Westminster Faculty Information

Mary Jane Chase, PhD.

Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
Department - Arts and Sciences
Email - Click here
Office Location - Foster 217
Office Phone - 801-832-2301
Mary Jane Chase

Education

  • B.A., Honors: Renaissance Studies, Stanford University 1977
  • M.A., Ph.D., Early Modern European History, Columbia University 1992

About

B.A., Honors: Renaissance Studies, Stanford University 1977
Honors Thesis: "Marguerite d'Angouleme"

M.A., Ph.D., Early Modern European History, Columbia University 1992
Master's Thesis: "Sebastian Castellio"
Dissertation: "Popular Piety in Sixteenth-Century Picardy: Amiens and the Rise of Private Devotions, 1500-1540"

Born and raised in university towns (Evanston, IL and Ann Arbor, MI), the love of academia and a sense of humor drove me to spend the rest of my life in school. I fell in love with Paris at 16 (high school trip) and have tried to arrange my life ever since to have an excuse to return to France on a regular basis.

My decision to come to Westminster College was the best professional and personal decision I ever made. If you've ever met the Westminster faculty and students you understand completely!

Research/Teaching Interests

Research: Social History of Religion based on archival materials, especially the inventaires apres deces found in the municipal archives of Amiens.

Teaching: European History

Edit this info?

If you are Mary Jane Chase, please click here to edit the above information. If you are not Mary Jane, go to the Faculty Information listing, click on your name and select Edit at the bottom of the page.