assumption college worcester

February 2011
CURRICULUM VITAE
BAILEY K. YOUNG
Address:
7318 N.County Rd. 1380E
Charleston, IL 61920
tel. (217) 348-1186
Current
Position:
Professor of History,
Eastern Illinois University (2001-)
Dept. of History
Eastern Illinois U.
Coleman Hall 334
Charleston, IL 61920
tel. (217) 581-6354
[email protected]
Education and Professional Background:
A.B. 1966
Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Cum Laude, Highest Honors in English, Phi Beta Kappa
M.A. 1969
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Ford Foundation Doctoral Fellowship (1967-70)
Ph.D. 1975
University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation: Merovingian Funeral Rites and the Evolution of
Christianity: An Historical Interpretation of Archaeological
Evidence (Directors, Ed. Peters, History; B. Wailes, Anthropology;
W. McDermott, Classics)
1975-1981 Attended the seminar of Patrick Périn: Techniques de
fouilles et archéologie mérovingienne, Ecole pratique des Hautes
Etudes, IV Section, Paris-Sorbonne
Previous Career
1977-1981
Research Associate the CNRS (Centre National de
la Recherche Scientifique, Paris) to work on early
medieval
burial practices and mentalities
1981-86
Assistant associé (Assistant professor), Universities
of Paris XII (Créteil)and Lille III, France
1988-89
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1989-94
Asst., then Associate Professor of History,
Assumption College, Worcester, Mass.
1994Eastern Illinois University: Asst. Professor of
History, EIU; Associate Professor(1996)
A&C awards: 2009-10 (Balanced); 2006-7 (Balanced); 2005-6 (Service); 2004-5 (Research)
2002-3 (Service); 2000-1 (Balanced); 1998-9 (Research); 1996-7 (Balanced)
Consulting Editor, Journal of Late Antiquity, editor, Ralph Mathiesen UIUC (Johns Hopkins
Press), 2007-Present
Current project
Co-organizer, with Michelle Hobart (Cooper Union, NY) of a series of two panels on the theme
Comparative Perspectives from Recent Research on Castles and Countryside in Medieval
Italy, France and Belgium, for the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies to be held
May 12-15, 2011 at Kalamazoo, Michigan. Participants include Italian, French and Belgian
archaeologists.
Research Awards
*Faculty Research Grant, “Fréderic Moreau and the Development of
Merovingian Archaeology” Summer 2000
Faculty Research Grant, “Funerary Archaeology” Summer 1995
Awards from French government to help travel to France for
scholarly presentations: 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2007
CAH travel awards: most years 1995-2010
Video: “Summer Archaeology Program in Belgium” produced with CATS, using material
filmed Summer 2010 and in-studio interviews with two EIU student participants; co-directors Pete
Grant (CATS) and B.K. Young; posted on YouTube Feb 23, 2011.
Selected SERVICE
UNIVERSITY
Faculty Senate-- term 1999-2002. Chair of sub-committee on Faculty-Staff relations.
Center for the Humanities: Service on the Curriculum Committee (2010Phi Beta Kappa --Vice-President of the Phi Beta Kappa Association of East Central Illinois,
2000-2003. Co-Ordinator, Provost’s Task Force to Obtain a Phi Beta Charter, 2003present, and delegate to national PBK Convention (2003, 2006; 2009); responsible for setting up
the Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship for Study Abroad with the EIU Foundation (December 2006);
proposed redefinition as the Frank McCormick PBK Scholarship for Study Abroad (revisions
approved by Foundation Board October 2009); with Andy McNitt and Diane Hoadley conducted
successful fund-raising campaign in May-June 2009 which vested the fund. Appointed to
Regional Nominating Committee of PBK (Fall 2008); proposed nomination of Andy McNitt for
Senator of PBK; he was elected to a six-year term in October 2009.
Faculty Development-- Named by Provost to ad hoc Committee for recommendations on Faculty
Development (2002-2004); member Faculty Development Advisory Committee (2004-2006).
Served on the Mini-Grant subcommittee. Served as Faculty Mentor (since 2005).
Study Abroad –Archaeology in Belgium Summer Program (in partnership with the Université
Catholique de Louvain), originally created for Honors students (1998), was revised in 2001 to
include non-Honors and graduate students as well as Honors. Focused on the excavation of
Walhain Castle, it has been held most summers since 1998, attracting guest students from more
than a dozen universities colleges along with native EIU students.
Medieval Studies Committee – founding member of the interdisciplinary group which proposed
and designed the Medieval Studies Minor (approved 2003). Co-Chair: 2004-2005. New term as
Chair, January 2007-. Organized panels, lectures 2003-2010; organizing committee to prepare
Illinois Medieval Association at EIU, Feb 23-4, 2007. January 2010: proposed enlargement of
Minor to include Late Antiquity and Renaissance.
Medieval Studies Committee Public Presentations
* Mickey Abel, (Assoc Prof of Art History,U of North Texas) “To Sea and Be Seen: Land
Reclamation, Canal Navigation and the Strategic Building Program at Maillezais Abbey” Nov 4,
2010
* Martin Camargo (Professor of English, UIUC) “Special Delivery: Performing Model Letters in
Medieval English Classrooms” March 9, at 4:00 p.m.
