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Curriculum Vitae
Name: Gabrielle M. Spiegel
Address: 1007 Poplar Hill Road Baltimore, Md. 21210 Tel. (410) 433-3645 E-Mail: [email protected]
Education:
B.A. Bryn Mawr College 1964 M.A.T. Harvard University 1965 M.A. Johns Hopkins University 1970 Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University 1974
Professional Experience:
1972-73: Bryn Mawr College Lecturer 1973-Fall: University of Pennsylvania Visiting Lecturer 1974-79: University of Maryland Assistant Professor 1979-92: University of Maryland Associate Professor 1982-1983: Johns Hopkins University Visiting Fellow 1984- Summer: Director, NEH-Maryland Humanities Council Summer Institute for High School Teachers. "The Idea of the City in Western Culture” 1987-Fall: Fellow, Center for Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland 1987-1988: Rockefeller Residency Program in Atlantic History, Culture and Society, Johns Hopkins University 1988: Guggenheim Fellow 1989-90: Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University 1992: University of Maryland Full Professor 2
1993- Johns Hopkins University Full Professor 1997- Spring Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Directeur d'Etudes Sciences Sociales associé 1999 -2002: Johns Hopkins University Chair of History Department
2000-2003: Vice-President, Research Division American Historical Association 2003 - Appointed Krieger-Eisenhower University Professor of History Johns Hopkins University 2004 - Spring Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Directeur d’Etudes Sciences Sociales associé 2004-5 University of California, Dean of Humanities, UCLA Los Angeles Distinguished Professor of History 2005-08: Johns Hopkins University Chair of History Department 2005-08: Johns Hopkins University Dean of Faculty 2005- 2018 Director, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows 2007-08: American Historical President-Elect Association 2008-09: American Historical President Association 2009-10: American Historical Immediate Past President Association 2010: Johns Hopkins University Interim Dean of Faculty 2011: Johns Hopkins University Named Gilman Scholar 2011: American Academy of Arts Elected Fellow and Sciences 2015: Johns Hopkins University Secondary appointment The Humanities Center
Research Awards and Honors:
Selected as 2017 Marquis Who’s Who Lifetime Award Winner
Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2011
Named Gilman Scholar. Johns Hopkins University, 2011
Elected President, American Historical Association, 2008-09.
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Appointed Krieger-Eisenhower University Professor (of History), Johns Hopkins University, 2003.
Elected, Vice-President for Research Division, American Historical Association, 2000-2003.
Elected Fellow of the Medieval Academy - 1996
National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant, Summer, 1991.
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Fellowship (NEH and Mellon), 1989-1990.
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians article prize for the best article in history published in 1989-1990, for "History, Historicism, and the Social Logic of the Text in the Middle Ages," Speculum, 65 (1990): 59-86
William Koren, Jr. Prize for the best article on French History, awarded by the Society for French Historical Studies, 1988 - for "Social Change and Literary Language: The Textualization of the Past in Thirteenth-Century Old French Historiography," Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (1987).
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Fellowship, 1988.
Honorary Rockefeller Residency Fellow in the Program in Atlantic History, Culture and Society Johns Hopkins University, 1987-88 (Fellowship declined/ appointment to Program accepted).
Research Center for Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland, College Park, Fall, 1987, Fellowship
General Faculty Research Board, Semester Grant, University of Maryland, Fall-1985
General Faculty Research Board Grant, University of Maryland, Summers l976, 1981
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1979
American Philosophical Society Grant, 1976
Phi Beta Kappa, Johns Hopkins University, 1974.
American Association of University Women, Doctoral Fellowship, 1969 - 70
Gilman Research Associate, Johns Hopkins University, 1970-71
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Gilman Teaching Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, 1967- 69
Helen Taft Manning Essay Prize in European and World History, Best Honors thesis in History, Bryn Mawr College, 1964 [on Byzantine feudalism]
Professional Offices:
Committee for Review of James Grossberg for Reappointment as Executive Director of the American Historical Association, 2019
Chair, Baldwin Fellowship Selection Committee, Medieval Academy of America 2018-19
Member, Scientific Board, Imago Temporis Medium Aevum
Member, Advisory Board of the Oulu Centre for Theoretical and Philosophical Studies of History, (Finland) 2014-
Member, Baldwin Fellowship Selection Committee, Medieval Academy of America
Member, Committee to appoint Board of National History Center, American Historical Association
Chair, Fellowship Selection Committee, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, 2013-2014
Advisory Board and Scientific Committee, International Network for the Theory and Philosophy of History, 2012 -
American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Class IV, Section 2 (History) Membership Panel 2011- 2014
Board of Directors, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University 2009 – 2014.
Committee to Review the Bylaws of the National History Center of the American Historical Association, 2012
Board of Trustees, The Toynbee Prize Foundation, 2008- 2011
Ad Hoc Committee on Structure of the Medieval Academy 2008-2010
President, American Historical Association, 2008-09.
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Fellowship Selection Committee, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 2007- 2014.
Fellowship Selection Committee, Emeriti Fellowships, Andrew Mellon Foundation 2007- 2011
Editorial Advisory Board, History and Theory, 2005 -
Chair, Charles Homer Haskins Prize Committee, Medieval Academy of America, 2002-2003
Member, Charles Homer Haskins Prize Committee, Medieval Academy of America, 2000 2003.
Elected Vice President, Research Division, American Historical Association, 2000-2003.
Comitato Scientifico, Storiografia, 1998 -
Board of Editors, Viator, 1997—
Editorial Board, Rethinking History The Journal of Theory and Practice
Board of Editors, Stylus, University of Michigan Press
Committee on the James Henry Breasted Prize, American Historical Association, 1996 -1997.
Board of Editors, American Historical Review, 1995 – 1998
Advisory Editorial Board, Bryn Mawr Medieval Review
Elected to Nominating Committee, Medieval Academy of America, 1993 - 1995
Board of Editors, Figurae, Reading Medieval Culture, Stanford University Press,
Board of Editors, French Historical Studies, 1986-1989.
Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowships Selection Committee Member, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 1985-86; 1986-87; 2003-2004.
Elected to Council, Medieval Academy of America, 1985-1988.
President, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, 1981 - 83.
International Conference on Abbot Suger and the Abbey Church of Saint-Denis, Organizing Committee and Publication Board, 1979-1981. 6
Elected Member, Committee on Committees, American Historical Association, 1980 - 83
Secretary-Treasurer, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, 1976- 1980
Member, Book Award Committee, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, 1975, 1976, 1981, 1982, 1989.
Chair, Book Award Committee, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, 1976
Chair, Nominating Committee, Southeastern Medieval Association, 1977 -78
Executive Committee, Southeastern Medieval Association, 1975-78
Advisory Board, History Heard (on-line oral History project)
Member, Board of Editors, Medieval History Journal (New Delhi, India)
Related Professional Activities:
External Reader, PhD thesis, Jenna Philips, Princeton University, 2016
External Review Committee, Department of History, Yale University, Feb., 2011.
External Review Committee, Department of History, Columbia University, May, 2010
External Review Committee, Department of History, University of Michigan, September, 2003.
