RICHARD M. GOLDENProfessor of History and Director, Jewish and Israel Studies Program ◊ University of

North Texas1155 Union Circle, # 310650 ◊ Denton, Texas 76203-5017

Office: (940) 369-8933 ◊ Home: (972) 317-4969 ◊ Fax: (469) 293-5433richard.golden@unt.edu

26 October 2016EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D., 1975, The Johns Hopkins UniversityM.A., 1972, The Johns Hopkins UniversityGraduate Study, 1969-70, Vanderbilt UniversityB.A., 1969, Vanderbilt University: major in history, minor in economics.

EDUCATIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS

Elected Co-chair, Jewish Studies Program Directors’ Network, Association for Jewish Studies, 2015-2016.

Awarded the Roland H. Bainton prize in 2007 for best reference book on the Early Modern Period by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference for Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition.

Named the “Jewish Professional of the Year” in the Dallas-Fort Worth area by the Regional Hillel of North Texas. Tribute dinner in Dallas, 9 April 2006.

Named the 1997 Regents' Faculty Lecturer by the University of North Texas Board of Regents.

“Professing Women Award,” presented by the University of North Texas Women's Studies Roundtable, 1994 and 1995.

Clemson University College of Liberal Arts nominee for South Carolina Governor's “Professor of the Year” award, 1994.

Marshal, College of Liberal Arts, Clemson University, 1994.Teaching Improvement Award, Clemson University, 1991.National Defense Education Act Fellow, 1970-73.Vanderbilt University Fellowship, 1969-70.Magna cum laude, 1969.High Honors in history, 1969.Phi Beta Kappa, 1969.Undergraduate scholarships, 1965-69.

UNIVERSITY POSITIONS

2001 – Present: Professor and Director, Jewish Studies Program, UNT (since 1 January 2014, Jewish and Israel Studies Program)

1994 – 2001: Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of North Texas

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1983 – 94: Professor, Clemson University1980 – 83: Associate Professor, Clemson University1975 – 80: Assistant Professor, Clemson University1974 – 75: Instructor, Clemson University

COURSES TAUGHT

Undergraduate

World History to 1500World History since 1500Western Civilization to 1648Western Civilization since 1648Paris and the ParisiansThe Age of Louis XIVThe European Witch HuntsThe Age of ReasonThe Protestant ReformationEarly Modern European Social HistoryThe RenaissancePolitics, Religion, and Morality in Early Modern EuropeEngland to 1603England since 1603Intellectual, Cultural, and Social History of Medieval and Early Modern EuropeCultural Encounters: The European Discovery of America and the Clash of the New and Old WorldsThe State of Israel

Graduate

European HistoriographyThe Age of Louis XIVReligious Toleration in Early Modern EuropeThe Nobility in Early Modern FranceThe European Witch HuntsSeventeenth-Century FranceSeventeenth-Century EuropeReligion in Early Modern Europe

Community

AP World History summer institute for high school teachers, 2000 - 2002Elderhostel-Christopher Columbus, 1992AP Social History summer institute for high school teachers, 1991

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PUBLICATIONS and RESEARCH

BOOKS

Editor, Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition. 4 vols. Santa Barbara, Denver, and Oxford, UK: ABC-CLIO, 2006. (Awarded the Roland H. Bainton prize in 2007 for best reference book on the Early Modern Period by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference.)

Editor, The Social Dimension of Western Civilization. 2 vols. Fifth edition. Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003. (First three editions under the title Social History of Western Civilization).

Coeditor (with Thomas Kuehn), Western Societies: Primary Sources in Social History. Two vols. New York: St. Martin's, 1993.

Editor, The Huguenot Connection: The Edict of Nantes, Its Revocation, and Early French Migration to South Carolina. Boston, Dordrecht, and Lancaster: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988.

Editor, Church, State, and Society under the Bourbon Kings of France. Lawrence, KS: Coronado Press, 1982.

The Godly Rebellion: Parisian Curés and the Religious Fronde, 1652-1662. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1981.