* Archaeology and New Technologies: the Gothic Cathedral of Auxerre”, presentation by Harry
Titus, Professor of Art History, Wake Forest University, January 28, 2009
*“ Monsters Before Frankenstein: the Medieval Heritage”. (Nov 2, 2005), interdisciplinary panel
in conjunction the Booth Library Exhibit: Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature
(organizer/presider)
*Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Lecture : “Sainted Women of the Dark Ages and Misbehaving
Mérovingiennes: Grappling with Gender in Early Medieval Europe”, by Danuta Shanzer,
Professor of Classics, University of Illinois-Urbana, October 25, 2005. (Organizer/presider)
*"How to Dig a Medieval Castle: Report from EIU's Belgian Trenches" presentation in Booth
Library Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Committee, on April 20, 2005
* “Women of Power, Women of Culture: Elizabeth’s Medieval Heritage”, a four-professor panel
(Francine Mc-Gregor, Bonnie Irwin & Tim Shonk, English Dept and BK Young, History) held on
March 11, 2004, as part of the Elizabeth: Ruler and Legend program held in conjunction with
the Booth Library Exhibit. (Organizer/presider/presenter)
*“The Luttrell Psalter: Multi-Media in the Middle Ages”, a panel of four EIU medievalists
presented in the Booth Library Lecture Series, April 8, 2003 (organizer/presider)
Achievement and Contribution Award Selection Committee: Fall 2002, Fall 2006
Committee on Faculty Research; began a three-year term 2010-2013
EIU Reads: volunteer discussion leader (August 2007-08-09-10- 11)
DEPARTMENT/COLLEGE
History Department Personnel Committee (2000-2003, Chair 2002- 2003;
2007-2010; Chair 2009-2010)
* Social Committee (Chair 2001-2004, member through present).
* Curriculum Committee (2001-present)
* World History Colloquium Organizer (2008-Present)
Search Committees: Ancient/Mediterranean History (2004-5; 2008-9); Latin American (2000-1);
Colonial History (1998-9); ACF advisory (2005-6)
Field Director, Five-Mile House Excavations in conjunction with Dr. NP Small’s Material
Culture class in the Historical Administration M.A. Program (2000-2002)
History Department Scholarship for Study Abroad: new scholarship fund set up with EIU
Foundation in April, 2006; revised as Cathy Hunter Memorial Scholarship for Study Abroad,
November 2009.
Humanities Center: Curriculum subcommittee (2010-2011)
Dean’s Advisory Committee, College of Arts and Humanities (2003-2004)
Organizer: CAH/COS Joint Symposium: TVA Excavations and their Impact on Archaeology in
America (Co-Sponsors, Departments of Anthropology, Geology and History) March 29, 2006.
Selected RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES
(A) Publications in preparation (2011)
“The Built Environment of Walhain Castle, Belgium)” article co-authored with
William Woods, Laurent Verslype, Ann Defgnée for a special issue
of Geomorphology
The Excavations of Psalmodi Abbey (Gard, France): collaborating
with Prof Brooks Stoddard (University of Southern Maine) on the
final report of the 1974-1989 excavations in which I took part,
notably for the Funerary and Statigraphy sections.
“Has Anyone Seen the Barbarians? Remarks on the Missing Archaeology of the Visigoths in
Gaul” accepted for publication in Acts of the Vouillé Conference held at UIUC, April 2007, ed by
Danuta Shanzer and Ralph Mathiesen (Fall 2010)
Excavation report in progress
Preliminary Report on the excavation campaigns held at Walhain
Castle(Belgium) in July, 2005, 2006 and 2008 (co-directed with Dr.
Laurent Verslype, University of Louvain-la-Neuve)
Follows the definitive report covering the first five seasons:
Walhain Castle Five-Year Report Report (with R. Brulet, L. Verslype, W. Woods et al):
“Etude archeologique du chateau du Walhain-saint-Paul. La transformation du paysage et le
Chateau. Rapport de Fouilles et Projets de Recherche (English title: Landscape Transformation
and Walhain Castle: Excavation Report and Research Project), Report by Raymond Brulet,
Director of the Centre de Recherches d’Archéologie Nationale (CRAN) (University of Louvain-laNeuve), Laurent Verslype, Research Associate, Fonds Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique
attaché au CRAN, Bailey Young (Professor of History, Eastern Illinois University), William I.
Woods (Director, Environmental Studies Program, University of Kansas) and collaborators, co-
ordinated by Laurent Verslype. (CRAN, Louvain-la-Neuve, December, 2004)
(B) Selected Publications (since 2001)
"Auguste Moutié and the Pioneering Days of Merovingian Archaeology" chapter coauthored with Barbara Oelschlager-Garvey, Barbarians and Romans,
edited by Ralph Mathiesen and Danuta Shanzer (Society for Late
Antiquity, 4)in press (Ashgate, 2011)
Approche interdisciplinaire de l’environnement du château de Walhain-saint-Paul
(Brabant wallon) À la croisée des « sources » chapter in Actes du Colloque PREBel (Namur,
Dec. 2008), co-authored by Laurent Verslype, Inès Leroy, William I. Woods, Bailey K. Young et
Paul F. Hudson ( 2010)
“The Imagery of Personal Objects: Hints of “Do-It-Yourself” Christianity in
Merovingian Gaul?” in The Power of Religion, Andrew Cain & Noel Lenski (eds)(Society
for Late Antiquity, 5)(Ashgate, 2009)339-354.
Co-author, with Laurent Verslype, William I. Woods and Paul Hudson: “Walhain/Walhain-SaintPaul: le chateau et sa basse-cour”, in Chronique d’archeologie wallonne 17, 2010, 39-40.
