NORMAN LESLIE JONES
8/13/2013
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Department of History
Utah State University
Logan, Utah 84322-0710
Phone: (435) 797-1293 Office
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Education
Ph.D., History, Cambridge University (Clare College),1978.
M.A., History, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1974.
B.A., History, Idaho State University, 1972.
College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, Idaho, 1968-1970.
Current Employment
Prof. of History
Director of General Education and Curricular Integration, Utah State University, 2010Previous Employment
Head, Dept. of History, Utah State University, 1994-2012.
Director of Religious Studies, Utah State University, 2010-11.
Specialist in Academic Programming, Utah System of Higher Education, 2010.
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford University, 2008-2009.
Director of Religious Studies, Utah State University, 2002-2008.
Assoc. Director, Liberal Arts and Sciences Program, Utah State University, 1987-2001.
Acting Director, Liberal Arts and Sciences Program, 1993-4, 1997-8.
Acting Head, Department of History, September-March, 1987; August-October, 1989;
September-October, 1990; August-October 1991.
Assistant Department Head, Dept. of History, 1987-94.
Full Professor, Utah State University, 1987.
Associate Professor, Utah State University, 1981.
Mellon Faculty Fellow, Harvard University, 1982-83.
Assistant Professor, Utah State University, 1978-1981.
Instructor, Utah State University, summer, 1977.
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Publications
Books
Governing by Virtue. The Management of Elizabethan England. Forthcoming from
Oxford University Press in 2014.
The Elizabethan World. Co-edited with Susan Doran. London: Routledge, 2011. 2nd ed.,
2013.
Local Identities in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. Co-edited with Daniel
Woolf. London: Palgrave, 2007.
Blackwell Companion to Tudor Britain. Co-edited with Robert Tittler. Oxford:Blackwell
Publishers, August 2004. Winner of the Roland Bainton Prize for the Best Reference
Work of 2004 from the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. Issued as a paperback,
November, 2008.
The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaptation. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
The Birth of the Elizabethan Age. England in the 1560s. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers,
1993. Paperback edition, 1995. [An History Book Club selection in the US and the UK.]
The Parliaments of Elizabethan England, ed. with David Dean. Oxford: Basil Blackwell,
1990.
God and the Moneylenders. Usury and Law in Early Modern England. Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, 1989.
Interest Groups and Legislation in Elizabethan Parliaments: Essays Presented to Sir
Geoffrey Elton. A special issue of Parliamentary History 8, 2 (1989), ed. with David
Dean.
Faith by Statute: Parliament and the Settlement of Religion, 1559. London: Royal
Historical Society, 1982. Winner of the Whitefield Prize from the Royal Historical
Society, 1982.
Refereed Articles
“William Cecil, Lord Burghley and the Management of Elizabeth’s England,” in Malcom
Smuts, ed., The Age of Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming in
2014.
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“Of Poetry and Politics: The Managerial Culture of Sixteenth Century England”
forthcoming in Peter Kaufman, ed., Leadership and Elizabethan Culture (London,
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
"William Cecil, Lord Burghley, and Managing with the Men-of-Business," Parliamentary
History, forthcoming 2013.
“Tuning the Disciplines,” to appear in Liberal Education, Summer, 2012.
“LEAPing in Utah: How Utah Became a LEAP State,” Peer Review, Spring 2011, Vol.
13, No. 2, 16-19.
“Governing Elizabethan England,” in The Elizabethan World, Susan Doran and Norman
Jones, eds. (London: Routledge, 2011), 19-34
“David Lewis, the Founding Principal of Jesus College,” The Record (2009), 33-42.
“Assessing History: Can We Know Our ‘Outcomes’?” Perspectives on History. The
Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association 47:3 (March, 2009), in print and
online at http://www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/2009/0903/0903for2.cfm
“Elizabeth, Burghley, and the Pragmatics of Rule: Managing Elizabethan England” in
Donald Stump, Linda Shenk, and Carole Levin, eds. Elizabeth I and the ‘Sovereign Arts’:
Essays in Literature, History, and Culture, a volume in Medieval and Renaissance Texts
and Studies, published by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
"Review Article: Indispensable Digital Sources," Sixteenth Century Journal XXXVIII, 1
(2007), 111-118.
"Faculty Collaboration and Statewide General Education Reform," co-authored with Ann
Leffler, Phil Kramer, and Teddi Safman, in General Education and Student Transfer:
Fostering Intentionality and Coherence in State Systems. Washington, DC: The
Association of American Colleges and Universities (2005).
"Mid-Tudor Politics and Political Culture," History Compass 3 (2005), 1B6
"Usury," Economic History Services, EH.NET at
http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/jones.usury
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"Religious Settlements," in Blackwell Companion to Tudor Britain, Robert Tittler and
Norman Jones, eds. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004).
"The Politics of Renaissance England," A Companion to Renaissance Drama, Arthur F.
Kinney, ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), 13-24.
"William May," The New Dictionary of National Biography (2004).
"Elizabeth I," in The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, Paul Grendler, ed. (New York:
Charles Scribner's Son, 1999).
"AShakespeare's England," in A Companion to Shakespeare, David Scott Kastan, ed.
(Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), 9-24.
"Known From Their Works: Living and Writing Early Modern English Religious
History" in Susan Wabuda and Caroline Litzenberger, eds. Belief and Practice in Early
Modern England (Aldershot, Ashgate, 1998), 1-19.
