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Department of History

Scott Wells, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
and Coordinator of the Religious Studies Program

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Contact Information

Office: King Hall A4026
Phone: (323) 343-2025
Fax: (323) 343-6431
Email: swells2@calstatela.edu

Educational Background

Ph.D. in History, 2003: New York University, NY, NY
B.A., 1992: Columbia University, NY, NY

Research Interests

European cultural and intellectual history
comparative religion, particularly monastic life and theology
medieval Germany and the Holy Roman Empire

Publications

Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe: Gender, Power, Patronage and the Authority of Religion in Latin Christendom - essays in honor of Penelope D. Johnson, co-edited with Katherine Allen Smith. Leiden: Brill, 2009.

"The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity in East Francia: The Case of Gandersheim, ca. 850-950." In Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe.

Teaching Fields

medieval and early modern Europe
historiography and critical theory
comparative religion
world history to 1700

Spring 2010 Courses

RELS 311 - Seeking the Holy: Ancient Traditions and Modern Practices

HIST 439 - The Sciences and Ideologies of Empire, ca. 1450-1800 C.E.

HIST 501 - Introduction to Graduate Study of History

Office Hours

Prof. Wells is off in Fall 2009, and on sabbatical for the Winter 2010 quarter.