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SUSANNA A. THROOP
ACADEMIC
EMPLOYMENT
416 Nottingham Lane
Collegeville, PA 19426
267.639.8224 (mobile)
610.933.7542 (home)
[email protected]
Associate Professor, History Department, 2009-present
Ursinus College, 601 E. Main Street, Collegeville, PA 19426
Director, Teaching and Learning Institute, 2014-2016
Ursinus College, 601 E. Main Street, Collegeville, PA 19426
Responsible for:
• Design, implementation, and advertisement of faculty programs, workshops,
special events/guest speakers, and grants (total annual budget $20,000).
• Management of the TLI Student Consultant Program (10-12 student employees).
• Institutional representation with external collaborators.
• Development of TLI resources, publications, and webpages.
Adjunct Professor of History and Humanities, 2006-2009
University of New Hampshire—Manchester
Tutor of Medieval History, 2004-2005
University of Edinburgh
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in History, University of Cambridge, 2006
Supervisor: Jonathan Riley-Smith
M.A. in Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, 2001
B.A. in History and English, Magna Cum Laude, Cornell University, 2000
Honors advisor: Paul R. Hyams
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Jonathan Riley-Smith and Susanna A. Throop, The Crusades, 4th edition (London:
Bloomsbury Publishing, under contract).
The Crusades: An Epitome (Leeds: Kismet Press, under agreement).
The Crusades and Visual Culture, ed. Elizabeth Lapina, April J. Morris, Susanna A.
Throop, and Laura Whatley (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2015).
Crusading as an Act of Vengeance, 1095-1216 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011)
Vengeance in the Middle Ages: Emotion, Religion and Feud, ed. Susanna A.
Throop and Paul R. Hyams (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010).
Articles &
chapters
“‘Not Cruelty But Piety’: Circumscribing European Crusader Violence,” The Cambridge
World History of Violence, Vol. 2, ed. Deborah Tor, Harriet Zurndorfer, and Richard W
Kaeuper (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, under contract).
“Mirrored Images: The Passion and the First Crusade in a Fourteenth-Century
Parisian Illuminated Manuscript (BnF MS fr. 352),” The Journal of Medieval
History 41/2 (2015): 184-207.
2/2017
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“Acts of Vengeance, Acts of Love: Crusading Violence in the Twelfth Century,”
in War and Literature, ed. Laura Ashe and Ian Patterson, Essays & Studies
(Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2014), 3-20.
“Christian Community and the Crusades: Religious Practices in the De
expugnatione Lyxbonensi,” Haskins Society Journal 24 (2012), 95-126.
“Zeal, Anger and Vengeance: The Emotional Rhetoric of Crusading,” in
Vengeance in the Middle Ages, ed. Throop and Hyams (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010),
177-201.
“Rules and Ritual on the Second Crusade,” Medieval Christianity in Practice,
ed. Miri Rubin (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009), 86-91.
“Combat and Conversation: Interfaith Dialogue in Twelfth-Century Crusading
Narratives,” Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and
Dialogue 13, no. 2 (2007), 310-25.
“Vengeance and the Crusades,” Crusades 5 (2006), 21-38.
Online
Essays for the Khan Academy:
 What were the crusades?
 How was crusading justified?
 The who, when, where of crusading
 The impact of the crusades
Pedagogical
Meredith Goldsmith, Megan Hanscom, Susanna Throop, and Codey Young,
“Growing Student-Faculty Partnerships at Ursinus College: A Brief History in
Dialogue,” International Journal for Students as Partners 1 (2017): forthcoming.
Contributor to José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson, Teaching Naked Techniques:
A Practical Guide to Designing Better Classes (San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons, 2017), 57.
Reviews
Review of Crusade and Christendom: Annotated Documents in Translation from Innocent III to
the Fall of Acre, 1187-1291, ed. Jessalynn Bird, Edward Peters, and James M. Powell,
Medieval Prosopography 30 (2015): 180-184.
Review of Sacred Plunder: Venice and the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade, by David M.
Perry, CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, September 2015.
Review of Popular Muslim Reactions to the Franks in the Levant, 1097-1291, by Alexander
Mallett, CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, August 2014.
Review of The Crusader States, by Malcolm Barber, Speculum 89, no. 1 (2014):
158-9.
Review of The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, c. 1070-1309, by Jonathan RileySmith, CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, April 2013.
Review of Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages, by Ruth Mazo
Karras, CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, November 2012.
Review of The First Crusade: The Call from the East, by Peter Frankopan, CHOICE:
Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, September 2012.
2/2017
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Review of The Deeds of the Franks and Other Jerusalem-Bound Pilgrims: The Earliest Chronicle
of the First Crusade, ed. and trans. Nirmal Dass, The Medieval Review 12.06.08.
