Curriculum Vitae
Priscilla Watkins, Ph.D.
Professional History:
· Chairperson, History Department, Scarborough Senior High School
· Teaching Assistant, University of Houston
Courses: “The Flowering of the Middle Ages”
“The Twelfth-Century Renaissance”
· Teacher, Houston Independent School District
Courses Taught:
· Advanced Placement World History
· Advanced Placement European History (1450 - present)
· Advanced Placement/Houston Community College Dual-Credit United States History
Employment-Related Activities:
· Reader – Advanced Placement United States History Exam
· Chairperson – School District European History Textbook Selection Committee
· Chairperson – School District World History Textbook Selection Committee
· State of Texas-District 6 Representative Textbook Social Studies Review Panel-World
History
Education
· University of Houston History Doctor of Philosophy
· University of Texas-Austin History/Musicology Post-Baccalaureate/
Graduate Work
· Sam Houston State University Musicology Master of Arts
Bachelor of Music
Doctoral Dissertation: Caen and the Expansion of Ducal Power in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Normandy: The Formation of an Urban Community
Academic Awards and Grants:
· National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar –“Bach, the Baroque, and
the Enlightenment,” Germany
· National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar – “The Social History of
the Reformation,” George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
· National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar – “Medieval Origins of
Western Biography,” University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
· Teacher of the Year – Scarborough Senior High School
· Kestenberg Award: Outstanding Student in European History – University of Houston
Recent Conference Papers:
International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds
· ‘More Than Normans: Cultural Diversity and Interaction at Caen, 11th and 12th Centuries’
· ‘Preserving Its Patrimony: The Cases at Court of St.-Etienne, Caen’
· ‘Shaping a New Abbey while Shaping an Urban Environment: St. Etienne of Caen’
International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University
· ‘In Search of Caen’s Popular Culture during the 11th and 12th Centuries’
· ‘Caen: An Urban Trading Center in Normandy’
· ‘Lanfranc at Caen: Teaching by Example’
Charles Homer Haskins Society’s Nineteenth International Conference, Cornell University
· ‘Caen during the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries: Patterns of Interaction and Exchange’
Publications:
· New Catholic Encyclopedia (2001)–edited and contributed articles on Capetian kings.
· ‘Lanfranc at Caen: Teaching by Example,’ in Teaching and Learning in Northern Europe, 1000 –
1200 ed. by Sally N. Vaughn and Jay Rubenstein. Brepols Press. Turnhout, Belgium. 2006.
· St. Etienne of Caen - A Monastic Community in an Urban Environment: Its Social and Economic
Context, 1063-1204. Forthcoming.