MICHAEL WOLFE, Ph.D.
Professor of History
Associate Dean, Graduate Division
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
St. John’s Hall, Room 145
St. John’s University
8000 Utopia Parkway
Queens, New York 11439
117-01 Park Lane South
Apt. B6B
Richmond Hill, New York 11418
[email protected]
814-932-9037 (cell)
718-990-1497 (office)
718-990-1870 (fax)
Skype: michael.wolfe66
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EDUCATION
Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D. (History)
MA (History)
1986
1982
Boston University
MA (History)
BA (History, minor French)
1980
1979
Baruch College—CUNY
Executive Certificate in Educational Research
2012
Institute for Administrators of Catholic Higher Education
2013
Boston College
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
St. John’s University, Queens, NY
Associate Dean, Graduate Division of Arts & Sciences
Professor of History
20072007-
Administrative oversight of 35 graduate programs in the arts and science enrolling over
1000 students. Responsible for student and faculty recruitment; faculty and staff
development; budgets and fellowship contracts; program assessment; facility management;
curriculum development; and graduation. Chair of Graduate Council (2011-14), Chief
College IRB Officer (2007- ),
Pennsylvania State University
Chair, History Department, Altoona College
Head, Division of Arts & Humanities, Altoona College
Faculty Senate President, Altoona College
Associate Director, Center for Medieval Studies, University Park
Chair, Strategic Planning Committee, Altoona College
Director, Altoona College Honors Program
Assistant, Associate, & Professor of History
2003-2007
1997-2003
1996-1997
1995-2002
1995-1997
1993-1996
1989-2007
As Division Head, administrative oversight of all undergraduate programs in the arts and
humanities at a campus of over 4000 students. Responsible for faculty recruitment and
development, including tenure and promotion; curriculum development; budgets and
special programming; and facility management and master planning. As Associate Director
of the Center for Medieval Studies, responsible for planning annual conferences and
banquet; community outreach efforts; and external grant projects.
University of Southern California
Visiting Assistant Professor
1988-1989
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University of Dallas, Rome Campus, Rome, Italy
Visiting Lecturer
1986-1988
University of Maryland, College Park
Visiting Lecturer
1985-1986
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (selected)
Council of Colleges of Arts & Sciences, Committee Member (2007- )
Council of Graduate Schools, Committee Member (2007- )
American Association of Colleges & Universities, Committee Member (2012- )
Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools, Committee Member (2007Educational Testing Service, Reader, Table & Question Leader, AP-European History
(1993-2009)
Consultancies and Referee Work—selected (1992- )
Swarthmore College; Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques; Journal of
Medieval and Renaissance History; Duke University Press; University of Rochester
Press; Cambridge University Press; Pennsylvania State University Press; Truman
State University Press; French Historical Studies; Canadian Journal of History
Editorships
Truman State University Press, General Editor, Early Modern Studies (2006- )
French Historical Studies, Editorial Board (2005-2010)
Sixteenth Century Journal, Editorial Board (2006-2011)
George Rudé Society, Series Editor (2006-2010)
H-France, Chief Review Editor (2003- )
Languages
French (speaking and reading fluency, writing proficiency)
Italian (speaking and reading proficiency)
Spanish (reading proficiency)
German (reading proficiency)
Dutch (reading proficiency)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Recovering 9/11 in New York. Co-editor (with Robert Fanuzzi). Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 2014.
Natalie Zemon Davis and the Passion of History: Interviews with Denis Crouzet. Truman
State University Press, 2010. Editor and translator (with Natalie Zemon Davis).
Walled Towns and the Shaping of France. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Senses of Place: Inventing Landscapes in Medieval Western Europe. University Press of
Florida, 2002. Editor (with John Howe).
Technology and Resource Use in Medieval Europe: Cathedrals, Mills, and Mines. Ashgate,
1997. Editor (with Elizabeth Bradford Smith).
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Changing Identities in Early Modern France. Editor. Duke University Press, 1997.
The Medieval City Under Siege. Boydell & Brewer: Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1995. Paperback
edition in 1999. Editor (with Ivy Corfis).
The Conversion of Henri IV: Politics, Power, and Religious Belief in Early Modern France.
Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA, 1993.
Book-in-Progress
On the Urban Edge in Early Modern France.
Early Modern Studies/Early Modern Translations (series editor)
Lawrence Buck, The Roman Monster: An Icon of the Papal Antichrist in Reformation
Polemic, 2014.
Matthew Vester, ed., Sabaudian Studies: Political Culture, Dynasty, and Territory, 14401700, 2013.
Timothy McCall, Sean Roberts, and Giancarlo Fiorenza, eds., Visual Cultures of Secrecy in
Early Modern Europe, 2013.
Jennifer Mara DeSilva, ed., Episcopal Reform and Politics in Early Modern Europe, 2012.
Matthew Vester, Renaissance Dynasticism and Apanage Politics, 1531-1585, 2012.
Amy Nelson Burnett, The Eucharistic Pamphlets of Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt,
2011.
Carl P. E. Springer, Luther’s Aesop, 2011.
Christine M. Boeckl, Images of Leprosy: Disease, Religion, and Politics in European Art,
2011.