Review of Knights in History and Legend, by Constance Brittain Bouchard, The Medieval
Review 10.06.31.
Review of Vengeance in Medieval Europe: A Reader, ed. Daniel L. Smail and Kelly Gibson,
The Medieval Review 10.03.15.
OTHER WORK
Crucifixion, Crusade, and Christian Violence, 1095-1240
IN PROGRESS
GRANTS
& AWARDS
Helen Ann Mins Robbins Lecturer, University of Rochester, 2017
Caltech-Huntington Humanities Collaboration Visiting Associate, 2017
Reacting Endeavor Challenge Grant ($7500), Reacting to the Past Consortium, 2016
Faculty Innovator Grant for Course Design, U-Imagine Center, Ursinus College, 2016
Laughlin Award for Professional Achievement, Ursinus College, 2015
Mellon TLI Grants for Pedagogical Innovation, Ursinus College, 2011-12, 2013
Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Grant, Ursinus College, 2013
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Grant, American Historical Association, 2012
Denis Bethell Essay Prize, Charles Homer Haskins Society, 2012
Gates Cambridge Scholarship, 2001-2005
Travel Grant, Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, 2004
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, 2000-2001
Merrill Presidential Scholar, Cornell University, 2000
George S. Lustig Prize, Department of History, Cornell University, 2000
Anne MacIntyre Litchfield Prize, Department of History, Cornell University, 2000
Cornelius W. DeKiewiet Prize, Department of History, Cornell University, 1999
INVITED
TALKS
“Narratives of Crucifixion, Narratives of Crusade: The Construction of Christian
Violence in First Crusade Accounts”
Violence + Art: Reflections on the Premodern, Caltech, April 28, 2017
“‘Not Cruelty But Piety’? The Difficulties of Assessing “Crusading Violence” and
Why It Matters”
Caltech, April-May 2017 (date TBD)
“Christus victor: Crucifixion and Christian Violence in Narratives of the First Crusade”
Helen Ann Mins Robbins Lecture, University of Rochester, March 20, 2017
“Words and Deeds: Vengeance, Emotion, and the Crusades”
SUNY Binghamton, October 1, 2014
“Christian Vengeance and the Crusades”
Fordham University, April 20, 2012
“Languages of Violence: Vengeance and the Twelfth-Century Crusades”
Ursinus College, June 30, 2010
“Vengeance and the Crusades: Justice, Religion and Holy War”
Cornell University, September 22, 2006
“Vengeance and the Crusades in the Twelfth-Century West”
The Denys Hay Seminar, University of Edinburgh, February 22, 2005
2/2017
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“Vengeance and the Crusades”
Medieval Studies Research Seminar, University of St. Andrew, November 29, 2004
“The Idea of Crusading as Vengeance in the Twelfth Century”
The Crusades and the Latin East Seminar
Institute of Historical Research, London/Cambridge, May 24, 2004
CONFERENCE
PAPERS
“Defining the Self through Others: Crucifixion in the Narrative Accounts of the First
Crusade”
International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 5, 2017
“‘Signs of Christ’: Reading the Crucifixion in the Narrative Accounts of the First
Crusade”
Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, University of Toronto, April 6, 2017
“Mirrored Images: The Passion and the First Crusade in a Fourteenth-Century Parisian
Illuminated Manuscript (BnF fr. 352)”
Third International Symposium on Crusade Studies, SLU, February 28, 2014
“‘Ira autem per zelum...virtus est’: Righteous anger, vengeance and the crusades”
48th International Medieval Congress, WMU, May 9, 2013
Discussant, “Teaching the Middle Ages to Undergraduates”
48th International Medieval Congress, WMU, May 10, 2013
“Emotion in Motion: The Rhetoric of Zeal and the Crusades”
127th Meeting of the American Historical Association, New Orleans, January 5, 2013
“Christian Community and the Crusades: Religious Practices, Monastic Reform and
Lay Piety in the De expugnatione Lyxbonensi”
47th International Medieval Congress, WMU, May 11, 2012
Chair, "Medievalists and Teaching World History: What’s Important and Why"
47th International Medieval Congress, WMU, May 11, 2012
“Christian Society on the Second Crusade: Religious Practices in the
De expugnatione Lyxbonensi”
