KateWaggoner Karchner
Doctoral Candidate, History
3351 Heatherdowns Blvd.,Toledo, OH 43614
Email: Phone: +1-419-508-9231
EDUCATION
2013-PresentPhD, History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Dissertation Title: “Islam and the Church: The Roles of a Medieval Religious Polemic in Early Modern Europe”
Committee: Hussein Fancy (co-chair); Ryan Szpiech (co-chair); Paolo Squatriti (member); Thomas Burman (external reader, University of Notre Dame)
Certificate in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Michigan
2017 [awarded] Master of Arts, History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Earned in 2015 as part of PhD requirements
2013Bachelor of Arts, Denison University, Granville, Ohio
Summa cum Laude;Class Rank: 1 / 542
Major: History; Minor: Latin
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2015-presentGraduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan
Winter 2018: History 244 - The Arab-Israeli Conflict
Winter 2017: Honors 230 - The Histories of Human Experimentation
Winter 2016: History 211 - The Later Middle Ages
Fall 2015: History 103 - Michigan: An Introduction to History
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Medieval and Early Modern Europe, the Mediterranean, Christian-Muslim Relations,Religious Polemics, Intellectual History, Church History, Manuscript Reception and Transmission,Crusade and Jihad, Religious Conflict, Pilgrimage, Premodern Travel
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, and AWARDS(select)
University of Michigan
Spring/Summer/Fall 2017Rackham Humanities Research Candidacy Fellowship
2017Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant
2017Research/Study/Travel Grant, Department of History
2016Sidney Fine Teaching Partnership Award
2015Rackham Graduate Student Pre-candidacy Research Grant
2014-2015 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS)Academic Year Fellowship
2014Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Fellowship
2014, 2015Medieval and Early Modern Studies Summer Research Grant
Denison University
2013Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship
2013Michael and Amy Gordon Award in European History
2013A. Blair Knapp Award for commitment to liberal arts education
2012Allen T. Price History Scholarship Recipient
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND TALKS
June 2018“Church Reform and Islam in the Fifteenth Century: the study of a medievalpolemic on the Qur’an at the Council of Basel.” Presenter, Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis.(upcoming)
October 2017“Renaissance Reception of a Medieval Religious Polemic: comparing two manuscripts in the early European response to the Ottoman Empire.”Presenter, Texts and Contexts Conference, Center for Epigraphical Studies, Ohio State University,Columbus.
October 2017“Riccoldo Redux: The Early Modern Afterlife of a Medieval Polemical ‘Bestseller'.”Presenter,a paired presentation with Ryan Szpiech (RLL and Judaic Studies),Medieval Lunch Series, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
October 2017Commentator for Fragments: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient and Medieval Pasts Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Paper by Alison Vacca (University of Tennessee), “The conquest of Dabīl: Intercultural Transmission and Multilingual Textual Communities.”
December 2016“Riccoldo da Montecroce and the Reception of Anti-Islamic Polemics in Renaissance Europe.”Presenter, Forum on Research in Medieval Studies, University ofMichigan, Ann Arbor.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2015-2016Book Review Assistant,Comparative Studies in Society and History Journal
2014-2015Coordinator of the Forum on Research in Medieval Studies Workshop, an interdisciplinary workshop funded by the Rackham Graduate School
2015Creator and Organizer for faculty panel: “Teaching the Middle Ages to Undergraduates,” attended by faculty and graduate students, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2014-2015Coordinator of the Religion in Pre-modern Europe and Early America Workshop,aninterdisciplinary workshop funded by the Rackham Graduate School
RESEARCH LANGUAGES
Latin (advanced reading)
Arabic (intermediate)
Spanish (intermediate reading)
French (intermediate reading)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Historical Association
Medieval Academy of America
Phi Beta Kappa