Review Mss. for French Historical Studies, American Historical Review, The Historian, Mediaeval Studies, Signs, NEH Research Program Division, University of Toronto Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Cornell University Press, University of Chicago Press, Stanford University Press, History Compass, Cornell University Press, Medium Aevum, Renaissance Quarterly, Medieval History Journal etc.
Outside Examiner, PhD. Theses: University of Toronto, University of Sydney
Advisory Panel, NEH Project to make Educational TV Films of David MaCauley's Castle 7
and Cathedral
Co-Chair, Search Committee for a new Executive Director, the American Historical Association
Member, Capital Campaign Committee, American Historical Association
Ad Hoc Committee on Structure of the Medieval Academy
Fellowship Selection Committee, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 2007- 2015.
Fellowship Selection Committee, Emeriti Fellowships, Andrew Mellon Foundation
Strategic Planning Committee, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Publications:
Books:
The Chronicle Tradition of Saint-Denis: A Survey (Medieval Classics: Texts and Studies, no. 10) Leiden and Boston, l978
Romancing the Past: The Rise of Vernacular Prose Historiography in Thirteenth-Century France (“The New Historicism," University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1993).
--- Paperback edition, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1995
The Past as Text: The Theory and Practice of Medieval Historiography (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1997)
--- paperback edition, (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1999).
Il Passato come Testo.Teoria e pratica della storiografia medievale ( Piccola biblioteca di storia, Instituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, Pisa-Rome, 1998).
Practicing History: New Directions in Historical Writing after the Linguistic Turn , Ed., With an Introduction, (Routledge, London, 2005).
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Behind the Scenes: Writing History in the Mirror of Theory (Centro de Semiótica y teoría des espectáculo Universitet de València & Asociación Vasca de Semiótica,Eutopias 2a epoca, vol. 77, 1995)
“Representing History,” Introduction to volume, Representing History, 900-1300: Art, Music, History, ed. Robert Maxwell and Colum Hourihane, (Collected Paper Series sponsored by the Index of Christian Art, Princeton University), Penn State University Press ,2010: 1-19.
Translation with Stephen Nichols, Kantorowicz: Stories of a Historian, by Alain Boureau (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 2001)
Articles:
"The Reditus Regni ad Stirpem Karoli Magni: A New Look," French Historical Studies, 7 (1971):145-74.
"The Cult of Saint Denis and Capetian Kingship," Journal of Medieval History, 1 (l975): pp. 43-69.
reprinted in Saints and their Cults: Religious Sociology Folklore and History, ed. Steven Wilson, (Cambridge University Press, l983).
"Political Utility in Medieval Historiography: A Sketch," History and Theory, 14 (1975): 314-325.
"Defense of the Realm: Evolution of a Capetian Propaganda Slogan," Journal of Medieval History, 3 (1977): 115-34.
-- with Sandra Hindman, "The Fleurs-de-Lis Frontispieces to Guillaume de Nangis's Chronique Abrégée: Political Iconography in Late Fifteenth-Century France," Viator, 12 (1981): 381-407.
“Suger," Dictionary of the Middle Ages (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1983): 502-04.
"Rigord," Dictionary of the Middle Ages (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1983): 399-400
"Louis VI of France," Dictionary of the Middle Ages, (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1983): 673-4.
“Genealogy: Form and Function in Medieval Historical Narrative,” History and Theory, 22 (1983): 43-53. 9
"Forging the Past: The Language of Historical Truth in the Middle Ages," The History Teacher, 17 (l984): 267 - 288.
"History as Enlightenment: Suger and the Mos Anagogicus," in Abbot Suger and the Abbey Church of Saint-Denis, ed. Paula Gerson, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1986, pp. 17-27.
"Pseudo-Turpin, the Crisis of the Aristocracy and the Beginnings of Vernacular Historiography in Thirteenth-Century France," Journal of Medieval History, 12 (1986): 207-223.
"Social Change and Literary Language: The Textualization of the Past in Thirteenth-Century French Historiography," Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 17 (1987): 129-148. Awarded the William Koren, Jr. Prize for the best article on French History, awarded by the Society for French Historical Studies, 1988
"Moral Imagination and the Rise of the Bureaucratic State: Images of Government in the Chronique des Rois de France, Chantilly, Ms. 869," Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 18 (1988): 157 - 173.
"1202: The Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle and the Origins of Old French Prose Historiography," Harvard History of French Literature (Cambridge, MA., 1989).
--Trans. and reprinted as "L'historiographie choisit la prose," in De la Littérature Française , ed. Denis Hollier, Paris, 1993.
"History, Historicism and the Social Logic of the Text in the Middle Ages," Speculum, 65 (1990): 59-86. Awarded the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians article prize for the best article in history published in 1989-1990
-- Translated into German as “Geschichte, Historität und die soziale Logik von mittelalterlichen Texten “ in Christoph Conrad, ed. Geschichte schreiben in der Postmoderne Beiträge zur acktuellen Diskussion, (Berlin, 1995): 161-202.
-- Translated into Japanese and published in Shiso, 4 (April, 1994): 4-39.
-- Translated into Spanish, in Taller d’Historia, 1995.
-- reprinted in The Postmodern History Reader, ed. Keith Jenkins, (Routledge, 1997): 180- 203.
-- Translated into Chinese, 2004.
10 --translated into Hungarian: “Tôrrénelem, historicizmus és a szôveg társadalmi logikája a kôzépkorban,”, Korall , 15-16 (2005]. 37-70.
"De l'oral à l'écrit: la sémantique sociale de la prose française au XIIIème siècle," in Histoire et Société Mélanges offerts à Georges Duby, Textes réunies par les médiévistes de l'Université de Provence (Aix-en-Provence, 1992).
History and Post-Modernism: IV," Past and Present, 135 (1992): 194-208.
-- Translated into Japanese and published in Shiso, 4 ( April, 1994): 59 - 73.
-- Translated into Spanish in Taller d’Historia, 1 (1993): 67 - 73.
--Reprinted in The Postmodern History Reader, ed. Keith Jenkins (Routledge, 1997): 260-73.
“Huellas de Significado: La Literatura histórica en la era del postmodernismo,” El Pais, 29 de julio, 1993: 4-5.
“Medieval Canon Formation and the Rise of Royal Historiography in Old French Prose,” MLN, 108 (1993): 638-658.
"History and Fiction: A Note," Rivista di Storia della Storiografia Moderna, (1995, 3): 95- 104.
"Towards a Theory of the Middle Ground: Historical Writing in the Age of Postmodernism," in Historia a Debate, ( Santiago de Compostela, 1995), vol. 1: 169 – 176 .
-- Translated into Russian, Odysseus, (1995): 211-220.
--Translated into Slovenian as “Za teorijo srednjega dosega: zgodovinopisje v casu postmodernizma,” Filozofski Vestnik, Acta Philosophica, XVI (1/1995): 53 - 63.
Review Essay of John Van Engen, ed., The Past and Future of Medieval Studies, Bryn Mawr Medieval Review, 1995 (online journal).
“Maternity and Monstrosity: Reproductive Biology in the Roman de Mélusine,” in Mélusine of Lusignan: Founding Fiction in Late Medieval France , eds. Donald Maddox and Sarah Sturm Maddox (University of Georgia Press, 1996): 100-124.