"Negotiating the Reformation," in Eric Carlson, ed. The Reformation and the People,
Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, 1998.
"Living the Reformation: Generational Experience and Political Perception in Early
Modern England," The Huntington Library Quarterly 60, 3 (1999), 273-288.
"Choosing Superstitions: Catholic Sorcery and the Witchcraft Act of
1563," Charles Carlton, ed. State, Sovereigns and Society; Essays in Early Modern
English History in Honor of A.J. Slavin (London: Sutton Publishing, 1998), 187-203.
"Gorboduc and the Royal Marriage Problem: An Elizabethan Playgoer
Decodes the Premier Performance," coauthored with Paul White, English Literary
Renaissance 26, 1 (1996), 3-17.
"Elizabeth I of England" in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
(Oxford University Press: 1996), II, 33-6.
"Capitalism" in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation (Oxford University Press:
1996), I, 256-9.
"The Elizabethan Settlement" in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the
Reformation (Oxford University Press: 1996, II, 36-8.
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"Acts of Uniformity" in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation (Oxford University
Press: 1996), I, 4.
"Acts of Supremacy" in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation (Oxford University
Press: 1996), I, 3.
"Usury" in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation (Oxford University Press:
1996), IV, 204-5.
"Parliament and the Political Society of Elizabeth's England" Tudor Political Culture,
D.M. Hoak, ed. (Cambridge University Press: 1994), 226-42.
"History Without Teleology: Framing the Historical Narrative (An Ecphrastic
Meditation)," in Perspective as a Problem in the Art, History, and Literature of Early
Modern England, Mark Lussier, ed..(Edwin Mellen Press: 1992), 131-41.
"William Cecil and the Making of Economic Policy in the 1560s," in The Commonwealth
of Tudor England, P. Fideler and T. Mayer, eds. (London: Routledge, 1992), 169-93.
"Religion in the Elizabethan Parliaments," in The Parliaments of Elizabethan England,
ed. by D. Dean & N. Jones (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990), 117-39.
"The Anonymous Diarist of 1571, alias Thomas Atkins or Robert Bowes?" Parliamentary
History 8, 2 (1989), 329-40.
"Religion and Politics in Tudor England, a Review Essay," Journal of British Studies 28,
1 (1989). 70-75.
"Usury in the Elizabethan Exchequer," in The Political Context of Law, Richard Eales,
ed., (London: Hambledon Press, 1987), 87-102.
"Parliament and the Government of Elizabethan England," Albion, 19, 3 (1987), 327-47.
"The Politics and Theology of Lending at Interest in the 16th Century," Révue de
Theologie et Philosophie, 118, 3 (1986), 312-3.
"Elizabethan Parliaments and the Reform of the Ecclesiastical Law: New Evidence,"
Parliamentary History 4 (1985), 171-188.
"Elizabeth's First Year: The Conception and Birth of the Elizabethan Political World,"
The Reign of Elizabeth, Christopher Haigh, ed. (London, 1984), 27-54.
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"Fine Tuning the Reformation, Parliament and the Reform of the Church Courts," Law
and British Society, J. Guy & H. Beale, eds. (London, 1984).
"Elizabeth, Edification, and the Latin Prayer Book of 1560," Church History, 53, 2
(1984), 174-186.
"A Bill Confirming Bishop Bonner's Deprivation and Reinstating Bishop Ridley as the
Legal Bishop of London, from the Parliament of 1559," Journal of Ecclesiastical History,
33, 4 (1982), 580-585.
"Matthew Parker, John Bale, and the Magdeburg Centuriators," Sixteenth Century
Journal, XII, 3 (1981), 35-49.
"Profiting From Religious Reform: The Land Rush of 1559," Historical Journal, 22, 1
(1979), 279-294.
"The Adaptation of Tradition: The Image of the Turk in Protestant England," East
European Quarterly, XII, 2 (1978), 161-175.
Reviews
Reviews have appeared in Renaissance Quarterly, Albion, Journal of British Studies,
Catholic Historical Review, Sixteenth Century Journal, Journal of Modern History,
History Today, American Historical Review, H-Albion, Quiditas, William and Mary
Quarterly, Church History, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Western Historical
Quarterly, Anglican and Episcopal History, Econ-H the on-line review of economic
history, Reformation History.
Academic Papers
“Burghley and the Intelligentsia,” Renaissance Society of America, San Diego, CA., April
4, 2013.
“Reason of State: How Lord Burghley Understood His Job," New College Medieval and
Renaissance Conference, Sarasota, FL, March 8, 2012.
“Res Publica Not Res Plebiea: The Management of Elizabethan England,” Centre for
Early Modern History, Oxford University, June 16, 2009
''' he never failed to serve his God, before he served his country,''' Burghley, the Law and
the Newly Protestant State Religion in Britain Seminar, Oxford University, June 4, 2009.
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“Of Poetry and Politics: the Management Literature of Sixteenth Century England,”
History and Literature Seminar, Oxford University, June 4, 2009.
“Managing to Rule,” Jesus College, Oxford, Research Seminar, March 5, 2009.
“Using the State Papers Online: The new world of Early Modern Research," History
Faculty, Oxford University, Dec. 2, 2008.
