Curriculum Vitae

Deanna D. Forsman, Ph. D.

Contact Information

Education

PhD Medieval European History, UCLA June 2002
Dissertation Title: England and Northern Frankia, 5^th – 7^th Centuries: Implications of Cross-Channel Contact (Advisor: Dr. Richard Rouse)

Minor Fields:

• Late Antiquity
• History of Women
• Old English

MA English Literature, Minnesota State University, Mankato Summer 2020.
Alternative Plan Paper Title: “‘He spoke for and represented them:’ Articulations of Status and “Othering” in Book 9 of Sidonius Apollinaris’s Letters”

MS Educational Technology, Minnesota State University, Mankato December 2019.
Creative Project Title: “Incorporating Universal Design Principles and Evidence-Based Practices for Learning to Construct ADA Compliant Online Learning Environments in Higher Education”

MA Medieval European History, UCLA June 1997

Teaching Writing Graduate Certificate, Minnesota State University, Mankato, May 2020.
Emphasis: Multiliteracies and Racial Equity in Education

BA Psychology and History, UCLA, Magna Cum Laude, September 1994

Teaching Experience

Faculty, North Hennepin Community College, History Department, Fall 2002, Fall 2003–Present; English Department, Fall 2018–Present

Responsibilities: Teach 3–5 courses per semester, design and develop online courses (using WebCT and Desire2Learn platforms), develop new courses (World Civilization, Medieval West, Applied History, History and Popular Culture, Ancient West)

History Courses Taught:
History of World Civilization pre 1500
History of World Civilization post 1500
History of Western Civilization pre 1550
History of Western Civilization post 1550
History of the Medieval West
History of the Ancient West
History of the United States Through 1877
Special Topics—History of NHCC
Special Topics—Introduction to History
History and Popular Culture
Applied History

Honors Courses Taught
Special Topics—History of Christmas
Honors Seminar—History of Race and Ethnicity
Honors Seminar—Envisioning the World in Disney’s “Small World”
Honors Capstone

English Courses Taught
Gateway Composition
Gateway College Writing
College Writing I

Teaching Assistant/Associate, UCLA History Department

Responsibilities: Led discussion sections, conducted reviews of lecture, grading

Courses Taught
Religious Environment of the Early Christians (Spring 2000, Dr. Scott Bartchy)
Rome from Augustus to Constantine (Winter 2000, Dr. Ronald Mellor)
Rome from Origins to the Death of Caesar (Fall 1999, Dr. Ronald Mellor)
Western Civilization, 1000–1648 (Spring 1999, Dr. Kathryn Norberg)
World Religion (Winter 1999, Dr. Scott Bartchy)
China to 1000 AD (Fall 1998, Dr. Richard von Glahn)
World Civilization, 600-1700 (Winter 1998, Dr. Geoffrey Symcox)

Academic Service

North Hennepin Community College Committee Work

Program Review and Learner Outcome Assessment Team (2019, 2020—present)
Equity by Design Committee (2019, 2020—present)
College-wide Steering Committee (2016–2017, 2021–present)
Accessibility Committee (2014–present)
Policy Committee (2012–2017, 2019, 2020–present)
Academic Process Quality Improvement Task Force (2018–2019)
Student Success Task Force: Online Learning (2018–2019)
Program Review Task Force (2015–2017)
Higher Learning Commission Accreditation Criterion 4 Task Force Co-Chair (2016–2017)
Strategic Planning Task Force Co-Chair (2017)
Program Evaluation Task Force (Summer 2016)
Web Advisory Committee (2011–2017)
Honors Committee (2008–2017)
Director of Honors (2014–2017)
Institutional Review Board (2008–2017), Chair (2016–2017)
Co-Chair, Joint Shared Governance/AASC Taskforce on Class Size (2014)
Department of Social Sciences Coordinator (2006–2014)
Sharepoint COP Committee (2009–2011)
AASC Policies and Procedures Sub-Committee (2009–2010)
Student Success Day Committee (2009)
AASC Intensive Writing Task Force (2006–2007)
Hiring Task Force (2006–2007)
Information Technology Advisory Team (2007)
Learner Outcomes Assessment Writing Sub-Committee (2003–2004)

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Committee Work

Academic and Student Affairs Policy Council (2015–present)
History Transfer Pathway Team Co-Chair (Spring 2017)
Ad Hoc Work Group: College Developmental Education Strategies (2014–2017)
Charting the Future Academic Planning and Collaboration Workgroup (Spring 2016)

