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Dr. Jennifer McNabb

Associate Professor

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Winner, 2009 Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching

CAS Outstanding Faculty Award for Teaching

Teaching Excellence Award Winner

WIU "HOPE Certificate of Excellence" in Teaching

Dr. McNabb (center) at the 2009 Provost's Awards Ceremony

Dr. Jennifer McNabb joined the Department of History in 2005 as Western's historian of England and Early Modern Europe. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2003 and spent the next two years teaching at Colorado State University, after which she joined Western's History faculty. She teaches upper-division courses on Early Modern (Renaissance/Reformation) Europe [History 425(G)], the history of England [History 333 and 334], and Medieval Europe [History 324], as well as sections of the Western Civ I survey [History 125] and the Department's historical methods course for majors [History 301]. Her graduate seminars [History 540 and 541] deal with Early Modern European history and Tudor-Stuart England.

Prof. McNabb's research focuses on the social impact of the Reformation in Tudor and Early Stuart England. Using lively and detailed records from church courts, she studies the consequences of religious and political change on such institutions as marriage, family, and the community. Her research has been published in the Sixteenth Century Journal and Quidditas, the journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, and she also serves as the latter journal's book review editor. She is developing her research into a book manuscript on the English family in the century prior to the Civil War. Most recently, her research was highlighted in the Economic History Review's 2008 assessment of significant recently published scholarship on Early Modern Europe.

Dr. McNabb has won a number of awards, grants, and fellowships, including the 2009 Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching, the 2009 Outstanding Faculty Award for Teaching from the WIU College of Arts and Sciences, a WIU University Research Council (URC) Grant and the Allen Breck Award from the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association for the best paper presented at the Annual Meeting by a junior scholar. She is the recipient of a WIU Honoring Our Professors of Excellence (HOPE) Certificate of Excellence in Teaching, and while at the University of Colorado, she won a Teaching Excellence Award, the Thomas Edwin Devaney Fellowship, the Bernice Udick Fellowship, the John Rice Fellowship in British Studies, and the J.D.A. Ogilvy Travel Fellowship in British Studies.

Prof. McNabb serves as Faculty Advisor to the Associated Students of History (ASH) and has worked with a number of students on Undergraduate Research projects. She has served as the Chair of the University's Writing in the Disciplines (WID) Committee, and represents the College of Arts and Sciences on the University Honors Council, the University's Graduate Council, the University Research Council, and the University's Faculty Senate.

 

Dr. McNabb & Her Students in the News

Dr. McNabb at ASH gathering