JOSEPH PATRICK BYRNE
110 Warren Drive
Greenbrier, Tennessee   37073
615-643-1194 (home)
615-460-5418 (office)
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EDUCATION:

Post-doctoral courses: Institute of Higher Education, University of Georgia, 1997-98; 40 graded quarter hours.

Ph.D., History: Indiana University, Bloomington, 1989.
  Minor: Art History
  Dissertation: "Francesco Datini, "Father of Many": Piety, Charity & Patronage in Early Renaissance Tuscany."

    Certificate: Renaissance Studies, Indiana University, 1986.

    Certificate: Medieval Studies Program, Indiana University, 1985.

M.A., History: University of Washington, 1982.

Masters in Urban Planning: University of Washington, 1979.

B.A., History: University of Washington, 1977; minor: economics.

B.A., Business Administration: University of Washington, 1977.


TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Associate Professor of Honors: Belmont University, August 1998 - present (tenured Spring 2001).
    Courses: Middle Ages; Renaissance and Enlightenment; 19th-century Ireland; Early Christian and Byzantine Art; History of
        London (in London, 2001/2); Renaissance Italian Art; The Black Death; Early Christianity (honors seminar); Sacred London (in London, 2006/7).

Adjunct Professor, History: Kennesaw State University and North Georgia State University, 1997. Courses: U.S. surveys.

Assistant Professor, History: West Georgia College, 1989-1996; see below for list of courses.

Assistant Professor, History: University of Puget Sound, 1988-9.  Courses: Western Civ. I, Humanities 100, Medieval Europe,
        Renaissance, Reformation.

Instructor, Honors Division: Indiana University, 1985. Course: Modern Ireland.

Instructor, History Department:Indiana University, 1984. Course: 19th-Century Ireland.

Instructor, Collins LLC: Indiana University, 1983, 1986, 1988. Courses: Renaissance Italy, Medieval Ireland, 100 Years War.

Assistant Instructor, History: Indiana University, 1982-1984.Courses: Early Modern Europe, 20th-Century World, U.S.

Teaching Assistant, Urban Planning: University of Washington, 1978-1979; various courses.

AWARDS and HONORS:
Who's Who in Teaching, 2004, 2005.
W. F. Spencer Award, Georgia Ass'n of Historians, 1998 (trienniel, for outstanding article in Journal of Georgia Association of
        Historians).
Faculty Research Grants, West Georgia College, 1990, 1991, 1994.
Conference Grants, Newberry Library, Spring 1988.
Grant in aid of research, Indiana University, 1988.
Research Grant, Newberry Library, Fall 1987.
Doctoral Research Fellowship, Indiana University, 1986-1987.


PUBLICATIONS:

IN PRINT

Encyclopedia of pestilence, Plagues, and Pandemics, editor, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.

Daily Life during the Black Death ,Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. (Amazon.com)


The Black Death
, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004. (Amazon.com)


Clio's Notebook
New York: Whittier Publications, 1992. (teaching anthology; currently out of print)
 


Journal Articles:

"Debating the Reformation in the Humanities Classroom," Sixteenth Century Journal (Summer 2002);

"Chairs and Change in the Evolving Community College," ERIC, ED428 781;

"I’ll Never have Anything Painted Again," Medieval Perspectives (1999);

"Honors Programs in Community Colleges: A Review of Recent Issues and Literature," Community College Review (Fall, 1998); also
    microformed as ERIC, ED417 785;

"Foundation of the Renaissance: Civic Culture of Early Humanism," Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians (1997);

"Crafting the Merchant's Wife's Tale: Historians and the domestic rhetoric in the correspondence of Margherita Datini,"
    Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians (1996);

"Dealing with Poverty in Fourteenth-century Italy," Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians (1995);

"Reading the Medieval Woman's Voice,"  West Georgia Review (Spring 1995);

"The Merchant as Penitent: Francesco Datini and the Bianchi Movement of 1399." Viator, vol. 20, 1989.