“Nekaterih stvari v zgodovini ne moremo razumeti,” [in Slovenian] Razgledi, 3 september (1997): 12-15.
“Orations of the Dead, Silences of the Living: The Sociology of the Linguistic Turn," The Past as Text: The Theory and Practice of Medieval Historiography (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1997): 11
“In the Mirror’s Eye: The Writing of Medieval History in North America” ”in Imagined Histories: Americans Interpret The Past , eds. Anthony Molho and Gordon S. Wood, (Princeton University Press, 1998): 238-262. with Paul Freedman, “Medievalisms Old and New: The Rediscovery of Alterity in North American Medieval Studies,” American Historical Review, 103 (1998): 677-704.
--translated into Slovenian as “Sredjevsko, Moderno in Postmoderno,” Gestrinov Zbornik , ed. Darja Mihelic, (Ljubjana, 1999): 557-574.
“L’Histoire Scientifique et les Utilisations antimodernistes du Passé dans le Médiévisme Américain,” Cahiers du Centre de Recherches Historiques, Réflexions Historiographiques, 22 (1999): 87-108.
Le Projet Modernistes des Études Médiévales: “Américaniser Le Moyen Age," Cahiers du Centre de Recherches Historiques, Réflexions Historiographiques , 22, (1999): 109- 129.
"L’Itinéraire Postmoderniste du Médiévisme Américain: L’Altérité Médiévale redécouverrte," Cahiers du Centre de Recherches Historiques, Réflexions Historiographiques, 22 (1999): 130- 148.
“Theory into Practice: Reading Medieval Chronicles,” The Medieval Chronicle Proceedings of the First International Conference on The Medieval Chronicle, (Amsterdam- Atlanta, GA., 1999): 1-12.
“Les Débuts Français de l’Historiographie Royale: Quelques Aspects inattendus,” Saint- Denis et la royauté (Paris, 1999): 395-404.
“Épater les Médiévistes: Review Essay of Kathleen Biddick, The Shock of Medievalism,” History and Theory, 39 ( 2000): 243-250.
“Foucault and the Problem of Genealogy,” The Medieval History Journal, v. 4 (1), January-June 2001: 1-14.
"Foucault i problema genealogii ". In: Homo Historicus: Pamyati Yuriya L'vovitcha Bessmertnogo, [in Russian] Otv. red. Ed. by A.O.Tchubaryan. Moskva: Ed. Nauka, 50 2003.
“Storicismo,” Storiografia (, May, 2001).
“Historical Thought in Medieval Europe,” in Lloyd Kramer and Sarah Maza, eds., A Companion to Western Historical Thought, edited by Lloyd Kramer and Sarah Maza (Blackwell’s Companions to History, Oxford, 2002): 78-98. 12
“Memory and History: Liturgical Time and Historical Time,” History and Theory, May, (2002): 149-162.
“La Historia e la Memoria” in Miguel Cabrera, ed., La Situación de la Historia Essayos de Historiografia, (La Laguna, 2002): 53-69.
“Response to Constantin Fasolt, The Limits of History,” Historically Speaking, (May/June 2005): 12-14.
“The Linguistic Turn and History,” in I. Olábarri and F.J. Caspistegui, eds., The Strength of History at the Doors of the New Millenium History and the Other Social Sciences along XXth Century (1899-2002), (VII International History Colloquium, Pamplona, 2005): 255-261.
“For a Postmodern Premodernity,” Review Essay, History, Theory,Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn by Elizabeth A. Clark, History and Theory, 45, no 2 (May, 2006): 244- 251.
“ La historia de la práctica: nuevas tendencias en Historia tras el giro lingüístico,” in Más allá de la historia social , special issue of Ayer, ed., Miguel Angel Cabrera, 62 ( 2006): 19-50.
“The Changing Faces of American Medievalism,” Proceedings of Conference on Gebrauch und Missbrauch des Mittelalters, 19.-21. Jh. / Uses and abuses of the Middle Ages, 19th-21th Century / Usages et Mésusages du Moyen Age du XIXe au XXIe siècle") Mittelalter Studien (Institut zur Interdisziplinaren Erforschung des Mittelalters und seines Nachwirkens) University Paderborn,, (2008).
“France for Belgium,” in Why France?, ed., Laura Lee Downs and Stéphane Gerson, (Cornell University Press, 2006), 147-161.
--translated as “Déplacement: De Belgique en France” in Pourqoi France?, edited Laura Lee Downs and Stéphane Gerson, Paris, 2007.
“Revising the Past/Revisiting the Present: How Change Happens in Historiography,” History and Theory, Theme Issue 46, 4 (December, 2007): 1-19.
--translated into French in ““Réviser le passé/revisiter le present,” Littérature, 159 (October, 1210): 3-25.
“Paradoxes of the Senses,” in Rethinking the Medieval Senses: Heritage, Fascinations Frames, ed. Stephen G. Nichols, Andreas Kablitz and Alison Calhoun, (Parallax, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008): 186-193. 13
“The Case for History and the Humanities,” Perspectives on History, Jan. (2008)
The Triple AAA Threat: Accountability, Assessment, Accreditation,” Perspectives on History, March (2008).
“Comment on A Crooked Line From Cultural History to the History of Society, by Geoff Eley,” AHR Forum, American Historical Review, 113 ( 2008): 406-416.
- translated into Spanish, in Entrepasados.
- translated into Spanish for Memoria y Sociedad“
- Commentario sobre “Una linea torcida, De la Historia Cultural a la Historia Social,” in Historia Social 69 (2011): 107-119.
“’Getting Medieval:’ History and the Torture Memos,” Perspectives on History, September, ( 2008).
“History Mom” Perspectives on History, November, 2008.
“A Modest Proposal” Perspectives on History, December, 2008.
The Task of the Historian,” (AHA Presidential Address), American Historical Review (Feb. 2009): 1-14.
-- translated into Spanish. “La tarea del historiador, Publicado por Anaclet Pons en Marzo 6, 2009. La Wikipedia: expertos y aficionados
--translated into Polish, in sourcebook edited by Ewa Domanska.
--translated into Portuguese, A Tarefa do Historiador.” História de Historiografia,, 2013.
“The Textualization of the Past in Thirteenth-Century French Historical Writing” in Imagining the Past in France, Getty Museum Exhibition Catalogue, (2010): 43-50.
“New Trends in European and American Historiography: Practicing History," Kuangming Daily, Sept. 13, 2011: (In Chinese).
Review Essay on Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World The Idea of “the Middle Ages” Outside Europe, Kathleen Davis and Nadia Altschul, eds., Rethinking History (15) 2011: 617-625.
“A Final Phase? Carolyn Dean on Aversion and Erasure: The Fate of the Victim after the Holocaust History and Theory, 51 (October, 2012): 423-435.
“Scholar-in –Exile finds a Temporary Haven: Nikolay Koposov to be a Visiting Professor 14 at Johns Hopkins University for 2012-2013, Perspectives on History, September, 2012.
“Writing Terror: Approaches to the Representation of Violence in Contemporary Historiography.” in Flocel Sabaté, ed., "Por Política, Terror Social" (Pagès Editors, Lleida, 2013): 19-38.
