at the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Stammtisch Speaker Series at the University of Florida, (May 2005).
• "Love, War, & Chivalry: Patterns of Conversion in Eleventh to Thirteenth Century Old French and Old German Literature," presented at 119th Annual Conference of the American Historical Association, at Seattle, Washington, (January, 2005).
• Organizer and Presider for the session; “Charlemagne: History and Legend,” International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, May of 2005.
• "The Legend of Charlemagne: Entertainment or Crusade Propaganda" presented at the 2nd Annual Conference from Ancient to Modern European History, held in Athens, Greece, December 29-31, 2004.
• "Charlemagne: The Ideal Image of Crusading in 12th and 13th Century Literature," presented at 38th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, (May 2004).
• "The Image of the Crusader in the Works of Wolfram von Eschenbach," presented at 37th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, (May 2003).
• "Charlemagne and the First Crusade," presented at 36th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, (May 2002).
  

Book Reviews

• Review of Patrick Geary, “The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe,” (Princeton 2002) in Alpata: A Journal of History, Vol. 1, Spring 2004, p. 131-133.
• Review of Carol Hillenbrand, “The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives,” (Routledge, 2000) in Alpata: A Journal of History, Vol. 2, Spring 2005, p. 141-144.
  

Works in Progress

• The Legend of Charlemagne and Holy War: The Making of a Crusader Icon
• The Image of the Crusader in the Works of Wolfram von Eschenbach
  

Courses Taught

• August 2003- Present    Teaching Associate, University of Florida
• EUH 2001 Western Middle Ages to 18th Century (Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005)

• August 2001-July 2003   Teaching Assistant, University of Florida
• EUH-2001 Western Middle Ages (Fall 2001)
• EUH-3033 A History of the Holocaust (Spring 2002)
• AMH –2010 American History to 1877 (Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Summer 2003)
  

• August 2000-April 2001:  Adjunct Professor, Valencia Community College, Humanities Department
• HUM 2223 Late Roman and Medieval Humanities (2 courses Fall 2000; 1 course Spring 2001)
• HUM 2220 Greek and Roman Humanities (2 courses Spring 2001)

Teaching and Research Interest

• Western Civilization
  
• Medieval Europe (The Crusades)         
• Renaissance/ Early Modern
• History of Science (Ancient to Enlightenment)
  

Honors and Awards

• Center for European Studies Travel Grant 2005 ($500)
• Milbauer Endowment Travel Grant 2005 ($200)
• Recipient Samuel Proctor Graduate Teaching Award 2005 ($500)
  
• CLAS Travel Grant 2005 ($250)
  
• Recipient Graduate Student Teaching Award 2004-2005 ($500)
  
• RPG (Office of Research and Graduate Programs) Travel Grant ($600)
• Milbauer Endowment Travel Grant 2004 ($250)
• Graduate Student Participant in 2004 Presidential Inaugural Symposium
• Hanger Award 2003 ($1000)
• Grinter Fellwship 2003, 2002, & 2001 ($3000)
• CLAS Travel Grant 2002 ($500)
• Graduate Student Council Travel Grant 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 ($250, $250, $175, $175)
• Graduate Incentive Fellowship 2000 ($2500)
  

Professional Duties/Service

• 2005/06 - Graduate Student Representative on Search Committee for Russian Historian
• 2004/05 – Managing Editor; Alpata: A Journal of History to be published by University of Florida
  
(Second Prize in 2005 Gerald D. Nash Journal Award Print Competition)

• 2003/04 – Editor; Alpata: A Journal of History published by University of Florida
  

Professional and Student Associations

• Phi Alpha Theta (1999-present)
• The Medieval Academy (2002-present)
• The American Historical Association (2002-present)