ARTICLES AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

“Introduction, “Girard, Jean-Baptiste,” “Langton, Walter.” In Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition. Edited by Richard M. Golden. 4 vols. Santa Barbara, Denver, and Oxford, UK: ABC-CLIO, January 2006.

“Using the Internet to Teach the European Witch Hunts,” in Historical Consciousness and History Teaching in a Globalizing Society/Geschichtsbewusstsein und Geschichtsunterricht in einer sich globalisierenden Gesellschaft, edited by Karl Pellens. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Brussels, New York, Oxford, and Vienna: Peter Lang GMBH, 2001.

“Didactic Dialectic in the Teaching of Early Modern European Religious History in the United States: The Conflict between Cultural Heritage and Historical Accuracy,” International Society for History Didactics/Mitteilungen der Internationale Gesellschaft für Geschichtsdidaktik 20/1 (1999): 31-38. Published also in Karl Pellens, Gordon Mork, V.R. Leschimer, E.I. Pivovar, and D. I. Poltorak, eds. Otvetstvennoct’ Istorika: Prepodavanie istorii v globaliziruiushchemsia obshchestve. Materialy mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii, Moskova 15-17 sentiabria 1998. Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, 2000, 112-120.

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“American Perspectives on the European Witch Hunts,” The History Teacher 30/4 (August 1997): 409-426. A version was published in G.N. Sevost’ianov, ed. Problemy Istoricheskogo Poznaniia: Materialy Mezhdunarodnoi Conferentsii. Moscow: “Nauka,” 1999, 260-269.

“Satan in Europe: The Geography of Witch-Hunts,” in Changing Identities in Early Modern Europe, edited by Michael Wolfe. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997, pp. 216-247. Reprinted in Brian P. Levack, New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology. Hamden, CT: Routledge, 2001, II, 2-23.

“France, 1450-1789: Religious Practice and Thought,” in Guide to Historical Literature, edited by Mary Beth Norton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. (With Barbara Diefendorf.)

“Notions of Social and Religious Pollution in Nicolas Rémy's Demonolatry,” in Politics, Ideology and the Law in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of J. H. M. Salmon, edited by Adrianna E. Bakos. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1994, pp. 21-33.

“Jean Rousse, Religious Frondeur.” French Historical Studies 12 (Fall 1982): 461-85.

“Jesuit Refutations of Pascal's Lettres provinciales,” in Church, State and Society under the Bourbon Kings of France, edited by Richard M. Golden. Lawrence, KS: 1982, pp. 83-124.

“The Bibliothèque de la Société de Port-Royal.” French Historical Studies 12 (1979): 278-80.

“Religious Extremism in the Mid-seventeenth Century: The Parisian Illuminés.” European Studies Review 9 (1979): 195-210.

“The Mentality of Opposition: The Jansenism of the Parisian Curés during the Religious Fronde.” The Catholic Historical Review 64 (October 1978): 565-80.

CURRENT RESEARCH

Biography of Louis-Marie, Vicomte de Noailles.

COMMENTS

“Comment on Papers by Martin and Sonnino.” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 19 (Riverside, California, 1992): 109-110.

“Commentary on Papers by Hayden and Greenshields.” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 18 (Auburn, Alabama, 1991): 205-207.

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“Commentary on Paper by Wolfe.” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 17 (Auburn, Alabama, 1990): 159-60.

“Patronage and Academies in the Ancien Régime.” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, 9 (Lawrence, Kansas, 1982): 107-109.

BOOK REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTES

More than one hundred in The American Historical Review, The Catholic Historical Review, Church History, The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, The Historian, History: Reviews of New Books, Journal of Church and State, The Journal of Economic History, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Journal of Modern History, Religious Studies Review, The Sixteenth-Century Journal, South Eastern Latin Americanist, and Theological Studies.