“Rhetorical Theory/Theoretical Rhetoric: Some Ambiguities in the Reception of Hayden White,” in Philosophy of History after Hayden White (Bloomsbury Studies in American Philosophy), 2013: 171-182.
“Above, About and Beyond the Writing of History: A Retrospective View of Hayden White’s Metahistory on the Fortieth Anniversary of its Publication,” Rethinking History, (2013) 1-17.
“A Tarefa do Historiador.” História de Historiografia, (Portuguese, Brazilian journal) 2013.
“Reflections on The New Philology,” in Rethinking The New Medievalism, eds. Howard Bloch, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Joachim Küpper (Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins Press, 2014): 39-50.
“The Future of the Past: History, Memory and the Ethical Imperatives of Writing History in the Contemporary World,”, Journal of the Philosophy of History, 8 (2014): 149-179.
-- translated into Chinese, in Historiography Quarterly (2016), 2.
-- translated into Portuguese, in História de Historiiografia.
-- translated into Japanese,
“L’historiographie de Saint-Denis,” La basilique abbatiale cathédrale de Saint-Denis Édition : « La Nuée bleue », collection « La grâce d’une cathédrale » » dirigée par Mgr Doré 2015.
“L’Expérience entre Histoire et Mémoire, “ in L’Expérience Historiographique Autour de Jacques Revel (Paris, Éditions de l’ École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2016): 253-267.
“Structures of Time in Medieval Historical Writing,” Medieval History Journal, 19,1 (2016): 21-33.
“Text as the Source of Meaning in Historical Thought; Source as Textual Evidence in its Historiographical Function,”in Across Text and Source, ed. Ulrich Timme Kragh, forthcoming.
“Hayden White’s Return to the Past as a Source of Human Practice”,” Praticas da Historica, 15 A Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past, Forthcoming
“David Carr’s Theory of Experiencing Times Past,” History and Theory, Theme Issue 56, (January, 2010) online supplement to Volume 57, no. 4 (December 2018).
“The Limits of Empiricism: The Utility of Theory in Historical Thought and Writing,” Medieval History Journal (Dec. 2018): 1-22.
Reviews:
Jacques Boussard, Nouvelle Histoire de Paris de la fin du siège de 885/886 à la mort de Philippe Auguste, American Historical Review, 1977
Denys Hay, Annalists and Historians: Western Historiography from the VIIIth to the XVIIIth Century, The Historian, 1978
Malcolm Barber, The Trial of the Templars, Speculum, 1980
William Jordan, Louis IX and the Challenge of the Crusade, Speculum, 1981
Georges Duby, The Three Orders Feudal Society Imagined, American Historical Review, 1982
Robert-Henri Bautier, ed., Chronique de Saint-Pierre-le-Vif de Sens dite de Clarius, Speculum, 1983
Pauline Stafford, Queens, Concubines and Dowagers The King's Wife in the Early Middle Ages, The Historian, 1983
Gérard Sivery, Saint Louis et son siècle, American Historical Review, 1984
Alain Boureau, La Légende Dorée Le Système Narratif de Jacques de Voragine, American Historical Review, 1987
Ernest Breisach, ed., Classical Rhetoric and Medieval Historiography, American Historical Review, 1987
Jean-Marie Moeglin, Les Ancêtres du Prince: Propagande Politique et Naissance d'une histoire nationale en Bavière au Moyen Age (1180-1500), Speculum, 1987
Brian Stock, Listening for the Text On the Uses of the Past, Speculum, 1991
Helen Rodnite Lemay, Women’s Secrets A translation of Pseudo-Albertus Magnus’ De Secretis Mulierum with Commentaries, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 1993. 16
Dudley Wilson, Signs and Portents Monstrous Births from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 1994
Paul Magdalino, The Perception of the Past in Twelfth-Century Europe, Speculum, 1995.
Caroline Walker Bynum, Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion, Envoi, 1995
Marie-Hélène Huet, Monstruous Imagination, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 1995.
Jean Blacker, The Faces of Time: Portrayal of the Past in Old French and Latin Historical Narrative of the Anglo-Norman Regnum, American Historical Review, 1996.
Felice Lifshitz, The Norman Conquest of Pious Neustria Historiographic Discourse and Saintly Relics 684-1090, American Historical Review, 1997.
Alain Boureau, The Lord’s First Night: The Myth of the Droit de Cuissage, London Review of Books, (21, 11 November. 1999): 32-34.
-- translated and reprinted in the Russian journal Intellectual Forum
Catherine Croizy-Naquet, Ecrire l’histoire romaine au début du XIIIe siècle, Romania, 2001:14-17.
Jeff Rider, God’s Scribe: The Historiographical Art of Galbert of Bruges, The Catholic Historical Review, 2003.
Philippe Buc, The Dangers of Ritual Between Early Medieval Texts and Social Scientific Theory, The American Historical Review, 2003.
Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis, ed., Historiography in the Middle Ages (Brill, 2003). The Medieval Review, 2003.
Le Passé à l’épreuve du Présent. Appropriations et Usages du Passé du Moyen Àge à la Renaissance, , ed. Pierre Chastang (Paris, 2008), Speculum, 2009.
Daisy Delogu, Theorizing the Ideal Sovereign: The Rise of the French Vernacular Royal Biography (University of Toronto Press, 2008). Biography 32 (2009): 519-24.
Other:
Interview, Video on the History of History, produced and directed by Banning Lary
17 Professional Activities:
Papers:
"The Cult of Saint Denis and Capetian Kingship," presented to the Medieval Association of the University of Pennsylvania, Fall, 1972.
"A Wayward Clio: Principles of Medieval Historiography," presented to the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, May, 1974.
"The Uses of History: A Note on the Structure and Function of the Political Past in the Middle Ages," presented to the Tenth Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May, 1975.
"The Sociology of Courtly Love," presented to the Chesapeake Area Women Historians, March, l976.
"Defense of the Realm: Evolution of a Capetian Propaganda Slogan," presented to the Eleventh Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May, 1976.
Participant, Symposium on the Renaissance of the Twelfth Century held at Harvard University, November, 1977.
"Love's Labors Lost: The Social Origins of Courtly Love," presented to the History Club, Towson State University, March, 1978.
Discussant, AAUW Conference on Equity in Higher Education in America Washington, D.C., April, l978.
"History and Rhetoric in the Middle Ages," presented at the Fourteenth Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May, 1979.
"The Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis," presented at Wesleyan University February, 1980.
“Genealogy: Form and Function in Medieval Historical Narrative," presented to the History of Ideas Club, Johns Hopkins University March, 1980.
Pseudo-Turpin, the Crisis of the Aristocracy, and the Beginnings of Vernacular Historiography in Thirteenth-Century France," Conference on History and Language in the Middle Ages, the Medieval Institute, University of Toronto, November, 1980.
"Monarchy and Aristocracy: Historiographies of Authority and Resistance in Thirteenth- 18 Century France," presented to Lawrence Stone's Davis Seminar on Power and Ideology, Davis Center, Princeton University, February, 1981.
"History as Enlightenment: Suger and the Mos Anagogicus," presented to an International Conference on Abbot Suger and Saint-Denis, Columbia University, March, 1981.
"Historical Myth and Historiographical Mythos: Genealogy as Political Legitimation and Literary Strategy," Paper presented to an International Colloquium on Legitimation by Descent, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, July, 1982.
