DEBORAH VESS
Department of History and Geography
CBX 047
Georgia College & State University
Milledgeville, Georgia 31061
office: 478-445-3517
e-mail: deborah.vess[REMOVE THIS]@gcsu.edu

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. December 1991 University of North Texas in European History (medieval). Dissertation: Humanism in the Middle Ages: Peter Abailard and the Breakdown of Medieval Theology.

MA 1980 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in Philosophy.

BMUS 1985 Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, with highest distinction; major in Piano Performance.

BA 1979 Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, with Honors in Philosophy and High Distinction. Minor in music and Russian area studies.


AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:

1. Medieval history, with a concentration in the monastic reform movement of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the history of Christian thought from the Church fathers through the Reformation, Church history, and heretical movements of the Central Middle Ages.
2. Renaissance and Reformation history.
3. European intellectual and cultural history from the Middle Ages to the late nineteenth century.
4. History of Philosophy from ancient Greece to the late nineteenth century.
5. Integrative Studies.

EXPERIENCE:

Summer 2004-Present: Coordinator, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and Professor of History and Interdisciplinary Studies

Summer 2002-present Professor of History and Interdisciplinary Studies

Fall 2001-Spring 2002: Associate Professor of History and Interdisciplinary Studies

Fall 1997-Summer 2001: Director of Interdisciplinary Studies and Associate Professor of History, Georgia College & State University. International Coordinator for the College of Arts and Sciences. Tenured: Spring 2001

Duties include supervising course development and faculty teaching the nine IDST core courses, supervising the Liberal Studies major (B.G.S.), Women's Studies Minor, Black Studies Minor, Urban Studies Minor, International Studies Minor, coordinating faculty development seminars and IDST symposia, working with the Deans on student petitions/appeals, and numerous other issues that come before the Dean's office.

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