Co-authored Articles:

”A Tradition of Interdisciplinarity: The Belmont University Honors Program,” (with Devon Boan, Peter Giordano and Jonathan Thorndike)
    The Journal of the Art of Teaching
(Spring 2002);

"Leonardo da Vinci's Tensile Strength Tests: Implications for the discovery of engineering mechanics," with Dr. Jay R. Lund, School of
     Engineering, University of California, Davis; Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems 18 (2001) 243-250;

"Mothering in the Casa Datini 1376-1410," (with Dr. Eleanor Congdon, Cambridge University) Journal of Medieval History (January 1999);


Shorter Articles and Reference Pieces:

Articles for Encyclopedia of  Pestilence, Plagues and Pandemics (Greenwood Press, 2008):

            Napoleonic Wars and Epidemic Disease, The

            Smallpox and the American Revolution

            Personal Liberty and Epidemic Disease

            War, the Military, and Epidemic Disease

            Sanitorium

            Yellow Fever in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1830-1940

            London, Great Plague of

            Pesthouses and Lazarettos

            Ayurvedic Medicine

            International Health Agencies and Conventions

            Public Health Boards to 1900

            Plague in the US

            Measles, Eradication of

            Leprosy, Societal Reactions to

            Plague in the Contemporary World

            Smallpox in Europe’s Non-American Colonies

            Measles in the Colonial Americas

            Sydenham, Thomas

            News Media and Epidemic Disease.


"World War II: The European Theater" for Great Events from History: The Twentieth Century, 1941-1970 (Salem Press, 2007);

Articles for Masterplots II: Christian Literature
(Salem Press, 2007):

               "Mit brennender Sorge"

               "Divini redemptoris"

               "Guide to Righteous Living" (Savonarola)

 

“The Black Death,” for World Book Encyclopedia, 2007

 

“Reagan, Ronald;” “Reagan Revolution,” for The Eighties in America (Salem Press, 2008);

“Excommunication of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre,” Great Events of the Twentieth Century, 1971-2000 (Salem Press, 2007);

Articles for Great Events from History: The Nineteenth Century (Salem Press, 2007):

               “Zulu Expansion”

               Rerum novarum"

               "Building of the London Underground"

               "Pius IX and the Immaculate Conception"

               "The Russo-Turkish War of 1828-1829"

               "Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament";

“Baha’u’llah” for Great Lives from History: The Nineteenth Century (Salem Press, 2007); 

Articles for Great Events from History: The Twentieth Century, 1900-1940 (Salem Press, 2007):

            Lacramabili Statu

            Mit brenneder Sorge;”

            “Sinn Fein is founded”

 

Articles for Great Lives from History: Notorious Lives (Salem Press, 2006):
            “Guy Fawkes”
            “Alfred Jodl”
            “Joachim von Ribbentrop”
            “Baldur von Schirach”
            "Julius Streicher"

"Greek Philosophy" for Magill's Choice: Ancient Greece (Salem Press, 2006);

Articles for Great Events from History: The Eighteenth Century (Salem Press, 2006):
            “Papal Bull Unigenitus”
            “War of the Austrian Succession”
            “Suppression of the Jesuits”
            “Battle of Rossbach”
            “The Salon of 1737”  

Articles for Great Lives of the Eighteenth Century  (Salem  Press, 2006):
            “Pope Benedict XIV”
            “Claude Helvetius”
            “Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval”
            “John Graves Simcoe” 

Articles  for The Seventies in America  (Salem Press, 2005):
            “Henry Kissinger”
            "Enemies List" 
            “Jonestown and the People’s Temple”

Articles for Great Events in History: The Seventeenth Century (Salem Press, 2005):
            "1619-1622, Inigo Jones Builds the Banqueting House at Whitehall"
            "1665: Great Plague in London"
            “The Spanish Golden Age”
            “Struggle for the Valtelline Pass”
            “1674: The French-Dutch War”
            "The First Northern War"
            "The Treaty of the Pyrenees"
            "Spread of Jansenism"  

Articles for Great Lives from History, the Seventeenth Century (Salem Press, November 2005):
            "Pope Alexander VII"
            "Pope Urban VIII"
            "Cosimo II de' Medici"
            “Frederick V”
            “Louis LeVau”
            “Rory O’More”
            "Charles Le Brun" 

Articles
for electronic Literary Reference Center (EBSCO/Salem Press): James Adair; Brooks Adams; Charles Francis Adams, jr.;
    Herbert Baxter Adams; James Truslow Adams; Charles M. Andrews; David Attenborough; Sucheng Chan; Dierdre English; Kathlyn Gay;
    Ida Husted Harper; Gerda Lerner; Wendy Lesser; David McCullough; Norman McClean; W.G.Sebald; Studs Terkel; Louise Tilly; Rene Wellek;
    Sarah E. Wright (2005).

