Kathryne Beebe’s courses range from the early history of civilization to the digital age, with a concentration in the early to the late Middle Ages. She has taught at the University of Innsbruck, the University of Zürich, the University of North Texas, the University of Texas at Arlington, Southeast Missouri State University, and the University of Oxford.
Teaching Awards
University of North Texas, UNT President’s Council Teaching Award (2024) , an award established to recognize annually two full‑time faculty members for a record of teaching excellence at the University of North Texas over at least a five-year period. $3,000.
University of North Texas, UNT DSI CLEAR Outstanding Online Teacher & Course Award (2024), a university-wide award to recognize excellence in the design of online courses and the facilitation of the instructional experience using educational technology.
University of Texas at Arlington, College of Liberal Arts Teaching Award for Tenure Track Faculty (2017), an award for outstanding teaching among tenure-track professors in the College of Liberal Arts.
University of Texas at Arlington, College of Liberal Arts Dean’s Accolade Award (2017), an award commending faculty who have excelled in mentoring undergraduate or graduate students, through a research project in the area of scholarly expertise of faculty members.
Courses
The University of Innsbruck
Undergraduate
Lecture Course: VO Epochen: Pilgrimage Writing and Gender in Late-Medieval Europe and Beyond
Graduate
Graduate Seminar: UE Historische Hilfswissenschaften und Medienkunde: Introduction to (Gendered) Digital History.
The University of North Texas
Undergraduate
HIST 4218: Early Medieval Europe
HIST 4219: Late Medieval Europe
HIST 4221: Early Modern Europe and the World
HIST 4222: Medieval Travelers
HIST 4224: History of the Book
HIST 4260: Topics in History — Crusade & Jihad
Graduate
HIST 5040: Graduate Reading Colloquium: Debating Medieval Europe
HIST 5040: Graduate Reading Colloquium: Early Modern Europe and the World
HIST 5040: Graduate Reading Colloquium, The Holy Dead
HIST 5040: Graduate Reading Colloquium: Introduction to Digital History—The Global Middle Ages
HIST 5080: Graduate Seminar: Medieval Science & Technology
Invited Guest Teaching, University of Zürich
Co-Convener, Interdisciplinary Summer Course, Wissensorganisation im Mittelalter: Die Universitas / Knowledge Organization in the Middle Ages: The UniversityKompetenzzentrum Zürcher Mediävistik, Universität Zürich, Switzerland (August 30–September 3, 2022), with Dr. Anja-Silvia Goeing, Harvard University.
The University of Texas at Arlington
Undergraduate
History of Civilization (HIST 2301)
Medieval Europe I, c. 500 – c. 1000 (HIST 3376)
Medieval Europe II, c. 1000 – c. 1500 (HIST 3377)
Early Modern Europe, c. 1560 – c. 1715 (HIST 3383)
Medieval Crusade & Jihad (HIST 4330)
Medieval Travelers (HIST 4331)
History of the Book (HIST 4332)
Medieval Technology & Scientific Thought (HIST 3302) approved for Spring 2017
Graduate
Research Seminar in Ancient and Medieval History: “Saints, Cults, and the Idea of the Holy” (HIST 5330)
Revised Version: Research Seminar: Topics, “Saints, Cults, and the Idea of the Holy” (HIST 6365)
Reading Colloquium: Topics: “The Digital Medieval” (HIST 5365)
Southeast Missouri State University
Undergraduate
World Civilizations (WH105)
Early European Civilization, c. 10,000 B.C.E. – c. 1800 C.E. (EH101)
Modern European Civilization, c. 1500 – c. 1950 (EH103)
Medieval History, c. 500 – c. 1500 (EH362)
Early Modern Europe, c. 1500 – c. 1800 (EH364)
Topics in European History—Crusades (EH400)
British History to 1688 (EH416)
Pre-Norman Britain (GH301)
Supervisor for Undergraduate Senior Thesis, Senior Seminar in History (GH415)
Introduction to the Techniques of Local History (HP200)
The History of the Book (From Gutenberg to Google (UI456)
Graduate
Research Methods in History (GH610)
Practicum in Teaching History (GH680)
Seminar in European/World History—Pilgrimage and the Cult of the Saints (WH620)
The University of Oxford
Undergraduate
Lectures:
“Women” in series: General History II: 1000–1300
“Paradoxes of Pilgrimage in Late-Medieval Europe” in series: New Perspectives on Medieval History
Courses:
Approaches to History: Anthropology
The Crusades
Disciplines of History (Methods and Theory)
English Chivalry and the French War, c.1330–c.1400 (Optional Subject)
General History (European) II: 1000–1300
General History (European) V: 1122–1273
History of the British Isles II: 1042–1330
History of the British Isles III: 1330–1550
Wars of the Roses (Further Subject)
Supervisor for the Undergraduate Compulsory History Thesis
Tutor to Visiting Student and Study Abroad Programs at the University of Oxford:
Harris Manchester College
Hertford College
Mansfield College
St. Edmund Hall
The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
The Centre for Scholarship & Christianity in Oxford
The Oxford Programme for Undergraduate Studies
The Sarah Lawrence Programme at Wadham College, Oxford
The Washington International Studies Council
Courses taught for Visiting Student and Study Abroad Programs:
The Age of the Renaissance
European History: 1000–1300
The High Middle Ages: 900–1350
History of Women in the Middle Ages
The Intellectual History of the Church
Medieval Christian Thought
The Medieval Church
The Occult Sciences, c.500–c.1500
Sources in Medieval History
Tudor Britain
Graduate
Medieval Studies Research Methods Workshop, with Dr. Helen Swift, St. Hilda’s College
Early Modern Graduate Workshop, with Professor Lyndal Roper, Balliol College
Organizer of graduate “masterclasses” with visiting scholars Caroline Walker Bynum, Barbara Newman, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, and Roberta Gilchrist for the Master of Studies in Medieval Studies degree