GINGER LEE SMOAK portrait
  • Associate Professor (Lecturer), Honors College
  • Assistant Professor (Lecturer), Honors College
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Presentations

  • University of Utah Tanner Humanities Center Work In Progress Lecture, "Mapping Anatomy". Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/19/2019.
  • "Medieval Sympathetic Magic: Birthing Charms, Eagle Stones, and Ligatura" at the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference: Las Vegas, NV. Conference Paper, Presented, 04/13/2018.
  • "Reacting to the Past and Subversive play: Pushing Boundaries in Pedagogy," Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference, Grand Junction, CO. Conference Paper, Presented, 06/12/2017.
  • "Public Consumption of the 'Privates': Reading the Medieval Body as Text" . Conference Paper, Presented, 06/17/2016.
  • Studia Humanitas: Honors Exploration Day Presentation. Presentation, Presented, 09/19/2015.
  • "Medieval Family Values, 1000-1500." Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference. Conference Paper, Presented, 06/2015.
  • "Women's Bodies as Evidence: Somatic Anxiety Surrounding the Uterus and Vagina in the High Middle Ages." 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Conference Paper, Presented, 05/2015.
  • Your Professors: Their Stories Honors SAC . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/21/2014.
  • Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association. Conference Paper, Presented, 06/14/2014.
  • History Department Conference. Conference Paper, Presented, 03/20/2014.
  • Women's Leadership Summit. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/05/2014.
  • International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan. “Midwives as Agents of Social Control: Ecclesiastical and Municipal Regulation of Midwifery in the Late Middle Ages.” . Conference Paper, Presented, 05/09/2013.
  • University of Utah Department of History Conference: “Midwives as Agents of Social Control: Ecclesiastical and Municipal Regulation of Midwifery in the Late Middle Ages.” . Conference Paper, Presented, 04/19/2013.
  • Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference. “Imagining Pregnancy: The Fünfbilderserie and Images of ‘Pregnant Disease Women’ in Medieval Medical Manuscripts.” . Conference Paper, Presented, 04/12/2013.
  • "Witness Testimony and the Ecclesiastical and Municipal Regulation of Midwifery in the Late Middle Ages", Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference. Conference Paper, Presented, 04/14/2012.
  • Chaired a session at the Utah State Historical Society Conference in Salt Lake City, September 10, 2011 . Conference Paper, Refereed, Other, 09/10/2011.
  • Chaired a session at the Phi Alpha Theta regional Conference at the University of Utah, April 16,2011. Conference Paper, Refereed, Other, 04/16/2011.
  • Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference. Conference Paper, Presented, 04/09/2011.

Publications

  • Ginger Smoak (2018). “Reacting to the Past and Subversive Play: Pushing Boundaries in Pedagogy,” . Quidditas. Vol. 39. Published, 10/01/2018.
  • Windows Into Western Civilization: Documents and Essays. Cognella, 2014. Published, 12/2013.
  • “Imagining Pregnancy: The Fünfbilderserie and Images of ‘Pregnant Disease Women’ in Medieval Medical Manuscripts,” Quidditas (2013), v. 34. Published, 10/2013.
  • "Midwives as Agents of Social Control: Ecclesiastical and Municipal Regulation of Midwifery in the Late Middle Ages", Quidditas, v. 33 (2012). Published, 11/2012.
  • Discourse of the Firetenders: Considering Contingent Faculty through the Lens of Activity Theory. College English 74.2 (2) March 2011. Published, 03/2011.