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Dr. Janis Gibbs has been a Hope College faculty member since 1996. She is currently associate professor of history, and she also serves as co-advisor (with Professor David Cunningham) of the Fulbright Program for students who are interested in applying for Fulbright Fellowships after graduation, as a pre-law advisor and as a regular faculty member (since 1999) in the Hope College Vienna Summer School. She is also a member of the Global Studies Advisory Council. 

AREAS OF expertise

Professor Gibbs's research concentrates on sixteenth-century Germany. Her dissertation was on the relationship between religion, politics and identity in Cologne. Recently, she has been investigating the strange case of Hermann von Weid, the deposed Archbishop of Cologne, who, oddly, had two funerals 亚洲色吧� one Catholic one and one Protestant.

In addition to Reformation Europe, her teaching areas include the modern Middle East, the problem of genocide in the modern world, the Middle Ages and the history of civil liberties in wartime (a first year seminar).

EDUCATIOn

• Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1996
• M.A., University of Virginia, 1991
• J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1984
• B.A. with highest honors, College of William and Mary, 1981

HONORS, GRANTS, AWARDS, & PUBLISHED WORk

• Hope College Provost亚洲色吧檚 Award for Service to the Academic Program (2015)
• Nominating Committee, Society for Reformation Research (2014亚洲色吧�2016)
• Miriam Ussher Chrisman Travel Fellowship Committee, Society for Reformation Research (2014亚洲色吧�2015)
• Ad Hoc Committee for the Revision of the Constitution, Society for Reformation Research (2014亚洲色吧�2015)
• GLCA New Directions Grant, 亚洲色吧淐onfessional Conflicts: Two Archbishops, the Empire, and the Community亚洲色吧� (2012)
• Herzog August Bibliothek Fellowship, Government of Lower Saxony (2011)
• Semi-finalist, U.S. Supreme Court Fellowship Program (2011)
• Co-Membership Secretary and Treasurer, Society for Reformation Research (2001亚洲色吧�2011)
• Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (1994)
• Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (1991)

Selected Presentations

• 亚洲色吧淓xperiential Learning In and Out of the Classroom: Roundtable,亚洲色吧� sponsored by Sixteenth Century Journal, Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2015.
• 亚洲色吧淒eath Comes for the Archbishop:  The Double Commemoration of the Death of Hermann von Wied, Archbishop of Cologne,亚洲色吧� New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012
• 亚洲色吧淒eath Comes for the Archbishop: The Two Funerals of Archbishop of Hermann von Wied of Cologne亚洲色吧� (work in progress), Stipendiatenkolloquium, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenb眉ttel, Germany, 2011
• 亚洲色吧淢ayors and Mourning:  Rituals of Burial and the Political Community in Late Medieval and Early Modern Cologne,亚洲色吧� Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, 2008
• Roundtable Presentation on Teaching Travel Narratives, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, 2007
• 亚洲色吧淛urisdictional Challenges: The Complexity of Jurisdiction in Early Modern Germany (or: Who's Hung Up On a Gallows?),亚洲色吧� Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, 2003

Published Work

• 亚洲色吧淚mmigration and Civic Identity in Sixteenth-Century Cologne,亚洲色吧� in Ideas and Cultural Margins in Early Modern Germany: Essays in Honor of H.C. Erik Midelfort, Ashgate, 2009
• 亚洲色吧溠侵奚�吧橣rom Now On You亚洲色吧檒l Be History亚洲色吧�: The Transition from Memorization to Analysis,亚洲色吧� in Beyond Tests and Quizzes: Creative Assessments in College Classrooms, John Wiley and Sons, 2007
• Article on 亚洲色吧淐ologne,亚洲色吧� Europe, 1450-1798:  Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, Charles Scribner亚洲色吧檚 Sons, 2004

Outside hope

When she is not teaching, planning classes or deciphering sixteenth-century German handwriting, Professor Gibbs enjoys politics and political satire, reading (especially speculative fiction), going to the theatre, traveling and thinking that she really ought to be working out.