OFFICES IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Co-director, Jewish Studies Program Directors’ Network, Association for Jewish Studies, 2015-17

Member, North Texas Association of Jewish Studies Professors, 2015-present.Member, Advisory Board, The Litvak Studies Institute (Australia), 2010-present.Member, Partnership with Israel Joint Steering Committee, 2009-2013. Member, Western Galilee College (Akko, Israel) Faculty Steering Committee, 2009-

2010.Member, Hadassah Academic Advisory Board, 2009.Member, Editorial Board, of the journal Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft (published by the

University of Pennsylvania Press), 2005-present.Chair, CLEP Social Studies Test Development Committee, Educational Testing Service

(1998-2006).Book review editor, Religious Studies Review, for seventeenth- and eighteenth-century

European history, 1985-2010.Chair, Snell Prize Committee of the European History Section of the Southern Historical

Association, 1999 (member in 1998)Member, Local Arrangements Committee, Southern Historical Association, 1999.Member, Chateaubriand Scholarship Program Committee (for doctoral research in

France), French Cultural Service, 1998.Member, Governing Council, Western Society for French History, 1992-95.Editorial Board, University of North Texas Press, 1994-2001.Editorial Board, Essays in European History, 1992-94.Member, Speakers' Bureau, South Carolina Council for the Humanities, 1990-94.Chair, Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize Committee, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference,

1986-87.

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Member, Executive Committee, Southeast American Society for French Seventeenth-Century Studies, 1986-87.

GRANTS and FELLOWSHIPS

Leo and Rhea Fruhman Foundation, for events, course development, student and faculty stipends, 2011-16.

Schultz Family Foundation, for Israel students and events, 2006-2008, 2011-15

EIS Foundation, for Jewish studies, 2011-16.

Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, for curriculum development, speakers, scholarships, and faculty support, 2011.

Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas--annual grants to the Jewish Studies Program as Federation beneficiary, 2008-16

Jewish Federation of Fort Worth and Tarrant County--annual grants to support Israeli speakers and the purchase of books and films on Judaism and Israel, 2005-16.

M. B. and Edna Zale Foundation--two-year grant to support the Jewish Studies Program, 2008-2009 and 2011-12.

Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation--three-year grant for curriculum development, speakers, and undergraduate scholarships for study in Israel, January 2007.

Dallas Jewish Community Foundation--grant proposal accepted for presentation to more than 300 private Dallas foundations, from which numerous small grants have been received, November 2006.

American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE)--two annual grants to hire a visiting Israeli scholar for 2007-08 and 2008-09 at UNT, November 2006 and November 2007.

Tauber Institute, Brandeis University: to attend a two-week seminar at Brandeis followed by a week in Israel in order to prepare the design of a new course on the history of the State of Israel, June-July 2005.

Jewish Agency--grant to attend a conference in Jerusalem, July 2002.

Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas--travel grant to attend a conference in Israel, June 2001.

UNT Faculty Research Grant--for research in England, 1998.

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Innovation Fund Award, Clemson University, 1991.

South Carolina Department of Education: for summer institute for high school teachers, summer 1991.

NEH summer institute, The Newberry Library, June 1988.

Clemson Faculty Research Council--for research in France, summer 1988.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation: for curriculum development, 1985-87.

South Carolina Committee for the Humanities, The Huguenot Society of South Carolina, The Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia, and the Council for European Studies--for lecture series on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, January-December 1985.

Provost's Research Award, Clemson University: for research in France, May 1984.

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend--for research in France, May-June 1983.

Center for Renaissance Studies Fellowship, The Newberry Library, Chicago, January-June 1982.

Clemson Faculty Research Council--for research in Paris, summer 1978.

Clemson Faculty Research Council--for research in Paris, summer 1976.

MANUSCRIPT and GRANT REVIEWS

Review of manuscripts for French Historical Studies, The Catholic Historical Review, Church History, The Catholic University of America Press, West Publishing Company, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, Harcourt Brace, Random House, Prentice-Hall, Macmillan Publishing Company, Bedford/St. Martin's Press, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Houghton Mifflin, Addison Wesley Longman, D.C. Heath, and Routledge.