Natalie Zemon Davis and Michael Wolfe, eds., A Passion for History: Conversations with
Denis Crouzet, 2010.
André Thevet, Portraits from the French Renaissance and the Wars of Religion, Edward
Benson and Roger Schlesinger, eds., 2010.
Jill Fehleison, Boundaries of Faith: Catholics and Protestants in the Diocese of Geneva,
2010.
Lynn Martin, Alcohol, Violence, and Disorder in Traditional Europe, 2009.
Kathryn A. Edwards and Susie Speakman Sutch, trans. and eds., Leonarde’s Ghost:
Popular Piety and “The Appearance of a Spirit” in 1628, 2009.
Nicholas Terpstra, ed., The Art of Executing Well: Rituals of Execution in Renaissance Italy,
2008.
John A. Maxfield, Luther’s Lectures on Genesis and the Formation the Evangelical Identity,
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2008.
Scott A. Hendrix and Susan C. Karant-Nunn, eds., Masculinity in the Reformation Era,
2008.
David M. Whitfield, ed., Reformation and Early Modern Europe: A Guide to Research, 2008.
Franco Mormando and Thomas Worcester, eds., Piety and Plague: From Byzantium to the
Baroque, 2007.
Articles & Essays
“Building Bastions Before Vauban: Logistics, Technology, and Worksite Management”, in
progress.
“Introduction”, co-written with Robert Fanuzzi, Recovering 9/11 in New York, Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, forthcoming in 2014, pp. 1-11.
“L’Après-vie bizarre d’Henri III: Déformations dynastiques aux lendemains du regicide en
1589.” Régicides en Europe du XVe au XIXe siècle, ed., I. Pébay-Clottes, (Paris, in press).
“Pain and Memory: The War Wounds of Blaise de Monluc.” Spaces of War: France and the
Francophone World, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. 105-120.
“Urban Design Innovations and Traditions in France, 1200-1600,” Histoire et mesure,
24/1(2009):109-156.
“Biblical Exegesis as Public Performance: Controversialist Debate and Politics at the
Conference of Fontainebleau (1600),” in After the League: Politics and Religion in Early
Bourbon France Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. pp. 65-85.
“Antiquarianism and Urban Identity in Sixteenth-Century Nîmes.” Proceedings of the
George Rudé Conference, 2006. Adelaide, Australia.
“Au-delà des limites possibles. Comprenant la défaite impériale au siège de Metz (1552),”
in Les monarchies européennes à l’époque moderne, PUF, 2005, pp. 219-232.
“Writing the City Under Attack During the French Wars of Religions,” in Situazoni
d’assedio, Siena, 2002, pp. 179-183.
“Henri IV and the Press,” in The Sixteenth-Century French Religious Book, University of
St. Andrew’s Press, 2001, pp. 177-196.
“Walled Towns during the French Wars of Religion,” in City Walls: Form, Function, and
Meaning. Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 317-348.
“The Culinary Art of Politics in Early Modern Amiens,” in Le second ordre: l’univers
nobiliaire, Presses de l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1999, pp. 134-51.
“Prélude à la paix: le siège d’Amiens et ses conséquences historiques.” In Autour du
traité de Vervins. Guerre et paix en Europe (fin XVIe siècle-début XVIIe siècle), Presses
Universitaires de Lille, 1998, pp. 61-80.
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“The Edict of Nantes: French Origins and European Consequences.” In The Edict of
Nantes, The National Huguenot Society, 1998, pp. 11-18.
“Building a Bastion in Early Modern Amiens.” Proceedings of the Western Society for
French History, 25(1998):36-48.
“New Perspectives on the History of Medieval Technology.” in Technology and Resource
Use in Medieval Europe: Cathedrals, Mills, and Mines. Ashgate, 1997, pp. 1-8.
“Amnesty and Oubliance in the French Wars of Religion,” Cahiers d'histoire: La Revue du
Département d’Histoire de l’Université de Montréal, 4(16) 1997: 45-68.
“Necessary Conflicts: Becoming French in Early Modern Europe,” in Changing Identities in
Early Modern France, Duke University Press, 1997, pp. 1-21.
“Protestant Reactions to the Conversion of Henri IV,” in Changing Identities in Early
Modern France, Duke University Press, 1997, pp. 371-392.
“The Strange Afterlife of Henri III: Dynastic Distortions in Early Bourbon France,”
Renaissance Studies 10(4):1996. 474-489.
“New Perspectives on Medieval Siege Warfare: An Introduction.” In The Medieval City
Under Siege. Boydell & Brewer, 1995. pp. 3-20.
“The Bonnes Villes of France During the Hundred Years War.” In The Medieval City Under
Siege. Boydell & Brewer: Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1995, pp. 63-87.
“The King’s Conscience: Personal Authority and Accountability in Renaissance France.”
MAJESTAS Yearbook 1(1993):58-72.
“The Politics of Illusion in Seventeenth-Century France.” Proceedings of the Annual
Meeting of the Western Society for French History. 17:1990. 152-157.
“Piety and Political Allegiance: The Duc de Nevers and the Protestant Henri IV.” French
History. 2(1):1988. 1-21.
“The Conversion of Henri IV and the Origins of Bourbon Absolutism.” Historical
Reflections/Réflexions historiques. 14(2):1987. 287-309.
