JOSEPH
PATRICK BYRNE
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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.
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.
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.
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
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 VI, Salem 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 Museum, Bloomington, IN; (1984).
BOOK REVIEWS
Carole Rawcliffe, Leprosy in Medieval
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
“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," "
Popular
Controversies in World History (ABC-CLIO,
2008);
“Elections
in the
“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).
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);
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).
"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:
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The Ancient World |
The Medieval World |
Early Modern World |
Other Courses |
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The Ancient World |
The High Middle Ages |
The Renaissance |
19th-century Ireland |
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Ancient Greece |
Medieval Christianity |
The Age of Exploration |
Modern Ireland |
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Classical Greece |
Medieval Ireland |
The Reformation |
Historical Methodology |
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Hellenistic World |
Early Modern Ireland |
Historiography |
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Ancient Rome |
The 100 Years War |
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History of London in London |
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Roman Republic |
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Roman Empire |
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Classical Politics and Rhetoric |
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Roman Art
and Architecture |
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