Jennifer Welsh

Visiting Assistant Professor

Address: Maybank Hall 300A
Office Hours: By appointment and posted
Phone: 843.953. 2283
E-mail: welshjl@cofc.edu

Jennifer L. Welsh received her Ph.D. in History from Duke University in 2009. Her disseration is entitled "Mother, Matron, Matriarch:  Sanctity and Social Change in the Cult of St. Anne, 1450-1750." Dr. Welsh comes to the College of Charleston from Davidson College. She was awarded a 2010 NEH Summer Institute Grant, "The Silk Roads: Early Globalization and Chinese Cultural Identity."

Education

2009 - Ph.D., Duke University, Department of History
2004 - M.A., Duke University, Department of History
2000 - M.A., Cornell University, Medieval Studies Program

Research Interests

Social History, Cultural and Gender History, Lay Piety, and Intstitutional Religion

Courses Taught

Europe to 1800, Magic, Science, and Religion Since 1400, Early Medieval Jewish History.

Honors and Awards

• 2010 NEH Summer Institute Grant, "The Silk Roads: Early Globalization and Chinese Cultural Identity."
• Folger Institute/ Chiange Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Conference Attendance Grant, "Contact and Exchange: China and the West, Circa the Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, 2009.

Publications

"Saints in Pieces and relics in Print: German Heiltumsbucher and Pre-Reformation Piety," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Montreal, Canada, October 14th, 2010 (forthcoming)