Paulette L. Pepin, Ph.D.

Book Editor

Devlin, William and Janick, Herbert, The History of Danbury (Western Connecticut State University Press, 2013).

Scholarly Articles

In Progress: Castilian Royal Chronicles and the Church Councils 1302-1311. An analysis of the Castilian king, Fernando IV’s, royal chronicle and absence of evidence concerning these important church councils. To be completed by January 2017 and submitted to a peer reviewed journal.

Assessing the 1295 Cortes: Townsmen as Resisters! - To be completed spring 2019.

Pepin, Paulette L. "A Case Study: A 13th century Marital Contract and its Consequences for the Kingdom of Castile-León." The Historian 75 (2013): 806-819.

Pepin, Paulette L. "The Castilian Church and the Cortes of 1295." The Catholic Historical Review 87 (2001): 165-184.

Pepin, Paulette L. "The Council of Peñafiel, 1302: The Castilian Church’s Reassertion of its libertas ecclesiastica." In On the Social Origins of Medieval Institutions: Essays in Honor of Joseph F. O’Callaghan, edited by Donald J. Kagay and Theresa M. Vann, 243-262. Leiden: Brill, 1998.

Book Reviews

In Progress: Review of The Wise King: A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the Renaissance by Simon R. Doubleday. Submitted I July 2016 to The Historian.

Paulette L. Pepin. Review of Queenship in Medieval Europe by Teresa Earenfight. The Historian: 77 (Summer 2015), 381–382.

Paulette L. Pepin. Review of The Queen's Hand: Power and Authority in the Reign of Berenguela of Castile by Janna Bianchini. Taylor and Francis Online Journal. 41 (2013), 135-136.

Paulette L. Pepin. The Gibraltar Crusade: Castile and the Battle for the Strait. by Joseph F. O’Callaghan. The Historian. 74 (Fall 2012), 623–624.

Paulette L. Pepin. Review of The Measure of Woman: Law and Female Identity in the Crown of Aragon by Marie A. Kelleher. The Historian. 74 (Spring 2012), 154-155.

Paulette L. Pepin. Review of Spain: A Unique History by Stanley G. Payne. The Historian. 74 (Spring 2012), 163-164.

Paulette L. Pepin, Review of The Other Within: The Marranos by Yirmiyahu Yovel. The Historian. 73 (2011), 406-407.

Paulette L. Pepin, Review of Making Difference in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia by Jean Dangler. The Historian, 69 (Fall 2007): 579-580.

Paulette L. Pepin, Review of Conflict and Coexistence by Lucy K. Pick. The Historian, 68 (2006): 890-891.

Paulette L. Pepin, Review of A Vanished World: Medieval Spain’s Golden Age of Enlightenment by Chris Lowney. The Historian, 68 (Fall 2006), 635-636.

Pepin, Paulette L. Review of A People’s University: The Centennial History of Western Connecticut 1903-2003, by Herbert F. Janick Connecticut History 43 (Spring 2004): 111-113.

Conference Presentations

21 April 2017 – "Assessing the 14th century Castilian Royal Chronicler, Fernán Sánchez’s, shrouded historical memory!" 38th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum, Keane State University, Keane, New Hampshire.

April 2016 - "María de Molina: Queenship and Cortes." 37th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum, Keane State University, Keane, New Hampshire.

21 November 2015, "Who are the Irish Costellos?" New England American Conference for Irish Studies. University of New Haven, University of New Haven, West Haven, Connecticut

24 April 2015 – "Queen María de Molina – Regency and Cortes – Defender of Royal Rights!" 36th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum, Keane State University, Keane, New Hampshire.

8 May 2014 -"María de Molina: Intrigue and Scandal in Thirteenth Century Castile." 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

11 May 2013 -"Defining María de Molina’s Queenship." 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

16 April 2011 - "A Case Study: A Marriage Contract in 13th Century Kingdom of Castile-Leòn." 32nd Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, New Hampshire.

9 January 2010 -"Marìa de Molina: An Invincible Queen and Regent." Phi Alpha Theta Bi-Annual Conference. San Diego, California.

24 April 2009 – "Marìa de Molina: A Medieval Woman of Indomitbale Spirit." 30th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, New Hampshire.

Grants

2 November 2017 - $100,000 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant - Dialogues on the Experience of War. Primary Investigator. Funding announcement April 2018.

15 September 2015 - $100,000 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant - Dialogues on the Experience of War. Primary Investigator. Grant was not funded. Will reapply 2 November 2016.

Spring 2012 Sabbatical. Awarded to complete research on a biography of María de Molina, Queen of Castile-León, 1259-1321.

2010 Summer Fellowship. University of New Haven. Awarded for research on forthcoming biography of María de Molina (1259-1321) queen and regent for the Kingdom of Castile-Leòn, 1284-1321.

Fall 2004 Sabbatical. Awarded to complete research on article, "Below the Pyrenees: A New Paradigm for Teaching Western Civilization."

2001 Summer Fellowship. University of New Haven. Awarded to complete manuscript for book, Conciliar Church Policy during the Reign of Fernando IV, King of Castile- León, 1295-1312.

Editorship

1998-2017 - Regional Sub-Editor, Medieval History, The Historian, a scholarly journal of Phi Alpha Theta, National History Honor Society.

Coming Attractions

Study abroad programs

• Paris, France – Taught - French Resistance -  (June 2017)
• London, England – Teaching – War and Espionage (June 2019)
• St. Hugh's College, University of Oxford (TBA)

Courses

• HIST 3359 – World War I: Passion and Desolation (Fall 2018)
• HIST 3365 – The Holocaust (Spring 2019)
• "War and Espionage" in conjunction with faculty from our world-renowned National Security program. (Spring 2017)
• "Human Rights"  (Fall 2017)

Courses Taught