Sean M. Winslow

c/o Centre for Medieval Studies
125 Queen's Park, 3rd Floor
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C7 CANADA
Citizen of the United States

Education

• University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
  Doctor of Philosophy in Medieval Studies, Book History, and Print Culture
  Dissertation: "Ethiopic Manuscript Production: Practices and Contexts" (Supervisor: Prof. Michael Gervers)
  Major Field: "Issues in the Material Production and Social Contexts of Books from Antiquity to Incunabulum"
  Minor Field: Latin Palaeography
  Expected Conferral Date: December 2012

• University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
  Master of Arts in Medieval Studies, Book History, and Print Culture
  Conferral Date: November 2004

• University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California
  Bachelor of Arts in History
  Honors in the Major, Cowell College Honors
  Graduation Date: December 2002

• Year Abroad:
  University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland
  Department of Mediaeval History Exchange Student
  
  		

Fellowships and Awards

• School of Graduate Studies Travel Grant, University of Toronto, 2011 (Ethiopia)
• Centre for Medieval Studies Travel Grant, University of Toronto, 2011 (Ethiopia)
• Doctoral Completion Award, University of Toronto, 2010-11
• School of Graduate Studies Travel Grant, University of Toronto, 2010 (United Kingdom)
• Heckman Grant, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, St. John's University, 2010
• Centre for Medieval Studies Travel Grant, University of Toronto, 2009 (Ethiopia)
• Fulbright Fellow (U. S. Student Program; Ethiopia), U. S. State Dept., 2008-9 - "Ethiopic Manuscript Culture and its European Analogues"
• Study Elsewhere Scholarship for Less-Commonly Taught Languages, University of Toronto, 2007 - Amharic Language Training in Ethiopia
• Open Fellowship (every year for five years), University of Toronto, 2004-2008, 2009-10
• Campus Merit Scholarship, University of California at Santa Cruz, 2000

Exhibits

• Ethiopic Manuscript Production at the John M. Kelly Library, University of St. Michael's College, University of Toronto. June–September 2011.
  Companion website at: http://larkvi.com/mss/eth/production/.

Publications

• "Symbolic Power in Traditional Ethiopia" (Abstract), AVISTA Forum Journal (forthcoming)
• "Manuscript Evidence for Medieval Apiculture" (Abstract), AVISTA Forum Journal, vol. 18, no. 1/2. pp. 119–20.
• Photographic contributor to Gervers and Balicka-Witakowska, Mazgaba Se'elat - Treasury of Ethiopian Images
  (catalogued online database of images of Ethiopian art, architecture and culture). http://ethiopia.deeds.utoronto.ca/ (username: student, password: student)

Research

• Manuscripts Specialist, U. S. Embassy Project: "Establishment of a Center for the Study of Islamic Manuscripts at the Sherif Harar City Museum, Harar, Ethiopia" 2009
• Researcher, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, 2008-
• Editorial/Palaeographical Assistant, Early English Books Online/Text Creation Partnership, 2005-7
• Iter Fellowship, Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, 2004-5

Conference Papers

• "Contemporary Ethiopic Scribal Practice as an Informant for the Study of Antique and Medieval Manuscript Production,"
  47th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2012 (forthcoming)
• "The Last Christian Scribes: Traditional Manuscript Production in the Ethiopian Highlands"
  Premodern Discussion Group, History Department, University of Toronto, 2011
• Traditional Parchment Production in Contemporary Ethiopia: an Ethnoarchaeological Perspective on Medieval Ms. Studies"
  46th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2011 (Forthcoming)
• "Symbolic Power in Traditional Ethiopia"
  45th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2010
• "Modernization and Variation in the Production of Ethiopic Manuscripts"
  17th International Conference on Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University 2009
• "Manuscript Evidence for Medieval Apiculture in Southern Italy: the Beneventan Exultet Rolls"
  Three Societies (Sixth Joint Meeting of the BSHS, CSHPS, and HSS), Keeble College, Oxford 2008
• "To bee perfect: the honeybee as a symbol of natural law"
  40th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan 2005

Other Conference Participation

• Roundtable Presenter, "Experiencing the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library,"
  47th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2012 (forthcoming)
• Organizer/Chair, "Material Aspects of Manuscript Culture" for the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
  47th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2012 (forthcoming)
• Chair, 2nd/3rd Philology Sessions, 17th International Conference on Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University 2009
• Participant, Stanford-Mellon Material Culture and History of the Book Workshop Series, 2001-3

Professional Interests

• Material, Technological, and Social History of the Book
• Intersections between Literacy and Magical Practices
• High Medieval Intellectual History
• Medieval Military History
• Classical and Medieval Apiculture

Other Interests

• Digital Photography and Editing
• Historical European Martial Arts

Teaching: Professional Development

• Advanced University Teaching Preparation Certificate, University of Toronto, 2012
• Teaching Fundamentals Certificate, University of Toronto, 2011
• THE500 Teaching in Higher Education (course), Winter 2011

Teaching: Guest Lectures

• HIST 3551Y/4050Y Medieval Warfare, Trent University, Oshawa/Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
  Lectured on medieval infantry warfare, martial practice, and fechtbücher to undergraduate students in a year-long upper-division course in medieval military history.
• Special Lecture Session, Institute for Heritage Preservation and Paleoenvironment, Mekele University, Mekele, Ethiopia
  Lectured on Ethiopian manuscript culture and its conservation challenges to first- and second- year students, identifying current issues in conservation and advancing local, resource-appropriate solutions to the problems so identified.
• MST 1105 Latin Palaeography I, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  Lectured on Codicology in a graduate-level palaeography course, discussing the material reasons for different palaeographical traits and explaining the terminology necessary to describe the physical structure of a book.

Teaching: Other Teaching

• Private Tutor (IB-level Latin), 2005-6
• Teacher/Tutor (SAT, PSAT, SAT II, ACT), Kaplan Test Prep, 2000-2003

Service

• Member, Board of Directors, AVISTA, 2011-
• Founding Chair, The Academy of European Medieval Martial Arts at the University of Toronto, 2008-9
• Member, Friends of the PIMS Library Steering Committee, 2005-
• Chair, Sources and Resources Workshop Series, CMS 2004-6
• Chair, Medieval Musicology Workshop Series, CMS 2005
• Course Union Representative, Graduate Student's Union, 2005-6
• Officer, Centre for Medieval Studies Student Committee, 2005-6
• President, Teefy Hall, University of St Michael's College, UofT 2003-4

Language Competencies

• Latin: reading knowledge. Centre for Medieval Studies
  Level 2 Exam (2006)
  Level 1 Exam (2004)
• German: reading knowledge.
  Centre for Medieval Studies Exam (2008)
• French: reading knowledge.
  Centre for Medieval Studies Exam (2008)

Professional Societies

• Medieval Academy of America
• American Historical Association
• Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science
• AVISTA: Association Villard de Honnecourt for Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art
• Societas Magica
• The Academy of European Medieval Martial Arts

Honors

• Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America
• Vigil Honor, Ohlone Lodge, Order of the Arrow, Boy Scouts of America

Copyright 2011, Sean Winslow. This document may be freely reproduced for appropriate professional purposes.