Articles on “Migrations and Populations in Medieval Europe” and “Barbarians and Foreigners” for
the Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Medieval World. ( four-volume set will be published
by Facts On File (in conjunction with another four-volume set, The Encyclopedia of Society and
Culture in the Ancient World). editor in chief, Pam Crabtree (NYU) for Schlager Publishing
(2008)
*Bailey K. Young, in collaboration with Lynne Peters Sullivan, “Le Tennessee Valley Authority:
de l’archéologie de sauvetage à une politique de longue terme” in Jean-Paul Demoule (ed),
L’archéologie préventive dans le monde. Apports de l’archéologie préventive à la connaissance
du passée (Paris, La Découverte, 2007) 271-286.
*“Rituel funéraire, structure sociale et choix ideologique:le cas mérovingien” in De l’Age du fer au
haut Moyen Age: Archéologie funéraire, princes et élites guerrières, ed. Patrick Périn and Michel
Kazanski (Mémoires de l’Association national d’Archéologie mérovingienne XV, 2006), 215-229.
*”WALHAIN, Walhain-Saint-Paul: le Chateau”, in Julien Maquet, ed., Le patrimoine médiévale
de Wallonie (co-authors: Laurent Verslype, Inès Leroy, William Woods, Ann Defgnée) (Institut du
Patrimoine wallon, Namur, 2005), 379-81.
* in Ancient Europe 8000 B.C.-A.D. 1000. Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World, edited by
Peter Bogucki (Princeton) and Pam Crabtree (NYU) (New York, Charles Scribners’ Sons, 2004):
articles on Merovingian Franks, and Tomb of Childeric, Merovingian Archaeology.
*“Rites funéraires et stratégie politique: le cas des tombes royales”, in L. Baray, ed., Archéologie
des pratiques funéraires. Approches critiques. Actes de la table ronde du UMR 5594 du
CNRS, 7- 9 juin 2001 (Collection Bibracte 9, Glux-en-glenne: Centre archéologique européen du
Mont Beuvray, 2004) pp 79-92.
*Joel Gunn, Carole L. Crumley, Elizabeth Jones and Bailey K. Young, “A Landscape Analysis of
Western Europe during the Early Middle Ages”,in Charles L. Redman, Steven R. James, Paul R.
Fish and J. Daniel Rogers (eds.), The Archaeology of Global Change. The Impact of Humans on
their Envionment (Smithsonian Books, Washington, D.C., 2004) pp 165-185.
* D. Verzwymelen and B.K. Young, “Recherches sur le site du château de Walhain”, in
WAVRIENSIA , revue du Cercle Historique et Achéologique du Wavre et de la Région, Tome LI,
3, 2002, pp 66-90.
*“Sacred Topography: The Impact of the Funerary Basilica in Late
Antique Gaul”, in Society and Culture in Late Antique Gaul:
Revisiting the Sources, ed. Ralph Mathisen and Danuta Shanzer
(Ashgate,2001) 169-186.
*“Autun and the Civitas Aeduorum: Maintaining and Transforming a
Regional Identity in Late Antiquity”, in Thomas Burns and John
Eadie, eds., Urban Centers and Rural Contexts in Late Antiquity
(Michigan State, East Lansing, 2001) 25-46.
*"Late Antique and Medieval Archaeology in France," in Medieval
Archaeology, An Encyclopedia, edited by Pam J. Crabtree (Garland,
2001), 111-127.
(C) Reviews, Lectures and Scholarly Activities from 2001
Review: Allen E . J ones, Social Mobility in Late An0que G aul. Strategies and O pportuni0es for the N on-­‐elite ( Cambridge 2009). Pp 379; for pub in ... E d J oseph R oisman ( Colby College) 2011
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Review: Lise Hull, Understanding Castle Ruins in England and Wales, for Speculum 86(1) 2011,
pp 218-19 (with acknowledgment of contribution by Robert Wallace, as part of his Independent
Study)
Translation: The Garnet Research Program: The Supply of Indian Garnets to the Merovingian
West (5th-7th Centuries), by P. Périn (Museum of National Archaeology, Saint-Germain-en-Laye)
and Th. Calligaro (Research and Restoration Labaoratory of the Museums of France/C2RMF, Paris)
Oct 2010
Review posted on The Medieval Review , Oct 15, 2010: Halsall, Guy. <i>Cemeteries and Society in
Merovingian Gaul: Selected Studies in History and Archaeology, 1992-2009</i>. Leiden: Brill,
2010),
Paper: “Not by Artefacts Alone, or Who was that Lady in Sarcophagus 49 at Saint-Denis?” in a
panel sponsored by Early Medieval Europe at the 45th Annual Congress on Medieval Studies at
Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo), May 12-16, 2010
Paper “Dust to Data: Resurrecting a Late Antique Royal Lady” conference Late Antiquity in
Illinois, UIUC, March 27, 2010
Review of MARTIN CARVER, CATHERINE HILLS & JONATHAN SCHESCHKEWITZ,
Wasperton. A Roman, British and Anglo-Saxon Community in Central England. for Speculum,
85, 2 (2010)
Review (online) of Armelle Alduc-Le-Bagousse, (ed.), <Inhumations de prestige ou prestige de
l’inhumation? Expressions du pouvoir dans l’au-delà (IV-XVe siècle), .posted on The Medieval
Review (TMR) Jan 18, 2010.