Articles for for Great Events from History: 1454-1600 (Salem Press, 2005):
            “1507, End of the Timurid Dynasty”
            “1584, Battle of Tobol River”
            “1591, Fall of the  Songhai Empire”
            "1523-1560, Coronation of Gustav I Vasa"
            "1510 - c. 1600, Battle of Merv establishes the Shaybanid dynasty in Transoxiana"
            "1490's, Kazakh Empire is established"
            "1598, Astrakhanid dynasty in Transoxiana"
            "1499, Louis XII of France seizes Milan"
            "1540's, Paul III Establishes the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office and the Index of Prohibited Books"

"Boabdil," for Great Lives from History: 1454-1600 (Salem Press, 2005);

"Matilda of Canossa,” for Great Lives from History: The Middle Ages and Pre-Renaissance, Leslie E. Jones, editor (Salem Press, 2004);

"Hugo Grotius," for Ethics, John K. Roth, editor (Salem Press, 2005);


Articles
for World Trade: A Historical Encyclopedia of Economics, Politics, Society, and Culture  (M.E. Sharpe, 2005):
            “Middle Ages”
            “Renaissance”
            “Glass”
            “Christianity”
            “Carolingian Empire”
            “Genoa”

"The Compilation of the New Testament, 50 c.e.-150" for Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Rowena Wildin, editor, (Salem Press, 2004);

Articles for Great Events from History: The Middle Ages and Pre-Renaissance, Leslie E. Jones, editor (Salem Press, 2004):
            “Rise of Uighur Turks: 744-840”
            “1320: Bubonic Plague Arises in the Gobi Desert”
            "936: Khitans Settle Near Beijing"

Articles for Encyclopedia of Medieval Italy, Christopher Kleinhenz, ed., (Routledge, 2004):
            “Azo"
            "Bartolus of Sassoferrato"
            "Bocca degli Abati"
            "Castruccio Castracane
            "Frederick I Barbarossa"
            "Giovanni Pian Carpini"
            "Giano della Bella"
            "Henry VII of Luxemburg"
            "Lewis of Bavaria"
            "Rolandino de'Passagieri"
            "Acciaiuoli"
            "Adimari"
            "Aldobrandeschi"
            "Bardi"
            "Buondelmonti"
            "Cancellieri"
            "Cavalcanti"
            "Cerchi"
            "Conti"
            "Donati"
            "Uberti"
            "Certaldo"
            "Empoli"
            "Fiesole"
            "Prato"
            "San Gimignano"
            "San Miniato"
            "Legnano"
            "Meloria"
            "Montaperti"
            "Catacombs"
            "Catasto"
            "Carroccio"
            "Ciompi"
            "Peace of Constance"
            "Guilds"
            "Popolo"
            "Lombard Leagues"
            "Nobility"
            "Notaries"
            "Podestà"
            "Revenues"
            "Titles, Official.

Articles for The Encyclopedia of New Jersey (RutgersUniversity Press, 2004):
            "Verrazzano"
            "Estevan Gomez"
            "Samuel Argall;"

“Meriwether Lewis” for Cyclopedia of World Authors, 4th rev. ed., (Salem Press, 2003);

Articles for Cyclopedia of Literary Places (Salem Press, Feb 2003)
            "Petronius, The Satyricon"
            "Castiglione, The Courtier"
            "Christine de Pizan, The Book of the Ladies"
            "Apuleius, The Golden Ass"
            "AE, Homeward"
            "W.B. Yeats, Dierdre”
            "Plautus, The Captives and The  Rope”;
            “The Mabinogion”
            "Lady Gregory, The Rising of the Moon”
            "Boccaccio, Elegy of Fiametta”
            "Aristophanes, The Knights.”