Minnesota State College Faculty Committee Work

Joint Labor Management Committee (2023–present)
Faculty Rights Committee Chair (2020–present)
Meet and Confer Committee (2009–2020), Chair (2017–2020)
Academic Affairs Committee (2010–2019)
Education Minnesota/MSCF Higher Ed/K-12 Advisory Committee (2011–2017)

North Hennepin Community College Faculty Association

Grievance Representative (2009–2010, 2013–2019, 2021—present)
Shared Governance Member (2006–2009, 2011–2019, 2020—present)
Delegate to the Minnesota State College Faculty Delegate Assembly (2008, 2011–present)
Faculty Association Vice President (2007–2009)

Other Service

The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe

• Co-Editor In Chief (2010–present)
• Webmaster (2005–present)
• Editorial Board (2004–present)

American Society for Irish Medieval Studies

• Treasurer (2018–present)
• Webmaster (2014–2020)

NHCC Faculty Lecture Series

• Creator & Organizer (2011–2017)

Society for Late Antiquity

• Newsletter Editor & Member of the Governing Board (2009–2011)

5^th Annual UCLA Graduate Student Conference on Late Antiquity, April 15, 2000

• Program Committee

Publications

2014. Review of The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe, by Hyun Jin Kim. Journal of Late Antiquity 7: 367–369.

2012. Editor, Issue 15 of The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe.

2008. Author of eighteen articles in Christopher A. Snyder, Early Peoples of Britain and Ireland: An Encyclopedia. Oxford: Greenwood World Publishing.

• Bertha (72)
• Burghal Hidage (99)
• Dorchester (189–190)
• Dyrham (209–210)
• Eddington (211–212)
• Eddius Stephanus (212)
• Egbert I (214)
• Egbert II (214–215)
• Egbert of Wessex (215)
• Eorl (221)
• Hatfield (298)
• Hilda (305)
• Ine (325–326)
• Kent (343)
• Oswald (431)
• Penda (440–441)
• Raedwald (450–451)
• Wilfrid (535)

2007. Co-Editor, Issue 10 of The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe.

2003. “Swearing False Oaths: The Identity of ‘Aglibert’ in the Chronicle of Fredegar Continuation 3.” Medieval Prosopography 24:89–105.

2003. “An Appeal to Rome: Anglo-Saxon Dispute Settlement, 800–810.” The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe 6.

2003. Review of Medieval Concepts of the Past: Ritual, Memory, Historiography, by Gerd Althoff, Johannes Fried and Patrick Geary, eds. Arthuriana 13:111–112 .

2000. Review of Vision and Image in Early Christian England, by George Henderson. Comitatus 31:261–263.

Professional Papers

Rethinking Program Review: Five Years of Lessons, Co-Presented with Sara Van Asten, North Hennepin Community College (2023 HLC Conference: Learn–Lead–Luminate, Chicago, IL. March 25–28, 2023.)

Reacting to the Barbarians? Competing Views of Citizenship in the Late Antique West (Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, Birmingham, AL. November 10–12, 2022)

Two Romes: Fighting for Freedom in Fuqua’s King Arthur (International Society for the Study of Medievalism Annual Conference, Boone, NC. October 20–22, 2022)

Passion for the “Good Old Days”: Perspectives of the “Colonized” in Late Antique Gaul (Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC. November 11–13, 2021)

Passion for Hypothes.is: Leveraging Digital Tools and Crowdsourcing to Teach through Primary Sources (Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC. November 11–13, 2021)

Reverse Colonialism in Late Antiquity: A Study of Book 9 of Sidonius Apollinaris’s Letters (54^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. May 9–12, 2019)

Teaching a Diverse Medieval Europe: Undergraduate Pedagogy (133^rd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, IL. January 3–6, 2019)

Migration, Peregrini, and Breton Saints: A Reexamination of the “Exile for Christ Motif” (Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, Nassau, The Bahamas. November 8–10, 2018)

Claiming Transgression: Spiritual Migration in Late Antique Christian Thought (Midwest World History Association 7^th Annual Conference, Metropolitan State University, Saint Paul, MN. September 23–24, 2016)

In Search of Emma: Merovingian Politics and the Kingdom of Kent (Morris Medieval Scholars Lecture, University of Minnesota, Morris. September 24, 2015)

Views of Abraham in Late Antiquity: From “Father of Faith” to “Foreigner in a Strange Land” (50^th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. May 14–17, 2015)