Review of Isabelle Catteddu, Archéologie médiévale en France: le premier Moyen Age (V-IXe
siècle), in The Journal of Late Antiquity 2, 2 (Fall 2009) 388-390.
Referee for the possible publication in the Journal of Late Antiquity of an article “The Fortification
of Gaul and the Economy of the Third and Fourth Centuries” (October, ‘09).
“Chateaux, Castles & Abbeys” presentation of the historical background to the heritage of
Wallonia (Belgium) to help promote heritage tourism in support of the Walloon patrimony,
organized by Dr. Paul Young of the American Friends of the Walloon Heritage Committee, in San
Francisco, January 7, 2009.
Referee for a Publication Preparation Grant Application to the American Institute of Archaeology:
Capalbiaccio Project (Tuscany), Dr. Michelle Hobart (NYU) & Steven Dyson (SUNY-Buffalo);
sent Nov 10, 2008
Conducted a Graduate Seminar at UI-Urbana on Funerary Archaeology, at the invitation of Prof.
Danuta Shanzer, Classics Dept — Nov 6, 2008
Co-presenter with Dr. Lynne Sullivan, Archaeological Curator of McClung Museum (University
of Tennessee, Knoxville) of a co-authored paper: L. Sullivan et C. Laquement, avec la
collaboration de B. K. Young : Approches théoriques et expérimentales pour la reconstitution
architecturale pour la période mississippienne précoce dans l’Est de l’Amérique du Nord et la
période du Haut Moyen âge en Europe de l’Ouest given at 29th Annual Meeting of AFAM,
Marle, France, 26-28 September 2008.
Translations: English summary for the publication of the Merovingian cemetery of Louviers
(Eure), by Florence Carré (for 2008); English summary of an article Grenats (Garnets), by Patrick
Périn, for the 2008 issue of Antiquités nationales
“From Gaul to Francia: Archaeology, Legend and Ideology in the Construction of Frankish
Identity”, invited lecture in the Rice University Medieval Studies Workshop Series 2007-08,
Thursday, Feb 7, 2008 (Houston, TX); Friday, Feb 9: Lunch Bag Seminar on Medieval
Archaeology for students in the Medieval Studies Program.
“Castle and Lanscsape: the Walhain Research Project” invited lecture in the Pre-1500 Seminar
Series of the Humanities Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence Nov 13, 2007
Chaired a session devoted to “Archaeology of the Visigoths in Iberia and Aquitaine”, at the 28th
Annual Meeting of the Association francaise d’archéologie mérovingienne (AFAM), on the theme
Franks, Visigoths and the Battle of Vouillé (A.D. 507), held in Poitiers, France, Sept 28-30, 2007.
Laurent Verslype (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve), in collaboration with Inès Leroy (UCL), Ann Defgnée (UCL)
William I. Woods (KU, Lawrence, KS), Bailey K. Young (EIU, Charleston, IL), Paul F. Hudson (UT,
Austin TX), Donald E. Meyer (Rock River Laboratory, Watertown, WI)
“Approche historique, archéologique et environnementale des aménagements paysager et bâti
du château de Walhain (Walhain-saint-Paul, XI-XIXe s., Brabant wallon, Belgique) paper
delivered at Medieval Europe, International Archaeological Congress (Paris, France, Sept. 3-7, 2007)
“Has Anyone Seen the Barbarians? Remarks on the Missing Archaeology of the Visigoths in
Gaul” paper at the 42 International Medieval Congress (Kalamazoo, MI), May 10-13, 2007.
Session sponsored by Early Medieval Europe.
“Vouillé and the Problem of Visigothic Archaeology”, invited paper at a Symposium on the 1500th
Anniversary of the Battle of Vouillé, held at the University of Illinois-Urbana, April 21, 2007.
Paper: “The Imagery of Personal Objects: Hints of “Do-It-Yourself” Christianity in Merovingian
Gaul?” Presented at Shifting Frontiers VII: The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity, conference
of the Society for Late Antiquity held at the University of Colorado, Boulder, 22-25 March, 2007.
Lecture "Of Dirt and Donjons: What Can be Learned from Excavating a Medieval Castle" for the
Medieval Studies Program at Loyola University of Chicago, March 19, 2007
Paper: “Urban Continuity in Late Antique Gaul in the Light of Archaeological Sources”, presented
at the meeting of the Illinois Medieval Association, EIU, Feb 23-24, 2007
Word, Image and Experience. Dynamics of Miracle and Self-Perception in Sixth-Century Gaul,
Giselle de Nie. Variorum Collected Studies Series, 771. Ashgate: Aldershot, U.K., and Burlington,
VT, 2003). xiv + 374 pp. Index. H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 156 http://
www.h-france.net/reviews/list.html
Attended "Facing the Middle Ages: A Symposium in honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the
International Center of Medieval Art", held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,
October 14-15, 2006
Organized and presented a workshop “Beowulf and the Artefacts of Sutton Hoo” for the
Conference Beowulf: the Epic Poem, organized by the EIU English Departments and Secondary
Education Departments for high school English teachers, October 27, 2006
Co-Organizer (with Dr. William Woods) : Recent Archaeology in Belgium: a Symposium held at
the University of Kansas, (Lawrence), sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program and the
Before 1500 Seminar, April 17-18, 2006.
Organizer and Chair of panel: “The Place of Archaeology in Medieval Studies” held at the
81st Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Boston, Mass. April 1, 2006
Organized, introduced and presided over Symposium TVA Excavations and their Impact on
Archaeology in America: presentation by Dr. Lynne Sullivan (Curator of Archaeology, Frank R.
