Dr. Charles Beem, Professor in the Department of History, has been awarded the 2022 Brandie Siegfried Prize from the Queen Elizabeth I Society.  His presentation “Mary Tudor: The TV Series” was delivered at the South Central Renaissance Conference, held in a virtual format March 3-5, 2022, sponsored by the University of Alabama. The Brandie Siegfried Prize is named in honor of the Queen Elizabeth I Society’s former president, whose work outlined the lives of Queen Elizabeth, Grace O’Malley, Mary Wroth and other early modern women.

Dr. Beem teaches courses in World Civilizations, Early Modern Europe, all aspects of British History, the History of Sexuality, and coordinates the Minor in British Studies.  He is a recipient of UNCP’s Dial Award for Scholarship and Creativity, and was twice awarded the Dial Award for Excellence in Teaching.

“Dr. Siegfried’s scholarship reflected her deep commitment to nuanced feminist readings of early modern literature and history,” relates Society President Dr. Catherine Loomis. “The Queen Elizabeth Society awards the Siegfried Prize to work that meets a very high standard of originality, significance, structure, scholarship, and felicity of prose. Dr. Beem’s talk exceeded these standards by making and supporting claims about Marian historiography and contemporary, cultural reading as of Mary’s reign that were new and important, clear and convincing, and beautifully and wittily exposed.”