Education and Research Joseph K. Figliulo- Rosswurm Santa Barbara, CA. 93106 JoeFigs@gmail.com Dissertation: Popular politics and public justice in the later Middle Ages: Florence and its territory, c. 1280-1380 Fields: Society and law in medieval/renaissance Italy, Medieval Europe, the Roman Empire, the pre- modern Mediterranean world Committee: Carol Lansing (chair), Sharon Farmer, Thomas Kuehn, George W. Dameron Completion Date: June 2016 2010: M.A. (History),, Santa Barbara, CA 2008: B.A. (History and Classical Studies), summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Theta Chapter, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL Fellowships and Awards 2015: University of California Dissertation Completion Fellowship Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant, American Historical Association UCSB History Department Dissertation Research Travel Grant 2014: All- UC Economic History Research Grant Medieval Academy of America Dissertation Grant UCSB Graduate Division Dissertation Writing Grant 2013-14: Fulbright Scholarship Grant, Florence, Italy Esme Frost Award, UCSB History Department, for excellence in pre- modern European scholarship C. Warren Hollister Award, UCSB History Department, for research in medieval history 2013: UCSB Graduate Dean s Advancement Fellowship 2012: Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation Fellowship in European Studies 2010: Inter- Humanities Center (IHC), UC Santa Barbara, grant co- recipient with Stephanie Washburn, Margaret Thatcher s Garden 1
2009-12: University of California Santa Barbara History Department Teaching Assistantship 2008-09: University of Santa Barbara Medieval Studies Fellowship 2008: Phi Beta Kappa Senior Honors Thesis Award, Theta Chapter, Lake Forest College Conference Activity/Participation Panels Organized 2016: Bringing the City- State Back In: New Approaches to Renaissance Italian Governance, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 2016 (accepted) Papers Presented 2015: Out of vogue: Medieval Florentine society through the lens of historical materialism, one more time presented at the UCSB Medieval Studies Colloquium: Changes in Fashion in the Middle Ages, April 2015 In this city, the greatest discord is to be seen : Class, civil strife, and the law in later medieval Florence, presented at UCSB History Department Dissertation Chapter Workshop Truth and half- truths in a medieval courtroom: The case of Andrea son of Hugo, a wayward notary, presented at the Illinois Medieval Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO 2013: Badia Burning: The Spectacle of Violence in late medieval Tuscany presented at the Louisiana State University Graduate Student History conference, Baton Rouge, LA 2012: This is how dogs die : Community and denunciation in fourteenth- century Tuscany, presented at the California Medieval History Seminar, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 2007: From the Land of Tribulations : On some messianic components in Pan s Labyrinth, presented at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville (SIUE) Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Edwardsville, IL Teaching Experience University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA. Instructor: Summer 2013: Hist 115X: Medieval Scandals 2
Guest Lectures: 2015: Colonies, commodities, and crisis: Europe and the world, c. 1570-1821, Western Civilization, 1000-1700, 2.26.15 2013: The crusades in world history, or, this is why history matters: 1080-1500, World History, 1000-1700, 2.27.13 2012: The crusades in Mediterranean history, 1095-1291, History of Islam, 3.04.12 Teaching Assistant: Winter 2013: Hist 2B: World Civilization, 1000-1700 Fall 2012 Hist 5: History of the Present, 2001-2010 Spring 2012 Hist 4B: Western Civilization, 1000-1700 Winter 2012 Hist. 2A: World History: 8000 BCE- 1000 CE Fall 2011 Hist 5: History of the Present, 2001-2010 Winter 2010 Hist 4B: Western Civilization, 1000-1700 Fall 2009 Hist 2A World History: 8000 BCE- 1000 CE Other Professional Experience Summer 2012 Research Assistant, History Dept. Funding Committee Winter 2012 Research Assistant, medieval Romagnola and Latin translation, Professor Carol Lansing, April- July 2011 Freelance English instructor, Rome, Italy Fall 2008- Fall 2009 Research Assistant, Seventeenth- century Latin translation, Professor Sears McGee, Departmental/University Service Contributor, History Associates Newsletter Historia, UCSB, Fall 2014 Graduate Student Liaison, Prospective Job Search Committee, UCSB, Spring 2013 Graduate Student Liaison and Researcher, Awards and Prizes Review Committee, UCSB, Summer 2012-Winter 2013 Participant, Medieval Studies Program Brown Bag Discussion Series, 2011-12 Co-organizer, Medieval Studies Colloquium: Historicizing Fear in the Middle Ages, 2012 Representative, Graduate Student Association, UCSB, Winter 2009 Contributing Editor, Medieval Studies Program Newsletter, 2008 Teaching Areas World History, 1000-1700 3
Western Eurasian History, 500-1500 Roman History, ca. 300 BCE-565 CE Crises and Catastrophes in the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean, ca. 1200-1600 Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean History, ca. 31 BCE-1500 Italy in the Age of the Renaissance, 1300-1600 History of Medieval Christianity, 312-1500 Society and Law in Medieval Europe Scandals and Society in Medieval Europe, c. 800-1500 Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe Languages: Classical and Medieval Latin: Proficient reader and translator German: Intermediate reader French: Competent reader Italian: Proficient reader and translator, competent conversationalist and writer Spanish: Competent reader Professional/Affiliations American Historical Association Medieval Academy of America Society for Italian Historical Societies (SIHS) References Carol L. Lansing lansing@history.ucsb.edu Sharon Farmer Elizabeth DePalma- Digeser edepalma@history.ucsb.edu Edward English 4
/Medieval Studies Program eenglish@history.ucsb.edu 5