McClung Museum, University of Tennessee/Knoxville) with comments by Dr. Debra Reid,
(History), Dr. Don Holly (Anthropology), Dr. Vince Gutowski (Geology), co-sponsored by the
College of Sciences, College of Arts and Humanities, and the three departments represented;
March 29, 2006.
“Hardly a One-Horse Town: Tournai in Transition in Late Antiquity”, paper at the second Late
Antiquity in Illinois Symposium held at the University of Illinois-Urbana, March 18, 2006.
Invited lecture to the East-Central Illinois Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
entitled “A Castle in a Landscape: an Interdisciplinary Medieval Archaeology Research Project in
Belgium”, February 22, 2006 at the University of Illinois-Urbana.
Translated paper of Patrick Périn (Director, National Archaeology Museum, France):Contribution
to the Study of Garnets from Merovingian Artefacts in the Collections of the Museum of National
Archaeology, France. New Gemmological and Geochemical Analyses performed at the
Laboratory of Research and Restoration of the (National) Museums of France
for presentation at a seminar at Harvard University, October 12, 2005 (Medieval History and
Archaeology Seminar of Prof. Michael McCormack)
Attended Medieval Art, Midwestern Audiences, a symposium in honor of the 50th Anniversary of
the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA), held at the Art Institute, Chicago, Nov 11-12,
2005.
“”Salvage Archaeology and the Tennessee Valley Authority: or, Successful
Improvisations” (lecture, co-authored and presented with Dr. Lynne P. Sullivan and delivered in
French at: L’archéologie préventive dans le Monde, International Symposium organized by the
Institut National de la Recherche archéologique préventive (INRAP)and the Bibliothèque
Nationale , Paris, Sept. 30-Oct 2, 2005. Research trip to McClung Museum of Anthropology
University of Tennessee/Knoxville (Aug 16-20) to work with Dr. Lynne P. Sullivan, Curator of
Archaeology and Bennett Graham, TVA Archaeologist, on this presentation.
Review in Speculum,vol 80, 3, July 2005, 883-5: Aelfric’s Abbey.
Excavations at Eynsham Abbey, Oxfordshire 1989-92. By Alan Hardy,
Anne Dodd and Graham D. Keevill. Oxford Archaeology. Thames
Valley Landscapes Volume 16, (Oxford University School of
Archaeology, 2003).
Annual Meeting of the Association of Ancient Geographers (AAG), held in Denver April 5-9,
2005 co-author (with William Woods and Laurent Verslype) of a paper entitled The Built
Environment of a Medieval Outer Bailey (Walhain, Belgium), ( Geoarchaeology and
Geomorphology III: Soils, Sediments, and the World )
Sixth Congress of the Society for Late Antiquity, University of Illinois, Urbana, March
17-20, 2005. Theme: Romans, Barbarians and the Transformation of the Roman World.
*(1) Presented paper entitled "Auguste Moutié and the Pioneering Days of Merovingian
Archaeology"; *(2) organized the visit of and introduced the plenary speaker, Patrick Périn,
Director of the Museum of National Antiquities in France, whose paper "Identity and Ethnicity in
the Era of Migrations in the Light of Archaeological Evidence" I also translated; (3) Guest Curator,
Special Exhibit: Barbarians and Romans, Spurlock World History Museum, Urbana, MarchJuly 2005 (with Barbara Oelschlager-Garvey, Curator, Early American Museum, Mahomet)
"Digging a Castle in Belgium”, lecture to Quodlibet, the association of graduate students in the
Medieval Studies Program at Cornell University (Feb 3, 2005). The invitation was proposed by
Chris Bailey (winner of the EIU best MA thesis award in 2002, now a PhD candidate in history at
Cornell).
American Society for Church History (ASCH), Seattle, Jan 6-9, 2005“ What Can
Archaeology Reveal of Christian Conversion in Merovingian Gaul?” paper in the panel
Conversion and Spiritual Life in Late Ancient and Medieval Christianity: The Evidence of Material
Culture, org. Dr. Andrea Sterk, Univ of Florida.
Lectures in French: “L’archéologie médiévale anglo-saxonne”, delivered at the University of
Louvain, in a cycle of lectures on the Archaeology of Northwest Europe (undergraduate level),
November 8, 2004; “Pratiques funeraires et leur interpretation”, for Dr. Patrick Perin’s Graduate
Seminar in Merovingian Archaeology, University of Paris I-Sorbonne, December 7, 2004
Online review: The Medieval Review: Hawkes, S.C. with Grainger,
G., The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Worthy Park, Kingsworthy, near
Wincester, Hampshire. (Oxford, 2003) [email protected] posted
October 2004
Review: Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the making of the
Early Middle Ages, by Bonnie Effros (Univ of California, 2003). In
Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol 55, no 3, July 2004,
563-64.
39th International Conference of Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan
U (Kalamazoo) May 6-9, 2004: (1) presented paper: Landscape Transformation: the Making of a
Medieval Outer Bailey (Walhain, Belgium) co-authored with Dr. William Woods, Southern Illinois
University Edwardsville and (2) Revised translation provided illustration and read paper:
“Economic History of the Burgundian Kingdom: an Archaeological Survey”, by Jean-Francois
Reynaud (prof. Université de Lyon II), when he was unable to attend.