Review of grant/fellowship proposals for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and The Newberry Library, Chicago.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Organizer and moderator of session, “The Role of Israel Studies in Jewish Studies Programs,” Association for Jewish Studies conference, San Diego, 19 December 2016.

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“Antisemitism/Anti-Israelism in the Contemporary World,” Temple Shalom, Dallas, 16 November 2016

“Masada and the Great Jewish Revolt,” Temple Shalom, Dallas, 2 November 2016

Talk on university antisemitism, session on “Jewish Studies: Current Trends and Best Practices,” Association for Jewish Studies conference, Boston, 14 December 2015.

“The Age of Persecution,” Temple Shalom, Dallas, 25 November 2015.

“The Witch Hunt and the Jews,” Temple Shalom, Dallas, 18 November 2015.

The Smithsonian Institution invited me to represent it as “Smithsonian Lecturer” and so I gave 8 talks on topics in the history of Western Civilization off Greece, Turkey, Israel, and Egypt and also provided historical expertise on two 12-hour tours of Israel and Egypt, September 2015.

“Antisemitism—ant-Israelism in the Middle East,” St Andrews Presbyterian Church, Denton, TX, 13 May 2015.

“The European Witch Hunts and the Jews,” Jewish Federation of Fort Worth and Tarrant County, 25 February 2014.

“The Age of Persecutions, 14th-17th Centuries,” Jewish Federation of Fort Worth and Tarrant County, 18 February 2014.

Chair and organizer of session, “Israel in the Contemporary Middle East,” UNT Middle East Pease Conference, Denton, March 2013.

“Anti-Israelism/Anti-Semitism at American Universities,” Congregation Anshai Torah, March 2013.

Chair of session, “Industry and Jewish Emancipation in the Revolutionary Era, Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, Fort Worth, February 2013.

Delivered five talks/presentations on topics in European history in the Mediterranean as a representative of Smithsonian Institution through its educational travel program. “The Greek Olympic Games: The World Cup of Antiquity”; “Ghost Beliefs in Western Civilization”; “Fighting for Freedom. How Spartacus Brought Rome to its Knees”; “Cleopatra: Egypt’s Last Pharaoh”; “Point of Honor: The Rise and Fall of the Duel.” September-October 2012.

Delivered five talks/presentations on topics in European history in the Mediterranean as a representative of Smithsonian Institution through its educational travel program. “Three Drinks that Changed Europe: Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate”; “Ghost Beliefs in

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Western Civilization”; “Fighting for Freedom. How Spartacus Brought Rome to its Knees”; “The Surprising Lives of Medieval University Students”; “Point of Honor: The Rise and Fall of the Duel.” September-October 2011.

“Religious Hatred: Early Modern Europe and 21st-Century Muslim Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism,” American Jewish Committee, the Museum of Biblical Art, Dallas, 23 February 2011.

“The Demonization of Israel,” Temple Beth-El, Fort Worth, 19 November 2010.

“Israel’s Detractors,” talk at Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas’ Celebration of Israel, American Airlines Center's Plaza at Victory Park, Dallas, 22 August 2010.

“The Holocaust: Where Does It Fit in Jewish Studies?” Talk at symposium, “Arts and the Holocaust,” UNT, 1 April 2010.

“The Witch Hunts and the Jews,” Center for Jewish Education LearningFest, Dallas, 4 February 2010.

Panelist, symposium, "Holocaust Survivors: Stories of Resilience." SMU, 12 November 2009.

External reviewer, Department of History and Social Sciences, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD, April 2009.

Organizer of session, “Ethnic Groups in Israel,” Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference, Miami, FL, 7 November 2008.

"Zionism and Post Zionism: A Brief Sweep from the Nineteenth Century to the Present," Congregation Anshai Torah, Plano, TX, 3 November 2007.

“The Value of History,” Dallas Jewish Historical Society, Dallas, 1 August 2007.

“The Boundaries of Witchcraft Research: A View from the Encyclopedia of Witchcraft,” The Midnight Sun Witchcraft Conference, Vardø, Norway, 28 June, 2007.

“Israel vs. the Other,” Selwyn School, Denton, TX, 1 March 2007.