“Seeking Religion in the Hotlinks: Explorations in the State Papers Online," Launch
event for the State Papers Online, The Guildhall, London, Nov. 18, 2008.
“William Cecil and the Management of Local Justice," Sixteenth Century Studies
Conference, Minneapolis, Oct. 27, 2007
“William Cecil, Judge," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah,
Nov. 6, 2006.
“Queen Elizabeth’s Wolsey? Lord Burghley and the Management of the Elizabethan
State" British Studies Seminar, Yale University, November 17, 2005.
“Teaching Religious Hatred and Promoting Civility in Elizabethan England," Invited
Lecture, Linfield College, March 11, 2005
“Elizabeth, Cecil and the Pragmatics of Rule: Managing Elizabethan England," Keynote
Address, Elizabeth I Society, Huntington Library, March 5, 2005.
“Elizabeth, Cecil and the Politics of Reformation," invited paper at New Generations:
Tudor History in the 21st Century, a Conference Celebrating the Twentieth Anniversary of
the Huntington=s Early Modern British History Seminar, 1984-2004. Henry E. Huntington
Library, Jan. 23, 2004
“Slouching onto the Via Media: Elizabeth, Religion, and Managerial Reality," University
of Alberta, March 17, 2003.
“Living Elizabethan Religion and Politics: The Practical Realities," Inaugural address,
The Maiden Phoenix Conference, NYU Medieval and Renaissance Center, New York
University, Feb. 6, 2003.
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“Institutional Adaptation in the English Reformation," at Lay Piety in the Middle Ages
and the Renaissance Conference, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, April 15, 2002.
“Seeing Reformations. The Historiographic Puzzle of Elizabethan Religions,"
Renaissance Society of America, Tempe, AZ April 12, 2002.
“Finding English Reformations: Cultural Adaptation and the Process of
Protestantization," Cambridge University Church History Seminar, Nov. 28, 2001.
“Rebuilding Post-Reformation English Culture," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference,
Denver, CO, Oct. 28, 2001.
"Tying the sinews of a city’s mystic body: Elizabethan Elites, their Recusant Relations,
and the Maintenance of Community," Renaissance Society of America, Florence, Italy,
March 24, 2000.
“Rethinking 1559. Faith by Statute. Parliament and the Elizabethan Settlement of
Religion, 1559 Twenty Years Later," Early Modern Britain Seminar, Reading University,
Feb. 23, 2000.
“Whose Side are You On? Institutional Loyalties, Religious Tension, and Birth of the
Mid-Tudor via media," North American Conference on British Studies, Boston, MA,
Nov. 21, 1999 .
“Culture Coalescing. The Senectitude of the Elizabethan Age" invited paper, AThe Crisis
of the 1590's" Conference, Center for the Records of Early English Drama, University of
Toronto, Toronto, Ont., Canada, Oct 2, 1999.
“Living the Reformation," Huntington Library British History Seminar, Sept. 18, 1999.
“Living Through the Reformation: Generational Change and the Reformation." Carelton
University, Ottowa, Canada, Oct. 21, 1998.
“Francis Alford and Familial Catholicism," North American Conference on British
Studies, Colorado Springs, CO, Oct. 18, 1998.
“Parliamentary Men of Family Business," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference,
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Toronto, Ont., Canada, Oct. 22, 1998.
“Cultural Conflict and Political Evolution in England=s Long Reformation," Plenary
address, Australia New Zealand Medieval and Early Modern Association, Victoria
University, Wellington, NZ, Feb. 5, 1998.
“The Maturation of the English Reformation," University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW,
Australia, Feb. 11, 1998.
“Politics, Statutes and Economic Ideologies in Early Modern England," Newcastle
University, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, Feb. 17, 1998.
“A Crisis in Tudor Studies?" American Historical Association, Seattle, WA, Jan. 10,
1998.
“Becoming a Protestant Nation. The Maturation of the English Reformation," Center for
British Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder, March 5, 1997.
“Generations and Reformations: How the English Turned Protestant," The Center for
Early Modern History, University of Minnesota, Feb. 21, 1997.
"Is Grandad a Servant of Satan?: Generational Tensions in Reformation England,"
Fordham University, Nov. 5, 1996.
"Living Through the Reformation: Generational Tension and Reformed Ideas in Tudor
England," New York University, Nov. 4, 1996.
"Sir Geoffrey Elton and the History of England," keynote address to the Northwest
Conference on British Studies, Spokane, WA, Oct. 20, 1995.
"Geoffrey Elton and the Sources of Parliamentary History," North American Conference
on British Studies, Washington, DC, Oct. 6, 1995.
"Living the Reformations: Generational Experience and Political Perception in Early
Modern England," invited paper at a conference entitled "The Remapping of English
Political History 1500-1640," Huntington Library, San Marino, CA , June 3, 1995.
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"Elizabeth I and Religion," St. Dunstan's College History Conferences: England Under
Elizabeth I. St. Dunstan's College, London, May 18, 1995.
"Word, Custom and Law: Remembering Christianity," O.C. Tanner Symposium,
Utah State University, May 4, 1995.
"Rethinking the 1560s. An Historiographic Proposal," Midwestern
Conference on British Studies, Toronto, Ont., Oct. 28, 1994.
"Writing Holistic History: Composing The Birth of the Elizabethan Age,"
Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand, August 1, 1994.