“Late Antiquity in Illinois”: A Symposium at the University of Illinois -- Urbana/ Champaign Sat
March 27, 2004, sponsored by the Departments of History and Classics and the Medieval Studies
Program, presented paper:“The Late Antique Site at Psalmodi (Gard)”
“Ruling Women: Medieval Antecedants to Queen Elizabeth”, March 11, 2004, as part of the
Medieval Studies Committee panel in conjunction with Booth Library’s Elizabeth exhibit.
105th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) (San Francisco,
Jan 2-5, 2004): Organizer of a colloquium: Samian Wares and their Distribution in Roman
Italy and Gaul: Recent Research Concerning Four Major Production Centers, by Four
Major European Research Laboratories, sponsored by the European Committee of the AIA.
Papers by Dr. Sara Santoro (University of Parma, Italy); Dr. Thierry Martin (University of
Toulouse, France); Dr. Armand Desbats (CNRS, Lyon,France); Dr. Raymond Brulet (University
of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium). Translated all papers.
Attended The State of Medieval Studies, an international symposium held at the U of I-Urbana,
Oct 2-3, 2003
Research trip, partly funded by Ballenger Grant, to Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium in July 2003;
review of data collected by Walhain Castle excavations and planning for future work
Attended international workshop regarding the Abbaye de Psalmodi (Gard, France) held at
Saint-Laurent-d’Aigouze (France) on June 25, 2003 and presented an update on the funerary
aspect of the site in view of projected publication.
104th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) (New Orleans, LA,
Jan 3-6, 2003): organized a comparative international Colloquium bringing together prehistoric and
early medieval archaeologists: Identity, Space, and Funerary Practice in Iron Age and Early
Medieval Europe; translated two of the papers from French into English; served as President and
as Discussant.
Online Review: H.R. Loyn, The English Church from 970-1150, London, 2001. H-Net, England
Review of A. Verhulst: The Rise of Cities in Northwest Europe and
of Richard Hodges, Towns and Trade in the Age of Charlemagne,
Speculum 77/3, July 2002, 1031-3.
Online Review: Bonnie Effros, Caring for Body and Soul. Burial
and the Afterlife in the Merovingian World. (University Park: The
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002). The Medieval Review
37th Annual International Conference of Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University
(Kalamazoo, MI), 2-5 May 2002; translated from French paper of David Verzwymelen, Université
Catholique of Louvain for Colloquium on Environmental Archaeology
Translations: Translated from French to English: article on Merovingian Settlement by Laurent
Verslype, (Research Fellow at Belgium’s National Science Research Center) “Rural-urban
dynamics and central places in the Scheldt and the Meuse Region between the 5th and the 9th
centuries”, published in Central Places in the Migration and Merovingian Periods. Papers from the
nd
52 Sachsensymposium, Lund, August 2001 , ed. B. Hardh and L. Larsson (Lund, 2002) pp
257-272. Other translations: Patrick Périn: “Recent Merovingian Archaeology: a Review”, to be
published by Oxford University Press; Etienne Louis (Douai Museum, France), “The DeRomanised Landscape in North-East Gaul”; Patrick Périn (Museum of National Antiquities,
France) and Alain Dierkens (University of Brussels)“The Early Franks”: papers presented in
March, 2002, at the Oxford Archaeology Symposium.
June: Delivered an invited paper: “Funéraire et stratégie
politique: les tombes royales dans la perspective cross-
culturelle”, presented at : Archéologie des pratiques funéraires:
approches critiques” IIe Table Ronde organized by the Centre
archéologique européen du Mont Beuvray (France), June 7-9, 2001
May :“The Transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages in NorthEast Gaul: Recent Archaeological Research”, panel of three papers
by Laurent Verslype (Louvain, Belgium), Isabelle Catteddu (AFAN,
France) and Etienne Louis (Douai, France) at the 36th
International Conference on Medieval Studies (Western Mich U,
Kalamazoo), 3-6 May, 2001 –BKY organized, presented and commented,
and translated all three papers.
“Sutton-Hoo: nécropole royale de transition entre paganisme et
christianisme?” lecture sponsored by the Department of Archaeology
and Art History of the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium),
Feb. 14, 2001
“Le programme EIU-UCL à Walhain (Brabant)”, lecture delivered to
the Rotary Club of Brussels, July 2001
“ An American (Archaeologist) in Paris”, lecture delivered
March 12 2001,at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco
Doctoral (=PhD) Jury: Served as one of two Outside Examiners on
the PhD. Jury of Laurent Verslype, whose thesis treated
Archéologie mérovingienne entre Sambre et Meuse; defense took
place Feb. 16, 2001 at the Université Catholique de Louvain. The
candidate was awarded a degree with the highest distinction.
(D) Professional Organizations and Other Activities
American Friends of the Walloon Heritage organizing member
(2006)of this committee, chaired by Dr. Herbert Lasky, which works
with the Institut du Patrimoine Wallon (IPW) to develop resources
to protect, study and make accessible to the public the site of
Walhain Castle and other heritage sites; helped organize a
Heritage Tour in Wallonia (2008) and American fund-raising trips
by IPW officers (2010).
American Institute of Archaeology (AIA) principal North American
research organization for archaeology; served a 3-Year Term on
the European Liason Committee of the American Institute of
Archaeology (AIA) (1999-2002); since 2002, member of the European
Interest Group
Association Francaise d’Archéologie Mérovingienne (AFAM) active member since the 1979
foundation of this, the principal research group for Merovingian Archaeology, based at the Musée
d’Archéologie National (MAN), Chateau de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
Illinois Medieval Association (IMA) brings together medievalists of all disciplines in Illinois and
neighboring states; was principal organizer of its meeting held at EIU in 1998, and President
1998-1999; on organizing committee for the 2007 meeting to be held at EIU.