"Freud and the Middle Ages: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Medieval Historical Consciousness," The Park School, November, 1982.
"Forging the Past: The Language of Historical Truth in the Middle Ages," American Historical Association Meeting, December, 1982.
"Royal Historiography in the Reign of Philip Augustus: A Newly Discovered Old French Chronicle of the Kings of France, Chantilly, Ms. 869,"presented to the Eighteenth Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May, 1983.
"From Feudal to Administrative Kingship: Images of Government in the Chronique des Rois de France, Chantilly, Ms. 869," presented to the Medieval Academy of America, University of California, Berkeley, April, 1983,
"The Courtly and the Court: Moral Imagination and the Rise of the Bureaucratic State," presented to the Delaware Valley Medieval Association, February, 1984.
"The Past as Text," American Historical Association Meeting, Chicago, Ill, December, 1984.
"Noble Culture: An Overview of the Origins of Old French Prose Historiography" Presented to the Twentieth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo Michigan, May, l985.
"Social Change and Literary Language: The Textualization of the Past in Thirteenth- Century French Historiography," presented in Seminar on "The Medieval Book," Princeton University, Dec., 1985; and to the Medieval Association, Duke University, Durham, N.C., September, 1987.
Paper on the Production of History for the Fifth Roundtable on History and Anthropology, Maison de Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, June, 1986.
"The Image of Saint Louis and the Growth of Capetian Government," University of California, Berkeley, July, 1986.
19 "History, Politics, and Language in Thirteenth-Century France," presented to Alumnae Lecture Series, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University, November, 1986.
Comment, 987: Problems of Early Capetian France, American Historical Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., December, 1987.
Comment, "Staging History: Shakespeare's History Plays," Mellon Seminar on the Diversity of Languages and the Structures of Power, April, 1988.
"Changement Social et Language Littéraire: La "Textualisation" du Passé dans la France du XIIIe siècle," l"Institut Historique Allemand de Paris, June, 1988.
"From Spoken to Written: The Social Semantics of Prose in Thirteenth-Century France," Presented to the Tenth Annual Barnard/Columbia Medieval-Renaissance Conference, Barnard, Nov., 1988; and to Haverford College (1990); Northwestern University (1990); University of California, Berkeley (1990).
"History, Historicism and the Social Logic of the Text in the Middle Ages,” Presented to the Mellon Seminar on the Diversity of Languages and Structures of Power, University of Pennsylvania, Feb. 1989.
"The Social Logic of the Text," Presented to the Atlantic Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, February, 1989.
"Pseudo-Turpin and the Origins of Prose," Seminar, Department of History, Syracuse University, March 29, 1989.
Comment: "The Struggle in Kenya for S.M. Otieno's Body," Mellon Seminar on the Diversity of Languages and the Structures of Power, University of Pennsylvania, April, 1989.
Chair, "The Horse, the Heavily Armored Knight and Feudalism: A Re-examination," American Historical Association Meeting, San Francisco, December, 1989.
"Canon as Contest: The Elaboration of the Past in Medieval Vernacular Historiography." presented to the 1990 Dartmouth Colloquium on Medieval and Early Modern Romance Literatures"
"The Medieval Canon and the Challenge of the Vernacular," Dartmouth, April, 1990.
"The New Medievalism," presented to Medieval Studies Association, Stanford University, May, 1990.
Paper and Seminar on "The New Philology," Notre Dame University, Notre Dame Indiana. September, 1990.
"Orations of the Dead, Silences of the Living: The Sociology of the Linguistic Turn," 20 Presented to the Twelfth Annual Barnard/Columbia Medieval-Renaissance Conference, Columbia University, December, 1990.
"Changing the Middle Ages," presented to Scripps College, Claremont, California, Feb. 1990.
Lecture on Vernacular Prose Historiography and Graduate Seminar on "The Challenge of Literary Theory," presented at Harvard University, October, 1991
"Business as Usual? New Approaches to Medieval Studies," Roundtable, Fourth Annual Virginia Medieval Symposium, University of Virginia, November, 1991.
"Fundamentalism and Essentialism in Philological Perspective," Roundtable, Plenary Session, Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December, 1991.
"Deconstruction as a Post-Holocaust Phenomenon," presented to the French Studies Association, University of California, Berkeley, April 1992. University of Pennsylvania French Seminar, March, 1993.
"Documenting Cultures: Written and Unwritten in Pre-Industrial Societies," Columbia University, October, 1992.
“Medieval Canon Formation and the Rise of Royal Historiography in Old French Prose,” Conference on “Picture, History and Culture: Medieval Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins, February, 1993.
Chair and Comment, “Imagination, Nations and Royal Legends,” Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Tucson, Arizona, April, 1993.
"Towards a Theory of the Middle Ground: Historical Writing in the Age of Postmodernism," Presented to an International Conference on "Historia a Debate," Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July, 1993.
“Postmodernism and the Holocaust,” Presented to “First Fridays” Comparative Literature Seminar, the University of Maryland, College Park, Oct. 1993.
Comment, “The Hebrew Crusade Chronicles of 1096: Questions of Fact and Fantasy in High Medieval Historiography,” Meeting of the American Historical Association,, San Francisco, Jan., 1994.
“Between Two Beginnings: Genealogy: Form and Function: Classical Greece and Thirteenth-Century France,” Paper presented to conference on History and Historiography, Johns Hopkins University, April, 1994.
Series of three seminars presented to the Universidad de la Laguna, Tenerife, Canary 21 Islands, June, 1994.
“Behind the Scenes: Writing History in the Mirror of Theory,” presented to the Universitat de Valencia, Spain, June 19, 1994.
“Maternity and Monstrosity: Reproductive Biology in the Roman de Mélusine,” presented to Medieval Studies Group, Catholic University of America, October, 1994.
“ Theory and Practice,” Roundtable for the Medieval Academy of America, Boston University, April,1995
“In the Mirror’s Eye: The Writing of Medieval History in America” presented to a Conference on “The State of Historical Writing in North America,” at the University of San Marino, San Marino [Italy], June, 1995.
“Fictionality, Narrativity, Objectivity “ Paper presented at the Eighteenth Congress of the International Committee of Historical Sciences, Montreal, July, 1995.
“Medievalism and the Question of Alterity,” Paper presented to the University of Pittsburgh, September , 1995
Chair and Comment, “Refiguring Courtly Culture,” at Conference “What Differencce does Gender Make? University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Oct. 1995.
“Les débuts français de l’historiographie royale: quelques aspects inattendus” paper for Colloque “Saint-Denis et le Pouvoir Royal: en l’honneur de Professor Bernard Guenée” Paris, May, 1996
Invited as keynote speaker to a conference on “The Medieval Chronicle,” held at Utrecht, Holland, July , 1996. “Theory into Practice: Reading Medieval Chronicles”.
“The Return of the Grotesque in Medieval Studies,” Vanderbilt University, Oct. 1996.
Chair, "In the Shadow of the Millennium: Jews and Christians in 12th-century Europe: Interreligious Polemics: Literary Perspectives," University of Notre Dame, Oct., 1996.
Chair, “Comparative Historiography”, Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York Jan., 1997.
