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10/7/2002
Contact: K.E. Schwab --
724-738-2199; e-mail: karl.schwab@sru.edu
PRINCETON’S MEDIEVAL STUDIES
DIRECTOR DR. WILLIAM JORDAN TO OPEN
SEMINAR SERIES AS SRU PREPARES NEW
EUROPEAN STUDIES MINOR
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Dr. William
Jordan, director of Princeton University’s Program in
Medieval Studies and an nationally recognized expert in the field,
will detail “The Making of Europe” when he addresses
the Slippery Rock University community as the first speaker in a
faculty seminar series planned as part of the university’s
development of a European studies minor.
The speaker program is funded by a
$174,524 U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant awarded SRU
last spring as part of its “European Studies Undergraduate
Program Development: Gateway to an International Curriculum”
undertaking. The address will be presented at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 31in
the Eisenberg Classroom Building Auditorium. A public reception is
planned for 7 to 9 p.m., Oct. 30 in SRU’s Russell Wright
Alumni House, and during his campus visit, Jordon will also meet
with faculty and students in medieval studies, administrators and
those involved with the Frederick Douglass Institute for Academic
Achievement and Human Development.
A Princeton medieval history
doctoral graduate, Jordan holds numerous fellowships from the
Woodrow Wilson, Ford, Danforth, Mellon and Rockefeller foundations.
He was elected Medieval Academy of America fellow in 1997 and
earlier this year received the Princeton’s Presidential
Distinguished Teaching Award.
His most recent books include
“Ideology and Royal Power in Medieval France: Kingship,
Crusades and the Jews,” published by Ashgate, and
“Europe in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1350,” published
by Penguin. He is editor-in-chief of the “Dictionary of the
Middle Ages,” “The Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia for
Students” and “The Middle Ages: A Watts Guide for
Children.” He is working on a biography of Jacques de
Thérines, a professor and Cistercian controversialist,
theologian and abbot of the 13th /14th
century, who was involved in political and religious crises of the
time.
SRU’s new minor is being
designed to broaden both international and on-campus studies and
travel opportunities related to Europe. The program, which is
expected to take two years to implement, includes revamping a
number of courses to allow for intensive study of Europe, including
its history, geography, philosophies and cultures.
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