DEPARTMENT
OF HISTORY
June L. Mecham
Assistant Professor (email)
287J ASH, 402-554-4826
Medieval History, women's history
(monasticism & spirituality, esp. German convents; late Middle Ages)
Dr. Mecham received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Kansas in 2004 under the direction of Lisa M. Bitel and Luis Corteguera. Her research interests include women’s history and gender history, especially female spirituality and monasticism, as well as the interaction between material culture and devotional practices, space and performance in late medieval Germany. Mecham serves as an assistant editor for the website MonasticMatrix, a scholarly resource for the study of women’s religious communities from 400-600. Her publications include “Breaking Old Habits: Recent Research on Women, Spirituality, and the Arts” History Compass (forthcoming, 2006) and “A Northern Jerusalem: the transformation of space at the convent of Wienhausen,” in Defining the Holy: Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2006). Her article, “Reading Between the Lines: compilation, variation, and the recovery of an authentic female voice in the Dornenkron prayer books from Wienhausen,” Journal of Medieval History 29 (2003): 109-128, was selected by the editors of History Compass as a notable recent article. In her spare time, Dr. Mecham enjoys reading, seeing movies, traveling, and walking the dog.
UNO Medieval/Renaissance Studies Minor
Frequently Taught Courses
· Medieval History Survey
· Women in Medieval and Renaissance Society
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