Kalani Craig

Advisor: Dr. Deborah Deliyannis (medieval European history). Inside minors: Middle Eastern History, World History; outside minor: medieval studies.

Thesis title: “When God Ruled Ravenna: Divine Intervention as a Construct of Medieval Authority” with advisors Dr. John Ott (medieval European history) and Dr. Linda Walton (medieval Chinese and world history)

Thesis title: “Defending the Dragon: the Role of Fantasy and Science Fiction in Modern Literature” with advisors Dr. Michael Harper and Dr. Richard Fadem.

• Deliver 4 lectures, grade, assist with debates and discussion planning, and provide instructor support for 60 students in B351 (Deliyannis).

• Graded, advised and led discussion for 75 students for H213, Black Death (Carmichael), and H105, Early American History (Gamber).
• Conducted pedagogical experiment designed to improve students’ close-reading skills utilizing Web 2.0 social-networking tools for the Teaching and Learning of History Project for four weeks.

• Graded and advised 75 students for H206, Medieval Heroes (Shopkow), and C390, The Fall of Rome (Watts).

• Fluent in written and spoken Italian, written French and Latin; basic reading comprehension in German, Portuguese and Spanish.
• Expert Web design & programming (PHP, Perl, HTML, Photoshop)
• Expert MS Office, including Excel, PowerPoint and Word
• MLA, AP-style and Chicago-style editing

• “Divina ultione percussum: Divine vengeance and the politics of twelfth-century French kingship,” Medieval Studies Symposium, Indiana University (2008)
• “Digitized deeds: visualizing the impact of the Liber Pontificalis on medieval episcopal authority,” Paul Lucas Conference in Cultural History, Indiana University History Graduate Student Association (2009)