“Orations of the Dead/Silences of the Living,” Lecture/Seminar, Academy of Arts and Sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia, May, 1997.
"Le Médiévisme, l’Histoire Scientifique et les usages anti-Modernistes du passé dans l’Historiographie Américaine," Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, May, 1997. 22
" Le Médiévisme en Quête de la Modernité: 'américanisme' du Moyen Age," Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, May, 1997.
"Le Médiévisme en Quête du post-modernisme: la Nouvelle Altérité du Moyen Age," Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, May, 1997.
Comment on Dominique La Capra, “History and Memory: In the Shadow of the Holocaust,” School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, June, 1997.
“The Writing of Medieval History in North America,” Seminar presented to the Intellectual History Seminar, Duke University, Sept. 1997
"Rewriting Antiquity: Thirteenth-Century Old French Translations of Lucan’s Pharsalia,” Conference on The Invention of Tradition, Rutgers University, Fall, 1997.
Chair and comment, three sessions on Medieval Historiography, Kalamazoo, May, 1998.
“History and Memory: Liturgical and Historical Time,” Conference on History, Memory and Time, Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest, June, 1998
“The Rise of Vernacular French Royal Historiography: Some Unexpected Aspects,” Plenary Address, Anglo-American Conference, Institute for Historical Research, London, July 1-3, 1998.
“The Two Adamses: Henry and Herbert and the Beginnings of Medieval Historical Study in America,” Plenary Address presented to the Medieval and Early Modern Student Association of the Pacific,” October, 1998.
Seminar, Northwestern University, November, 1998.
“Plenary Address,” Medieval Academy of America, Washington, D.C., April, 1999.
Paper to School of Criticism and Theory, Chicago, April, 1998.
“Les Temps Liturgiques de la Mémoire,” presented to a Colloque on “Représentations Discursives du Temps: Historiographie et Anthropologie,” June, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, 1999.
“Foucault and the Problem of Genealogy,” Paper presented to Conference on Genealogy Revisited, University of Notre Dame, September 9, 1999.
Seminar, Oxford University, May, 2000.
“Memory and History” Paper presented to Legal History Seminar, University of 23 Michigan, September, 2000.
“Blood, Sweat and Tears,” Paper presented to the New England Historical Association, Yale University, October, 2000.
Comment, Session on “Meaning and Time: The Problem of Historical Narrative,” American Historical Association, Boston, 2001.
“Time in the Texture of Life,” Ohio State University, April, 2001
“Foucault: Genealogy and the Cultural Inscription of Genetics,” Conference on Chance and Necessity, Arrabida, Portugal, August, 2001.
“Saving the Phenomenological: Historical Writing Twenty Years after the Linguistic Turn,” Paper presented at the Seventh International History Colloquium, the University of Navarra, Pamplona, April, 2002.
“The Two Adamses: Henry and Herbert and the Beginnings of the Study of Medieval History in America,” paper presented to the Turner Society, Johns Hopkins University, April, 2002.
“Literary Figurations of Historical Narratives”, Keynote address to conference on "History in Words and Images,” University of Turku, Finland, September, 2002.
“Language and History,” Keynote address to Conference on Language and History, Brussels, Belgium, January 2003.
“Saving the Phenomenological,” Paper presented to the European Seminar, University of California, Los Angeles, May, 2003.
“Practicing History/Theorizing Practice: Some New Directions in Historiography after the Linguistic Turn,” Paper to The Seminar, History Department, Johns Hopkins University, October, 2003.
“Practicing History/Theorizing Practice: Some New Directions in Historiography after the Linguistic Turn,” Seminar for the Medieval Studies Program, Princeton University, November, 2003.
“Saving the Phenomenological: Theories of History in a Post-Theoretical Age,” Presented to the History Department Colloquium, George Mason University, November, 2003.
Chair, Roundtable on Plagiarism, Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, DC. Jan, 2004.
Comment on Constantin Fasolt's The Limits of History, special seminar, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC., Jan. , 2004
24 “Comment on four papers for a Conference on the Medieval Senses,” Villa Spelman, Florence, Italy, May, 2004.
“The Changing Faces of American Medievalism,” paper presented to an International Conference on “The Uses and Abuses of the Middle Ages: 19th-21st centuries,” Budapest, March 30- April 2, 2005.
Two seminars at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, May, 2004.
“Practicing History/Theorizing Practice,” Presented to History Seminar, Emory University, November, 2005.
“History, Theory, Text” paper presented to the meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia, Nov., 2005
“No Need to Choose: Social History and Cultural History,” Roundtable Discussion, presented at the Meeting of the American Historical Association, January, 2006
Medieval Workshop at University of Michigan. Seminar on my work with graduate students, March, 2006.
Commentator on 14 papers and leader of final Roundtable to discuss papers delivered at Conference on "Representing Medieval History, 900-1300," University of Pennsylvania on Oct. 28-29, 2006
Chair, Session for “Concepts of Life” Conference, Johns Hopkins University, November 3- 4, 2006.
Comment on three papers for ”Political Theologies: the Present of the Religious Past”, Stanford University, January 18-20, 2007.
“The Coming Crisis in Graduate Education and Other Challenges.” Talk to gathering of Directors of Graduate Studies, for the American Historical Association Washington, DC August, 2007.
“New Directions in Medieval Historiography,” Duke University, November 1-2, 2007.
“Revising the Past/Revisiting the Present: How Change Happens in Historiography,” Wesleyan University, October, 2007
“Practicing History, Conceptualizing Historiography,“ Talk at Catholic University, March 26, 2008
"Neomedievalism and the Church of Theory: Academic Prose from the Cold War to the War on Terror." Debate with Bruce Holsinger at the Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin,- Milwaukee, March 27th-28th, 2008.
25 Christian Historical Writing in the Middle Ages,” Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA, May 18th, 2008.
“Reflections on The New Philology,” paper presented to conference in honor of Stephen Nichols, Johns Hopkins University, September, 2008.
“The Task of the Historian,” Fusco Distinguished Lecture, University of Connecticut, October 21, 2008
“The Task of the Historian,” Presidential Address, American Historical Association, New York, January 2, 2009.
Chair and comment, Medieval Grand Narratives and Postmodern Theory II: Methodologies and Teleologies, Medieval Academy of America, Chicago, March 28, 2009.
“The Development of Historical Writing in France in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries,” presented to a conference on “Imagining the Past in Medieval France” University of Illinois, Champaign- Urbana, April 3-5, 2009.
“Rhetorical Theory/Theoretical Rhetoric: Some Ambiguities in the reception of Hayden White,” paper presented to a Colloquium on “Between History and Narrative: Colloquium in Honor of Hayden White, University of Rochester April 23-25, 2009
“Whither History: Emerging Paradigms in the Study of History,” Talk at University of Delaware, October 20th, 2009.
Comment on papers History and Theory Anniversary Conference. Wesleyan University, November, 2009
“Writing Terror: Historiographical Approaches in the Representation of Violence,” Presented to Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History, Leipzig, Germany, September, 2010.
Emerging Paradigms in the Study of History,” Paper for Gilman opening celebration, October, 2010
Representing Medieval History: New Directions in the Study of Medieval Historiography, Lecture and Seminar, University of Virginia, October, 2010.