Translations
Patrice Beck, Philippe Braunstein, Michel Philippe. “Wood, Iron, and Water in the Othe
Forest during the Late Middle Ages.” In Technology and Resource Use in Medieval Europe:
Cathedrals, Mills, and Mines. Ashgate: Aldershot, 1997, 173-84.
Denis Crouzet. “A Woman and the Devil: Possession and Exorcism in Sixteenth-Century
France.” In Changing Identities in Early Modern France. Duke University Press, Durham,
NC, 1997, 191-215.
Encyclopedia Entries & Magazine Articles
“François Rabelais”, “Benedict XIV, Antipope”, “Cesare Borgia”, “Constantinople
(Byzantium, Istanbul)”, “Edict of Nantes”, “States of the Church” in the New Catholic
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Encyclopedia, Robert Fastiggi, ed.
“Edict of Nantes” and “Henry IV (France)” in the Dictionary of Early Modern Europe,
Jonathan Dewald, ed., Scribners’ New York, 2006.
“Carnival,” “Gaspard de Coligny,” “Reformation in France,” “Synod of Nîmes,” “Politiques,”
“Gérard Roussel,” “Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre,” “War of Religion,” in the New
Westminster Dictionary of Church History, Robert Benedetto, ed., Westminster Press:
Louisville, 2005.
“The Edict of Nantes,” 4 pp., and “Henri de Navarre and the War of the Three Henris,” in
Calliope, (March 2003), 3 pp. (children’s magazine)
“Louis XIV and Religion,” in Calliope, (April 2002), 3 pp. (children’s magazine)
“Bourbon Family and Dynasty,” “Gabrielle d’Estrées,” “Henry IV (France),” and
“Tyrannicide,” In The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed., Paul F. Grendler, Scribner’s:
New York, 1999, 92, 365, 438, and 867.
Book Reviews
Richard Cooper, Roman Antiquities in Renaissance France, 1515–65. (Woodbridge: Ashgate,
2013). H-France http://www.h-france.net/vol14reviews/vol14no135wolfe.pdf.
Éric Hassler, La Cour de Vienne, 1680-1740. Service de l’empereur et stratégies spatiales
des élites nobilaires dans la monarchie des Habsbourg. Les Mondes Germaniques.
(Strasbourg: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, 2013). The American Historical Review
(April 2014):634-5.
Ellen F. Arnold, Negotiating the Landscape: Environment and Monastic Identity in the
Medieval Ardennes (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), Reviews in
History. With author’s response. http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1522
Piet Lombaerde and Charles Van Den Heuvel, eds., Early Modern Urbanism and the Grid:
Town Planning in the Low Countries in International Context. Exchanges in Theory and
Practice, 1550-1800 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011). The Sixteenth Century Journal
XLV/1(2014):283-4.
Cédric Michon, Conseils et conseillers dans l’Europe de la Renaissance, v. 1450-1550
(Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012). The Sixteenth Century Journal
LXV/2(2014):486-8.
Massimo Rospocher, ed., Beyond the Public Sphere: Opinions, Publics, and Spaces in Early
Modern Europe (Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino, 2012). The Sixteenth Century Journal
LXV/2(2014):466-8.
Ruth Stawarz-Luginbühl, Un Théâtre de l’épreuve: Tragédies huguenotes en marge des
guerres de religion en France, 1550-1573 (Geneva: Droz, 2012). The Sixteenth Century
Journal LXV/2(2014):567-8.
Jules Racine St-Jacques, L’honneur et la foi: Le droit de résistance chez les réformés
français (1536-1581) (Geneva: Droz, 2012). The Sixteenth Century Journal
LXV/2(2014):453-4.
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Allie Terry-Fritsch and Erin Felicia Labbie, Beholding Violence in Medieval and Early Modern
Europe (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012). The Sixteenth Century Journal LXIV4(2013):756-7.
“Screening Catholic Reform in the Grand Siècle: Monsieur Vincent (1947)” on H-France Film
and Culture Forum. http://h-france.net/fffh/classics/catholic-reform-in-the-grand-sieclemonsieur-vincent-1947/
James B. Atkinson, ed., Montaigne Selected Essays with La Böétie’s Discourse on Voluntary
Servitude. Indianapolis: Hacket Publishing, 2012. The Sixteenth Century Journal
LIV4(2013):1071-2.
Béroalde de Verville, Le Palais des curieux. Veronique Luzel, ed. Geneva: Droz, 2012. In
submission to The Sixteenth Century Journal XLIV4(2013):1053-4.
Elizabeth C. Tingle, Purgatory and Piety in Brittany, 1480-1720. Famham: Ashgate, 2012.
The Sixteenth Century Journal. XLIV3(2013):812-3.
Jean-Pascal Gay, Morales en conflit. Théologie et polémique au Grand Siècle (1640-1700).
Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2011.
http://www.h-france.net/vol12reviews/vol12no32Wolfe.pdf
Michel de Waele, Réconcilier les Français. Henri IV et la fin des troubles de religion (15891598), Presses de l'Université de Laval, Quebec, 2010. American Historical Review
117/1(2012):227.