Chair of plenary session, “Jewish Leaders of Texas,” Race, Ethnicity, and Place conference, Texas State University, 3 November 2006.

“Israel and the Middle East,” Anti-Defamation League Glass Leadership group, Dallas, 18 January 2006.

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Moderator and panelist for film “Columbia Unbecoming,” B’nai Zion, Richardson, TX, 17 January 2006.

Consulting Editor, English Witchcraft, 1560-1736. Edited by James Sharpe. 6 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2003.

“Anti-Israeli Influences on the American Campus,” B’nai Zion, Dallas, August 2004.

“The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft,” conference, “Witchcraft in Context,” York University, York, UK, April 2002.

Moderator of panel, “The War on Terrorism,” Jewish Community Center, Dallas, 18 November 2001.

Co-director, AP World History Summer Institutes, University of North Texas, Denton, June 2000, June 2001, and June 2002. (The first was one of ten such institutes sponsored by the World History Association, the College Board, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.)

Panel discussant, "Developing a Global History of the World," National Social Studies Supervisor Association, San Antonio, 16 November 2000.

"Europe and The Formation of the Global Market,1000-1750" and "Teaching a College-level World History Course in a Global Context," National Council for the Social Studies, San Antonio, 17 and 18 November 2000.

“Using the Internet to Teach the European Witch Hunts,” 19th International Congress of Historical Sciences, Oslo, Norway, 11 August 2000.

“Preparing for AP World History,” AP European History and Pre-AP World History Institutes, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, 20 July 2000.

Chair of session, “Gender and Gendered History in Europe,” European History Section, Southern Historical Association, Fort Worth, 5 November 1999.

“Irreligious Artisan?” Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, D.C., March 1999.

Chair of session, “Kingly Power,” Western Society for French History, Boston, 5 November 1998.

Chair of session, “Clerical Scandal in Germany and France,” Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Toronto, 24 October 1998.

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“Didactic Dialectic in the Teaching of Early Modern European Religious History in the United States: The Conflict between Cultural Heritage and Historical Accuracy,” International Society for History Didactics, Moscow, Russia, September 1998.

“Witch Hunting in Early Modern Europe,” Regents' Faculty Lecture, University of North Texas, November 1997.

Chair of session, “Issues of Conformity, Protestant or Catholic,” Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Atlanta, 23 October 1997.

"Teaching Social History" and "Witch Hunting in Early Modern Europe," Advanced Placement Summer Institute, Sandy, Utah, 12 August 1997.

"The European Witch Hunts" and "New Perspectives on Social History," Advanced Placement Summer Institute, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, 16 July 1997.

Outside evaluator for promotion/tenure at Texas Christian University, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, The Catholic University of America, and Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.

“Witchcraft and the Millennium,” part of lecture series, “Century’s End: Memory, Nostalgia, and Anticipation,” University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR, 9 April 1997.

Reader in Advanced Placement European History (Educational Testing Service), June 1989, June 1990, June 1991, June 1992, June 1993, June 1994, June 1996, June 1998, June 2008, and June 2011.; Table Leader, June 2000 and June 2001.

Commentator of session, "New Perspectives on Science and Literature in Early Modern Europe," European History Association, Southern Historical Association, Little Rock, 2 November 1996.

"The European Witch Hunts," Birdville Independent School District staff development session, Halthom City, Texas, 8 August 1996.

"Recent Scholarship on Louis XIV," "Religion in Early Modern Europe," "European Social History," "Witch Hunting in Early Modern Europe," Advanced Placement European History Institute, University of Texas at Dallas, 16-17 July 1996.

"Witch Hunting in Early Modern Europe," and "New Directions in Historiography," Advanced Placement Summer Institute, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, 10 July 1996.

"American Perspectives on the European Witch Hunts," international conference, "Problems of Historical Cognition," at the Institute of Universal History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, March 1996. I also chaired a session, "Historical Cognition through the Ages," at this conference.

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"What is European History" and "New History in Advanced Placement European History," Pre AP Conference, Richardson, TX, 16 February 1996.

