She is also the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and director of the University Honors Program. Jennifer Paxton is a Clinical Associate Professor of History at The Catholic University of America.
I think there is much more than can and should be added to a course on understanding the Celts, including deeper analysis of why Celtic culture - even as a shared linguistic group of peoples if not a monocultural, became so dispersed and who or what was responsible for the dispersal. Just look at the fact of Switzerland's informal name (Confederation Helvetia or CH as it is abbreviated on those old black and white bumper stickers we used to see on automobiles in Europe and North America). Through DNA analysis we have all found major connections to these regions and the Piedmont between Italy and Austria and Switzerland. I have deep Celtic roots as do many of my friends. I found her rather quick dismissal of the Celtic centres around the LaTene and Halstatt sites very disappointing. I was hoping for more examples of the diverse expression of Celtic arts and crafts at different geographical sites, some philological analysis of the Celtic language as it was expressed in different sites, at least some discussion of musicology and the music and instruments used in different Celtic cultural sites. I found the heavy emphasis on the UK more in line with her own academic interests in Scotland, Ireland and England rather the comprehensive presentation of the widepread Celtic cultural sites in Eurasia. However, the course was dissappointing and not at all what I was expecting.
She is well read and I appreciate her commitment to often mysterious group of peoples. Too much emphasis on the UK This was my second purchase of lectures by Jennifer Paxton.
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