Charlotte Boutelle-Meister and Kjerstin Aukrust, eds., Corps sanglants, souffrants et
macabres, Presse de l'Universite de Paris-Sorbonne, 2010. In The Sixteenth Century
Journal XLII2(2011):386-7.
Thierry Dutour, ed. Les nobles et la ville dans l’espace francophone (XIIe-XVIe siècles).
Presse de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne: Paris, 2010. H-France.
http://www.h-france.net/vol11reviews/vol11no167Wolfe.pdf.
Allan Tulchin, That Men Would Praise the Lord: The Reformation in Nîmes, 1530-1570
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), in Renaissance Quarterly. 64/1(2011): 260-1.
David Whetham, Just Wars and Moral Victories: Surprise, Deception and the Normative
Framework of European War in the Later Middle Ages (Leiden: Brill, 2009), in The Sixteenth
Century Journal XLII/3(2011):820-822.
Zahi Zalloua, ed., Montaigne After Theory, Theory After Montaigne (University of
Washington Press: Seattle and London, 2009), in The Sixteenth Century Journal
XLII/3(2011):942-944.
John A. Lynn, Women, Armies and Warfare in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University
Press: Cambridge/New York, 2008), in The Sixteenth Century Journal, 42/1(2011):183-184.
Claude de Seyssel, Les Louenges du roy Louis XII (1508), Particia [sic] Eichel-Lojkine and
Laurent Vissière, eds., (Librarie Droz: Geneva, 2009), in The Sixteenth Century Journal
XLII/2(2011):535-536.
Daniel Hobbins, Authorship and Publicity Before Print: Jean Gerson and the Transformation
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of Late Medieval Learning (University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelpia, 2009), for the
Canadian Journal of History, 45(Spring, 2010): 113-115.
Margaret McGowan, Dance in the Renaissance: European Fashion, French Obsession, (Yale
University Press: New Haven, Conn., 2008), in The Canadian Journal of History 45(Winter,
2010): 603-605.
Paul Sonnino, Mazarin’s Quest: The Congress of Westphalia and the Coming of the Fronde
(Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Mass., 2008), in Catholic Historical Review
1(2010):337-338.
Frank Lestringant, ed., Les médiations cosmographiques à la Renaissance, (Paris: Presse de
l‘Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2009), in The Sixteenth Century Journal, in submission.
Jonathan Spangler, The Society of Princes: The Lorraine-Guises and the Conservation of
Power and Wealth in Seventeenth-Century France, (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009), The
Sixteenth Century Journal 41/4(2010):1146-1147.
Christian Del Vento and Jean-Louis Fournel, Philologie et politique, Laboratoire italien.
Politique et société, (Paris: ENS Éditions, 2007), in The Sixteenth Century Journal,
41/3(2010):891-892.
Louis Ph. Sloos, ed., Warfare and the Age of Printing: Catalogue of Early Printed Books from
before 1801 in Dutch Military Collections, (Brill: Leiden, 2008), 3 volumes, in The Sixteenth
Century Journal 42/1(2011):181-183.
Thierry Martin and Michèle Virol, eds., Vauban, architecte de la modernité?, (Paris: Presses
universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2008), for H-France, vol. 9, 2009, 323-326.
Mark Greengrass, Governing Passions: Peace and Reform in the French Kingdom, 15761585, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), for European History Quarterly.
40/2(2010):334-336.
Robert J. Knecht, The French Renaissance Court, (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press,
2007), for European History Quarterly, 38/1(2008):123-124.
Jean-Marie Le Gall, Le mythe de Saint Denis: Entre renaissance et révolution, (Paris: Champ
Vallon, 2007), for the American Historical Review, October (2008):1238-1239.
Michael Sonenscher, Before the Deluge: Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins
of the French Revolution, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007, for The
Historian.
Jamel Ostwald, Vauban under Siege: Engineering Efficiency and Martial Vigor in the War of
the Spanish Succession, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2007. H-France, vol. 8, 2008, n. 10, pp. 3942.
Matthew L. Jones, The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and
the Cultivation of Virtue, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006, for H-France,
http://www.h-france.net/vol7reviews/wolfe8.html.
Brian Patrick McGrath, Jean Gerson and the Last Medieval Reformation, University Park:
The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. Canadian Journal of History, 43
(2008):344-345.
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Pierre Bonin, Bourgeois, bourgeoisie et habitanage dans les villes du Languedoc sous
l’ancien régime. Aix-en-Provence: Presses Universitaires d’Aix-Marseille, 2005. American
History Review, 143(2008):346.
Eric Nelson, The Jesuits And The Monarchy: Catholic Reform And Political Authority In
France, (1590-1615), Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2005, for H-France, http://www.hfrance.net/vol6reviews/wolfe7.html.
Gábor Ágoston, Guns for the Sultan : Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the
Ottoman Empire, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. The Sixteenth Century
Journal, 34(2007):213.
Matthew Glozier, Marshal Schomberg 1615-1690: "The Ablest Soldier Of His Age",
International Soldiering And The Formation Of State Armies in Seventeenth-Century Europe,
Sussex: Sussex Academic Press, 2005, The Sixteenth Century Journal, 33(2006):112.
