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MY CURRENT CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Birthdate: December 03, 1956
Birthplace: Culver City, California
Family: parents: Dennis and Betty Lou Beem
       siblings: James, David, and Andrew Beem
       partner: William Jay "JJ" Brown
       pets: Jolene, Shenehneh, Dexter (aka "Bonehead")
MY EDUCATION
12/02 Ph.D. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
Major: Modern European History
Minor: Medieval/Early Modern European History
Dissertation: The Lioness Roared: The Problems of Female Rule in English
History. Advisors: Laura Tabili (chair), Richard Cosgrove, and Helen Nader.
05/90 M.A. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona.
Major: Medieval European History
Minor: American History
Thesis: The Royal Minorities of Medieval England. Advisor: F. Jeffrey Platt.
06/79 B.A. California State University, Northridge.
Major: History.
06/74 Graduated from Venice High School, Los Angeles, California
MY EMPLOYMENT
2003- present: Assistant Professor of History, Honors Faculty, Coordinator, British Studies Minor,
University of North Carolina, Pembroke.
1997-2003: Lecturer, Department of History, University of Arizona.
1999-2000: Lecturer, California State Polytechnic University, San
Luis Obispo, California.
Fall 1997, Spring, Summer 2003: Lecturer, Pima Community College, Tucson, Arizona.
MY PUBLICATIONS
The Royal Minorities of Medieval and Early Modern England (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming in
Oct. 2008).
The Lioness Roared: The Problems of Female Rule in English History. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
“I Am Her Majesty’s Subject: Prince George of Denmark and the Transformation of the English Male
Consort.” Canadian Journal of History, vol. 34, no. 3 (Dec. 2004), pp. 457-487.
“Greater in Marriage: The Matrimonial Career of the Empress Matilda” Queens and Power in Medieval and
Early Modern England, ed. Robert Bucholz and Carole Levin (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
forthcoming in spring 2009).
Book Review: Elizabeth’s Wars, by Paul E.J. Hammer, Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 37, no. 2 (2006) pp.
568-70.
Book Review: Tudor England and its Neighbors, ed. Susan Doran, Glenn Richardson, Sixteenth Century
Journal, vol. 37, no. 3 (2006) pp. 875-76.
Book Review: The Heart of a King, by Benton Rain Patterson, Journal of British Studies, forthcoming in
January 2008.
Encyclopedia Article: “Female Rulers of Early Modern Europe” Encyclopedia of World History, Vol. 6: The
First Global Age, ed. Dane Morrison and James Hoover (San Francisco: ABC-Clio, forthcoming).
MY CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT
"The Pastimes of George Ferrers: Reconstructing the Life and Career of a Tudor Renaissance Gentleman."
BOOK EDITOR
With Carole Levin (co-editor), editor of forthcoming series for Palgrave Macmillan, "Queenship and Power."
OTHER SCHOLARLY DISTINCTIONS
2006: Folger Shakespeare Library Summer Fellowship.
2008-2011: NACBS John Ben Snow Book Prize Committee.
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
03/08: keynote address, Elizabeth I Society/South-Central Renaissance Conference, Minneapolis, Mn.
"The Pastimes of George Ferrers: Reconstructing the Life and Career of a Tudor Renaissance Gentleman."
10/07: Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Minneapolis, Minn., Round table discussion,
"Sixteenth Century British Queenship," and "The Articulate Puppet? Edward VI and Northumberland's
Regime Reconsidered."
11/06: North American Conference on British Studies, Annual Meeting, Boston, Mass.
“Preparing for Josiah: Henry VIII and the Minority of Henry VIII.”
03/06 Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England Conference, Lincoln,
Nebraska.
“Greater in Marriage: the Matrimonial Career of the Empress Matilda.”
09/05 Medieval- Renaissance Conference XIX, Wise, Virginia.
“The Concept of the Royal Minority in Medieval and Early Modern England.”
10/04 Western Conference on British Studies, San Antonio, Texas.
“Woo to Thee, O Land, When a Child is Thy King: The Royal Minorities of
Medieval and Early Modern England.”
09/04 Medieval- Renaissance Conference XVIII, Wise Virginia.
“Making a Name for Herself: The empress Matilda and the Construction of Female
Lordship in Twelfth Century England.”
03/04 Education and Media Conference, Metropolitan College of New York.
“Evaluating Films as Historical Texts: The Path to Critical Thinking.”
10/03 Western Conference on British Studies, Tucson, Arizona.
“I Am Her Majesty’s Subject: The George of Denmark Story.”
10/99 Western Conference on British Studies, Tucson Arizona.
"The Queen is also a King: Mary I and the Act Concerning Regal Power."
10/97 Western Conference on British Studies, Ft. Worth Texas.
"The Lioness Roared: Matilda and the Politics of Gender in Twelfth Century
England."
02/97 Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, Tempe
Arizona.
"Henry VIII and the Minority of Edward VI."
10/96 Western Conference on British Studies, Colorado Springs Colorado.
"Queen Victoria's Bedchamber Crisis Revisited."
COURSES I HAVE FORMULATED AND TAUGHT
Hist. 102: History of Western Civilization: From the Rise of Cities to the Counter
Reformation.
Hist. 103: Western Civilization: Europe in the Modern World.
Hist. 114: World Civilizations to 1500.
Hist. 115: World Civilizations, 1500 to the Present.
Hist. 204: American Ideals and Institutions.
Hist. 214: Introduction to British Studies.
Hist. 214b: History of Modern Europe.
Hist. 274: History of the Holocaust.
Hist. 327: Early Modern Europe.
Hist. 384: History of Colonial Latin America.
Hist. 396a: Nature and Practice of History- Early Modern Britain.
Hist. 417: Modern British History.
Hsts. 440: Topics in Gender History.
Hist 442: Tudor/Stuart Britain.
Hist. 443: History of the British Empire.
Hist. 441: History of Medieval Britain.
Hsts. 508: History of Medieval Britain (graduate)

The High School grad 1974