Jeri L. McIntosh
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Field Specialties
Late Medieval England; Tudor/Stuart Britain; Women and Gender in Late Medieval Europe
Courses 2005-2008
Undergraduate
- History 241/247 Development of Western Civilization to 1750
- History 330 History of England to 1640
- History 470 Topics Seminar in British History
- History 430 History of Women in Europe
Graduate
- History 531/631:
- The Family and the State in Late Medieval England and Europe
- English Reformations - The Field
- Material Culture in Western Europe, 1400-1600
Teaching Philosophy
In her undergraduate and graduate courses, Prof. McIntosh emphasizes the importance of recent intellectual trends and how they have shaped the writing of history. Her teaching aims provide the historiographical background necessary to understanding how and why historical narratives of the past take the form they do in modern historiography.
Graduate Training
Prof. McIntosh has worked with students whose master's and doctor's theses focus on families, gender and religion in Britain in the medieval and early modern periods. She encourages students to take full advantage of the resources available through the Marco Institute in order to situate their work within an interdisciplinary context.
Her dissertation on the pre-accession households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor won one of six Gutenberg-e prizes awarded by the American Historical Association for 2003. The prize was awarded to the six best dissertations on Women and Gender for the years of 2000-2003. The prize included a Mellon fellowship and a publishing contract with Columbia University Press.
Research Interest
Her research centers on late medieval England, 1400-1600. She is particularly interested in the intersection between the domestic politics of the household and the patriarchal power of the late medieval state. Additionally, her work explores the relationship between property ownership, material culture and political status. How these institutions were legally defined and circumscribed are also at issue in her work. Late medieval conceptions of gender and how women were able (or not) to exploit loopholes in the medieval patriarchal political and legal system feature prominently in her work.
Professor McIntosh presents papers on a regular basis at annual professional conferences and is invited to present papers at special symposia overseas
Recent Publications
- From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Pre-accession households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 was published by Columbia University Press in 2008
Recent Conference Papers
- October 2007, Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Minneapolis, MN; Panel: "Mary Tudor as Princess and Queen"; Paper Title: "Sovereign Princess: Mary Tudor’s Pre-accession Political Career as Head of Household
- September 2007, Invited Speaker: "‘Partners Both in Throne and Grave’: Mary and Elizabeth Tudor", Alton, U.K. Sponsor: University of Southampton. Paper Title: "Mary’s courtly humanist education"
- October 2006, Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Panel: "The Religion of Mary Tudor: Personnel, Policies and Persecution" Sponsor: British Academy John Foxe Project
Organizer: Thomas S. Freeman; Paper Title: Princess Mary as Episcopal Head of Household, 1516-1553
- September 2006 Invited Speaker: Mary Tudor Symposium - Hampton Court Palace, U. K.,; Untitled Panel chaired by Susan Doran and including fellow presenter Jonathan Edwards, organized by Thomas Freeman; Paper Title: "Princess Mary's Political Household and her Aborted Flight in 1550"
Contact Information
Jeri L. McIntosh
Assistant Professor of History
915 Volunteer Boulevard
6th Floor, Dunford Hall
Knoxville, TN 37996-4065
Office: (865) 974-7081
Fax: (865) 974-3915
E-mail: jmcintos@utk.edu