Chair of session, "The Body Politic: Health, Heresy, and Human Rights, 1500-1750," Western Society for French History, Las Vegas, November 1995.

"Research in the Humanities," Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaurate Achievement Program, University of North Texas, 16 June 1995.

"The European Witch Hunts," College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Week Speaker, University of North Texas, 13 April 1995.

"Witchcraft Eroticized: The Pornography of European Witch Hunting," Campus Honors Speaker, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona, 10 April 1995.

Chair of session, "Urban Women Confront War, Magistrates, and Marital Crisis in Early Modern France," Society for French Historical Studies, Atlanta, March 1995.

"Introducing Social History into the AP European History Course"; "Western Civilization vs. World Civilization"; and "Building an AP Program"; Advanced Placement Conference, Dallas, 24-25 February 1995.

Consultant, College Board Advanced Placement Planning Conference, Dallas, 16-17 September, 1994.

"Witch Pornography? Satan's Whores and the European Witch Hunts," Women's Studies Lecture, Clemson University, February 1994.

"Satan in Europe: The Geography of the Witch-Craze," invited speaker in inter-disciplinary lecture series, "Historical Geography: Links between Geography and History," California State University, Fresno, March 1993.

Chair of session, "Patronage in Church and State," Society for French Historical Studies, Chico, CA, March 1993.

Chair of session, "Reordering a Godly Society: Clerical and Lay Vocations in Counter-Reformation France," Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Atlanta, October 1992.

Chair of session, "Death and Dying in the Age of Louis XIV," Society for French Historical Studies, El Paso, March 1992.

Chair of session, "The Quincentenary and South Carolina History: Issues and Sources for Secondary School Teachers," South Carolina Historical Association, Aiken, March 1992.

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"Matthew Hopkins, Witch-finder," Southern Conference on British Studies, Fort Worth, November 1991.

Commentator of session, "On the Trail of the Man in the Iron Mask," Western Society for French History, Reno, November 1991.

Chair of session, "Reputation, Conviction, and Persuasion in Counter-Reformation Thought and Print," American Catholic Historical Association, New York City, December 1990.

Commentator of session, "The Pastoral Visitation Project Revisited," Western Society for French History, Santa Barbara, CA, November 1990.

Commentator of session, "Images and Narrative in Seventeenth-Century Political Thought," Society for French Historical Studies, Columbus, OH, March 1990.

Commentator of session, "Military and Political Culture under Louis XIII," Western Society for French History, New Orleans, October 1989.

Chair of session, "Three Centuries of Urban Unrest," The International Conference on the History of the French Revolution," Washington, D.C., May 1989.

"The Witch Hunters of Early Modern Europe," Wake Forest University, February 1989.

Chair of session, "Social and Geographic Mobility in Early Modern France," Western Society for French History, Los Angeles, November 1988.

Chair of session, "Royal Households in Seventeenth-Century France," Society for French Historical Studies, Columbia, SC, March 1988.

Chair and commentator of session, "The Historian and Liturgy," American Society of Church History/American Catholic Historical Association, Washington, D.C., December 1987.

Chair of session, "Lay Religious Activism in Early Modern France," Western Society for French History, Baltimore, November 1986.

Chair of session, "Seventeenth-Century Historians: Richelieu and Racine," Southeast American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies, Charleston, SC, September 1986.

"Religious Toleration and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes," Baltimore-Washington Old Régime Study Group, Washington, D.C., April 1986.

Chair of session, "Ghosts and Witches: The Role of Spectral Beings in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Witchcraft Polemics," American Historical Association, New York City, December 1985.

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Featured guest, "Carolina Journal," South Carolina Educational Television, October 1983.

"The Great European Witch Hunt," Furman University, Greenville, SC, March 1983.

Commentator of session, "Patronage and Academies in the Ancien Régime," Western Society for French History, Greeley, Colorado, October 1981.

Commentator of session, "Rural Religion in France,” Society for French Historical Studies, Bloomington, IN, March 1981.