Chair and introduction, “Climate Change and its Contested Histories” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Jan., 2011.
“Medieval Historical Consciousness and the Representation of the Past,” Michael Powell Lecture Series, Bryn Mawr College, October, 2011.
26 “The Case for Humanities in a Post-9/11 World” to KSAS Board of Directors, New York, Nov. 2011.
“The History and Historiography of Memory,” paper presented to Conference on History and Memory, Dahlem Humanities Center, Freie Universitat Berlin, November, 2011.
“The History and Historiography of Memory,” Presented to Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Study, Helsinki, Finland, May, 2012
Comment on Steve Nichols, Conference. “The Secret Lives of Texts,” Princeton University, November 8- 10, 2012
“Theoretical and Ethical Problems.” Conference in honor of Robert Stein Purchase, SUNY New York, November. 2012
“Medieval Historical Consciousness and the Representation of the Past,” presented to Conference on Medieval Historiography, Bruges, December , 2012
“New Directions in the Study of Medieval Historical Writing”, Presentation, Medieval Studies Workshop, University of Chicago, April, 2013.
“Experience between History and Memory,” Conference in Honor of Jacques Revel, Ecoles des Hautes Etude en Sciences Sociales, Paris, May, 2013
“The Future of the Past: History, Memory and the Ethical Imperatives of Writing History in the Contemporary World,” International Conference on the Theory and Philosophy of History, Ghent, July 20, 2013.
Comment on three papers at International Conference on the Theory and Philosophy of History, Ghent, July 20, 2013.
“The History Wars of the 1990s,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington DC, Jan. 2014
Chair, “The Decline of Empires and the Making of Scholarly Communities: An Appreciation of Wm. Roger Louis,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington DC, Jan. 2014
“Method and Melancholy in the work of Dominick LaCapra,” Paper for Session in honor of Dominick LaCapra , American Historical Association, New York, Jan., 2015.
Chair, Session on “Historical Analysis after the "History Wars": Gender, Race, Subjectivity,” American Historical Association, New York, Jan 2015.
“Medieval Historical Consciousness and the Representation of the Past,” Talk to Medieval Seminar, Northwestern University, Chicago, April, 2015.
27 “The Limits of Empiricism: The Utility of Theory in Historical Thought and Writing,” Keynote address presented to the International Conference on ‘Empiricism vs. Theory – an Academic Dispute’, University of Basel, Oct. 7-8, 2015.
Chair and Comment, Session on “Historical Analysis after the "History Wars": Gender, Race, Subjectivity,” American Historical Association, Atlanta, Jan 2016.
“Current Debates on Theory in Intellectual History,” University of North Carolina, North Carolina, February 7, 2016.
“Structures of Time in Medieval Historiography.” Presented to annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America,” Boston MA., February, 2016
“Source and Text,“ Andrew W. Mellon Conference: Across Text and Source Comparative Perspectives in Literary and Historical Theory,” University of Chicago, April 2016.
Chair, Session on “Human Rights and French Catholic Thought,” French Historical Society Meeting, Washington , DC April 20-23, 2017
Comment on David Carr, for History and Theory Conference on “The Historical Phenomenology of Writing,” Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tennessee, May 18th-19, 2017.
Paper on “The Limits of Empiricism,” Delivered at conference in honor of Elizabeth Brown, Graduate Center, CUNY, March, 2018.
Paper on “Limits of Empiricism: The Utility of Theory in Historical Thought and Writing,” Presented to Seminar at Wesleyan University, Oct. 25, 2018.
______Participant, Fifteenth-Century France Seminar, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts National Gallery of Art, 1983-1984.
Participant, Mellon Seminar on the Diversity of Languages and the Structures of Power, University of Pennsylvania, 1985-1986; 1987-1988; 1988-89; 1990-91; 1991- 1992; 1992- 1993.
Participant, Folger Seminar on "The Generative Imagination," Fall, 1992.
University Service:
University of Maryland:
Graduate Committee 28 Executive Committee Renaissance and Reformation Search Committee: five times (Benedict, Weissman (twice) Ameling, Flynn) Modern Jewish History Search Committee Departmental Review Committee, College level Review Women's History Search Committee Modern French History Search Committee German History Search Committee Curriculum Review Committee: Departmental Level Curriculum Review Committee: College Level University Senate Planning Committee for Future of Department Bedos Rezak Appointment Committee Equity Committee Chair, Gullickson Second Year Review Committee Chair, Flynn, Second Year Review Committee Dean's Committee on Distinguished Scholar Fellowships University Graduate Research Board Committee on Graduate Fellowships Undergraduate Advisor
Johns Hopkins University:
Chair, Early Modern British History Search Committee — 1993-94 Undergraduate Advisor Ad Hoc Search Committee — Melion, Department of Art History , 1993 Phd. Committee - Harkin —English, 1993 Phd. Committee — Stephen Campbell, Art History, 1993, Ad Hoc Promotion Committee — Richard Brett, Philosophy, 1994 Advisory Board, Louis Marin Center Phd. Committee - Adam Cohen, Department of Art History, Jan.19, 1995 Phd. Committee –- Jennifer Summit, English Department, September, 1995 Academic Council -- 1994-1995 Chair, subcommittee of Academic Council to Review Departments of Psychology, Chemistry and Cognitive Science Academic Council -- 1995-1996 Chair, Academic Affairs Committee, Academic Council; 1995-1996. Ad Hoc Promotion Committee - - Kirstie McClure, Political Science, 1996. Ad Hoc Promotion Committee -- Dan Weiss, Art History, 1996 Religious Studies Committee Chair, Ad Hoc Appointment Committee -— Toril Moi, 1997. Phd. Committee -- Tracy Adams, Department of French, September, Member, Graduate Committee, Department of History, 1997-1999. Phd. Committee -- Ann Geddes, Department of History, October, 1997 Member, Brown Promotion Committee, Department of History, Fall, 1997 Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Communication , 1998 Member, Faculty Interview Committee, Dean Search, 1998. 29 Advisory Board, CRCAL group Undergraduate Advisor. 