Hans Hummer was born in Oklahoma, raised in Kansas and educated at
Kansas
State
University (BS 1987), the
University of
Florida (MA 1992), and the
University of
California at
Los Angeles (PhD 1997). He joined the history faculty at
Wayne
State as an assistant professor of medieval history in the fall of 1999 and was promoted to the rank of associate professor in spring 2005. His teaching interests encompass antiquity, medieval
Europe and the history of the pre-modern world. His efforts in the classroom were recognized with the
College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences Teaching Award for the 2004-2005 academic year. He has published articles on the barbarian peoples of late antiquity, and the political and social history of early medieval
Europe. In 2007, the Society for French Historical Studies recognized his first book, Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europe: Alsace and the Frankish Realm 600-1000 (Cambridge, 2005) with the David Pinkney Award, granted annually to the best book in French history. At Wayne State his research has been recognized with the
Academy of
Scholars’ Junior Faculty Award (2005) and with the Board of Governors Distinguished Faculty Award (2007)
.
Undergraduate courses taught
World Civilization to 1500 (History 1000)
The Early Middle Ages, 300-1000 (History 5360)
The Later Middle Ages, 1000-1500 (History 5370)
Charlemagne (HIS 3995)
Medieval Saints (HIS 3995)
The First Millennium (HIS 3995)
Ethnicity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (HIS 3995)
Graduate courses taught
Methods and Research in History (HIS 7830)
Select publications
Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europe:
Alsace and the Frankish Realm, 600-1000,
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, 65 (Cambridge:
Cambridge
University Press, 2005)
“The Identity of Ludovicus Piissimus Augustus in the Praefatio in Librum Antiquum Lingua Saxonica Conscriptum,” Francia 31/1 (2004), pp. 1-14
“Die merowingische Herkunft der Vita Sadalbergae,” Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 59, 2 (2003): 459-493
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