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Dr. Janis M. Gibbs

PUBLICATIONS

Ph.D. Dissertation:  Catholicism and Civic Identity in Cologne, 1475-1560

M.A. Thesis:  The Perception of Sanctity in Seventeenth-Century France

B.A. Honors Thesis:  Truth, Justice and the American Way:  United States Foreign Policy in Indochina, 1945-1954

Works in Progress:

Revision and expansion of dissertation for publication

Articles in Progress: "The Parish as an Urban Nexus in Early Modern Cologne"; "Immigration and Civic Identity in Sixteenth-Century Cologne"

Reviews in Progress:  Review of Friedrichs, Urban Politics in Early Modern Europe, for The Sixteenth Century Journal; review of Dzeja, Die Geschichte der einigen Stadt.  Städtische Chronistik in Frankfurt am Main vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert for H-German.

Publications:

Article on "Cologne" for the Europe, 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, Charles Scribner's Sons (2004).

"Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement (1995)," with Joseph C. Miller, Slavery and Abolition, 17: (December, 1996), 270-339.

"Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement (1994)," with Joseph C. Miller, Slavery and Abolition, 16: (December, 1995), 398-460.

"Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement (1993)," with Joseph C. Miller, Slavery and Abolition, 15: (December, 1994), 134-197.

"The Perception of Sanctity in Seventeenth-Century France," Essays in History, 31: (1988), 37-56.

"Overview of the Last Decade of State Antitrust Law," with Stanley M. Lipnick, The University of Toledo Law Review, 16: (Summer 1985), 903-918.

Reviews of Petkov, The Kiss of Peace: Ritual, Self and Society in the High and Late Medieval West, forthcoming, The Sixteenth Century Journal; Paravicini-Bagliani, The Pope's BodyThe Sixteenth Century Journal 34: (Summer, 2003), 593-594; Rajkay, Verflechtung und Entflechtung: Sozialer Wandel in einer bikonfessionellen Stadt:  Oettingen 1560-1806The Sixteenth Century Journal, 31: (Fall, 2000), 943-944; and Reinhart, Jene Lilien von Valois: Eine Spanische Königin in der Geschichte des 16. Jahrhunderts, in Schillers Don Karlos  und Verdis Don Carlos , The Sixteenth Century Journal, 31 (Fall, 2000), 858-860.

Review of Brunn and Epiney-Burgard, Women Mystics in Medieval Europe, in The Religious Studies Review, 17: (October 1991), 366.

 
   

PAPERS PRESENTED AND INVITED ADDRESSES

"Jurisdictional Challenges:  The Complexity of Jurisdiction in Early Modern Germany (or: Who's Hung Up On a Gallows?)," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2003.

"The Parish as Urban Nexus in Sixteenth-Century Cologne," American Society for Church History, Boston, Massachusetts, January 5, 2001.

"Law and the Boundaries of Society," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, November 3, 2000.

Session Chair, "Representing Women in the Sixteenth Century," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, November 3, 2000.

"Working in the Archives:  Practical Hints," presented to American students participating in the German Historical Institute's archive program, Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln, June 13, 2000.

"Immigration and Civic Identity in Late Sixteenth-Century Cologne," presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, October 24, 1997.

Session commentary, "Religion and Identity in Europe," at the Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 27, 1997.

"Catholicism and Civic Identity in Late Medieval Cologne," presented at the International Medieval Conference in Leeds, England, June 8, 1996.

"Catholicism and Civic Identity in the Cologne City Council, 1431-1550," presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Louisville, Kentucky, November 11, 1994.

"The Fault is Not in Our Stars: An Astrologer and the Medical Profession in Sixteenth-Century London," presented at the Into the Nineties Conference, State University of New York at Stony Brook, October 19, 1990.