"The Unsettled Settlement of Religion: Religious Angst in the 1560's."
Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand, August 2, 1994.
"The Freedom of a Christian: Parliament and Changing Conceptions of Personal and
Public Morality, 1559-1650," read at the "Freedom and Modernity: Early Modern Studies
in the Pacific" Conference, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, August 4,
1994.
"Religious Change in Early Elizabethan England," Otago University, Dundedin, New
Zealand, August 8, 1994.
"Faith, Metaphysics and Politics in Elizabethan England," Otago University, Dundedin,
New Zealand, August 9, 1994.
"When Pigs had Men's Noses: Manifestations of Heavenly Admonition in Elizabethan
England," Canterbury University, Christ Church, New Zealand, August 10, 1994.
"`The Words of a Statute are Never to be Followed': Parliament and Representation in
Early Modern England," The 7th Form Seminar (a national gathering of history students),
Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, August 12, 1994.
"Monsters and Prelates: Accessing the Metaphysical in Early Modern England," The 7th
Form Seminar (a national gathering of history students), Massey University, Palmerston
North, New Zealand, August 12, 1994.
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"Elizabethan History Today: The State of the Field," Pacific Conference on British
Studies, Claremont, April 23, 1994.
"Individualizing Morality in Early Modern England: Parliament and the Regulation of
Personal Morality, 1530-1640," North American Conference on British Studies,
Montreal, Quebec, Oct. 3, 1993.
"Crimes of Superstition. Catholics, Witches and Sorcerers in the 1560s," Rocky
Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, Flagstaff, AZ, April 11, 1993.
"The Unsettled Settlement of Religion, 1559-70," Tudor/Stuart Seminar, Institute for
Historical Research, University of London, Dec. 4, 1992.
"The Admonition to Parliament," lecture for undergraduates, Institute for Historical
Research, University of London, Nov. 27, 1992.
"Marriage a la mode, 1559-70," Tudor Seminar, Cambridge University,
Nov. 18, 1992.
"Writing about the 1560s," The Cambridge Early Modernists' Group,
Cambridge University, Nov. 16, 1992.
"The Alphabetical Bills for Religion, 1566," lecture for undergraduates, Institute for
Historical Research, University of London, Nov. 9, 1992.
"The Monster, the Midwife, and the Mooncalf" jointly presented with David Cressy,
British History Seminar, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, May 13, 1992.
"The Working Notes of an Anonymous Historian in the 1560s," Western Conference on
British Studies, Tucson, AZ, Oct. 18, 1991.
"The English Peoples' View of England at Elizabeth I's Accession," The Huntington
Library, San Marino, CA., Nov. 17, 1990.
"History Without Teleology. Framing the Historical Narrative." Framing Fact and
Fiction: Perspective in Early Modern England, Arizona State University, April 3-4, 1990.
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"Writing Inverted History. The 1560's From a Contemporary Point of View," Institute
for Historical Research, University of London, Nov. 27, 1989.
"Reliving the 1560's," Keynote address, Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance British
Studies, University of Colorado, November 11, 1989.
"Parliament in Cultural Context. The Case of Usury." Conference on Parliament and
Society, Arizona State University, April 4, 1989.
"Religion in Parliament, 1559-1571," Canadian Historical Association, McMaster
University, June 21, 1987.
"Changing Attitudes Toward Economic Relations in Early Modern England," British
Studies Conference, Portland, Oregon, October 19, 1987.
"Moses, Lord Burghley, and Usury: Theology and Public Policy in the 1570s," Sixteenth
Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, MO, Oct. 24, 1986.
"`In the Name of Tin': Moneylending in Devon in the 1560s," North American British
Studies Conference, Denver, CO, Oct. 11, 1986.
"The Death of Usury--The End of a Medieval Definition," Rocky Mountain Medieval
and Renaissance Conference, Boise, Idaho, March 15, 1986.
"Parliament and the Question of Usury in 16th Century England," Concordia University,
Montreal, Nov. 13, 1986.
"Changing Attitudes: Protestants and Usury, 1571-1625," Queens University, Kingston,
Ont., Nov. 11, 1986.
"Implications of the Usury Act of 1571" read to the Midwestern Conference on British
Studies, Toronto, Canada, Oct. 19, 1984.
"Usury, Religion, and the Law in Elizabethan England," delivered to a seminar at
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Oct. 23, 1984.
"The Historiography of Elizabethan Parliaments," Concordia University, Montreal,
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Quebec, Oct. 25, 1984.
"The Theology and Politics of Usury in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century," a
seminar presented January 18, 1985 at the Institut d'Histoire de la Reformation,
Université de Genève, Switzerland.
"God and the Moneylenders. The Usury Statute of 1571," Tudor Seminar, Cambridge
University, Feb. 19, 1985.
"Usury Cases in the Court of Exchequer, 1545-1625," 7th British Legal History
Conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, July 11, 1985.
"The Logic of Lawmaking in Elizabethan Parliaments," presented at the Rocky Mountain
Medieval and Renaissance Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ., March 17,
1984.
"Interpreting the Word of God: The Making of the Usury Statute of 1571," presented at
the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 28, 1983.
"New Approaches to Tudor Parliaments," presented at the Yale Center for Parliamentary
History, Yale University, May 9, 1983.
"Sixteenth Century Parliaments: A New Approach," presented to the Early Modern
History Seminar, Harvard University, 27 April, 1983.
