Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane
Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
History, Medieval/Early Modern Europe
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
B.A.
History (Honors, Phi Beta Kappa)
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Current Role
Dean of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Riverland Community College
Austin, MN 55912
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
| Title | Dates |
|---|---|
| Dean of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Riverland Community College, Austin, MN | Jul 2023 – present |
| Chair, Division of the Social Sciences, UMN Morris | 2020 – 2023 |
| Director, McNair Scholars Program, UMN Morris | 2019 - 2023 |
| Vice-Chair, Division of the Social Sciences, UMN Morris | 2015 – 2017 |
| Department Chair, History UMN Morris | 2012 – 2018 |
| Coordinator, National/International Fellowships, UMN Morris | 2015 – 2020 |
| Full Professor, History, UMN Morris | 2015 - 2023 |
| Associate Professor, History, UMN Morris | 2010 – 2015 |
| Assistant Professor, History, UMN Morris | 2005 – 2010 |
| Account Manager, Control Solutions International Chicago, IL | 2000 – 2002 |
| Project Consultant, Control Solutions International Chicago, IL | 1997 – 1998 |
| Teaching Assistant, Department of History Northwestern University | 1994 – 1996 |
SELECTED SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS
| University of Minnesota, Morris | |
|---|---|
| Strategic Enrollment Management – Recruitment Co-Chair | 2019 – 2021 |
| Marketing Steering Committee | 2019 – 2020 |
| Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies Steering Committee | 2008 – 2021 |
| HLC Quality Initiative – High Impact Practices Co-Chair | 2017 – 2018 |
| Summit Scholars (TRIO / NASNTI) adviser | 2016 – 2018 |
| Curriculum Committee, Soc Sci representative | 2015 – 2018 |
| Diversity Pre-Doc Fellowship Mentor | 2012 – 2017 |
| Master Adviser Program/Faculty Mentor | 2012 – 2017 |
| Chancellor Search Committee | 2015 – 2016 |
| Chair, East Asian History Search Committee | 2015 – 2016 |
| Coordinator, GWSS Lecture Series | 2013 – 2015 |
| Grants Associate Coordinator Search Committee | 2013 – 2014 |
| Sustainability Leadership for the Future Fellow | 2014 – 2016 |
| First-Generation College Student Advisor | 2013 – 2015 |
| Online Learning Task Force Committee | 2014 – 2015 |
| German Studies Search Committee | 2013 – 2014 |
| Chair, Multi-Ethnic Experience Committee | 2012 – 2014 |
| East Asian History Search Committee | 2009 – 2010 |
| Social Sciences Policy Committee | 2009 – 2011 |
| Undergraduate Research Symposium Committee | 2007 – 2011 |
| Scholastic Committee | 2007 – 2010 |
| UMM Phi Beta Kappa Faculty Committee | 2005 – 2006 |
| Scholarships Executive Committee | 2004 – 2006 |
HONORS
AWARDS, GRANTS
Horace T. Morse-University of Minnesota Alumni Award for Outstanding
Contribution to Undergraduate Education (2013)
UMM Founders Fellowship for the Liberal Arts (2013)
UMM Alumni Association Teaching Award (2012)
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend (2011)
Multiple research awards from the University of Minnesota (2005 – present): Faculty
Research Enhancement Funds, Imagine Fund, Grant-in-Aid of Research
PUBLICATIONS
Books or Monographs
Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, A History of Medieval Heresy and Inquisition
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2nd edition, 2022).
Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane and Anne E. Lester (eds.), Between Orders and Heresy: Rethinking Medieval Religious Movements (University of Toronto Press, 2022)
Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane (ed.) and Steven Rowan (trans.) Herbert Grundmann (1902-1970): Essays on Heresy, Inquisition, and Literacy (York Medieval Press, 2019).
Letha Böhringer, Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane and Hildo van Engen (eds.) Labels & Libels: Naming Beguines in Northern Medieval Europe (Brepols, 2014).
Referred Journal Articles
Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, “Did Beguines Have a Late-Medieval Crisis? Historical Models and Historiographical Martyrs,” Early Modern Women, special issue commemorating the 40 th anniversary of the publication of Joan Kelly’s “Did Women Have a Renaissance?” vol. 8 (2014): 275-88.
Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, “Medieval Domestic Devotion,” History Compass, 11/1 (2013): 65–76.
Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, “The Auffahrtabend Prophecy and Henry of Langenstein: German Adaptation and Transmission of the “Visio fratris Johannis,” Viator 40:1 (2009): 355-386.
Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane,“’Beguines’ Reconsidered: Historiographical Problems and New Directions,” Monastic Matrix, Commentaria #3461; August 2008 (http://monasticmatrix.org/commentaria/beguines-reconsidered-historiographical-problems-and-new-directions)
Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, “Archiepiscopal Inquisitions in the Middle Rhine: Urban Anticlericalism and Waldensianism in Late Fourteenth-Century Mainz,” The Catholic Historical Review, vol. 92, no. 3 (July, 2006): 197-224.
Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, “Die Verfolgung von waldensischen Häretikern in Mainz (1390 – 1393),” Mainzer Zeitschrift: Mittelrheinisches Jahrbuch für Archäologie, Kunst und Geschichte, 98 (2003): 11-20.
Contributed Essays and Book Chapters
Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, “Hospitality and the Home in the Middle Ages,” in A Cultural History of the Home: The Medieval Age, ed. Katherine French (Bloomsbury, 2020).
Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, “Elastic Institutions: Beguine Communities in Early Modern Germany,” in Alison Weber (ed.), Devout Laywomen in the Early Modern World (Ashgate, 2015)
Michelle Dowd, Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, Julie Eckerle, and Megan Matchinske, “Women’s Kinship Networks: Work, Space, Genealogy, Text,” in Merry Wiesner-Hanks (ed.), Early Modern Women: Remapping Routes and Spaces (Ashgate, 2015), 229-50.
Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, “Würzburg Beguines and the Vienne Decrees: From Case Studies to Comparative Models” in Boehringer, Deane, and van Engen (eds.), Labels & Libels: Naming Beguines in Northern Medieval Europe (Brepols, 2014), 53-82.
Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, “Geistliche Schwestern: The Pastoral Care of Lay Religious Women in Medieval Würzburg,” in Fiona J. Griffiths and Julie Hotchin (eds.), Partners in Spirit: Men, Women, and the Religious Life in Germany, 1100 – 1500 (Brepols, 2014), 237-70.
Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, “Pious Domesticities”, in Judith Bennett and Ruth M. Karras(eds.), Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe, (Oxford University Press, 2013), 262-78.
Reviews
Karen Sullivan, The Inner Lives of Medieval Inquisitors (University of Chicago, 2011) in Speculum, 88, 1 (January 2013): 344-346.
Caterina Bruschi, The Wandering Heretics of Languedoc (Cambridge University Press, 2009), in Speculum, 87, 3 (July 2012): 850-852.
4Nancy Bradley Warren, The Embodied Word: Female Spiritualities, Contested Orthodoxies, and English Religious Cultures, 1350-1700 (Notre Dame, 2010) in Renaissance Quarterly, 64, 3 (Fall 2011): 986-988.
Leigh Ann Craig, Wandering Women and Holy Matrons: Women as Pilgrims in the Later Middle Ages (Brill, 2009) in Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 63, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 197-99.
Ian Hunter, John Christian Laursen, and Cary Nederman (eds.), Heresy in Transition:
Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Ashgate Press, 2005) in The Catholic Historical Review, vol. 93, No. 2 (April, 2007): 398-99.
Bettina Bildhauer and Robert Mills (eds.), The Monstrous Middle Ages (University of Toronto Press, 2003) in Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, vol. 2, no.2 (2007): 202-05.
Gunther Hirschfelder, Die Kölner Handelsbeziehungen im Spätmittelalter, in Journal of Economic History, 56, December (1996).
Selected Conference Papers and Presentations
“The Secular-Religious Divide and American Medievalists,” in roundtable “Confession, Identity, and Historiography,” Arbeitskreis Geistliche Frauen im deutschen Mittelalter (AGFEM), Weingarten, Germany. March, 2017.
“Fuzzy Thinking: Invention and Disorder in Beguine Historiography,” in session "Cistercians, Chronologies, and Communities: The Legacies of Constance Hoffman Berman," University of Iowa, May, 2016.
“Teaching the Problem: Periodization, Ages, and Stages in Premodern World History,” in Talking Terms Workshop Series, Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World, University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN. October, 2014.
“Cultivating Community in Early Modern German Beguine Houses,” Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico. October, 2013.
“Deutsche Beginen aus amerikanischer Sicht,“ Universität zu Köln, Historisches Institut. Cologne, Germany. July, 2012.
“Beginenforschung aus amerikanischer Perspektive,” Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Geschichtliche Landeskunde und Historische Hilfswissenschaften. Tübingen, Germany. July, 2012.
AGFEM (Arbeitskreis geistliche Frauen im Europäischen Mittelalter). Workshop presentation on late-medieval and early modern beguine research. Ohio State University, Cleveland, OH. April, 2013.
“Women’s Kinship Networks: Space, Genealogy, Text,” Panelist, Attending to Early Modern Women Annual Conference. Milwaukee, WI. June, 2012.
“Laywomen’s Sanctification of Domestic Space in the Later Middle Ages,” in session Periculoso: Women and the Negotiation of Devotion. Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting. St. Louis, MO. March, 2012.
“Mary, Martha, and Domestic Pieties across the Great Divide,” in panel “Society and the Sacred: Does 1500 Matter?” American Historical Association Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C. Jan, 2011.
“’Beguines’ and Beyond: Comparing Lay Religious Women’s Communities in Late-Medieval and Early Modern Europe” in session “Transnational Female Monasticism and Spirituality,” Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference. Montreal, Canada. October, 2010.
“Institutionalizing Lay Religious Women’s Communities,” in session “Rethinking Medieval Institutional History,” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. May, 2010.
“Spiritual Sisters: Clerical Bonds with Lay Religious Women in Late-Medieval Würzburg.” Center for Medieval Studies, University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN. April, 2009.
“Coming to Terms with Beguines: Nomenclature and Lay Religious Women in Würzburg.” Workshop (Order and Identity: Religious Women in the European Middle Ages), AGFEM - Research Circle on Medieval Religious Women in Europe, Dhaun, Germany. March, 2008.
“Historiography and the Monstrous Middle Ages,” in session "From Lateness to Waning to Crisis: The Burden of the Later Middle Ages,” American Historical Association, Washington, D.C. January, 2008.
“Regulating Martha: German Beguine Statutes and the Vita Activa,” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England; July, 2006.
“A Rule of One’s Own: Beguine Statutes in Medieval Germany,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI; May, 2006.
“Regulating Martha: Beguine Statutes in Germany (13th -16 th centuries),” Comparative Women’s History Workshop, University of Minnesota; March, 2006.