Chelsea Shields-Más
Job title:
Assistant Professor
Phone:
(516)628-3113
E-mail:
shieldsmasc@oldwestbury.eduBuilding:
New Academic Building
Room:
3027
Office hours:
- Spring 2020: Monday/Wednesday, 11:20am - 12:50pm
- By appointment
Courses taught:
- HI 2681: Introduction to European History, 1350 - Present
- HI 3003: Environments in World History I: Antiquity - 1500
- HI 3021: Europe in the Middle Ages
- HI 4062: Making History
- HI 5000/5900: Senior Seminar
- HI 6540: Topics in European History
Education:
- B.A. Medieval Studies, Mount Holyoke College, 2008
- M.A. Medieval Studies, The University of York, 2010
- Ph.D. History, The University of York, 2014
Research interests:
- Early medieval English (C9 - C11) diplomatic, law and administration, pre-Conquest English culture and prosopography, Northumbria in the eleventh century, the church in pre-Conquest England, early medieval hagiography, Old English literature, early medieval urban history, historiography, the horse in the ancient and medieval worlds, Anglo-Norman literature and culture, Roman Britain and Roman history and literature.
Select publications & presentations:
- Book: The Reeve in Early Medieval England (Boydell and Brewer Ltd.) forthcoming in the series Anglo-Saxon Studies
- Book Review of Writing, Kingship and Power in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Rory Naismith and David Woodman (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Speculum. Vol. 95, No. 1 (January 2020): 285 – 286.
- 2020 Conference papers:
- “The role of royal officials and royal authority in Archbishop Wulfstan’s ‘holy society’” at the 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 7 – 10.
- “Reeves, status and royal service” at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, July 6 – 9.
- 2019 Conference papers:
- “Equus, runcinus, palefridus, summarius: the horses of Domesday Book” at the Equine History Conference, Cal Poly Pomona, Nov. 13 – 15.
- “Politics and Rebellion in the North, 1066 – 1086” at the 38th Annual Haskins Society Conference, November 8 – 10.
- “The reeve vs. the sheriff: the fates of some Anglo-Saxon administrators after the Norman Conquest” at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, July 1 – 4.
- Paper: “The Making (or un-making) of Eadwig, r. 955 – 959: Bringing a neglected reign into focus”
- Round table talk: “’What’s in a Name?’ The Impact of the Norman Conquest on Anglo-Saxon personal names” at the 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9 – 12.
- Round table talks: “…my chief delight has always been in study, teaching, and writing: Engaging students in the study of the early medieval North Atlantic”
- “Beyond the Traditional Archive: Using Domesday as an Archive to Construct the Figure of the Reeve, 1066 - 1100” at IONA: Early Medieval Studies on the Islands of the North Atlantic, Simon Fraser University, April 10 – 13.
- Selected 2018 Conference papers:
- “Archbishop Wulfstan’s campaign for a ‘holy society’: the reeve as shepherd of the Anglo-Saxon people” at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 10 – 13.
- “The Reeve and Estate Management in Late Anglo-Saxon England” at the 24th Annual Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) Conference, Feb. 8 – 10.