"If Parliament is not for Politics why come?" presented to the Greater Boston
Reformation Colloquium, 21 March, 1983.
"Conflict in Parliament, 1553-1571," presented at the Rocky Mountain Conference in
British Studies, Reno, Nevada, November 6, 1981.
"Fine Tuning the Reformation. Parliament and the Reform of the Church Courts,"
presented at the 5th British Legal History Conference, Bristol, England, July 15, 1981.
"Where Have all the Puritans Gone? The Nature of Religious Debate in the Early
Parliaments of Queen Elizabeth," an invited paper presented at the Anglo-American
Conference of Historians, London, July 2, 1981.
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"Catholic Resistance to the Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity in the Parliament of
1559," presented at the American Catholic Historical Association annual meeting,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 12, 1980.
“Elizabeth, Adiaphora, and the Latin Prayerbook of 1560," presented at the Rocky
Mountain Conference on British Studies, Colorado Springs, Colorado, October 27, 1979.
"Convocation and Parliament, 1563," presented at the Rocky Mountain Conference on
British Studies, Phoenix, Arizona, October 18, 1978.
"Matthew Parker and the Magdeburg Centuriators," presented at the Idaho Historians'
Conference, Nampa, Idaho, March 22, 1978.
"The Military Thought of John of Salisbury," presented at the Phi Alpha Theta Conference in
Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1974.
Presentations on Pedagogy and Administration
“A Major is not a Degree. The USU Degree Profile,” Reaching Higher: Preparation and
Innovation for Student Success Conference, Logan, Ut., August 6, 2013.
“Conversations About Intentionality and Coherence at Utah State University,” LEAP States
Summit, Association of American Colleges and Universities, Broomfield, CO, June 25, 2013.
“Strategies for maintaining momentum & insuring sustainability – development of Degree
Specifications Plan” Tuning Symposium, Midwest Higher Education Compact/Institute for
Evidence Based Change/Lumina Foundation, Indianapolis, IN, Je. 5, 2013.
“General Education Design and Assessment. Paths into and Through General Education,”
Workshop. College of Southern Idaho/College of Western Idaho, Twin Falls, ID,
April 19, 2013
“Oh Yes They Can: How students can play a designer role in the University, Association of
American Colleges and Universities, Student Success and the Quality Agenda Conference,
Miami, FL., April 5, 2013.
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“Globalizing the tuned major: local issues.” Association for International Education
Administrators, Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA., Feb. 19, 2013.
“Tuning into the Degree Qualification Profile,” Association of American Colleges and
Universities Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA., Jan. 24, 2013.
"Tuning and General Education" Tuning Advisory Meeting, Institute for Evidence Based
Change and the Lumina Foundation, Indianapolis, IN, June 28, 2012.
"The Business Innovation Factory/USU Student Design Studio," Translating Student Voice
into Educational Transformation, Lumina Foundation Convening, Indianapolis, IN, June 14,
2012.
"Nurturing an Exchange of Views for Identifying and Achieving Shared Quality Outcomes,"
Western Academic Leadership Forum, Phoenix, AZ, April 19, 2012.
"The Quality Conversation in Utah: Navigating the Alphabet Soup," Lumina Tuning Meeting
for Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, April 2, 2012.
"LEAP Update with Strategies for the Implementation of High Impact Practices," USU
Regional Campuses and Distance Education Spring Retreat, Price, UT, February 17, 2012.
“Building Cultures of Faculty Engagement,” Plenary panel, Association of American
Colleges and Universities, Conference on General Education and Assessment, New Orleans,
LA, Jan. 27, 2012
“Degrees of Worth: The Lumina Foundation’s ‘Tuning USA’ Project and the Assessment of
Higher Education.” Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, IN, June 18, 2011.
“Vision, Trust, Mechanics – Elements of Tuning,” USHE Tuning Teams review, Utah Board
of Regents, Salt Lake City, Ut, April 4, 2011.
“Tuning U.S. Degrees –It Takes a Faculty” with Marcus Kolb, Teddi Safman, Adina O’Hara,
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American Association of Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Jan. 27,
2011.
“Emerging State Models for Tuning in General Education and Transfer,” with Ken
O’Donnell and Adina O’Hara, American Association of Colleges and Universities
Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Jan. 27, 2011.
"Assessing Outcomes in History Degrees," a workshop for the New England Educational
Assessment Network, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, March 26, 2010.
“Tuning the Disciplines: The Humanities. The Tuning Process in Two States, Indiana and
Utah,” Association of American Colleges and Universities national meeting, Washington,
DC, Jan. 23, 2010.
“Historians and the Pedagogical Schizophrenia of History Survey Assessment,”
Organization of American Historians, Seattle, Washington, March 25, 2009.
"Using Faculty values to drive General Education Assessment, the Utah Experience,"
Association of American Colleges and Universities national meeting, San Francisco, Jan. 26,
2005.
"Faculty Driven Assessment in Utah," State Higher Education Executive Officers,
Washington, D.C., July 27, 2001.
"Is Your Assessment too Small? Assessment and State Systems," Association of American
Colleges and Universities annual meeting, New Orleans, Jan. 18, 2001.
"Getting to 'Yes' in General Education: Building Consensus," American Association for
Higher Education Faculty Roles and Rewards Conference, San Diego, CA, Jan. 18, 1997.
