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Becky Cerling

Program Manager
Email rcerling@usc.edu Office SOS 254 Office Phone (626) 798-0793

Biography

I am a European Medievalist specializing in the history of monasticism and of children in monasticism. My dissertation is entitled, “Inside the Walls: Toward a Child’s View of Eleventh-Century English Monaticism.”  I use textual evidence plus spatial theory and anthropology to analyze child oblate’s lives at Christ Church Canterbury at the time of the Norman Conquest.  My hope is to move the spotlight away from adults’ perspectives about these children onto the children themselves.  I welcome any questions about the graduate program at USC!

Education

  • M.A. History, University of Southern California, 2010
  • B.A. , Wheaton College
  • M.Div. , Fuller Theological Seminary

  • Other Employment

    • Teaching Assistant, USC, 2008-2010

  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    My dissertation is entitled, “Inside the Walls: Toward a Child’s View of Eleventh-Century English Monaticism.” I use textual evidence plus spatial theory and anthropology to analyze child oblate’s lives at Christ Church Canterbury at the time of the Norman Conquest. My hope is to move the spotlight away from adults’ perspectives about these children onto the children themselves. Advisor: Lisa M. Bitel

    • USC Graduate Merit Scholarship, 2012-2013
    • Oakley Doctoral Fellowship,
    • USC Graduate Merit Scholarship, 2009-2011
    • USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture Doctoral Research Grant,
    • Hubbard Fellowship, USC,
    • USC Foulke Endowment,

  • Committees

    • Member, Program Committee,Department of History, USC, 2009-2010