Charles Homer Haskins Society Conference, Boston College, November 6, 2011
“Crusading as Vengeance and the Motif of the Crucifixion”
46th International Medieval Congress, WMU, May 14, 2011
Chair, "History, Society, and the Sacred in the Middle Ages, Part 1: Thinking about the
City"
125th Meeting of the American Historical Association, Boston, January 8, 2011
“Crusading as an Act of Vengeance and the Study of Ideas of Crusading”
Charles Homer Haskins Society Conference, Boston College, November 5, 2010
“The Crucifixion and the Idea of Crusading as an Act of Vengeance”
Texas Medievalist Association Annual Conference, SMU, September 25, 2010
“Why Vengeance? The Nature of Islamic ‘Injuries’ and the Ideology of Crusading as
Vengeance in the Twelfth Century”
Crusades: Medieval Worlds in Conflict, SLU, February 18, 2006
2/2017
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“Zeal, Anger and Vengeance: The Emotional Rhetoric of Crusading”
International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 14, 2005
“Vengeance and the Crusades: Reconstructing Ideological Discourse from
Medieval Texts”
Silence of the Sources: From Sources to Discourses, University of Glasgow, May 21, 2005
TEACHING-RELATED “Teaching the Crusades in the Age of the Alt-Right”
CONFERENCE
Seminar co-led with Matthew Gabriele and David Perry
PRESENTATIONS
Teaching History Conference at UC Berkeley, May 5-6, 2017
“Teaching the Middle Ages with Role-Playing: Reacting to the Past’s ‘The Second
Crusade: The War Council at Acre, 1148’”
Third Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, SLU, June 14-18, 2015
“Introduction to Reacting to the Past,” in ROUNDTABLE: Teaching the Crusades
with Role-Playing: Reacting to the Past’s “The Second Crusade: The War Council at
Acre, 1148”
Third International Symposium on Crusade Studies, SLU, February 28, 2014
Participant, Thirteenth Annual Reacting to the Past Faculty Institute
Barnard College, June 5-9, 2013
Round-Table Discussant, “Teaching the Middle Ages to Undergraduates”
48th International Medieval Congress, WMU, May 10, 2013
Chair, "Medievalists and Teaching World History: What’s Important and Why"
47th International Medieval Congress, WMU, May 11, 2012
COURSES
Ursinus College
CIE 100 The Common Intellectual Experience (First-Year Seminar, Fall Semester)
CIE 200 The Common Intellectual Experience (First-Year Seminar, Spring Semester)
HIST 199 Reacting to the Past: The Tumultuous Reign of Henry VIII
HIST 201 The “Dark Ages”? Crisis and Creativity in Medieval Europe, 768-1500 C.E.
ENGL/HIST 212 Bears Make History: Digital Entrepreneurship in the Archives and Online
HIST 261 The Pre-Modern World
HIST 265 Heirs of Rome? The Mediterranean World, 284-840 C.E.
HIST/GWMS 301 Knights and Chivalry: Violence, Gender, and Religion
HIST/GWMS 302 Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Europe
HIST 363 Conflict, Tolerance, and Identity: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Middle Ages
HIST 364 The Crusades
HIST 401W Seminar in European History: The Black Death
UNH-Manchester HIST 421 World History to 1600
HIST 436 Western Civilization II
HIST 585 Venture of Islam: 6th-15th Centuries
HIST 595 Explorations: Charlemagne—Man & Myth
HIST 595/HUMA 592 Explorations: Crusades and Crusaders
HIST 595/HUMA 592 Explorations: Knights in Shining Armor and Damsels in Distress?
HIST 600/HUMA 630 Development of Early Christianity
2/2017
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ADDITIONAL
CURRICULAR
DEVELOPMENT
History Department
Creator/Director, History Skills Workshops and History Help Room, 2010-present
CIE: The Common Intellectual Experience
(First-Year Seminar Program for all Undergraduates)
• “Imagining the Human and the Divine in the European Renaissance” in Spring 2013
(co-wrote the proposal, co-wrote the teaching guide, co-created the PowerPoint).
• “Global Thinning” in Summer 2012 (co-wrote the proposal).
• “Fun Home” in Spring 2011 (co-wrote the teaching guide).
• “Abelard and Heloise” in Fall 2010 (wrote the proposal, wrote the teaching
guide, created two accompanying PowerPoints).
STUDENT
RESEARCH
* Denotes student
gave a paper at an
undergraduate conference.
