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
2009- present: Associate Professor of History, Honors Faculty, Coordinator, British Studies Minor, University of
North Carolina, Pembroke.
2003-09: Assistant Professor of History, 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
Books
The Royal Minorities of Medieval and Early Modern England (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
The Lioness Roared: The Problems of Female Rule in English History. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
Articles, Essays, and Book Chapters
“From Lydgate to Shakespeare: George Ferrers and The Historian as a Moral Compass.” Latch, a Journal for the
Study of the Literary Artifact in theory, Culture, or History, vol. 2 (2009) pp. 101-114.
“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, 2009).
“Female Rulers of Early Modern Europe” Encyclopedia of World History, Vol. 6: The First Global Age, ed. Dane
Morrison and James Hoover (Santa Barbara, Ca.: ABC-CLIO, 2010).
“Richard III was innocent of the charge of murder: Pro” in Popular Controversies in World History: 1000 C.E. to 1900
ed. Steve Danvers (Santa Barbara, Ca.: ABC-CLIO, 2010).
Book Reviews
Thomas Cromwell: Machiavellian Statecraft and the English Reformation, by J, Patrick Coby,
forthcoming in 2010 in Sixteenth Century Journal.
The Catholic Imaginary and the Cults of Elizabeth, by Stephen Hamrick, Journal of British Studies vol. 49, no. 1
(January 2010), pp. 157-58.
Defending Royal Supremacy and Discerning God’s Will in Tudor England, by Daniel Eppley,
Journal of British Studies, vol. 48, no. 3 (July 2009) pp. 761-62.
The Heart of a King, by Benton Rain Patterson, Journal of British Studies, vol. 47, no. 1 (January 2008), pp. 172-74.
Tudor England and its Neighbors, ed. Susan Doran, Glenn Richardson, Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 37, no. 3
(2006), pp. 875-76.
Elizabeth’s Wars, by Paul E.J. Hammer, Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 37, no. 2 (2006)
pp.568-70.
MY CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
"Lord of Misrule: Reconstructing the Life and Career of George Ferrers, Tudor Renaissance Gentleman."
(Manuscript in progress.)
Elizabeth and Foreign Relations (edited volume in progress).
BOOK EDITOR
Co-editor (with Carole Levin), of the book series for Palgrave Macmillan, "Queenship and Power."
Forthcoming titles in the Queenship and Power Series
Arlene Naylor Okerlund, Elizabeth of York (October 2009).
Linda Shenk, Learned Queen: the Imperial Images of Elizabeth I (December 2009).
Alice Hunt and Anna Whitelock, eds., Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth (May 2010)
Anna Riehl, The Face of Queenship: Representations of Elizabeth I (August 2010).
Illona Bell, Elizabeth I’s Amorous Discourse (August 2010).
OTHER SCHOLARLY DISTINCTIONS
2007: Folger Shakespeare Library Summer Fellowship.
2008-2010: NACBS John Ben Snow Book Prize Committee.
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
07/09: Henry VIII and the Tudor Court 1509-2009 Conference, Hampton Court Palace, Hampshire, U.K. “From
Solomon to Josiah: Henry VIII, Edward VI, and the Transition from a Majority to a Minority Supremacy of the
Church.”
05/09: Fourteenth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich. “From Lydgate to
Shakespeare: George Ferrers and the Historian as Moral Compass.”
10/08: Sixteenth Century Society and Conference Annual Meeting. St. Louis, Mo. “A Wise and Learned Man:
George Ferrers and the Christmas Festivities of 1551/1552.”
06/08: Seminar paper, Fourteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
“Female Kingship: Gender, Language and the English Conception of Regnant Queenship” in the seminar “Gender
and Politics in the Early Atlantic World,” moderated by Mary Beth Norton, Cornell University.
03/08: North Carolina Association of Historians, annual meeting, Pembroke, North Carolina. “The Empire Strikes
Back: The Beatles and Britain’s Imperial Legacy.”
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
History of Western Civilization: From the Rise of Cities to the Counter Reformation.
Western Civilization: Europe in the Modern World.
World Civilizations to 1500.
World Civilizations, 1500 to the Present.
American Ideals and Institutions.
Introduction to British Studies.
History of Modern Europe.
History of the Holocaust.
Early Modern Europe.
History of Colonial Latin America.
Nature and Practice of History- Early Modern Britain.
Modern British History.
Topics in Gender History.
Tudor/Stuart Britain.
History of the British Empire.
History of Medieval Britain.
HHistory of Medieval Britain (graduate)
History of the British Empire (graduate)
| The High School grad 1974 |
The Associate Professor 2009