"Witch Hunting and Woman-Hunting: Sexual Politics of the European Witch-Craze," Department of History, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, October 1980.

Leader of seminar, "Reconsidering the Frondes," Society for French Historical Studies, Washington, D.C., March 1980.

Commentator of session, "New Perspectives: American Research on French Jansenism," American Historical Association, New York City, December 1979.

Chair of session, "Witchcraft and Spirit Possession in Early Modern France," American Historical Association, San Francisco, December 1978.

"Religious Extremism during the Frondes," Conference at The Newberry Library in honor of John Wolf, Chicago 1976.

"Revolution in the Church: The Richerism of the Parisian Curés during the Religious Fronde," Society for French Historical Studies, University of Rochester, April 1976.

"The Mentality of Opposition: The Jansenism of the Parisian Curés during the Religious Fronde," American Catholic Historical Association, Boston, April 1975.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Historical AssociationAssociation for Israel StudiesAssociation for Jewish StudiesEuropean History Section, Southern Historical AssociationSociety for French Historical Studies

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE and UNIVERSITY SERVICE

University of North Texas

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Director, Jewish Studies Program, 2001-present. (I created the program in August 2000 and served as Coordinator before becoming director in August 2001.)

Chair, Department of History, 1994-2001.

Member, UNT Middle East Peace Conference Steering Committee, 2012-13.

Member, search committee for faculty appointment in Middle-East history, 2005-2006.

Member, Advisory Board, UNT Hillel, 2000-2002, 2008-2009.

Member, Advisory Board, North Texas Regional Hillel, 2000-2002.

Elected representative, UNT Council of Chairs, 1999-2001.

Building Representative, Wooten Hall, 1994-2001.

Chair, search committee for faculty appointment in Mexican-American history, 1998.

Mentor, Multicultural Scholastic Award Winners, 1997.

Planning Committee, "Blackball: Negro Baseball and the Texas Connection," memorabilia exhibit and speakers' forum, 1996.

Texas Academy of Math and Sciences Curriculum Committee, 1996.

University K-16 Faculty Committee, 1995.

Chair, search committees for faculty appointments in modern British history and in United States military history, 1994-95.

Clemson University

Chair, Personnel Committee, Department of History (1989-93); member, Personnel Committee, 1980-94. This committee dealt with appointment, reappointment, tenure, and promotion of faculty.

Member, Self-Study/Assessment Committee, Department of History (1989-94).

Member, Honors College Visiting Master Teacher Committee (1993).

Member, General Education Subcommittee of University Curriculum Committee (1991).

Member, Advisory Committee, Department of History (1990-93, 1987-88, 1982-83). This committee advised the Head on departmental matters.

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Member, Search Committee for Vice President for University Research (1987-88).

Chair, Women's History Week (1988).

Member, History Day Committee (1986-87).

Member, College of Liberal Arts Curriculum Committee (1985-86).

Institutional Representative for Clemson University to the Council for European Studies at Columbia University (1985-88).

Editor, Department of History newsletter (1985-86).

Chair, Curriculum Committee, Department of History (1985-86); member (1979-80).

Member, search committee (1984) for Calhoun and Katherine Lemon Professorship in U.S. history.

Member, advisory committee (1983) to Director of the Honors Program.

Chair, search committees (1980-81) for faculty appointments in the history of science and technology and in Renaissance history.

Library liaison between Department of History and the Clemson University Library (1981-88).

Chair, Graduate Committee, Department of History (1981).

Acting Head, Department of History (summer 1981 and at various other times).

Chair, Speakers Committee, Department of History (1978-81). I was responsible for arranging for speakers from throughout the United States to address public audiences at Clemson University. In one year I brought in eleven speakers.

Member, College of Liberal Arts Lecture Series Committee (1978-80).

Undergraduate advisor (1977-84).

Coordinator, History Seminar (1975-80). I established the History Seminar as a forum for faculty of the Department of History and for invited guests to present papers.

Member, Language Committee (1974-76). This committee investigated the decline in enrollments in the Department of Languages.

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