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About Br. Charles Hilken, F.S.C.

Currently teaching in the History Department and directing the Bishop John S. Cummins Institute for Catholic Thought, Culture, and Action.

Research projects:

A study of an eleventh-century chapter book, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Codex Barberinianus latinus 421.

A study of the importance of the Chapter Room in the formation of identity of monks and nuns in the Middle Ages.

A chapter on Beneventan necrologies for a Companion to Beneventan Regional Studies, to be published by Brill.

Positions

2003 - Present Professor, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ History
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1993 - Present Brother Counselor, Residence Life Program, Saint Mary's College of California
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Present Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ School of Liberal Arts
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2017 - 2018 Nicky B. Carpenter Fellowship in Manuscript Studies, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, St. John's University
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1999 - 2003 Associate Professor, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ History
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2000 - 2000 Elected Research Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
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1994 - 1999 Assistant Professor, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ History
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1995 - 1995 Elected Research Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
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1993 - 1994 Assistant Professor, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ Collegiate Seminar
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Disciplines

Research Interests

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Professional Service and Affiliations

Present Member, APICES: Association paléographique internationale
Present Member, American Catholic Historical Association
Present Member, American Historical Association
Present Member, California Historical Association
Present Member, Iuris Canonici Medii Aevi Consociatio
Present Member, Medieval Academy of America
Present Member, Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
Present Member, Société Mabillon
2009 - 2011 Historical Consultant, Evergreen Exhibitions
2007 - 2008 Historical Consultant, Evergreen Exhibitions
2001 - 2003 Professional and Historical Consultant, Clear Channel Exhibitions
1991 - 1992 Historical Consultant, Inside the Vatican with Sir Peter Ustinov
1991 - 1992 Historical Consultant, Inside the Vatican with Sir Peter Ustinov
1983 - 1986 Associate Vocation Director in the District of San Francisco, Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
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Honors and Awards

  • Awarded the Nicky B. Carpenter Fellowship in Manuscript Studies, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, St. John's University, Minnesota, 2017-2018.

Courses

  • History of the Europe in the Dark Ages
  • Interpreting the First Crusade
  • Proseminar: Crusade and Mission
  • Renaissance History
  • Warfare in the Middle Ages
  • Collegiate Seminar
  • Early Medieval History
  • High and Later Middle Ages
  • Western Civilization

Education

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1994 Ph.D. Medieval History, University of Toronto
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1991 M.S.L., Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
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1987 M.A. Medieval History, University of Toronto
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1978 B.A. History, Saint Mary's College of California
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Contact Information

Office: Galileo Hall 317
Phone: 925-631-4611
Fax: 925-377-0156
Mail: P.O. Box 4825

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