"Reforming General Education, A Primer," delivered at a retreat for the faculty and
administration of Colorado State University, Oct. 18, 1996.
"Multiculturalism as Critical Thinking," Weber State University Forum on Teaching and
Learning, Ogden, UT, Sept. 14, 1994.
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"Teaching Cultural Difference as General Education: Ancient Western Civilization," invited
by the Association of American Colleges' Cultural Legacies Institute, Philadelphia, February
24-6, 1994.
"Developing and Teaching Innovative Core Courses in the Social Sciences: Clusters and
Capstones," Texas Seminar on Core Curriculum, University of Houston, August 11, 1993.
"Writing Across the Curriculum: A Workshop for College Teachers," Salt Lake Community
College, Sept. 25, 1992.
"Writing Across the Curriculum: Strategies for Implementation," Blaine Co. School District
Conference, March 13, 1992, Hailey, Idaho.
"Writing to Learn in University History Courses," Idaho Teachers' Workshop, St. Anthony,
Idaho, January 18, 1992.
"Novum Organon: Document-Based Western Civilization Courses," Rocky Mountain
Medieval and Renaissance Association, Breckenridge, CO, April 20, 1991.
"In Loco Trivii: Innovative Pedagogy and Document-Based Western Civilization Courses,"
Utah Academy of Arts and Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, May 10, 1991.
"Encouraging Faculty Initiatives in General Education Reform," co-authored with Ann
Leffler, Joe Morse, and Robert Hoover, American Association of Colleges, Washington, DC,
January 11, 1991.
Popular Books/Papers/Articles
"Office Hours—Faculty Perspective: What to Tell a Parent Whose Child Wants to Major in a
'Degree to Nowhere,'" Liberalis (Summer, 2011).
http://liberalis.usu.edu/2011/summer/office_hours.html
" Advice to Elizabeth," History Today 58, 11 (2008), 14-20.
What Life was Like in the Realm of Elizabeth, England AD 1533-1603. Richmond, VA:
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Time-Life Books, 1998. As the Consultant, I worked with writers and researchers to produce
this book.
AWas Grandfather a Servant of Satan? Generational Conflict in Sixteenth-Century England,"
Fellows Summer Scholarly Sustenance Program, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, June
27, 1999.
"Evil and the History of Virtue," the Twenty-first Annual "Last Lecture," commissioned and
published by the USU Honors Program, May 14, 1996.
"Canal Banks to the Cam. An Intellectual Odyssey" delivered to Phi Kappa Phi, Weber
State University, March 3, 1995
"The Catholic Church and the Reformation," a workshop for the members of St. Thomas
Aquinas Parish, Logan, UT, March 5, 1994.
"The World of Christopher Columbus," a public lecture, Salt Lake City, UT, Sept. 24, 1992.
"The World of Christopher Columbus" a teachers' inservice for the Box Elder School
District, Sept. 13, 1992.
"The History of Liberal Arts Education," the Education Honorary, December 6, 1990.
"Home" and "The Class," Writing the White Water, II (1994), 16; 28-9.
"New Directions in Community History," for the Working Together Project, seminars
sponsored by the Idaho Oral History Center, April 27 and May 9, 1982.
"A Note on the History of the Idea of Philanthropy," Federation Reports 4, 2 (1981), 6-7.
"Humanities in American Life from a Western Perspective, a Challenge to Humanists."
Idaho Humanities Forum, Summer, 1981, pp. 1-2.
"The Character and Dynastic Politics of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine," lecture
sponsored by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, Roosevelt, Utah, December 5, 1979.
"Pippin and Pepin the Hunchback," published by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, as
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a program note for the play "Pippin," 1979.
Honors and Awards
Professional Achievement Award 2007, presented for Significant Professional Achievement
by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Idaho State University Alumni Association.
2005 Winner of the Roland Bainton Prize for the Best Reference Work of 2004 from the
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference for Blackwell Companion to Tudor Britain. Co-edited
with Robert Tittler. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2004.
USU Merrill Library Faculty Award for 2001.
Elected an Affiliate of the Centre for the Study of Property Rights, University of Newcastle,
New South Wales, Australia, 1999.
Elected to Deliver the Twenty-first Annual "Last Lecture" by the Honors students of Utah
State University, 1996.
Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain, 1996.
Listed in Contemporary Authors, 1995
New Zealand Vice Chancellors' Casual Visitor [A lecture tour of all the New Zealand
universities], August, 1994.
D. Wynne Thorne Outstanding Research Award, Utah State University, 1990-1.
Charles Redd Prize for Outstanding Research, Utah Academy of Sciences, 1990.
Merit Award from the Utah Endowment for the Humanities for organizing "Looking
Backward, The 20th Century. A Conference for Teachers." 1989.
Whitefield Prize for the Best Book in the Studies in History Series, published by the Royal
Historical Society, 1982.
Social Science Researcher of the year for College of H.A.S.S., 1982.
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Elected Teacher of the year for College of H.A.S.S., 1981.
Archbishop Cranmer Prize in Ecclesiastical History from Cambridge University, awarded for
the ms. "Parliament and the Settlement of Religion, 1559," 1979.
Elected an Associate of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain, 1978.
Fellowships
Francis Bacon Fellow, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA , Feb. 2011.
Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford, 2008-2009.
