Elspeth Whitney, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of History University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 455020 Las Vegas, NV 89154-5020 Phone: (702) 895-3350 ~ Fax: (702)895-1782 e-mail: elspeth@unlv.nevada.edu

Positions Held
Associate Professor, UNLV-1994-present.
Visiting Professor, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, Jan-July 1999.
Chair, Department of History, July 1996-Jan. 1999.
Associate Professor, UNLV-1994-present.
Assistant Professor, UNLV, 1990-1994.
Visiting Assistant Professor, UNLV, Spring 1990.
Assistant Professor, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, 1985-89.
Publications
Books
Paradise Restored: The Mechanical Arts from Antiquity Through the Thirteenth Century (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1990).
Medieval Science and Technology (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004)
Articles
“Changing Metaphors and Concepts of Nature,” in Fluxes of Nature, Fluxes of Thought: Ecology, Theology and Judeo-Christian Environmental Ethics, ed. David M. Lodge and Christopher S. Hamlin (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, forthcoming 2006).
With Irving Kelter, “Pearl Kibre,” in Women Medievalists in the Academy, ed. Jane Chance (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2004), 541-552.
“Sex, Lies and Depositions: Pierre de Lancre’s Vision of the Witches’ Sabbath,” in Crossing Boundaries: Issues of Cultural and Individual Identity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. Sally McKee, Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, vol. 3 (Turnhout, Belgium, 1999), 239-262.
“Women, Witches and other Outsiders,” in Women and Medieval Culture, ed. Linda E. Mitchell (Garland, 1998), 295-314.

“The Witch ‘she,’/the Historian ‘he,’: Gender and the Historiography of the European Witch Hunts,” Journal of Women's History, 7 (1995): 77-101. Reprinted in Brian Levack, ed. New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology, vol.4: Gender and Witchcraft (New York: Routledge, 2001).
“The Artes mechanicae and the Moral Value of Technology,” in Design and Production
in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Bradford Blaine, ed. Nancy van Deusen (Ottawa, 1998), 75-87.
“History, Lynn White, and Ecotheology,” Environmental Ethics, 15 (1993): 151-169.
“Crafts, Philosophy, and the Liberal Arts in the Early Middle Ages,” Annals of Scholarship 4 (1987): 11-27.
Encyclopedia Articles
“The Mechanical Arts (Artes Mechanicae)” in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert J. Bjork (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
“Lynn White (1907-1987) – Thesis of,” in The Encyclopedia of Nature and Religion, ed. Bron R. Taylor et al. (New York and London: Continuum Press, 2005) 2: 1735-1737.
“Artes Mechanicae” in Medieval Latin Studies: An Introduction and BibliographicalGuide, ed. F.A.C. Mantello and A.G. Rigg (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1996), 431-435.
Book Reviews (recent)
Review of Hans Peter Broedel, The Malleus Maleficarum and the Construction of Witchcraft: Theology and Popular Belief. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2003 in Renaissance Quarterly 63 (2005): 672-673.
Review of Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits: Traditional Belief and Folklore in Early Modern Europe, ed. Kathryn A. Edwards in Renaissance Quarterly 57 (2004):628.
Review of Pamela O. Long, Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, in Isis, 2004.
Review of Walter Stephens, Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief. Chicago; University of Chicago Press, 2002, in Renaissance Quarterly, 56 (2004): 1223-1224.

Review of Linda Ehrsam Voigts and Patricia Deery Kurtz, eds, Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference in Medium Aevum, forthcoming.
Review of Michael Goodich, ed., Other Middle Ages: Witnesses at the Margins of Medieval Society in Reading Medieval Studies, 26 (2000): 159.
Review of Sabrina Flanagan, Hildegarde of Bingen: A Visionary Life, 2nd ed., in Reading Medieval Studies, 26 (2000): 164.
Review of Kathleen Ashley and Pamela Sheingorn, Writing Faith: Text, Sign, and History in the Miracles of Sainte Foy in The Historian, 667-668.
Presentations (selected recent)
“Temperament, Gender, and the Stars: Masculine and Feminine Types in Medical and Astrological Theory,” International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2004.
“The Lynn White Thesis Revisited,” Renaissance Society of America, New York City, NY, April 2, 2004
“Hysteria, the Passions, and Suffocation of the Mother,” Workshop, Attending to Early Modern Women, University of Maryland, College Park, Nov. 7, 2003.
“From Bartholomeus to Batman: Physiology and Gender in the Theory of the Temperaments,” Fort Collins, Rocky Mt. Medieval and Renaissance Association Annual Conference, May, 2003.
“Phlegmatic Women and Menstruating Men: Temperament, the Demonic, and the Fluidity of Gender in 16th Century Medical Discourse,” Houston, TX, Oct. 2002.
“The Gendering of the Witch’s Body: Early Modern Demonologists and Physicians on Women’s Susceptibility to the Devil,” The Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Storrs, CT., June 9, 2002.
“Medieval Technology and Modern Environmentalism,” Rocky Mt. Medieval and Renaissance Association Annual Conference, UNLV, May 23, 2002.
“Melancholy, Gender and the Witch: Sixteenth-Century Medical Doctrine and the Demonic,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Scottsdale, AZ, April 12, 2002.
“Changing Concepts of Nature,” Plenary, Ecology, Theology and Judeo-Christian Environmental Ethics, Notre Dame, Feb. 26, 2002.

“The Gendering of the Witch’s Body: Johannes Weyer and Reginald Scot,” Western Association of Women Historians Annual Meeting, May 18, 2001.
“Cold, Wet, and Impressionable: Demonologists on the Female Body and the Witch,” Rocky Mt. Medieval and Renaissance Ass. Annual Meeting, May 12, 2000, Snowbird, Utah.
“The Senses Reformed: The Mechanical Arts in the Twelfth and thirteenth Centuries,” Symposium, Graduate Studies in Medival Culture, University of Reading, Reading,
United Kingdom, June 30, 1999.
“Sex, Lies, and Depositions: Pierre de Lancre’s Vision of the Witches’ Sabbath,” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, Tempe, AZ, Feb. 15, 1997.
Awards and grants (recent)
Huntington Foundation Fellowship, March 2001.
UNLV SITE Grant, 2001-2002.
Sabbatical Leave, July 2001 – June 2002.
University Research Grant, October, 1994.
Faculty Development Leave, Jan.-Dec. 1994.
College of Liberal Arts Morris Award for Scholarship, 1992.
In Progress
Book-length project “The Witch’s Body: Gender and the Demonic in European Thought, 1100-1700.”