教育
- Ph.D., Western Michigan University, Medieval History (2010)
- M.A., Western Michigan University, Medieval History (2002)
- B.S., University of Missouri-Columbia, History (Related-Field: Geography) (1999)
专业领域
- Medieval Mediterranean (Especially Italy)
- 拜占庭(分区)
- Latin Language and Paleography (Subfield)
课程
本科:
- 西方文明到1648年
- Western Civilization from 1648 to Present
- 到1500年的世界历史
- 1500年至今的世界历史
- 中世纪世界
- 中世纪早期. 300-c. 1100
- 中世纪晚期. 1100-c. 1400
- 中世纪英雄与恶棍
- Medieval Conquest and Colonization
- The History and Meaning of the Crusades
- The Great Plague and Late Medieval Society
- The Renaissance and Reformation
- Historians, Historiography and the Philosophy of History
- A variety of independent-study research courses with individual students (The Early Christian Church and Church Fathers, 加洛林王朝, 伊斯兰世界), 拉丁语I, 拉丁语言II
研究生:
- Topics in Medieval Mediterranean History
- An Age of Adversity: Europe in the 14th Century
Research Interests and Activities
Dr. Becker’s primary training is in medieval European history, with a specific focus on the Mediterranean world, while his research revolves around cultural interaction, 交换, colonization in the eastern Mediterranean. 他的文章发表在 The Ottomans and Europe: Travel, Encounter and Interaction from the Early Classical Period until the End of the 18th Century, ed. Seyfi Kenan (Istanbul: ISAM Yayınları, 2010); Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, ed. R.G. Dunphy (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010); 传送中的文本, eds. Tzvi Langermann & Robert Morrison (Pennsylvania State University Press, forthcoming); The Sea in World History: Exploration, Travel, Trade, ed. Stephen Stein (ABC-CLIO, forthcoming); and 历史中的日常生活 (ABC-CLIO, 2019). He has published book reviews in 视死如归, 中世纪评论, the scholarly book review websites H-HRE (神圣罗马帝国) H-Maritime, H-Italy. He has assisted colleagues in translation of their own work from Italian for the purpose of publication in English. He has also published Latin-to-English translations of 17th世纪 Consilia (or medical opinions) as part of the Collaborative Translation Project, Consilia of Paolo Zacchia (根据保罗·扎基亚， Quaestionum medico-legalium[纽伦堡:1725]).
He has presented his research at over 30 conferences on three continents, including nationally at annual meetings of the American Historical Association, 美国中世纪学院, 美国文艺复兴协会, International Congress on Medieval Studies, 塞瓦尼中世纪学术讨论会, Mid-America Medieval Association, internationally at conferences in Turkey, 葡萄牙, 撒丁岛, 和瑞典. He has also been an invited presenter at an “Interdisciplinary Workshop on Boundary Crossing & Cultural Exchange,” hosted by the Rackham 研究生 School of the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He is currently completing several articles and a monograph on Life and Local Administration on Genoese Chios, his current and future projects include the foreign perception and self-image of Genoa and the Genoese in the Middle Ages, medieval Genoa’s relationship with piracy, the role of translators and interpreters in the Italian colonies of the medieval eastern Mediterranean, as well as book-length projects on both slavery and piracy throughout world history.
其他
Dr. Becker has received recognition for his teaching and research on numerous occasions, both as a graduate student at Western Michigan University and as a tenure-track professor at KOK体育app官方下载软件官方手机版app下载. 在WMU, the 部门 of History awarded him a summer research grant on five occasions and elected him 研究生 Student Coordinator during the 2004-2005 academic year. He gained membership in the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society for academic excellence in graduate school, the 部门 of Foreign Languages awarded him the Mathilde Steckelberg Scholarship for Excellence in Latin. Beyond this, in 2005, he received an external fellowship from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to conduct yearlong research in Genoa, Italy. In 2008, he received the 部门 of History’s Doctoral Teaching Effectiveness Award, the All-University 研究生 Teaching Effectiveness Award, as well as a 研究生 College Dissertation Completion Fellowship.
在DSU, he has received research travel grants on numerous occasions from the 部门 of 社会科学与历史, 文理学院, 和大学. 外部, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected him to participate in its summer institute entitled “Networks and Knowledge: Synthesis and Innovation in the Muslim-Christian-Jewish Medieval Mediterranean,” which took place in Barcelona, 西班牙, 7月27, 2012. In 2016, the Mississippi Humanities Council named him Humanities Teacher of the Year.