Henry E. Huntington Library Exchange Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford University, fall,
2000.
Fowler Hamilton Visiting Fellow, Christ Church, Oxford University, Hilary term, 2000.
Mayer Fellow, the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. Summer 1999.
Fellow, NEH Summer Institute "Religion in Early Modern England," Claremont, CA,
Summer, 1993.
Fletcher Jones Fellow, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, 1991-2.
Visiting Scholar, Clare College, Cambridge University, Michaelmas Term, 1992.
Visiting Fellow, Institut d'Histoire de la Reformation, Université de Genève, Switzerland,
Jan.-July, 1985.
Mellon Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities, Harvard University, for 1982-83.
Fellow at "Inventing the West" a conference sponsored by the Institute of the American West,
Sun Valley, Idaho, August 18-21, 1982.
Consultancies
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Conversion of Dixie State College into Dixie State University, Utah System of Higher
Education, 2010. Conducted site visit, interviews, wrote the report.
History Times adviser, 2009-10. Adviser on website development and marketing.
Advisory board for Cengage, State Papers Online, 1509-1714, 2007-11. Advising on
document selection, website design, marketing.
Academic consultant to Cengage on the digitization of the State Papers and the Lansdowne
Manuscripts, 2007.
External Reviewer, Department of History, Weber State University, February, 2006.
Convener, Utah Board of Regents= Task Force on General Education, AWhat is an Educated
Person VII: The Art and Science of Assessing General Education," Nov. 11, 2005.
Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education on Systemwide General Education reform,
April, 2005.
External Reviewer, Department of History, Idaho State University, 2004.
Convener, Utah Board of Regents= Task Force on General Education, AWhat is an Educated
Person VI: Transfer and Articulation. Are We Doing It Right?," Nov. 17, 2003.
Convener, Utah Board of Regents= Task Force on General Education, AWhat is an Educated
Person Conference V: It=s not Your Grandparents Curriculum Anymore," April 12, 2002.
Convener, Utah Board of Regents= Task Force on General Education,"What is an Educated
Person?Conference IV: Teaching with Technology," Provo, UT Feb. 26, 2001.
Utah Valley State College on general education assessment, June 26-7, 2000.
Convener, Utah Board of Regents= Task Force on General Education, AWhat is an Educated
Person? Conference III: Assessing General Education Competencies," Provo, UT, Nov. 5-6,
1999.
Northern Illinois University, General Education Reform, May 1, 1999.
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American Association of Colleges and Universities= Transfer and Articulation Project for
FIPSE, 1998-2004.
Northern Kentucky University, General Education Reform, Nov. 19, 1998.
Convener, Utah Board of Regents= Task Force on General Education, AWhat is an Educated
Person? Conference II, Assessing the Assessors of General Education," Park City, UT, Oct.
30-31, 1998.
Convener, Utah Board of Regents= Task Force on General Education, AWhat is an Educated
Person? Conference I, Competencies in General Education," Salt Lake City, UT, May 1-2,
1998.
Colorado State University, General Education Reform, Oct. 1996.
Grants Received
Co-PI with William Evenson and Teddi Safman, Utah System of Higher Education,
“Exploring Tuning in the Utah System of Higher Education, in two disciplines at two-three
levels, with nine credit-granting Utah System institutions,” Lumina Foundation, $150,000.
2009.
Co-PI, ABridgerland Professional Academy for the Teaching of History," United States
Department of Education, $1,000,000, 2007-10.
Co-PI with Elaine Thatcher, ADifficult Dialogues in Northern Utah: Religious and Cultural
Conversations in a Predominantly Single-Religion Community" Ford Foundation, $10,000,
2005-7.
Co-PI, ABridgerland Professional Academy for the Teaching of History," United States
Department of Education, $1,000,000, 2005-8.
Co-PI, ABridgerland Professional Academy for the Teaching of History," United States
Department of Education, $1,000,000, 2001-4.
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Co-PI, With Ann Leffler, "Greater Expectations for Connected Learning" a $64,000
subcontract from FIPSE to the Association of American Colleges and Universities, 20002004.
PI, Utah Humanities Council grant for the AWhat is an Educated Person?" Conference, 1998.
PI, Utah Humanities Council grant for "Looking Backward. The 20th Century. A
Conference for Teachers," 1988.
PI, Idaho Humanities Council grant for "Looking Backward. The 20th Century. A
Conference for Teachers," 1988.
PI, Utah Humanities Council grant for "The Middle Ages and Renaissance. A Conference
for Teachers," 1988.
PI, Idaho Humanities Council grant for "The Middle Ages and Renaissance. A Conference
for Teachers," 1988.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend,1984.
U.S.U.Faculty Research Grant,1981.
University Faculty Research Grant, Utah State University, 1979.
Professional Activities
Advisory Board of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church, 2009-.
Editorial Advisory Board, Liberal Education, 2007Board of Directors, Society for Reformation History, 2005-.
Board of Directors, Bridgerland Professional Academy for the Teaching of History, 2002-.
Panelist for Fulbright Grants to the United Kingdom, 1998-2000.
Hiring Committee for a Research Librarian, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Summer, 1999.
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Visiting Academic, Cambridge International Summer School, Cambridge University,
England, July-August 1995.
Organizer, 1995 Conference of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association
meeting, Logan, Ut, May 11-13, 1995.
