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:

1997-present: Georgia College & State University

Positions held: Professor of History and Interdisciplinary Studies (promoted in 2002); Coordinator of Institutional Effecitveness for Academic Affairs (since 2008); Coordinator, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (since 2004), Fall 2001-Spring 2002: Director of Interdisciplinary Studies and Associate Professor of History (1997-2001; tenured 2001); International Coordinator for the College of Arts and Sciences (1997-2001).

Duties as Coordinator of Institutional Effectiveness for Academic Affairs include helping deans, department chairs, and faculty develop assessment instruments and methods; facilitating the approval process for schools and departments; recovering and archiving assessment data; assisting the Director of Institutional Effectiveness with accreditation tasks, including the GCSU QEP.

Duties as Coordinator of CETL include organizing faculty development workshops, providing training in assessment, technology, and other teaching and learning resources; organizing faculty learning communities; providing consultations to faculty and departments on the evaluation of teaching effectiveness and assessment of student learning outcomes.

Duties as Director of IDST included 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.

Duties as International Coordinator for Arts and Sciences included organizing symposia, providing information to faculty on USG opportunities to participate in study abroad programs, and consulting with faculty and departments to provide resources to internationalize the curriculum.

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