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