Alison BeachDr. June L. Mecham received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Kansas in 2004. Her research interests included women's history and gender history, especially female spirituality and monasticism, as well as the interaction between material cuture and devotional practices, space and performance in late medieval Germany. Selected for the 2008/09 Arts and Sciences Alumni Outstanding Teaching Award, she was also the recipient of an A.W. Mellon Posdoctorate Fellowship in Medieval studies spent at the Medieval Institute of Notre dame in 2006/07, and received the Neil Ker Memorial Fund Grant in 2007. She passed away March 1, 2009, after a long illness, at the age of 35. Read More Read Less