Emma Barker, Greuze and the Painting of Sentiment, New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2005, for H-France, http://www.h-france.net/vol6reviews/wolfe6.html
Mary Sponberg Pedley, The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in
Eighteenth-Century France and England, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005, for HFrance, http://h-france.net/vol5reviews/wolfe5.html.
Brett D. Steele and Tamera Dorland, eds. The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of
War through the Age of Enlightenment, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005, http://h
france.net/vol5reviews/wolfe4.html.
Jotham Parsons, The Church in the Republic: Gallicanism and Political Ideology in
Renaissance France, Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2004, The
American Historical Review, October (2005):1254-1255.
Hilary J. Bernstein, Between Crown and Community: Politics and Civic Culture in SixteenthCentury Poitiers, (Ithaca, 2004), for European History Quarterly, 45(2005):356.
Ruth Whelan and Carol Baxter, eds., Toleration and Religious Identity: The Edict of Nantes
and its implications in France, Britain, and Ireland, (Dublin, 2003), H-France, http://h
france.net/vol5reviews/wolfe3.html.
Sarah Covington, The Trail of Martyrdom: Persecution and Resistance in Sixteenth-Century
England, (University of Notre Dame Press: Notre Dame, 2003), in Religious Studies Review,
2004.
Valerie A. Kivelson and Robert H. Greene, eds., Orthodox Russia: Belief and Practices under
the Tsars, (University Park, PA, 2003), in Religious Studies Review, 2004.
David Bell, The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800,
(Cambridge, MA, 2001), in The Historian, 67/3(2004):220-221.
Henry Heller, Anti-Italianism in Sixteenth-Century France, (Toronto, 2003), in Sixteenth
Century Journal, 26/1(March 2004):115-118.
Sergio Bertelli, The King’s Body: Sacred Rituals and Power in Medieval and Early Modern
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Europe, trans. R. Burr Litchfield, (University Park, PA, 2001), in Religious Studies Review,
32(2004):133.
Thierry Waneggelen, ed. De Michel de l’Hospital à l’Édit de Nantes. Politique et religion face
aux Églises, (Clermont-Ferrand, 2002), H-France,
http://hfrance.net/vol3reviews/wolfe2.html.
Bertrand Haan, ed., Correspondance du nonce en France. Gasparo Silingardi, évêque de
Modène (1599-1601), (Rome, 2002) in the Sixteenth Century Journal, 35/1(March
2004):167-168.
David Buisseret, Ingénieurs et fortifications avant Vauban. L’organisation d’une service
royal aux XVIe-XVIIe siècles, (C.T.H.S.: Paris, 2000), H-France, http://h
france.net/vol3reviews/wolfe.html.
David Potter, Un homme de guerre au temps de la Renaissance: La vie et les letters
d’Oudart de Biez, Maréchal de France, Gouverneur de Boulogne et de Picardie (vers 14751553), (Artois Presses Université, 2002), Sixteenth Century Journal, 34/4(2003):11141115.
Ronald S. Love, Blood and Religion: The Conscience of Henri IV, (Montreal, 2001), in The
Historian, 65/6(2002):1467-1468.
Timothy Hampton, Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century: Inventing Renaissance
France, (Ithaca, NY, 2001), in the Sixteenth Century Journal, 33/1 (2002):248-249.
Andrew Luttrell, The Hospitaller State on Rhodes and its Western Provinces, 1306-1462,
(Aldershot, 1999), in the Sixteenth Century Journal, 33/1(2002):205-207.
Helen Nicholson, Love, War and the Grail: Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights in
Medieval Epic and Romance, 1150-1500, (Leiden, 2001), in the Sixteenth Century Journal,
33/1(2002):205-207.
Karl A. Kottman, ed., Catholic Millenarianism from Savonarola to the Abbé Grégoire,
(Dordrecht, 2001), in Religious Studies Review, 29(2001):317.
D. Wright, The Early Modern Papacy from the Council of Trent to the French Revolution,
1564-1789, (Essex, U.K., 2000), in Religious Studies Review, 29(2001):315.
Scott M. Manetsch, Theodore Beza and the Quest for Peace in France, 1572-1598, (Leiden,
2000), in the Dutch Review of Church History, 81/2(2001):138-140.
Alain Dufour, ed., Les Occurrences de la Paix de Lyon (1601), (Geneva, 2000), in the
Sixteenth Century Journal, 32/3(2001):836-837.
Paul Kléber Monod, The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe, 1589-1715, (New
Haven, 1999), in Religious Studies Review, 27(2000):183.
S. Annette Finley-Croswhite, Henry IV and the Towns: The Pursuit of Legitimacy in French
Urban Society, 1589-1610, (Cambridge [UK], 1999), in the Sixteenth Century Journal, 32/2
(2000):156-57.
Evelyn L. Forget, The Social Economics of Jean-Baptiste Say: Markets and Virtue, Routledge
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Studies in the History of Economics, (London, 1999), in the Journal of the History of the
Behavioral Sciences, 36(2000):196-197.
David Cowling, Building the Text: Architecture as Metaphor in Late Medieval and Early
Modern France, (Oxford, 1999), in the Sixteenth Century Journal, 31(2000):259-60.
Marcel Gauchet, The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religion,
(Princeton, 1997), translated by Oscar Burge, in Religious Studies Review, 26(1999):438.