Annotated bibliographies (Ariosto, Bembo, Cavalcanti, Michelangelo, Persius, Petrarch, Pindar, Sextus Propertius, Tasso, Villon, Von der Vogelweide)
        for Critical Survey of Poetry, second revised edition (Salem Press, Jan 2003);

"U.S. Senate Confirms Clarence Thomas to Supreme Court," Great Events of the Twentieth Century (Salem Press, 2002);

"Geography and Military Development: Ancient to 1500 C.E.;"
"Spears and Pole-Arms (ancient to 1500 C.E.)" for Weapons and Warfare, John Powell, ed., Salem Press (2001).

Articles for Encyclopedia of the Ancient World , Thomas J. Sienkewicz, ed., Salem Press (2001)
            "Daily Life,"
            "The Celts (1000 BCE – 700 CE),"
            "Langobards (500-700 ce),"
            "Agapetus,"
            "Suebi,"
            "Goths,"
            "Appian."

Articles for World Geography, Salem Press (2001):
            "Exploration of South America,"
            "Human Environment: Overview & Globalization of Culture,"
            "Urbanization in North America."

Articles for Magill’s Guide to Military History, John Powell, ed., Salem Press, (2001):
            "Wars of Charlemagne, 771-814,"
            "Venetian-Genoese Wars, 1255-1381,"
            "Italian Wars, 1494-1559,"
            "Florentine Wars, 1313-1359,"
            "Leo III,"
            "Norman-Byzantine Wars, 1081-1108,"
            "Sicilian-Byzantine Wars, 1147-1185,"
            "Carolingian Empire,"
            "Andrea Doria,"
            "Siege of Kinsale"
            "Navas de Tolosa,"
            "1798 Irish Rebellion,"
            "Etrusco-Roman Wars,"
            "Fontenoy,"
            "Fulk Nerra."

"The Hermitage," America's Historic Sites, Salem Press, 2000;

Articles forEncyclopedia of Medieval Travel, Trade and Exploration, John B. Friedman, ed., Garland, 2000:
            "Africa,"
            "French Merchants,"
            "The Mediterranean,"
            "Canary Islands,"
            "Petrarch, Itinerarium syriacum,"
            "Grazioso and Andrea Benincasa,"
            "Pius II, Cosmographia,"
            "Nicholas of Cusa (w/Dwight Ferguson)."

Articles for The Sixties in America;Salem Press, 1999:
            "Buckley, William F.,"
            "Higher Education Act of 1965".

Articles for Biographical Encyclopedia of 20th Century World Leaders; John Powell, ed., Salem Press, 1999:
            "Eamon De Valera,"
            "Pius XI,"
            "Alfred von Tirpitz,"
            "William T. Cosgrave."

Articles for The Chronology of World Slavery; Junius P. Rodriguez, ed., ABC Clio,1999:
            "Women as Slaves (Greco-Roman),"
            " Slavery in the Mediterranean,"
            "Constantinople Slave Trade,"
            "Gregory XVI In supremo."

"Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov," Dictionary of World Biography: Vols. V and VISalem Press, 1999;

Articles for Encyclopedia of World Slavery; Junius P. Rodriguez, ed., ABC-CLIO, 1998:
            "Afonso I of Kongo,"
            "Jean Bodin,"
            "Twelve Tables,"
            "Circumcellions,"
            "Isocrates,"
            "Archidamus."

Articles for The Columbus Encyclopedia, Sylvio Bedini, ed., Simon and Schuster,  1992:
            "The Mediterranean Economy in the 15th Century,"
            "Cadamosto,"
            "The Vivaldi Brothers,"
            "Niccolo Conti,"
            "Giovanni di Pian Carpini."

"The Apollonio di Giovanni Panel." Italian Art at theIndianaUniversityArt MuseumBloomington, IN; (1984).


