Dr. Cheryl Riggs
Professor 

E-Mail: criggs@csusb.edu
Phone: (909)-537-5528
Fax: (909)-537-7645

Education

B.A. 1980, University of California, Santa Barbara 
M.A. 1982, University of California, Santa Barbara 
Ph. D. 1989, University of California, Santa Barbara

Areas of Specialization

Medieval European History
History of Christianity
History of Patristic and Medieval Christian Cosmology

Courses Offered

World Civilizations I
World Civilizations II
Introduction to History
Ancient and Medieval Europe
History of Ancient Greece
History of Rome
Early Medieval Europe
Late Medieval Europe
History of Christianity I and II
Proseminar in History

Publications

Consulting Editor, "Explore Ancient Cultures,"  Book 6 (Ballard and Tighe: 1995) 

"Julian of Norwich and the Ecstatic Experience" in Tradition and Ecstasy: The Agony of the Fourteenth Century (Ottawa, Canada: The Institute of Medieval Music, 1997)

"Prophecy and Order: Mysticism and Medieval Cosmologies in the twelfth and thirteenth Centuries," in The Devil, Heresy, and Witchcraft in the Middle Ages (Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1998)

Our Global Past, 2v., co-authored with Lanny Fields and Russell Barber (Bedford Books, 1997)

Reading The Global Past, co-authored with Lanny Fields and Russell Barber (Bedford Books, 1997)

Teaching The Global Past (Bedford Books, 1997)

General Historical Editor, "Explore World History," Book 6  (Ballard and Tighe, 1999, second edition 2003, third edition 2005)

"Apokatastasis and the Search for Religious Identity in Patristic Salvation History," in Religious Identity in Late Antiquity (Toronto: Edgard Kent, 2006)

"The History of Concepts: Historical Methodology and the Search for Truth," v. 32.2 Fides et Historia (2003)

General Historical Editor, People and Stories in Ancient History: A Historical Anthology (Ballard and Tighe, 2005)

General Historical Editor, People and Stories in World History: A Historical Anthology (Ballard and Tighe, 2003)

Current Research
Interests
and Projects

Patristic and Medieval Christian Creation Concepts and Philosophy