Bio:
Nathan Howard (Ph.D., University of Arkansas, 2005) came to UT-Martin after completing a one-year position as Visiting Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University (2005-2006). In 2010, Dr. Howard was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award by the Southeastern Medieval Association. In 2010 he also received the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at UT-Martin. His current research focuses on episcopal patronage in fourth-century Christianity, with an emphasis on the Cappadocians. In August 2011 he presented his paper “The Vita Macrinae as Theological Invective” at the International Congress on Patristic Studies held at Oxford, England.
In 2010 Dr. Howard was awarded a Lindsay Young Research Fellowship at the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. In 2007, Prof. Howard won an N.E.H. Summer Institute Fellowship to attend a seminar held at Notre Dame University, “Early Christianity and the Path to Islam: The Middle East Between Rome and Persia." He received the 2004 Edith Whitehead Williams Prize for best paper in medieval history (awarded by the Southeastern Medieval Association) and published this piece in Medieval Perspectives. He won a Mellon Fellowship in 2003 to use the Vatican Microfilm Library at St. Louis University.
Dr. Howard also serves as Volunteer Assistant Coach for the UT-Martin cross country team (2006-present) and he currently is a member of the Faculty Senate. His studies have taken him to numerous foreign countries, including Jordan, Israel, Egypt, Turkey, and most of Europe. In May 2009 and 2011, he led travel studies to Greece and Turkey.
Courses Taught:
HIST 121 Development of World Civilizations I
HIST 121H Honors Development of World Civilizations I
HIST 122 Development of World Civilizations II
HIST 320 Ancient Greece
HIST 321 Ancient Rome
HIST 420 Late Antiquity and Medieval History
HIST 421 Renaissance and Reformation
HIST 468 Travel Study (Greece and Turkey)
HIST 499 Historical Research and Writing
UNSC 218 Reading/Discussion (Seven Wonders of the Ancient World)
Select Publications:
“A Sacred Eloquence: The Literary Legacy of the Cappadocian Fathers in Western
Europe, 400-1600.” The Patristic and Byzantine Review 29 (2011).
“Familial Askêsis in the Vita Macrinae.’’ Studia Patristica 47 (Leuven: Peeters, 2010), 33-38.
“Honor and Obligation: Bishops’ Epistles as Commodities in Late Antiquity.”
Journal of Business and Economic Perspectives 33 (Fall/Winter 2007)
“Classical and Christian Paideia in Fourth-Century Cappadocia.”
Medieval Perspectives 19 (Spring 2005)
“Romanizing the Bishops: Eusebius’ Elevation of the Clergy in the Vita Constantini.”
Ozark Historical Review (Volume 31, Spring 2002)
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