BOOK REVIEWS

Carole Rawcliffe, Leprosy in Medieval England (American Historical Review, Spring 2008)


William Tronzo, St. Peter’s in the Vatican (Sixteenth Century Journal, Summer 2006);


Robert Bireley, The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War (Church History, March 2006); 

 

Stuart J. Borsch, The Black Death in Egypt and England: A Comparative Study (American Historical Review, February 2006);


Thomas A. Kirk, Genoa and the Sea: Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic, 1559-1684 (History: A Review of Books, Summer 2005); 


Gigliola Fragnito, Church, Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy (History (Britain));

Holt N. Parker, ed. and trans., Olympia Morata, the Complete Writings of an Italian Heretic (Renaissance and Reformation);

Konrad Eisenbichler, ed., The Cultural World of Eleonora di Toledo, Duchess of Florence and Siena (Renaissance Studies);
 
Lara Michelacci, Giovio in Parnaso: Tra collezione di forme e storia universale (Renaissance Quarterly, Fall, 2005).


Kathleen Kamerick, Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England 1350-1500 (Church History, Winter 2005);

Till Wahnbaeck, Luxury and Public Happiness: Political Economy in the Italian Enlightenment (History: Review of Books, Fall 2004);

Andrew Jotischky, The Carmelites and Antiquity: Mendicants and their Pasts in the Middle Ages (Church History, December 2003);

Susan Rose, Medieval Naval Warfare 1000 - 1500 (Medieval History Journal (India), 6:1, 2003);

Robin Neillands, The Hundred Years War, rev. ed. (Medieval History Journal (India), 6:1, 2003);

Robert Bireley, The Refashioning of Catholicism, 1450 - 1700 (Church History, December 2002);

Franz Posset, The Front-Runner of the Catholic Reformation: The Life and Worlds of Johann von Staupitz (Renaissance and
    Reformation, Summer 2002);

Hubert Houben, Roger II of Sicily: A Ruler Between East and West (History: A Review of Books, Fall 2002).

Alan M. Stahl, Zecca: The Mint of Venice in the Middle Ages (Renaissance Quarterly, Fall 2002);

Konrad Eisenbichler, The Cultural Politics of Duke Cosimo de' Medici (Renaissance Quarterly, Fall 2002);

Philip Jacks and William Caferro, The Spinelli of Florence: Fortunes of a Renaissance Merchant Family (Renaissance Quarterly, Fall 2002);

Baldassarri & Saiber, Images of Quattrocento Florence (Sixteenth Century Journal, Fall 2001);

Ellen Kittell &Thomas Madden, Medieval & Renaissance Venice (Renaissance & Reformation, Summer 2001);

Christine Shaw, Politics of Exile (History (Britain) April 2001);

James D. Tracy, Europe's Reformations, 1450-1650 (European History Newsletter, Spring 2001);

James S. Grubb, Provincial Families of the Renaissance. Private and Public Life in the Veneto (Fifteenth-Century Studies, 2001);

Salvatore Tramontana, Antonello e la sua citta (Speculum, Winter 2001);

Sabine Eiche, Ordine et officij de casa de lo illustrissimo signor Duca de Urbino (Renaissance Quarterly, Win. 2001);

A.C. Fiorato& A.F. Baratto, La Table et ses dessous (Renaissance Quarterly,Winter 2001);

W. Patrick McCray, Glassmaking in Renaisance Venice (Renaissance Quarterly, Winter 2001);

Samuel K. Cohn, Creating the FlorentineState(History (Britain) October 2000 );

David A. Brown, Leonardo Da Vinci: Origins of A Genius (Historian, Summer 2000);

Constance B. Bouchard, Strong of Body, Brave and Noble: Chivalry and Society in Medieval France (Church History, March 2000);

K.J.P.Lowe, Marriage In Italy, 1300-1650 (Renaissance Studies, 1: 2000);

Christopher Hibbert, The House of Medici: Its rise and fall (History :A Review of Books);

John Henderson, Piety and Charity in Late Medieval Florence (Speculum, April 1999);

Ellen M. Ross, The Grief of God: Images of the Suffering Jesus in Late Medieval England (Church History, March 1998);

Ann Derbes, Picturing the Passion in Late Medieval Italy (Church History, March 1998);

