Teresa Lee Green-Hall received her B.A. in History and English from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 1993. She began graduate work at the University of Texas at Austin in History; while there her undergraduate National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholar award project, entitled Montaigne’s Empiricism, was accepted for publication. The project appeared in print in 1999, while she completed an M. A. at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls in 2001; her focus there was Islam and Middle East studies. At MSU she was graduate lecturer in History, and started a second master’s in English, emphasizing teaching composition. Her revisionist work on the Alamo won the Ben Proctor Award at the Southwest Historical Association/Phi Alpha Theta conference in New Orleans, and she was invited to present it at the Texas Historical Association conference the next year in Fort Worth. Lee wrote and edited the award-winning position paper, representing Palestine, at the Southwest Model League of Arab States, and won an outstanding delegate award, in 1998. Her PhD work at OU began in 2004 in the fields of late Medieval History, Judaic Studies, Reformation, and Tudor-Stuart England, for a thematic field of Religious Studies. Lee works with Dr. Roberta Magnusson on women’s piety and literacy, the Crusades, and hermits/anchorites. Her dissertation will focus on the relationship of recluses and their relationships to surrounding religious houses as well as to the secular community, particularly in post-Norman England. Her goal is to investigate where the hermits and anchorites went after the dissolution of the monasteries in the mid-16th century. Lee has presented several papers at the Mid-America Medieval Association meetings, and often assists professors in the Religious Studies Program by covering classes in their absence. Her first class to offer at OU is expected to be “The Crusades as Portrayed Through Film.”
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