Mitchell B. Merback, The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel: Pain and the Spectacle of
Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, (Chicago, 1998), in the Sixteenth Century
Journal, 31(2000):304-306.
Moshe Sluhovsky, Patroness of Paris: Rituals of Devotion in Early Modern France,
(Leiden/New York, 1998). In Religious Studies Review 26 (1999):433.
Mark Konnert, Civic Agendas and Religious Passion: Chalons-sur-Marne during the French
Wars of Religion, 1560-1594, (Kirksville, MO, 1997). Journal of Religious History,
1/24(2000):93-94.
Claudine Vidal and Frédérique Pilleboue, eds., La paix de Vervins 1598, (Vervins, 1998). In
the Sixteenth Century Journal, 30/3(1999):839-840.
Robert W. Strayer, The Making of the Modern World: Connected Histories, Divergent Paths:
1550 to the Present, (New York, 1995), 2nd edition. World History Bulletin, 15/2(1999):2627.
Alexander Sedgwick, The Travails of Conscience: The Arnauld Family and the Ancien
Régime, (Cambridge, MA, 1998). In the Sixteenth Century Journal, 30/2(1999):551-553.
R. Po-Chia Hsia, The World of Catholic Renewal 1540-1770. (Cambridge/New
York/Melbourne, 1998). In Religious Studies Review, 25(1999):234.
Thomas Worcester, Seventeenth-Century Cultural Discourse: France and the Preaching of
Bishop Camus. (Berlin & New York, 1997). The American Historical Review, (February
1999):245-246.
Elmar J. Kremer, ed., Interpreting Arnauld, (Toronto, 1996). Religious Studies Review,
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Seong-Hak Kim, Michel de l’Hôpital: the Vision of a Reformist Chancellor during the French
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Dale K. Van Kley, The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil
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Charlotte Wells, Law and Citizenship in Early Modern France, (Baltimore, 1995).
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Elizabeth A. R. Brown and Richard C. Famiglietti, The Lit de Justice: Semantics, Ceremonial,
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Raymond Mentzer, Blood and Belief: Family Survival and Confessional Identity among the
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Robert Sauzet, Chronique des frères ennemis. Catholiques et protestants à Nîmes du XVIe
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David Potter, War and Government in the French Provinces: Picardy, 1470-1560, (New
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Michael Kunze, Highroad to the Stake: A Tale of Witchcraft, (Chicago, 1987). Church
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Ted A. Campbell, The Religion of the Heart: A Study of European Religious Life in the
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Gayle K. Brunelle, The New World Merchants of Rouen, 1559-1630, (Kirksville, MO, 1991).
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Henry Heller, Iron and Blood: Civil Wars in Sixteenth-Century France, (Montreal, 1991).
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
World History Theory and Practice: State, Borders and Migrations. Keynote speaker. St.
John’s University. Manhattan, N.Y. May 3, 2014.
Militant Identities. Commentator. French Historical Studies Conference. Montréal, Canada.
April 24-27, 2014.
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From Municipal Artist to Royal Engineer: The Remarkable Career of Zacarie Le Celer (c.
1530-c. 1575). Sixteenth Century Society annual meeting. San Juan, PR. October 24-26,
2013.
L’Après-vie bizarre d’Henri III: Déformations dynastiques aux lendemains du regicide en
1589. Régicides en Europe du XVe au XIXe siècle. Colloque international, Pau 17-19 juin
2010.
Exegesis as Public Performance at the Conference of Fontainebleau (1600). To be
presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN, October 26, 2007.
Caesarean Cartography in Sixteenth-Century France. Colloque César, Université de Laval,
Québec, Canada, October 5, 2007
Pain and Memory: The War Wounds of Blaise de Monluc. “Spaces of War: France and the
Francophone World” Conference, University of Minnesota, October 26-28, 2006.
An Archaeology of Identity: Unearthing Sixteenth-Century Nîmes. George Rudé Annual
Conference, University of Adelaide, Australia, July 13-16, 2006.
Financing Municipal Fortifications in Northern France: Local Elites and the Making of the
Fiscal-Military State, 1550-1700, Conference on War and Society in the Golden Age: The
Netherlands in Comparative Perspective, c. 1550-1700, Universiteit van Amsterdam,
December 13, 2005.
From Chorography to Cartography: Changing Cityscapes in Early Modern France, Sixteenth
Century Studies Conference, annual meeting, Toronto, Canada, October 2004.
Deception and Betrayal in the Sixteenth-Century Habsburg-Valois Wars, Society for French
Historical Studies Conference Annual Conference, Paris, France, June 18, 2004.
Antiquarianism and Urban Identity in Early Modern France, International Conference on
Cultural Memory in France: Margins and Centers, Florida State University, October 31,
2003.
Private Losses, Public Gains: Property Appropriation in French Towns, 1500-1700, European
Association of Urban Historians Sixth International Conference. Edinburgh, Scotland,
September 5, 2002.
Peripheral Matters: Contesting Civic Space on the Militarized Edge, Annual Meeting of the
Medieval Academy, New York, NY, April 2, 2002
Religion and Politics in Early Modern France. Commentator. Western Society for French
History, Indianapolis, in, October 31-November 2, 2001.
