Chris Halsted Visiting Assistant Professor of History

Newcomb 202
540-458-8094
chalsted@wlu.edu

Education

PhD., University of Virginia 2021

M.A., University of Virginia 2017

B.A., Oberlin College 2014

Research

Political history of early midieval central and eastern Europe; economic connections between Europe and the Middle East; cultural history; environmental humanitites; identity, alterity and gender.

Teaching

Roman history

Medieval history

Selected Publications

"They Ride on the Backs of Certain Beasts':  The Night Rides, the Canon Episcopi, and Regino of Prum's Historical Method," Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 15.3 (2020)m 361-385.

"Imperial Narratives, Complex Geographies: The Saxon Marches between Textuality and Materiality, 929-983," Viator 49.3 (2018), 1-21.

"Einhardian Geography and the Tenth-Century Abodrites," forthcoming, Early Medieval Europe 33.3.

"Sexuality, Alterity, and Riding in Thietmar's Chronicon," forthcoming, Saints and Sinners on Horseback, ed. Miriam Bibby (Budapest: Trivent Publishing).

Current Research

I am focusing currently on the intersections of gender, ethnicity, and geographical thought in early medieval literature, especially as regards the metaphor of the wilderness and its use in constructing identity.