1998-1999 Chair, Ad Hoc promotion committee, Ruth Leys, 1998-1999. Member, French Department Search Committee, 1998 - 1999. Krieger/Eisenhower Chair Committee, 1998-2000 Chair, Department of History, 1999-2002 Ad Hoc Appointment Committee for Roger Chartier, Fall 1999-2000. PhD. Committee -- Julia Holderness, French Department, Fall, 1999. Ad Hoc Promotion Committee for David Bell, History, Fall 1999 - 2000. Ad Hoc Appointment Committee for Veena Das, Phd Oral defense Committee, William MacLehose, History Department, Fall, 1999 Ad Hoc Appointment Committee for Roger Chartier, Fall 1999-2000. Villa Spelman Faculty Advisory Board -- 1999-2001 Member, Ad Hoc Appointment Committee, Jane Dailey -- Fall, 2000 Krieger/Eisenhower Chair Committee, 2001- Michael Shaffer -Phd Oral Committee, March, 2001 Rick Keyser- Phd Oral committee, history Department, March 2001 Chair, Ad Hoc Promotion Committee, Richard Halpern, Fall - 2001 Modern French Literature Search Committee Spring-Fall, 2001 Ad Hoc Promotion Committee - John Marshall, Spring, 2002 Ph.D. Oral Committee, Paul Saurette, Political Science Dept., September, 2001. Ph.D. Oral Committee, C. Griffith Mann, Art History, Fall, 2001 Ph.D. Oral Committee, Christopher Gardner, History Department, Jan., 2002 Ph.D. Oral Committee, Sara Preisig, French Dept., February, 2002 Ph.D. Oral Committee, Kelly Emerson, History Department, March, 2002. Chair, Committee to consider Ruby Lal, Department of History, Fall, 2002. Ph.D. Defense Committee, Ruth Mack, English Department, January, 2003. Ad Hoc Promotion Committee -- Rochelle Tobias, 2003 Ph. D. Oral Committee, Tim Pollack, History Department, May, 2003. Member, Phd. Oral Defense Committee, Vicki Hseuh, Political Science, September, 2003; Departmental Promotion Committee, Paul Kramer, Fall, 2003. Committee on the Scheduling of Courses, Spring, 2004 Member, Phd. Oral Defense Committee, Juliet Glass, History Dept., Spring, 2004. Member, PhD Oral Defense Committee, Erin Rowe, History Dept., Feb. 2005. Member, PhD Oral Defense Committee, Jaye Puckett, French Dept., September, 2006 Member, PhD Oral Defense Committee, Clare Monagle, February 2007 Member, PhD Oral Defense Committee, Damien Kempf, History Department, 2007. Member, PhD Oral Defense Committee, Elizabeth Lapina, History Department, 2007 Member, PhD Oral Defense Committee, Matthew Klemm, History Dept., March, 2007 Member, PhD Oral Defense Committee, Richard Leeson, History of Art Dept., April, 2007 Member, PhD Oral Defense Committee, James Kuzner, English Dept., September, 2007 Member, PhD Oral Defense committee, Lisa Mahoney, History of Art, September, 2007 Member, Honorary Degree Committee, 2007-08. Member, PhD Oral Defense Committee, Kathryn Gerry, History of Art, December, 2007 Member, Ad Hoc Appointment Committee, Colin Wilson, Cognitive Science, 2008. Medieval/Early Modern Jewish History Search Committee, 2008-09. Provost’s Advisory Committee, 2008 – 30 Chair, Departmental Promotion Committee, Kenneth Moss 2009-10. Member, Early Modern Europe Search Committee Member, Early Modern French History Search Committee, 2009-2010 Dean’s Search committee, 2009-2010 Committee on Honorary Degrees Member, PhD. Oral Defense Committee, Ruth Noyes, Department of History of Art, Dec.. 2009 Chair, PhD. Oral Defense Committee, Ted Blanton, Department of History, Dec. 2009 Advisory Board, Centre Louis Marin ACLS New Faculty Fellows Selection Committee 2010-2011 JHU Distinguished Awards Committee Member PhD. Oral Defense Committee, History Department, Denis Robichaud, June, 2011 Member, PhD. Oral Defense Committee, French Department, Jeanette Patterson, June 2011 Member, PhD. Oral defense Committee, History Department, Andrew Devereux, September, 2011 Chair, PhD. Oral Defense Committee, Humanities Center, Danielle Dubois, April, 2012 Chair, Ad Hoc Promotion Committee for Marion Feldman, Fall, 2012 Member Nineteenth-century American History Search Committee, Member, PhD, Oral Examination, Magdalena Vinter, Sept. 2013 Member, Department of History, Medieval Islamic Search Committee, 2013-14 Member, Faculty Forum Organizing Committee, 2014- Member, Departmental Promotion Committee for Gabriel Paquette Member, PhD. Oral Defense Committee, Carolyn Salomons, May, 2014 Member, PhD. Oral Defense Committee, Larry McGrath, May, 2014. Member, PhD. Oral Defense Committee, Jamie Gianoutsos, August, 2014. Chair, Departmental Promotion Committee for Michael Kwass, 2014. Dean’s Search Committee, 2014-2015. Committee for Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, 2014-15 Departmental Liason, Michael Kwass Ad Hoc Promotion Committee, 2015 Chair, PhD Oral Defense Committee, Heather Stein, Department of History, September ` 2015. (100) External alternate, PhD Oral Defense Committee, Hitomi Koyama, Political Science Department, September, 2015. Member, PhD Defense Committee, Chiara Vallee, History of Art, May, 2015 Member, African American Search Committee, Dept. of History, 2015-16. Chair, Ad Hoc Promotion Committee, Nino Zchomelidse, 2015-16. Chair, Medieval Search Committee, Department of History 2016-17. Member, Ad Hoc Promotion Committee for Todd Shepard, 2016-2017. Chair, Advisory Committee, Humanities Center, 2016- Chair, Search Committee in Medieval European History, 2017 Departmental Liaison, Ad Hoc Committee for appointment of Ann Lester Member, PhD Defense Committee, Brendan Goldman, Department of History, June 2018. Chair, Fourth Year Review of Tamer el-Leithy, Department of History, fall 2018
31 List of Graduate Students at Hopkins:
William MacLehose- Ph.D., completed, Fall, 1999. (University College, London) Daniel Heller Roazen (Humanities Center); co-directed dissertation. April, 2000. (Princeton University) Christopher Gardner - Ph.D., completed, January, 2002. Kelly Emerson - Phd., completed, March, 2002. Stephen Swisdak - MA., completed March, 2002. Withdrew. Tim Pollack - Phd., completed, September, 2003 (Wright University) Erin Rowe - Phd., completed, Feb. 2005 (University of Oregon; University of Virginia; Johns Hopkins University) Matthew Klemm - Phd. completed March, 2007 (University of Nebraska) Clare Monagle -Phd. completed Feb., 2007 (Monash University; University of Sydney, Maquarie University, Australia) Elizabeth Lapina - Phd. completed March, 2007 (Queen’s University, Ottowa; Durham University, England, University of Kent, England; University of Wisconsin, Madison) Damien Kempf - PhD. completed March, 2007 (University of Liverpool); ] Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow at Heidelberg University (2014-15). .James Blanton - PhD. –completed December, 2009 (College of Charleston) Philip Shaw- MA. Completed 2011. Withdrew. Denis Robichaud, PhD., Completed June 2011 (University of Notre Dame, Indiana). Danielle Dubois, (Humanities Center) Ph.D. Completed April, 2012. (University of Manitoba, Canada, Associate Professor). Heather Stein, PhD. Completed, September, 2015. Neil Weijer, PhD, Completed, 2017; University of Florida Brendan Goldman, PhD., Completed June, 2018; Princeton University Postdoctoral Fellow Jennifer Grayson, PhD.-Field exam Yonatan Glazer-Eytan, PhD. Constance de Font- Réaulx, PhD field exam Ben Cohen, PhD - Field Exams Francis Gelasi – PhD. Field Exam Daniele Frescaroli- Phd. Field Exam Anna Weerasinghe, Phd. Field Exam Alan Vandenarend, PhD Field Exam. Nathan Daniels, PhD Asmin Omerovic, PhD. Jonathan Mergerian, PhD. Kalina Hadzhikova, PhD. Alexander Profaci, PhD.
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