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Vita:  Keith Harold Kendall

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Department of History                                                

Northern Michigan University, 208G Cohodas           

Marquette, MI   49855                                                                

kkendall@nmu.edu

(906) 227-1648                                                          

 

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Education

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Doctor of Philosophy in History:  Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York (2003)

Fields of Study:  High Medieval Europe, Early Medieval Europe, European Women’s History

Dissertation: “Sermons of Pope Innocent III: The ‘Moral Theology’ of a Pastor and Pope”

Master of Divinity:  Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois (1981)

Fields of Study:  History of Christianity, Biblical Studies, Theology

Bachelor of Arts:  Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota (1978)

Majors:  Anthropology and Greek Studies

 

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Teaching Experience

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Assistant Professor:  Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan (tenure-earning, 2003-present)

Visiting Assistant Professor:  Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York (term-appointment assistant professor, 2002-2003; part-time adjunct instructor, 2001-2002)

Visiting Instructor:  Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York (part-time adjunct, 2001-2002)

Teaching Associate and Teaching Assistant:  Syracuse University (1994-2001)

 

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Courses Taught

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HS 101, Western Civilization I (Northern Michigan University [see http://faculty.nmu.edu/kkendall/] and Le Moyne College)

HS 102, Western Civilization II (Northern Michigan University and Le Moyne College)

HS 200, Historical Thinking and Writing (Northern Michigan University)

HS 252, Arab-Islamic History (Northern Michigan University)

PL 270, World Religions (Northern Michigan University)

HS 295, Special Topics:  History of Christianity (Northern Michigan University)

HS 302, Ancient Rome (Northern Michigan University)

HS 304, European Middle Ages (Northern Michigan University)

HS 490, Junior/Senior Seminar (Northern Michigan University)

HS 498’s, Directed Studies in:  Beginning Latin, History of Christianity, World Religions, Early Church Fathers, Emergence of Europe (Early Modern Period) (all Northern Michigan University)

 

HST 103, World Civilizations I, Pre-History to 1789 (Le Moyne College)

HST 104, World Civilizations II, 1789-present (Le Moyne College)

 

HST 200, History of Religious Tolerance and Intolerance (Syracuse University; seminar)

HST 211, Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Syracuse University; see http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/khkendal/)

HST 212, Religion in Medieval and Reformation Europe (Syracuse University)

 

Courses interested in developing:  The Middle Ages as Shown in Modern Films; Heretics and Witches: Resisting Established Power; Alexander the Great

 

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Publications and Papers

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“‘Mute Dogs, Unable to Bark’: Innocent III’s Call to Combat Heresy,” in Medieval Church Law and the Origins of the Western Legal Tradition: A Tribute to Kenneth Pennington, ed. Wolfgang P. Müller and Mary E. Sommar (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2006), 170-78.  [an electronic off-print is available here]

Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, ed. Kenneth Pennington, Stanley Chodorow, and Keith H. Kendall (Città del Vaticano, 2001).

Papers presented:

“Great Lakes Shipping and the Depression: A Coal Passer’s View,” Sonderegger Symposium, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan (September 2006)

“Justifying Papal Activism: Innocent III and Cur Deus Homo,” The Third Annual Saint Anselm Conference, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire (April 2004)

“What Was He Thinking? The Man Who Began the Inquisition,” Northern Michigan University Psychology Colloquium (October 2003)

“Cut and Paste: Examples of Sermon-Making in the Thirteenth Century,” 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 2000).

Presider, “Dramatic Performance Pre- and Pro-Christianity,” 20th Annual Conference of the Medieval Association of the Midwest (September 2004).

Numerous articles in United Methodist denominational publications (1987-1997).

 

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Academic Service

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Northern Michigan University

First Aid Productions (student organization), faculty advisor (2006-present)

Admission and Academic Policy Committee, secretary (2004-present)

Faculty representative on Office of Admissions search committees (2005, 2006)

Department of History, Northern Michigan University

Website manager (2004-present)

Instructional Technology Committee (2003-present)

Bylaws Revision Ad Hoc Committee (2004-2006)

Department representative to the NMU School of Education Standards Revision Committee (2004)

Search committees

Panel Member:

“A Brief History of the Israeli/Arab Dilemma,” for The Future is in Our Hands, an Honors 212 Class Presentation (December 2006).

“Afghanistan: Despair and War to Hope and Democracy, A [sic] Historic Perspective,” sponsored by NMU’s Military Science Department (April 2005).

“The War in Iraq: 2005 and Beyond,” sponsored by First Presbyterian Church, Marquette, MI (December 2004).

“A Short History of Islam,” in PS 415, American Foreign Policy, NMU (November 2004).

“Islam and the West,” sponsored by NMU’s Political Science & Public Administration and History Departments, and the Northern Center for Lifelong Learning (February 2004).

 

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Honors and Awards

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Roscoe Martin research grant:  Maxwell School, Syracuse University (2000), for dissertation research in Munich, Germany

A.A. Heckman Scholar:  Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota (1999)

Outstanding Teaching Assistant award (university-wide award):  Syracuse University (1997)

Future Professoriate Program:  Syracuse University (1996-2002)

 

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Other Professional Experience

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Editor:  The United Methodist Publishing House, Nashville, Tennessee (1987-1994)

Editing national denominational education magazines and leading teacher-training seminars.

Pastor:  Rochester, Minnesota, and Winona, Minnesota (1981-1987)

 

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Professional Associations

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Phi Beta Kappa

Phi Alpha Theta

The Medieval Academy of America

The Medieval Association of the Midwest

International Medieval Sermon Studies Society

American Historical Association

American Catholic Historical Association

Minnesota Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church

 

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Languages Studied

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English, Latin, Spanish, German, Greek (classical, koine, and modern), Italian, French, Hebrew

 

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Personal

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Family heritage:  Dr. K in a kilt!  The tartan is Ancient Gunn, the Highland clan to which one of my ancestral families (Jamieson) belonged.  As an insight into Clan Gunn, its motto was "Aut pax aut bellum":  Either peace or war.

Summer activity:  Waterskiing, and after waterskiing.