Due to a very large number of applicants, the department is no longer accepting applications for our assistant professor position in transnational history in order to allow faculty to review the applications that arrived prior to October 1.
Special guest lecture by Dr. Norman Jones, Professor of History at Utah State University:
"Governing by Virtue: The Political Culture of the Elizabethian State"
Friday, November 1, from 3:30-5:00 p.m. in L.A. 256
Professor Jones earned his B.A. in History at ISU and is the recipient of an ISU Distinguished Alumnus Award. Please see an abstract of the talk below.Elizabeth I reigned from 1558-1603. She was an absolute monarch, but her state only employed about 1200 people to govern the realm. Governance was almost entirely carried out by gentlemen, aristocrats, and oligarchs who accepted governing as a duty conferred by their stations. Therefore, for the Queen to govern, an extensive network of powerful locals had to be convinced to cooperate. This was done by leveraging their value systems – compounds of Christian, humanist, and feudal values -- and their conceptions of honor and family duty. Lord Burghley, who ran the system for Elizabeth, was exquisitely aware of the ways in which these values could be used to achieve the Queen’s ends. This paper will map out this process.
This public talk will be of general interest to faculty and students in the history, theory, and practice of leadership and administration, especially the ways that leaders attempt to motivate individuals and groups to cooperate in a larger mission. The talk will also be of special interest to faculty and students interested in early modern/Renaissance English history and literature. The talk is partly sponsored by ISU English, Philosophy and History departments.