Andrea del Col, Domenico Scandella Known as Menocchio: His trial before the Inquisition (Church History, Dec. 1997);

Robert L. Kendrick, Celestial Sirens: Nuns and their Music in Early Modern Milan (Church History, September 1997);

Paolo Prodi, ed., Disciplina dell'anima, disciplina del corpo e disciplina della società tra medioevo ed età moderna
    (Sixteenth Century Journal (Spring 1997);

James Saslow, The Medici Wedding of 1589: Florentine festival as theatrum mundi (History: Review of Books, Spring 1997);

Benjamin Kohl and Alison Smith, Major Problems in the History of the Italian Renaissance  (Renaissance Quarterly, Spring 1997);

Frederick McGinness, Right Thinking and Sacred Oratory in Counter-Reformation Rome (Church History, December 1996);

Nicholas A. Eckstein, The District of the Green Dragon (Sixteenth Century Journal, Fall 1996);

Cecilia Nubola, Conoscere per governare. La diocesi di Trento nella visita pastorale di Ludovico Madruzzo  (1579-1581)
    (Church History, June 1996);

Girolamo Savonarola, Prison Meditations on Psalms 51 and 31 (Renaissance Quarterly, Winter 1996);

Alison Brown, Language and Images of Renaissance Italy (History: A Review of Books, Spring 1996);

Simonetta Adorni-Braccesi, Una città infetta (Sixteenth Century Journal, Spring 1996);

D.C.West and A. Kling, The Libro de las profecias of Christopher Columbus  (Church History, Fall 1995);

George Holmes, Art and Politics in Renaissance Italy(History: A Review of Books, Spring 1995);

Alessandra Malquori, "Tempo d'aversità": gli affreschi dell'altana di Palazzo Rucellai (Sixteenth Century Journal, April 1995);

Paul Gehl, A Moral Art (Speculum, April 1995);

David Thomson, Renaissance Architecture (European Studies Journal, 1995);

Joanne Ferraro, Family and Public Life in Brescia, 1580-1650 (European Studies Journal, 1994);

Anthony Molho, Marriage Alliance in Late Medieval Florence (Sixteenth Century Journal, Jan. 1995);

Frederick Hammond, Music and Spectacle in Baroque Rome (History: A Review of Books, Fall 1995);

Maureen Flynn, Sacred Charity (Speculum, April 1992);

John Marino, Pastoral Economics in the Kingdom of Naples (European Studies Journal, 1991).


INTERNET PUBLICATIONS:

International Bibliography of Medieval and Early Modern European Wills and Probate Inventories and their
    Historiography (website with c. 8000 entries), (www.belmont.edu/honorsprogram/WILLBIBHOME.htm).

"The Wills of Marco and Francesco Datini", (www.belmont.edu/honorsprogram/datwill.html);

"A Guide to Web Sites with Anglo-Saxon Images", (www.belmont.edu/honorsprogram/ASImages/ASHome.htm)

"Giotto di Bondone", at Belmont Honors (www.belmont.edu/honorsprogram/giotto/giottohome.html)

"From out of the depths: The Catacombs of Rome" (www.belmont.edu/honorsprogram/catacombs/catacombs.htm)


FORTHCOMING:
“Bakunin, Michael;” “Birdseye, Clarence;” “Catholic Worker Movement;” “Wedgwood, Josiah;” “Watt, James;” “Taylor, Frederick W.;” “Statute of Apprentices

     (1563);” “Pascal, Blaise;” “Field, Marshall” for The Industrial Revolutions:  A Global Encyclopedia of Business, Technology, and Society  (M.E.
     Sharp, 2008);

 

“Plague of Justinian;” “Celts;” “Slavery in the Greco-Roman World;”Celtic Social Structure;” “International Slave Trade in the Ancient World;” “People of
    European Towns and Cities 300-1000;” “An Age of Faith: Religion and Popular Culture in Christian Societies 300 – 630;” “Christianity and European Cultures
    300 – 1000;” “Education in Europe 300 -1000; “Painting and Sculpture in Christian Europe 300 – 1000;” “Santiago de Compostello and Other Christian
    Pilgrimages;” “The Merovingians and Carolingians;” “Economic Role of Cities in Europe 300 – 1000;” “Christian Mysticism 300 – 1000;”
    “Forts and Castles 300 – 1000;” “Urbanization in Europe, 1750-1914;” “Urbanization and Suburbanization, 1900-1945;” Venereal Diseases, 1750-1914,” for

