Courtney Luckhardt

University of Southern Mississippi | USM · Department of History

Creating video content for online courses that is dynamic is not just about using technology, but about serving student learning goals. As professional historians, we have the skills to create and disseminate content that will enable student learning in any teaching modality. While technological skills are needed to translate this expertise to the...

https://www.usmcdh.org/blog/virtual-reality-and-digital-storytelling-with-dr-courtney-luckhardt This Spring 2023, I am teaching Humanities 402/502, the Digital Humanities Practicum, focused this semester on "Digital Narratives and Virtual Reality Worlds." In the first half of the class, we explored digital forms of humanistic and historical resea...

Digital Humanities as a subfield is best understood as a collection of methods, and within that methodology, network analysis and visualization are important tools to conceptualize relationships and the transmission of ideas in historical communities. For medievalists with fragmentary evidence, social network analysis can reveal outlines of network...

History as a discipline, not just medieval history, has a race problem; history degrees earned at all levels are dominated by white people. Some of my students come to courses on the Middle Ages seeking stories of white heritage or exceptionalism, a narrative they might have learned from conceptions of the period here in the South and in popular cu...

This cultural history of early medieval travel and religion reveals how movement affected society, demonstrating the connectedness of people and regions between 500 and 850 CE. In The Charisma of Distant Places, Courtney Luckhardt enriches our understanding of migration through her examination of religious movement. Vertical links to God and horizo...

Early medieval religious travelers had both a physical vector between places and a social vector between communities and kinship networks. The power afforded to individuals through their association with a distant holy place was central to early medieval people’s understanding of the power of god. The religious value of having originated from or be...

Travel and communication in the early medieval period were fundamental parts of people’s conceptions about temporal and spiritual power, which in turn demonstrated a ruler’s legit­imacy. Examining the role of messengers and diplomatic envoys between the first Umayyad caliph of al­Andalus, ‘Abd al­Rahman III, and his fellow tenth­century rulers in C...

For most students in the introductory World Civilization I course that Courtney Luckhardt teaches online, this is likely their first (and perhaps only) university history course. Persuading students that history is valuable, even just for the skills they need in critical reading and writing, is a difficult task. It is harder still when they view an...

Using gender as a lens, this article evaluates the nature of female networks of religious connection and communication in the early medieval period. The vitae of three female saints of the sixth and seventh centuries, Radegund of Poitiers, Brigid of Kildare, and Gertrude of Nivelles, demonstrate the way that women facilitated and instigated network...