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Abigail Dowling

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Medieval European History


Ph.D. Candidate
B.A., University of Arizona, M.A., UC Santa Barbara

Office: HSSB 3227
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Advisor: Sharon Farmer

I am in my fifth year at UCSB and study thirteenth and fourteenth century aristocratic estates in northern France. My dissertation focuses on how aristocratic land was managed during environmental and economic crisis and how these changed land management techniques tie into centralization of power in France. (more...)

Dissertation Title

  • "Land and Natural Resource Management in Northern France, 1302-1329: The County of Artois under Countess Mahaut"

Teaching Fields

  • Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Landscape and Environment
  • Medieval France
  • Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe
  • World History

Courses Taught

  • Writing 2: Academic Writing
    Graduate Student Instructor, Fall 2011-Spring 2012
  • HIST 117E: Society and Nature in the Middle Ages
    Summer Session B, 2011

Teaching Assistantships

  • HIST 2A: World History: Prehistory to 1000 CE
    Fall 2008 with A. Barbieri-Low; Fall 2009 and 2010 with E. DePalma Digeser
  • HIST 2B: World History, 1000 CE to 1800 CE
    Winter 2009 with L. Roberts; Winter 2011 with F. Dutra
  • HIST 2C: World History, 1800 CE to present
    Spring 2009 with R. Bergstrom; Spring 2011 with P. Spickard
  • HIST 4B: Western Civilization, 1000 CE to 1800 CE
    Winter 2010 with C. Lansing; Spring 2010 with S. Tutino; Summer 2012 with S. Farmer

Publications

  • “Landscape of Luxury: Mahaut d’Artois' (1302-1329) Management and Use of the Park at Hesdin”
    in the collected volume for the “Rural Space" International Symposium. In preparation, expected Fall 2012.

Awards

  • University of California Santa Barbara Graduate Humanities Research Assistantship, 2012-13
  • Dick Cook Memorial Fellowship for Service, 2012
  • Albert and Elaine Borchard European Studies Fellowship, 2011-12
  • Graduate Division Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant, 2011-12
  • UCSB History Associates Fellowship, 2011

Professional Activities

  • Co-Lead TA, Department of History, 2012-13
  • Graduate Student Member, History Associates Board, 2011-
  • Organizer, 2012 UCSB Medieval Studies Graduate Student Colloquium
    "Fear and Loathing in the Middle Ages," April 28, 2012
  • Communications Liaison, History Graduate Student Association, 2011-12
  • Exhibit Catalogue Design, "Framing the Word: The Making of the Modern Bible, c. 1250-1611"
    An exhibit curated by Sharon Farmer and her Winter 2011 proseminar and hosted by UCSB Davidson Library Special Collections, May 16 - July 15, 2011

Presentations

  • “Landscape of Luxury: Mahaut d’Artois' (1302-1329) Management and Use of the Park at Hesdin”
    International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 2011
  • “Landscape of Luxury: Mahaut d’Artois' (1302-1329) Management and Use of the Park at Hesdin”
    “Rural Space" International Symposium, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference (ACMRC), University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  • “Backyard Farming in Fourteenth-Century France: Countess Mahaut of Artois’ (1302-1329) Strategies for Sustainable Estate Management”
    Western Association of Women Historians Annual Conference, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, April 2011
  • "La bibliothèque de Mahaut d’Artois (1302-29), le Livre des Merveilles de Marco Polo, et «les merveilles » du jardin d’Hesdin"
    Journée d'études: Les femmes, la culture et les arts, entre Moyen Âge et Renaissance, IRHiS, Université de Lille 3, Dec. 2010
  • "'Les gardins de ma dame’: Mahaut d'Artois’ Control and Use of the Ponds of the Park at Hesdin"
    UCSB Medieval Studies Colloquium: Women, Art and Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, Feb. 2010