“The Anglo-Norman Question: How the Normans Became English”
Timothy Winters (’15), History 400W (Independent Research), Fall 2015
“The Komnenian Empire and the Latin East: Continuity and Innovation in
Byzantine Policy and Ideology”
Andrew Williams (’13), Honors Research, 2012-13
“The Polemic of the Investiture Controversy: The Desire for Unity as a Cause
of Conflict”
*Nathan Schmalhofer (’12), Summer Fellow 2011, Distinguished Honors Research
2011-12
“God’s Cartography: Religious Morality and Mercantile Forces in Medieval
Islamic Maps and Texts”
*Lindsay Hogan (’12), Summer Fellow 2011, Honors Research 2011-12
“Comparative Analysis of Medieval Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Proofs for the
Existence of God”
Kevin Kozlowski (’12), History 400W (Independent Research), Spring 2012
“A Christian King: King Arthur and the Development of Christian British Identity in
the Middle Ages”
*Erik Derr (’11), Summer Fellow 2010, Distinguished Honors Research 2010-11
“Mitigating Religious Identity and Secular Life in Poetry of Andalusian
Courtly Jews”
*Colleen Vineer (’11), Honors Research, 2010-11
“Adoration and Revulsion: The Italian Obsession with Byzantium”
Naomi Sapiro (’10), History 400W (Independent Research), Spring 2010
STUDENT
PUBLICATIONS
COLLEGE SERVICE
Advising
2/2017
Katherine Pierpont, “The Public Body: Sumptuary Legislation, Clothing, and
Prostitution in Medieval Europe,” Proto: An Undergraduate Humanities Journal 4
(2014).
First-Year Student Advising Program, 2010-present
History Major Student Advising, 2009-present
Faculty Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta, 2010-15
• Co-Organizer, Phi Alpha Theta Pennsylvania East Regional Conference, 2015
Supervisor, History Department Student Assistant, 2013-14
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Committees
Member, Working Group on the Digital Liberal Arts, 2016-present
Member, Faculty Governance Committee, 2015-present
Member, Working Group on Faculty Evaluation of Teaching, Independent Work with
Students, and Advising, 2013-15
Team Member, Council of Independent Colleges’ Information Fluency in the
Disciplines Workshop, 2015
Member, TLI Learning Circle: Presumed Incompetent, Fall 2014
Member, CIE/Teagle Working Group on Models for Comprehensive Curricular
Change in CIE, 2013-15
Member, TLI Learning Circle: Engaging Underrepresented Students, 2013-14
Member, Faculty Development Committee, Spring 2013
Co-Chair, Faculty Diversity Committee, 2010-13
• Implementation of Strategic Plan initiatives, including the creation of a new
campus-wide Ursinus Diversity Committee.
• Creation of a Diversity Resources LibGuide (research guide).
• Design of diversity webpages.
• Organization of multiple events, discussions, and information sessions.
Webpages
History Department Web Point Person, 2010-16
• Management of Facebook and LinkedIn groups for majors and alumni.
• Creation and maintenance of new department webpages, 2014-16.
• Co-design and delivery of an e-survey to alumni, 2014.
Job searches
East Asian History, 2016-17
American Studies/Africana and African-American Studies, 2015-16
Early American History, 2015-16
Medieval English and Digital Humanities, 2014-15
Modern American, African-American, and African History, 2011-12
SERVICE TO
THE PROFESSION
LANGUAGES
READ
In order of
descending
proficiency.
MEMBERSHIPS
2/2017
Editorial Board, PROTO: An Undergraduate Humanities Journal, 2010-present
Medieval Academy of America mentor for graduate students, 2012-present
Session Organizer, Session 1315, IMC, Leeds, 2017
Reviewer, Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
Reviewer, Oxford University Press, 2014
Session Organizer, “Medieval Culture and the Crusades 1-3,” AHA, 2013
External Ph.D. Examiner, University of Cincinnati, Dept. of History, 2011-12
Reviewer, Ex Historia, 2011
Reviewer, Medieval Encounters, 2011
Consultant, BBC, 2011
Reviewer, Brepols Publishers, 2010
Session Organizer, Session 1521, IMC, Leeds, 2005
Latin
Modern French
Old French
Occitan
Modern German
American Historical Association
Charles Homer Haskins Society
Delaware Valley Medievalists Association
Medieval Academy of America
Phi Alpha Theta
Phi Beta Kappa
Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
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REFERENCES
S. Ross Doughty, Professor and Chair, History Department
Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA 19426
610.409.3229
[email protected]
April Edwards, Interim Dean/Vice-President of Academic Affairs
Ursinus College, 601 E. Main Street, Collegeville, PA 19426
610.409.3650
[email protected]
Norman Housley, Professor Emeritus, Department of History
University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
01162 522 801
[email protected]
Paul Hyams, Professor Emeritus, Department of History
Cornell University, 450 McGraw Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853
01865 427325
[email protected]
Richard W. Kaeuper, Professor, Department of History
University of Rochester, 364 Rush Rhees Library, Rochester, NY 14627
585.275.7878
[email protected]
Jay Rubenstein, Professor, Department of History
The University of Tennessee, 915 Volunteer Blvd, Knoxville, TN 37996-4065
865.974.9866
[email protected]
2/2017
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