Camarin Porter
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Office: 457 CCC Phone: 346-4157 E-mail: cporter@uwsp.edu Title: Associate Lecturer Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison, PhD., 2010 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Visiting Research Fellow, 2007-2008 University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.A., History, 2004 University of Texas at Austin, B.A., Government, French, and History with Honors, 1999 |
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Dissertation: "De subiecto theologiae: Gerardus Odonis, Peter Auriol, and the Nature of Theological Knowledge and Theological Authority in the Early Fourteenth-Century"
Courses Taught:
History 101 World History to 1500
History 257 Europe Since 1500
Specialty: Medieval religion and philosophy, with special interests in late medieval theology and ethics, ancient through early modern history and thought, with an emphasis on religious communities
Research interests: Late medieval religious history and philosophy; 14th century debates on the nature of theology; ethics and the history of individualism and self-interest.
Teaching interests: World, medieval, and European history, especially the history of world religious communities and religious authority, and the development of political ideology and ethics
Teaching Awards:
Distinguished Teaching Award, History Department, UW-Madison
Teaching Fellow, UW-Madison College of Letters and Science