Draft:Sharon Farmer
Career
Dr. Sharon Farmer got her PHD from Harvard University in 1983 and later worked at UC Santa Barbara. According to her UC Santa Barbara page, Farmer specializes in medieval women and gender, medieval towns, medieval poor, and relations between western Europe and the east. Farmer's career is highlighted by her works on medieval gender studies and studies on poor communities in medieval times.[1] According to a student published article on the UC Santa Barbara website, Farmer retired at the end of the 2019 academic year.[2]
Works
Some of Farmer's current projects include “The Life and Times of Jehanne la Fouaciere, Parisian Linen Merchant” and Gender and the Making of the Vegetable Gardens of Medieval Suburban Paris. Farmers achievements as of 2015 include Election to Society of Fellows, Medieval Academy of America in 2015, EURIAS Fellow, Institut d’études avancées-Paris, 2013-4, and other fellowships that show Farmers accomplishments in the medievalist field.[3] Farmers essay, Merchant Women and the Administrative Glass Ceiling in Thirteenth Century Paris, shows Farmer using methods such as looking into tax assessments from medieval Paris to provide evidence towards her point.[4] Farmer also when creating her work talks with professionals in the fields she is researching. For example in her work "Global and Gendered Perspectives on the Production of a Parisian Alms Purse" in the Journal of Medieval Worlds, Sharon Farmer worked with professionals in textile analysis and chemical analysis to determine the makeup of the Parisian Alms purse she was researching.[5]
References
- ^ Farmer, Sharon. "Sharon Farmer". UC Santa Barbara. Retrieved 17 November 2024.
- ^ Langdon, Dylan. "Then and Now: A Retirement Tribute for Historian Sharon Farmer". UC Santa Barbara. Retrieved 17 November 2024.
- ^ Farmer, Sharon. "Sharon Farmer". UC Santa Barbara. Retrieved November 17, 2024.
- ^ Theresa, Earenfight (2010). Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 89–101.
- ^ Farmer, Sharon (September 2019). "Global and Gendered Perspectives on the Production of a Parisian Alms Purse". Journal of Medieval Worlds. 1 (2): 45–83.