The Logistics of Municipal Fortification Construction in Early Modern France, French
Historical Studies Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, March 8-10, 2001.
Shaping the Ceremonial City in Early Modern France, Group for Early Modern Cultural
Studies, New Orleans, LA, November 16-19, 2000.
Local Politics and Social Control in Sixteenth-Century Europe, Commentator, Sixteenth-
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Century Society Conference, Cleveland, OH, November 1-November 4, 2000.
Social and Religious Reconciliation in Early Modern France, Commentator, Western Society
for French History, Pacific Grove, CA, October 31-November 3, 1999.
Henri IV and the Press. Reformation Book Project Conference, St. Andrews Reformation
Studies Institute, August 30-September 2, 1999.
Siege Memories and the Transformation of Urban Identity in Early Modern France. Besieged
Cities Conference, Montalcino, Italy, July 1999.
New Trends in Reformation History, AP-European History Reading, Lincoln, NE, June 2,
2000.
Clerics and Councillors: Clerical Institutions and Civic Politics in Sixteenth-Century France,
Panel Commentator, Society for French History, Annual Meeting, Washington, D. C., March
20, 1999
The Transmission and Transformation of Classical Engineering Traditions in Early Modern
France. The International Society for the Classical Tradition, University of Tübingen,
Germany, July 29-August 3, 1998.
Prélude à la paix: Le siège d’Amiens et ses conséquences. Conference on the Treaty of
Vervins, Vervins, France, May, 1998.
Politicizing Private Passions: The Theatre and Social Change in Modern France. Society for
French Historical Studies Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, March 26-28, 1998.
Commentator.
Building a Bastion in Early Modern Amiens. Western Society for French History, Saskatoon,
SK, October, 1997.
Teaching the Middle Ages: New Strategies and Perspectives. CARA Meeting of the Medieval
Academy of America, San Antonio, TX, September 1997.
Narratives and History in the Catholic and Protestant Reformations. Sixteenth Century
Studies Conference, St. Louis, MO, October 25, 1996.
The Siege of Metz (1552): The Logistical and Technological Limits of War in Mid-SixteenthCentury Europe. Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, MO, October 23, 1996
Walls and War in Early Modern France. University of North Texas, Denton, TX, June 14,
1996.
The Culinary Art of Politics in Early Modern Amiens. French Historical Studies Conference.
Boston, MA. March 25-28, 1996.
Walled Towns in France during the Wars of Religion. University of Minnesota Center for Early
Modern Studies. October 5-7, 1995.
Urbanism in the Archives: Fortification Construction in Early Modern Montauban. French
Historical Studies Conference. Atlanta, GA. March 25, 1995.
National Reconciliation in France at the End of the Wars of Religion. Canadian Society for
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Renaissance Studies/Société Canadienne d'Etudes de la Renaissance. Toronto, Canada.
October 29, 1994.
Narrative Strategies of the City Under Siege. Sixteenth Century Studies Conference.
Toronto, Canada. October 27, 1994.
Paris is Worth a Mass Reconsidered: Henri IV's Entry into the Leaguer Capital, March 1594.
French Historical Studies Conference. Wilmington, DL. March 21, 1994.
Religious Conflict and Conviction in Seventeenth-Century France. Western Society for
French History. Missoula, MT. October 25, 1993.
Amnesty and Public Memory at the End of the French Wars of Religion. French Historical
Studies Conference. Chico, CA. March 19, 1993.
New Perspectives on Religious Vocation in Counter-Reformation France. French Historical
Studies Conference. Atlanta, GE. October 25, 1992.
The Bonnes Villes of France during the Hundred Years War. PSU Medieval Studies
Conference. State College, PA. April 5, 1992.
Redefining the Body Politic: Debates about the Estates General During the French Wars of
Religion. French Historical Studies Conference, El Paso, TX. March 21, 1992.
The King’s Conscience: Personal Authority and Accountability in Renaissance France.
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. Philadelphia, PA. October 19, 1991.
Affairs of the Heart: Religious Sincerity and Hypocrisy in Sixteenth-Century France.
American Catholic Historical Association Meeting. New York, NY. December 29, 1990.
The Strange Afterlife of Henri III: Dynastic Distortions in Early Bourbon France. Annual
Meeting of the Western Society for French History. Santa Barbara, CA. November 11, 1990.
Assessing the Social Impact of the Military Revolution during the French Wars of Religion.
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. St. Louis, MO. October 25, 1990.
Protestant Reactions to the Conversion of Henri IV. French Historical Studies Conference.
Columbus, OH. March 19, 1990.
The Politics of Illusion: Debates about the King’s Minister in Seventeenth-Century France.
Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History. New Orleans, LA. October 19,
1989.
Reflections on la religion royale in Seventeenth-Century France. Villa Charles Singleton,
Florence, Italy, November 9, 1987.
The Conversion of Henri IV and the Defeat of the Paris League. French Historical Studies
Conference. Quebec City, Canada. March 24, 1986.
Politique Views of the Conversion of Henri IV. Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. St.
Louis, MO. October 27, 1984.
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CONFERENCES AND CONFERENCE PANELS ORGANIZED
Making Meaning of 9/11 Ten Years After. St. John’s University Manhattan Campus,
September 17-18, 2011. (conference)
Deception and Betrayal in Early Modern France. Annual Meeting of the Society for French
Historical Studies, Paris, France, June 2004.
