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Marci Sortor
Vice President for Institutional Planning
Associate Dean of the College
Associate Professor of History
1121 Park Street
Grinnell College
Grinnell, Iowa 50112 USA
1 (641) 269-3000
FAX 1 (641) 269-4473
Curriculum Vitae
Degrees and Education
Ph.D. University of California, San Diego 1988
Master of Arts University of California, San Diego 1984
Area of Specialization: European history
Bachelor of Arts University of California, San Diego 1980
Honors and High Distinction in history, major concentration Europe since 1800
Professional Experience
Vice President for Institutional Planning 2005-present
Associate Dean of the College Grinnell College 2002-present
Associate Professor Grinnell College History Department 1995-present
Assistant Professor Grinnell College History Department 1989-1995
Teaching and Research Fellow/Coordinator 1988/89
Stanford University History Department
History 1, 2, 3: Antiquity to the present
Teaching and Research Fellow 1987/88
Stanford University History Department
History 1, 2, 3: Antiquity to the present
Papers
"The Social and Economic Networks of Immigrants in a Late Medieval City," International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2003
"Living the Renaissance," Grinnell College. Grinnell Alumni College, May 29-31, 2002
"Immigration and Trade in Fifteenth-century France and Flanders: the case of Saint-Omer" at the Thirty-fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2-4, 2000
"Court Battles, Fist Fights, and Economic Change in Fifteenth-Century Flanders: The Ieperleet Affair," Grinnell College, Department of History Colloquium, Oct. 29, 1997.
"Outbreak: Plague in Medieval Europe and Its Repercussions," Grinnell College. Grinnell Alumni College, May 1997
"Market Systems in Late Medieval Flanders: The Unexpected as Case Study," Center for Medieval Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, February 1996
"A Canal and Two Cities: The Struggle for Market Position in Late Medieval Flanders" at the Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, March 1996 (by invitation)
"Economic Decline or Reorganization?" in "Was There an Economic Depression in the Later Middle Ages?" annual meeting of the American Historical Association, San Francisco, 1994
"A Late Medieval Market Network: Saint-Omer's Trade in Foodstuffs and the Market Network of Flanders and Artois," at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, 1992
Commentator for a panel on "Thirteenth-Century Empire," at the Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, 1992
"Urban-Rural Interdependence in Saint-Omer's Cloth Trade During the Late Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries," annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America; Madison, Wisconsin, 1989
Publications
"The Measure of Success: Evidence for Immigrant Networks in the Southern Low Countries, Saint-Omer 1413-1455," The Journal of Family History 30:2 (April 2005): 164-190
Review of Kathryn Lynch's Individuals, Families, and Communities in Europe, 1200-1800: The Urban Foundations of Western Society (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003), Renaissance Quarterly 57:3 (Fall 2004): 1078-80
The Other Side of Western Civilization vol. 1, 5th ed., edited by Marci Sortor and Stanley Chodorow, (Harcourt, 1999)
"The Ieperleet Affair: The Struggle for Market Position in Late Medieval Flanders," in Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 73:4 (October 1998), pp. 1068-1100.
Review of Alain Derville's L'économie française au moyen âge (The French Economy in the Middle Ages, 1995) in Speculum 73:3 (July 1998)
"Saint-Omer and Its Textile Trades in the Late Middle Ages: A Contribution to the "Protoindustrialization" Debate," American Historical Review 98:5 (1993) 1475-1499
The Other Side of Western Civilization, vol. 1, fourth edition, edited by Stanley Chodorow and Marci Sortor, (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992)
Grants
Mellon Research Travel.
Saint-Omer archival research. Amount: $1,000. June 2002
Non-competitive. Grant awarded 2001/2; travel postponed to June 2002.
Faculty Research Travel. Grinnell College June 2000
Saint-Omer archival research. Amount: $1,067.00.
NEH Focus Grant: "A Cross-cultural Invitation to the Study of History."
Total project: $90,953; NEH contribution: $25,000 8/1998-12/2000
Dissertation Fellowship University of California, San Diego 1985/86
Humanities grant University of California, San Diego 1981
Fellowships and Prizes
"Best article in urban history, 1993," Urban History Association 1994
Harris Fellowship, Grinnell College 1994/5
Helena Percas de Ponceti Research Scholar
Grinnell College 1992
Memberships
American Historical Society
Medieval Academy of America
Renaissance Society of America
Society for Low Countries Studies
College Service- Committees
Humanities Center Board (Spring 2002)
Personnel Board (2001)
Heath Professorship Committee (2001)
Teaching and Learning in the Humanities and Social Studies: Chair (2001)
Instructional Support Committee (2001)
Personnel Board Department Representative (2001)
Mellon Committee on Faculty Vitality (2001)
Personnel Committee (1997)
Minority Scholars in Residence Committee (1995/96-96/97)
Faculty-Trustee Relations (1995/96-96/97)
Library/Bookstore Committee (1995/96)
Watson Committee (1991/92, 1992/93, 1995/96)
Bowen Scholarship (1996)
Joe Wall Scholarship (1990/91-1994)
divisional representative (1991/92-1994)
Camery Prize (1989/90-91)
Rosenfield Committee (1991-1994)
Teacher Education Committee (1991-1993): Chair (1991/92)
History Department Newsletter (1991-1994)
Faculty House Committee (1991-1993)
College Service- Other
Chair: Humanities 140 (1995- 1998, 1998/99- present)
Chair: Teaching and Learning in the Humanities and Social Studies (2001)
Chair: Western European Studies Committee (2001, 2002 - present)
Chair: Department of History 1998/99-1999/2000
Director, NEH-funded project for the development of a new course: "Cultural Encounters in History" 1998-2000
Alumni College (1997)
Facilitator: Writing Seminar (Aug. 1996)
External Service
External reviewer of faculty applications for the Reed Parker Professional Development Grants and Carole Ann Ryan Award at Illinois College. Jan. 2004.
Moderator. FINE (First in Education) Foundation Annual Retreat. June 22-23, 2001.
Dissertation committee for Erin Jordan, '93, doctoral student in history at the University of Iowa Jan. 28, 2000
Prize Committee for the "Best Dissertation in Urban History Written in 1994/95" granted by the Urban History Association 1995
External reviewer of an article manuscript submitted to Speculum. 1994
Courses Taught
Medieval Europe
Renaissance and Reformation Europe
Rebels and Outlaws in Pre-Industrial Europe
Rebellion in Pre-Industrial Europe
Robin Hood
Distant Cities: Cities in Preindustrial Europe
Manor and Village in Pre-Industrial Europe
Manor and Village in Medieval England
The Best Life: Monasticism in Medieval Europe
Medieval and Renaissance Culture
Basic Issues in Europe from 1650 to the Present
Conceptions of Space and Place in Europe and the Mediterranean, 450-1650 (MAP seminar)
Hot Zones (tutorial)
Renaissance (tutorial)
Community Service
Session Member, First Presbyterian Church of Grinnell (2003- present)
Habitat for Humanity: Treasurer (1992/93)
Board of Directors (1991-1993)
Family Selection and Support Committee (1991/92)
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