Chair, Bainton Book Prize Committee, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, 1995.
Member, Council of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, 1986-95.
Member of the interviewing committee for Rhodes Scholarship candidates, Lowell House,
Harvard University, 1982.
Representative of the United States on the planning committee for the Anglo-American
Conference of Historians, 1981.
University Service
Chair, President’s Task Force on Curricular Integration, 2010-.
Director of General Education, Utah State University, 2006-.
Chair, Utah Board of Regents= Task Force on General Education, 2003-.
Chair, General Education Subcommittee of the Educational Policies Committee, 2003-.
Member, Educational Policies Committee, 2003-.
Member, First Year Committee, 2003-8.
Member, President=s Task Force on Advising, 2003.
Member, President=s Task Force on Extension, 2002.
Member, Utah State Board of Regents= Master Planning Committee, subcommittee on
Student Success, 2002-3.
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Representative of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Department Heads'
Executive Council, 2002-.
Chair, Utah State University Admission Standards Committee, 2002-3.
Chair, Utah State Board of Regents= Joint Task Force on High School/College Articulation,
2002-3.
Member of Board of Directors, Professional Academy for the Teaching of History, 2002-.
Member, Bennion Board, Mountain West Center for Regional Studies, 1998-.
Member, EPC Subcommittee on General Education, 1999-2003.
Chair, University Committee on Faculty Evaluation, 1996-8.
Chair, Mountain West Center Advisory Board, 1996.
Member of the Regents= Assessment team for Dept. of Secondary Education, Utah State
University, 1997.
Member, International Education Advisory Board, 1996.
Faculty Senator for College of HASS, 1995-8.
Representative of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Department Heads'
Executive Council, 1995-8.
Member, Educational Policies Committee's subcommittee on University Studies [General
Education], 1996-.
Member, Regents= Task Force on General Education, State of Utah, 6/94Member, General Education Review Task Force, Utah State University,1/94-6.
Member, Search Committee for Assistant Director of Affirmative Action, 2/95-7/95.
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Chair of the Search for a Dean for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences,
1991-2.
Chair of the Search for an Electronic Distance Education Specialist, 1989.
Member of the First Year Committee [coordinates academic and student services efforts
concerning freshmen], 1989-92.
Member of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Planning Committee for
Electronic Distance Education, 1990-91.
Member of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Planning Committee on
Space and Classroom Amenities, 1990-91.
Representative for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dean's Minigrant Committee for Pedagogical
Innovation, 1989-94 .
Chair of the Civilization Cluster of the Liberal Arts and Sciences Program, 1988-2000.
Member of the Curriculum Committee, Liberal Arts and Sciences Program, 1988-2000.
Member of the Assessment Subcommittee, Liberal Arts and Sciences, 1990-2000 .
Chair of the Oxford University Exchange Program, 1989-92.
Chair of the Committee on Tenure and Promotion Standards, Department of History, 1990-1.
Member of the Governing Board for the Liberal Arts and Sciences Program, 1986-2000.
Member of the Provost's Task Force on Undergraduate Education, 1985-7.
Member of search committee for a new Dean for HASS, 1983-4.
Member of the joint committee of the Education Policies Committee and the Graduate
Council for review of departmental reviews, 1982.
Representative of College of HASS on the Educational Policies Committee, 1981-82.
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Member of subcommittee for reform of general education of Education Policies Committee,
1981-1982.
Chair of HASS curriculum committee, 1981-82.
Professional and Learned Societies
American Academy of Religion
Church of England Record Society
Royal Historical Society of Great Britain
North American Conference on British Studies
Western Conference on British Studies
Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Assoc.
Reformation Society of America
Selden Society
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference
Renaissance Society of America
Association of American Colleges and Universities
American Association for Higher Education
Phi Alpha Theta
Phi Kappa Phi
Extension and Public Outreach
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AThe Origins of the Anglican Via Media," a workshop for the Episcopal Diocese of Utah,
Feb. 28, 2004.
AThomas Cranmer and the Book of Common Prayer" a workshop for the Episcopal Diocese
of Utah, Jan. 19, 2002.
Panelist for the on-line magazine The Reviewer, 2000.
Organized "Teaching the Islamic Middle East, A Conference for Teachers" March, 1989.
Organized "Looking Backward. The 20th Century. A Conference for Teachers," Nov. 1988.
Organized "The Middle Ages and Renaissance. A Conference for Teachers," Jan. 1988.
Delivered eight lectures on the European roots of the Constitution for the Bicentennial of the
Constitution Series, 1987.
Delivered commencement address at the College of Southern Idaho, May 2, 1986.
Judge, Utah History Fair, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1986.
Participant in a panel discussion of Euripedes' Alcestis for a U.E.H. project, Oct. 17, 1984.
Chair of discussion on the future of state humanities programs in a time of financial crisis,
National Meeting of the Federation of State Humanities Councils, Baltimore, November 16,
1981.
Board member of the Association for the Humanities in Idaho (N.E.H. state based regrant
program). As a member I have served in the following special capacities:
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Chair of the committee which wrote the successful Cultural Legacies and History
Program.
Member of the Ad Hoc Committee on the State of Humanities in Idaho.
Chairperson of the Association, 1980-82.
Testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Interior of the Committee on Appropriations,
March 25, 1981, concerning the FY 82 budget for the National Endowment for the
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