Marriage in the Middle Ages. Penn State Center for Medieval Studies, April 6-7, 2001.
(conference and banquet)
Children of Abraham: Christian, Moslems and Jews in the Middle Ages, Penn State Center
for Medieval Studies, April 4-5, 2000. (conference and banquet)
Scenes and Seasons: Landscapes in the Middle Ages. Penn State Center for Medieval
Studies, April 9-10, 1999. (conference and banquet)
Ways and Wayfarers: Travel in the Middle Ages. Penn State Center for Medieval Studies,
April 3-4, 1998. (conference and banquet)
Words, Images, and Numbers: Communications in the Middle Ages. Penn State Center for
Medieval Studies, April 4-5, 1997. (conference and banquet)
The Cultural Politics of Food and Drink in French Towns, 16th-18th Centuries. French
Historical Studies Conference, Boston, MA. March 1996.
Technology and Society in Late Medieval Europe. Center for Medieval Studies, Penn State.
April 7, 1995. (conference and banquet)
Military Culture in Early Modern France. Sixteenth Century Studies Meeting. Toronto,
Canada. October 27, 1994.
Religious Conflict and Conviction in Seventeenth-Century France. Western Society for
French History. Annual Meeting. October 1993.
Reordering a Godly Society: Changing Lay and Clerical Vocations in Counter-Reformation
France. Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. October 1992.
Regicide in Sixteenth-Century Europe: Rhetoric and Reality. Sixteenth Century Studies
Conference. October 1991.
“Until Death Do Us Part: Bioethics, Medical Technology, and the Right to Die” STS
Distinguished Speakers Series, Penn State Altoona (Fall 1992).
“Husbanding Mother Nature: Energy, Ethics, and the Environment” STS Distinguished
Speakers Series, Penn State Altoona (Fall 1991).
“Of Mice and Men: New Ethical Perspectives on Animal and Human Research in the Age of
Biotechnology” STS Distinguished Speakers Series, Penn State Altoona (Spring 1991).
ADMINISTRATIVE CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
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American Association of Colleges and Universities, Washington, D.C. January.
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2013
Council of Graduate Schools, San Diego, CA, December.
2013
Council of Colleges of Arts & Sciences, Jacksonville, FL, November.
2013
Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools, New Brunswick, NJ, April.
2013
Council of Colleges of Arts & Sciences Workshop on Digital Education, Long Beach,
CA, March.
2013
American Association of Colleges & Universities, Atlanta, GA, January.
2012
Council of Graduate Schools, Washington, D.C., December.
2012
Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools, Halifax, NS, Canada, April.
2011
Council of Graduate Schools, Scottsdale, AZ, December.
2011
Council of Colleges of Arts & Sciences, Montreal, Canada, November.
2010
Council of Colleges of Arts & Sciences, New Orleans, LA, November.
2010
Northeastern Association of Graduation Schools, Montreal, Canada, April.
2009
Council of Colleges of Arts & Science, Baltimore, MD, November.
2009
Northeastern Association of Graduation Schools, Newark, DE, April.
2008
Council of Colleges of Arts & Sciences, Portland, OR, November.
2008
American Association of Colleges and Universities, Washington, D.C., January.
2007
Council of Graduate Schools, Seattle, WA, December.
2007
Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences. Chicago, IL, November.
2002
American Association of Higher Education Tenth Annual Conference on Faculty
Roles and Rewards, January, Phoenix, AZ.
Academic Leadership Forum Workshops, University Park, PA.
2001
American Association of Higher Education Ninth Annual Conference on Faculty Roles
and Rewards. Tampa, FL. January.
Academic Leadership Forum Workshops, University Park, PA.
2000
American Association of Higher Education Eighth Annual Conference on Faculty Roles
and Rewards, New Orleans, LA, February.
Academic Leadership Forum Workshops, University Park, PA.
1999
Academic Leadership Forum Workshops, University Park, PA.
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1998
American Association of Higher Education Sixth Annual Conference on Faculty Roles
and Rewards, Orlando FL, January.
Academic Leadership Forum Workshops, University Park, PA.
GRANTS FUNDED
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2001
2000
1998
1996
1994
1994
1993
1990-92
1990-92
1990
NEH Summer Institute in Medieval Studies
NSF Medieval Gardens Grant
Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (Latin America)
PSU Classroom Improvement Fund: Graphic Arts Lab
Stackpole Hall Foundation Grant
Roy C. Buck Fund, UP Dept. of History
Kent Forster Junior Faculty Award, UP Dept. of History
Newberry Library Summer Fellowship
GTE Foundation: annual awards
Pennsylvania Humanities Council: annual awards
NEH Summer Stipend
TEACHING, SERVICE & ADVISING AWARDS
2011
2004
1995
1993
H-France Distinguished Service Award
Student Government Advisor of the Year (college-wide)
Grace & Ted Long Faculty Excellence Award (college-wide)
Provost’s Award for Innovative Teaching (university-wide)
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
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Council of Colleges of Arts & Sciences, 2007Council of Graduate Schools, 2007Northeast Association of Graduate Schools, 2007American Association of Colleges & Universities, 2012-
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