     Encyclopedia of World History  (ABC-CLIO, 2008);

“Celtic Church Was a Historical Reality;” “Galileo Was Guilty at his 1633 Trial," "Columbus did not know his calculations were incorrect," for
     Popular Controversies in World History (ABC-CLIO, 2008);

 

“Elections in the United States, midterm: 1990, 1994, 1998” for The Nineties in America  (Salem Press);

 “Infectious Diseases and Immigrants;” “Religion as a Push-pull Factor;” for  Encyclopedia of American Immigration (Salem Press);


 “London, Asian Religions in;”
for Encyclopedia of Asian Religions (Blackwell).

 

BOOK REVIEWS FORTHCOMING:
Wilkinson, Robert J. Orientalism, Aramaic, and Kabbalah in the Catholic Reformation: The First Printing of the Syriac New Testament (Church History);
Bourda, Louisa, and Anne Dunlop. Art and the Augustinian Order in Early Renaissance Italy (Church History);
Paolo Giovio. La descrizione del Lario, 1553 (Renaissance Quarterly).

BOOKS IN PROGRESS:

Encyclopedia of the Black Death (ABC-CLIO, 2011);


The Renaissance and Enlightenment (Health and Medicine in Daily Life; Greenwood/ABC-CLIO);


Series Editor for "Health and Medicine in Daily Life;" (7 volumes; Greenwood/ABC-CLIO);

`God save me from their kind!' Francesco Datini & the Decoration of the Palazzo Datini, 1391-1394 (monograph).
 

WRITTEN AND ACCEPTED, BUT PROJECT INDEFINITELY DELAYED:
"Economics 1969: Ragnar Frisch"; "Economics 1969: Jan Tinbergen"; "Economics 1975: Leonid Kantorovich"
    "Economics 1975: Tjalling Koopmans"; "Economics 1977: James E. Meade"; "Economics 1977: Bertil Ohlin," Nobel Prize Winners (Salem Press).
 


PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:

"Documentary Filmmaking in a Humanities Class.” Lilly Conference on Innovative Teaching, Miami, Ohio (November, 2005);

"Shut in, Shut out, and Shut up: The Theory and Practice of Plague Victim Isolation in Early Modern Europe." Sixteenth Century Studies Conference,
        Atlanta (October 2005);

"Through the Lens of History." Salisbury University, Phi Alpha Theta Convocation (February 2004);

"What’s Next? History and Education for the Future." Salisbury State University, Phi Alpha Theta Convocation (February 2000);

"I'll Never Have Anything Painted Again: Francesco Datini and his Crucifix." Southeast Medieval Association, Atlanta (Oct. 1998);

"Between Medieval and Renaissance: Tuscan Notaries and Early Humanism." Georgia Association of Historians (April 1997);

"The Merchant's Wife's Tale: Domestic Rhetoric in the Correspondence of Margherita Datini." Georgia Association of Historians meeting
        (April 1996);

"The Culture of Rebellion in Twentieth-century Ireland." Guest lecture, W.G.C. English Department (Spring 1996);

"The Father of Many: Francesco Datini as Patron of the Needy (1385-1410)." Georgia Association of Historians (April 1995);

"The Merchant and his Painters: Francesco Datini as Early Renaissance Art Patron." Southeast Medieval Association, Arlington, VA
        (September 1994);

"'I'm not a little girl any more!' Trajectories through the life and correspondence of Margherita Datini." 29th Int'l Congress on Medieval
        Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (May 1994);

"The Merchant and God's Poor: The Almsgiving of Francesco Datini." Ninth Biennial New College Conference of Medieval-Renaissance
        Studies, Sarasota, FL (March 1994);

"Dead Men Tell Many Tales: Wills as historical sources." West Georgia College, History Colloquium, Fall 1992;

"Columbus as Renaissance Man." West Georgia College, 'Ages of Discovery' Symposium, Spring 1992;

"When Clio and Calliope meet, they make beautiful music." American Musicological Association, 1992 Conference;

"From Under Clio's Wing." Salisbury State (Maryland) University, Phi Alpha Theta Convocation, Spring 1992;

"The Merchant as Gentleman Farmer: Datini and the Rural Life." Duchesne University History Forum, Fall 1991;

"Monsters, Medieval and Modern." Popular Culture Association of the South Convention (Norfolk), Fall 1991;

"Another Look at Merchant-class Charity in the Early Renaissance." Ohio State University History Forum, Spring 1990.

