1000 N. Duke St. #44
Durham, NC 27701
(805) 766-9782
Ashley L. Elrod
Education:
2011Summer Latin Institute, University of Virginia
Intensive Latin, four semesters equivalent
2010-presentDuke University, Durham, NC
PhD program in History, GPA: 4.0
Comprehensive examinations to be completed by April 2013
Major field: Early Modern Europe, Dr. Thomas Robisheaux
Minor field: Early Modern Mediterranean, Dr. John Martin
Outside field: Gender and the Visual, Dr. Jocelyn Olcott
2006-2010 University of California, Los Angeles,CA College of Letters and Science
B.A., History and German Language/Literature, summa cum laude, GPA: 3.935
2009 Georg-August Universität, Göttingen, Germany
Semester abroad
Research Interests:
Early modern Europe; sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Germany
Gender history
Visual culture
Work and household economy
Family, parenting, and childhood
Awards and Honors:
2012Summer Research Fellowship, Duke UniversityGraduate School
2012Pre-Dissertation Research Travel Award, Duke UniversityGraduate School
2011Summer Research Fellowship, Duke University History Department
2011John Snell Prize for best paper in European history at a southern institution, awarded by the European Section of the Southern Historical Association. Paper title: “‘Child-Witches’ in the Literature of Behavioral Reform: Reinterpreting witchcraft texts of early modern Germany”
2010-2014James B. Duke Fellowship, Graduate School of Duke University (competitive University-wide grant that supplements departmental stipends for four years)
2006-2010 National Merit Scholarship (competitive national scholarship based on academic merit)
2006-2010 Robert C. Byrd Scholarship (federally-funded scholarship based on academic merit)
2006-2010University of California, Los Angeles: Dean’s Honors
Papers Presented:
“The ‘She-Man’ at work: representations of gender transgression in sixteenth-century German print.”Presented at the Duke History Graduate Student Association annual conference, Durham, NC, March 16, 2012.
“‘Not educators or nurturers, but rather seducers and corrupters’: Schools and Behavioral Reform in the German Reformations.” Presented at the North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Durham, NC, February 4, 2012.
Professional Experience:
March 2012Planning Aid, “Visual Acuity and the Arts of Communication in Early Modern Germany,” triennial conference of the Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär (Conference Group for Interdisciplinary Early Modern German Studies), March 29-31, 2012
Spring 2012Assistant (Duke University) for “Magic, Religion and Science since1400,” taught by Thomas Robisheaux
Spring 2012Planning Committee, “(Un)Bound Worlds: Rethinking Boundaries and Borders,” Duke Graduate Student Conference, March 16, 2012
2011-2012Committee to Revise Graduate Student Teaching, Duke Graduate Student Association, Spring 2011 – Fall 2012
2008-2010 History Tutor, University of California, Los Angeles
Covel Peer Learning Labs
Languages:
English: native speaker
German: advanced command
Latin: intermediate (equivalent of 2 years at college level)
French: intermediate (2 years at college level)