International Center for Medieval Art (ICMA) principal North American research organization
for the study of medieval art, based at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; served a term
on the Advisory Board (2002-2005)
Medieval Academy of America (MAA), principal North American research organization for the
study of the Middle Ages, based in Boston; organized a panel on “The Place of Archaeology in
Medieval Studies” for the 2006 Annual Meeting in Cambridge, Mass.
Society for Late Antiquity new interdisciplinary research organization focused on the the
transition from the Roman to the Medieval worlds (AD 300-800); helped organize the 2005
Meeting at the University of Illinois, Urbana. Appointed Consulting Editor to the Journal of Late
Antiquity (Johns Hopkins Univ Press), edited by Ralph Mathiesen UIU-C (2006-)
Old World Archaeology Newsletter (OWAN) occasional correspondant
for this newsletter published at Wesleyan University; published
article entitled “AFAN and Archéologie préventive in France” in
Vol XXII (Fall, 2000)
Principal Publications and Activities before 2001
*"Climate and Crisis in Sixth-Century Italy and Gaul", chapter in
The Years Without Summer: Tracing A.D. 536 and its Aftermath, ed.
by Joel Gunn, Brit. Arch Rpts Intn’l Ser 872(Oxford, 2000) 35-42.
Book Spaces for the Living and the Dead: An Archaeological
Dialogue,, edited by Catherine Karkov, Kelley Whickham-Crowley and
Bailey Young, American Early Medieval Studies 3 (Oxbow/David
Brown, 1999). This collection of archaeological papers grew from
sessions I organized at the International Medieval Conference at
Kalamazoo, MI; I co-edited the volume and translated the French
papers( includes my paper: "The Myth of the Pagan Cemetery," pp
61-85).
“Pratiques funéraires et mentalités paiennes", in Clovis: Histoire
et mémoire, ed. Michel Rouche, vol. 1: Le baptême de Clovis,
lévénement (Presses Universitaires de France, Sorbonne, Paris,
1997), 15-42.
"Que restait-il de la topographie religieuse traditionelle à
l'époque de Grégoire de Tours?", in Grégoire de Tours et l'Espace
Gaulois, Actes du Colloque Internationale Gregoire de Tours
(Tours, Nov. 1994), edited by N. Gauthier & H. Galinié, Revue
Archéologique de l'Est (numéro spéciale) (Tours 1997), 241-50.
"The Barbarian
Archaeological
Minorities and
J. Ridyard and
(University of
Funerary Tradition in Gaul in the Light of the
Record: Considerations and Reconsiderations," in
barbarians in medieval life and thought, ed. Susan
Robert G. Benson, Sewanee Mediaeval Studies, 7
the South, 1996), 197-222.
"Les nécropoles (IIIe-VIIe siècle)," chapter in Naissance des arts
chretiens. Atlas des monuments paléochrétiens de la France,ed. N.
Duval et al. (Ministère de la Culture,Paris, 1991),94-121.
"Text-aided or Text-misled? Reflexions on the Uses of Archaeology
in Medieval History," chapter in Text-aided Archaeology, edited by
Barbara Little, Telford Press, 1992.
"L'historiographie traditionelle et l'archéologie des AngloSaxons", Actes des VI Journées d'Archéologie mérovingienne (1984)
edited by X. Barral y Altet at the University of Rennes II; pub.
in Archéologie mérovingienne, historiographie et méthodologie (Ed.
Errance, Paris, 1989).
"Un grafitti animalier du Haut-Moyen Age (?)", Actes des Xe
Journées de l'AFAM (co-author: C. Sapin), pub. in La Lorraine
mérovingienne: le style animalier germanique (Ed. Pierron, 57206
Sarreguemines, 1989).
"L'ancienne abbaye de Psalmodi: premier bilan des fouilles" (coauthored with W. and B. Stoddard, J. Dodds, K.C. Young), in
Archéologie Médiévale, XIX, 1989.
"Topographie funéraire d'Autun," Autun Augustodunum exhibition
catalog, Musée Rolin, Autun, 1987.
Archéologie médiévale en Bourgogne exhibition catalog, Dijon, 1987
(contributor).
"Psalmodi: un site sur le littoral de la Septimanie," Actes des
IXe Journées de l'AFAM, (with Kitch Carter Young), pub. in Les
derniers Romains en Septimanie (Musée de Lattes, 34970 Lattes,
1987).
"Exemple aristocratique et mode funéraire dans la Gaule
mérovingienne," Annales E.S.C., 1986/2, 379-407.
"Psalmodi: une abbaye au coeur des étangs," Les étangs à l'époque
médiévale, Musée Archéologique de Lattes, 1986.
"Saint-Pierre-l'Estrier (Autun)," Gesta XXV/1, 1986 (co-authored
with Christian Sapin and Walter Berry).
"Tombes dites des chefs du début de l'époque mérovingienne,"
L’inhumation privilégié du IVe au VIIIe siècles en Occident: Actes
du Colloque de Créteil (16-18 mars 1984), edited by Y. Duval & JCh. Picard. Paris,1986.