MASTERS THESES:
"Impact Zoning: Theory and Applications." (M.U.P.);

"Urban Residential Morphology of Renaissance Utopias: L. Alberti and Thomas More as Social Architects." (M.A.).

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Associate Editor
International Social Science Review (Pi Gamma Mu) (2003-    ).

Academic Adviser:
    Core Division, West Georgia College, 1990-96.
    Honors Division, Indiana University, 1984-88.

Program Director, Symposium for Georgia High School Teachers, West Georgia College:
    "Environmental History and the Georgia Classroom," 1994.
    "Continuities and Change in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union," 1993.
    "1492/1992 Ages of Discovery," 1992.

Consultant:
    E.T.S. Advanced Placement Examination Program, European History, 1995-2002, 2005-2009.
    Jaffe Productions, for the History Channel, segment on Roman Catacombs for "Secret Passages" (2001/2).

Participant:
    N.E.H. Summer Institute, Oxford University, 2006, "Representations of Jews in Medieval Christendom."
   
N.E.H. Summer Institute, Harvard University, 2002, “Eurasian Civilization, 1000-1700”.
    N.E.H. Summer Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1999,  "Anglo Saxon England".
    N.E.H. Summer Seminar in Rome, Italy, 1992, "Architecture and Urban Planning in Rome, 1500-1750".
    Aston Magna Academy (NEH-sponsored interdisciplinary institute), 1991, "Music and the Other Arts in the Early  Baroque: Florence and
            Rome".

Instructor, Teacher Certification Seminars (Georgia Social studies); author, State of Georgia Teacher Certification Review Manual:
     Social Studies, (1997).

Georgia Association of Historians:
    Teaching Committee Member, 1992-1993.
    Annual meeting coordinating committee, 1993.

Panel Chair and Commentator, "Writing Medieval Women: Faith, Vocation and the Cloister," Southeast Medieval Association
    Conference, Fall 1995.

Manuscript Referee for St. Martin's Press; Lerner Group; Brill Publishing; Church History; Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians.

RESEARCH LANGUAGES: Italian, French, Latin, German, Spanish.

SCHOLASTIC HONORARIES: Phi Eta Sigma, Phi Alpha Theta, Omicron Delta Kappa

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS: American Association of Church History, Georgia Association of
    Historians, Historians of Early Modern Europe, Medieval Academy of America, Renaissance Society of America, Society
    for Renaissance Studies, Southern Historical Association, Catholic Historical Association, The Historical Society.

COURSES TAUGHT 1989-2009
HISTORICAL SURVEYS:
The Medieval World - Honors
Renaissance and Enlightenment - Honors
Western Civilization
Western Civilization I Honors
Western Civilization I/Ancient & Medieval Lit (jointly)
U.S. surveys I and II

HISTORY AND ART HISTORY: UPPER DIVISION/ GRADUATE COURSES:  

The Ancient World 

   The Medieval World

   Early Modern World

   Other Courses

The Ancient World

   The High Middle Ages 

   The Renaissance

   19th-century Ireland

Ancient Greece

   Medieval Christianity

   The Age of Exploration

   Modern Ireland

Classical Greece

   Medieval Ireland

   The Reformation

   Historical Methodology

Hellenistic World

   Early Modern Ireland

   Historiography

Ancient Rome

   The 100 Years War

 

   History of London in London

Roman Republic

 

 

Roman Empire

 

 

Classical Politics and Rhetoric

 

 

   Early Christianity

Roman Art and Architecture

 

 

   Sacred London in London

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