Merovingians in World History (World History Association 22^nd Annual Conference, North Hennepin Community College, Brooklyn Park, MN. June 26–29, 2013)

Becoming Barbarian: An Examination of Stilicho in Fifth-Century Latin Sources (47^th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. May 10–13, 2012)

Queen Bertha and the Not-So-Venerable Bede: Why Did He Write Her Out of His Story? (Morris Medieval Scholars Inaugural Lecture, University of Minnesota, Morris. February 7, 2011)

Foreigner, Missionary, or Wandering Ascetic? The Transformation and Appropriation of “Peregrinus” in the Latin West (36^th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Virginia Tech, Roanoke, VA. November 18–20, 2010)

“Disgusted with his Foreign Speech”: Shifting Situational Identity in the Early Middle Ages (44^th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. May 7–10, 2009)

Converting the Frankish Pagani: An Examination of Sixth-Century British Peregrini (43^rd International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. May 8–11, 2008)

Bede, Bertha, and the Frankish Contribution to the Conversion of the English (42^nd International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. May 10–13, 2007)

Re-roofing Ferrières: Anglo-Saxon Patronage of Frankish Monasteries in the Ninth Century (41^st International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. May 3–7, 2006)

An Early Volte-Face of the Papacy? The Role of the Merovingians in the Three Chapters Dispute (Thirtieth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Baltimore, MD. October 28–31, 2004)

Ebroin and the Anglo-Saxons (International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, Leeds, U. K. July 12–15, 2004)

The Quest for Immunity: Renegotiating Social Networks in Late Merovingian Gaul (39^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. May 6–9, 2004)

Childebertus Rex: Slayer of Innocents or Friend of Saints? (38^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. May 7–11, 2003)

Swearing False Oaths: The Identity of “Agilbert” in the Chronicle of Fredegar Continuation 3 (37^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. May 2–5, 2002)

An Appeal to Rome: Anglo-Saxon Dispute Settlement, 800–810 (36^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. May 3–6, 2001)

Merovingian Factional Politics and the Archbishop of Canterbury: Cross-Channel Relations in the Mid-seventh Century (University of California Medieval History Seminar, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. October 28, 2000)

An Empire Fragmented? Breaking Down the Myth of English Isolation in the Seventh Century (3^rd Annual UCLA Graduate Student Conference on Late Antiquity. April 4, 1998)

Constantine and His Sons: Politics and Family in Late Antiquity (UCLA Graduate Student Conference on Late Antiquity II. April 19, 1997)

Honors & Awards

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Board of Trustees Educator of the Year (2014)

• MnSCU Board of Trustees Educator of the Year Teaching Portfolio
• Award Video

North Hennepin Community College Student Life Outstanding Club Advisor of the Year (2014)
North Hennepin Community College Excellence in Education Award (2013)
North Hennepin Community College Faculty Association Educator of the Year (2010)

American Historical Association Member Spotlight Featured Historian (November 13, 2013):

Professional Memberships

Medieval Academy of America, 2000–present
American Historical Association, 2000–present
Society for Late Antiquity, 2001–2011
Byzantine Studies Conference, 2001 and 2003–2004
Southeastern Medieval Association, 2010–2011, 2018–2022
American Society for Irish Medieval Studies, 2012–present
World History Association, 2013–present
Midwest World History Association, 2016–2020

Languages

Latin
French
German
Old English

HTML, CSS, & PHP

Other

Graduate of the Chair Academy Luoma Leadership Academy, Cohort 6, (2015–2016)

AAC&U VALUE Initiative Scorer (2015)

North Hennepin Community College Student Life: Advisor to the Student Anime & Game Club (2010–2017)

Textbook Reviews

• Crossroads and Cultures: A History of the World, Draft Chapters 1, 2, 11, 17, 18, 25, and 26. Bedford/St. Martins, 2011. Reviewed May 2005.
• Bentley, Jerry H., Herbert F. Ziegler, and Heather E. Streets. Traditions & Encounters: A Brief Global History. McGraw Hill, 2006. Reviewed March 2005.

Community Service: Girl Scouts

• Northern Lights Service Unit Volunteer (2002–2011)
  • Service Unit Fast Track Coach (2009–2011)
  • Service Unit Manager (2006–2009)
  • Service Unit Registrar (2003–2006)
  • Encampment Coordinator (2002–2006)
• Troop Leader (2001–2009)