"Saint-Pierre-l'Estrier: une expérience archéologique en cours,"
in Archéologie Médiévale XII 1982 (contributor, with Christian
Sapin).
"L'apport funéraire et les origines des Francs," in Bulletin de
Liason de l'Association Française d'Archéologie Mérovingienne 2
1980 (republished with additional illustration in Les Dossiers
d'Archéologie: Les Francs, Dijon, 1981).
"Old Excavations Yield New Data: Recent Publications on Avar
Archaeology," The Journal of Field Archaeology, Jan. 1979
"Archaeology in an Urban Setting: Saint-Pierre-de-Montmartre,"
The Journal of Field Archaeology, Dec. 1978.
"Paganisme, christianisme et rites funéraires mérovingiens,"
Archéologie Médiévale VII, 1977, 5-81.
Online Review
Martin Carver, Sutton Hoo: Burial Ground of Kings?
(U. Of Penna Press, 1998) posted March 1999 at [email protected]
Online Journal * Essays in Medieval Studies. Vol. 15: Medieval
Communities. Proceedings of the Illinois Medieval Association
(1998), edited by David Raybin (EIU), Allen J. Frantzen (Loyola
Chicago) and Bailey K. Young (EIU)
Young, B.K. & Verzwymelen, D., “Walhain-Saint-Paul: basse cour du
chateau”, in Archaeologia Medievalis, Activités 1998, 22
(Tervuren, Belgium 1999) report of the 1998 season
*Young, B.K. & Verzwymelen, D., “Walhain-Saint-Paul: basse cour du
chateau”, in Archaeologia Medievalis, Activités 2000, 22
(Tervuren, Belgium 2001) report of the 2000 excavation season
Agnes Sos and Agnes Salomon, Cemeteries of the Early Middle Ages
at Pokaszepetk (Akademai Kiado, Budapest, 1994) in Speculum:
Journal of the Medieval Academy of America (fall 1999)
”The Lively and the Dead in Medieval European Towns”, review essay
in Journal of Urban History, vol 25, 1 (November 1998) 144-49.
Excavations
1974-1979 Saint-Pierre de Montmartre, Paris
(medieval/post-medieval), with Dr. Patrick Périn
des Hautes Etudes, Ive Section, Paris
Ecole Pratique
1974-1989 Psalmodi, near Montpellier, France (medieval abbey),
Dr. W. Stoddard(Williams Col), Dr. B. Stoddard (Maine)
1975-1982
Parvis-Notre-Dame, Paris (Gallo-Roman Paris),
Dr. Vacslav Kruta , Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes,
1977
Leobersdorf, near Vienna, Austria (Avar cemetery),
with Dr. Falko Daim (Institut Fruhgeschichte, Wien)
1979-1980 Mont Dardon, central France (prehistoric-medieval),
Dr. Carole Crumley, (UNC, Chapel Hill)
*BURGONDIE Project excavations (in collaboration with Dr.
Christian Sapin, Directeur d’Etudes CNRS)
*1976-1987
Saint-Pierre-l'Estrier, Autun, France (funerary
church; late antique-modern)
*1982-1986 Cave Sotty and Cardo, Autun, France (Gallo-Roman), in
association with the municipal archaeologist of Autun.
*1982-1987 Saint-Léger-Triey, near Dijon, France (medieval
abbey).
1983-1986 Saint-Nazaire/Cour des Chanoines, Autun, France
(medieval canonical cloister).
1987
Saint-Etienne, Beaune, France (early medieval
cemetery).
1985-1992
1993
Saint-Clément, Macon, France (medieval funerary
church).
Griselles, near Chablis, France (trial excavation of
rural religious and settlement site).
1998Walhain-St-Paul Castle Project: Co-Director of the
research excavation of the medieval castle at Walhain-St-Paul,
Brabant wallonne, Belgium, along with Prof. Raymond Brulet,
Professor of Archaeology at the Université Catholique de Louvain
and Director of the Centre de Recherches archéologiques
nationales.
COMMUNITY
Five Mile House Committee (2002-present): responsible for the upkeep, preservation and public
presentation of what may be Coles County’s oldest standing structure (ca 1840); chair of
subcommittee which organized and conducted visits of Charleston Fourth Grade Classes to the
Five-Mile House in 2005 -1010
Charleston Alley Theatre (CAT): the co-founders of this community theatre were Professor
Emeritus of History Leonard Wood and his wife Tanya, until their tragic death in 2004 the coDirector. I have acted in a number of productions since 2001 (including Scrooge in Christmas
Carol in 2005), and, with English Professor David Radavich created two original productions
dramatizing works of major poets: WB Yeats (2004); three Polish poets (2005); the Beats Go On
(Beat Poets and Jazz Musicians, with Dr. Paul Johnson of the Music Dept) (2009).
1998- Browning Cotillion (Romantic poetry); What Every Woman Knows
1999- Lady Windemere’s Fan
2000- Macbeth
2001– St. George and the Dragon at Christmastide, Love’s Labor Lost
2002–Love Letters, Richard III, St George
2003– A Final Evening with the Illuminati (leading role)
2004– Passionate as the Dawn (poems of W.B. Yeats; created/directed with David Radavich)
2005- Pope and Poets (three Polish poets; created/directed with David Radavich)
Christmas Carol (played Scrooge)
2006–St George and the Dragon at Christmastide
2009-The Beats Go On (Ginsberg, Kerouac etc and jazz of their time, with Paul Johnson quartet)
(created/directed with David Radavich)