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Brea, CA 92821 California State University, Fullerton
(714)990-1835 P.O. Box 6846
Email: gbrunelle@fullerton.edu Fullerton, CA 92834-6846
Web Site: (714)278-3474 or (714)488-0601 (cell)
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EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy, May, 1988, Early Modern European History, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Dissertation Director: J. Russell Major.
Master of Arts, September, 1983, History, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Bachelor of Arts, May, 1981, History, Saint Michael's College, Winooski, Vermont.
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
Professor, California State University, Fullerton, 1997 to present.
Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2005-2006
Associate Professor, 1992 - 1997.
Assistant Professor, 1988 - 1992.
Teach upper level and graduate seminars in European and World history, and introductory courses in World History for the History Department.
PUBLICATIONS
Book
The New World Merchants of Rouen, 1559-1630. Volume Sixteen, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, (Kirksville, Missouri: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers/Truman State University Press, 1991).
Articles and Book Chapters
"Assimilation and Economic Activities of Iberian Women in Early Modern France, 1550-1560,"
forthcoming Brill as part of the volume Women in Port Cities: Gendering Communities, Economies, and Social Networks in Atlantic Port Cities, 1500-1800.
“Policing the Monopolizing Women of Nantes,” Journal of Women’s History, 19/2 (June 2007):
10-35.
“To Beggar They Neighbor or Not?: Cooperation and Rivalry within the Merchants’ Tribunal of
Early Modern Rouen,” Institutional Culture in Early Modern Europe, Anne Goldgar, ed., (Leiden: Brill, 2004)61-83.
“Migration and Religious Identity: The Portuguese of Seventeenth-Century Rouen, “
The Journal of Early Modern History, vol. 7, nos. 3-4 (November, 2003)
“Murder in the Metro: Masking and Unmasking Laetitia Toureaux in 1930s France,” with
Annette Finley-Croswhite, French Cultural Studies, 14/1(April, 2003): 53-80.
“Images of Empire: Francis I and his Cartographers,” in E. Gosman, ed., Princes and Princely
Culture, 1450-1650, (Leiden: Brill, 2003): 81-102.
“Kinship, Identity, and Religion in Sixteenth-Century Toulouse: The Case of Simon Lecomte,”
The Sixteenth Century Journal, 32/3(2001): 669-695
"Contractual Kin: Women Servants and their Mistresses in Early Modern Nantes,"
The Journal of Early Modern History, 2(November, 1998)4: 372-394.
"Dangerous Liaisons: Mésalliance and Early Modern French Noblewomen," French Historical
Studies, 19(1995)1:75-104.
"Narrowing Horizons: Commerce and Derogation in Normandy," in Society and Institutions in
Early Modern France, ed. Mack P. Holt. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991.
"Sixteenth Century Perceptions of the New World: Rouennais Commerce and a Renaissance
Tableau," Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History, 17(1990):17-81.
"Competition and Casualty in Sixteenth Century French Trade with the New World," Terrae Incognitae 21(1989):43-54.
"Immigration, Assimilation and Success: Three families of Spanish Origin in Sixteenth Century
Rouen," The Sixteenth Century Journal, 20(1989)2:203-219
CURRENT AND FUTURE RESEARCH
1. "Negotiating Commerce, Negotiating Identity: Portuguese Merchants in Early Modern Northern France," a book length study of Portuguese merchants in France from 1572 to1630. This manuscript, of which I have written several chapters, focuses on the migration of Portuguese immigrants into early modern French cities. Many of these immigrants were “New Christians,” the descendants of converted Jews, and thus grappled with issues of identity as they negotiated with the competing demands of the networks of New Christian kin and commerce in the worldwide Iberian empire, the French communities within which they lived and often obtained French citizenship, and “Old Christian” Iberians in Spain and Portugal among whom their kin often lived and worked. I intend to finish this manuscript by June, 2009. I have an advance contract for this project with Brill.
2. Murder in the Metro:= Masking and Unmasking Laetitia Toureaux in 1930s France, monograph manuscript co-authored with Annette Finley-Croswhite. This is a study of an Italian immigrant whose famous murder in the Paris Metro in 1937 helped to crack open the investigation of a secret right-wing terrorist organization, the Cagoule, whose members sought to overthrow the socialist government of Léon Blum. In this book we examine the ways in which Toureaux sought to cross boundaries of gender, ethnicity and class through her secret marriage to the son of the owner of the factory where she worked, and through her work as a private detective and police informer. We have published an article drawing upon this material in French Cultural Studies and have signed an advance contract with Louisiana State University Press for this book. It will go out to readers in February and we expect it to be in press by January 2009.
3. I have translated and am currently editing for publication Paul Boyer, Véritable relation de tout ce qui s’est fait et passé au voyage que Monsieur de Brétigny fit à l’A,mérique Occidentale: avec une description des moeurs et des provinces de tous les sauvages de cette grande partie du Cap de Nord: un dictionnaire de la langue et un advis trés-nécéssaire àtous ceux qui veulent habiter ou faire habiter de païs-lá ou qui désirent d’y establir des colonies. Le tout fait sur les lieux par Paul Boyer, escuyer, sieur de Petit Puy. I am negotiating with the University of Minnesota for a contract to publish this work with the sponsorship of the James Ford Bell Library and the Center for Early Modern History. Editors at both The University of Rochester Press and Louisiana State University Press have requested to see a proposal for this project.
4. After discussion with the editors at Bedford/St. Martin’ Press, I have submitted a book proposal to them for a book in “The Bedford Series in History and Culture.” The book will be on Samuel de Champlain, and consist of an introduction, about 50 pages, and four chapters of documents illustrating the various aspects of his career.
5. I also have a long term project underway. In 1994, while performing research on Spanish merchants in Toulouse, I discovered a cache of several thousand papers of a Parisian merchant, Simon Lecomte, who lived in Toulouse from 1568 to1589. I intend to edit the papers, publish at least excerpts from them, and write a book about them. Lecomte was arrested twice for heresy and once for sorcery. I wish to use his case to examine the roots of religious violence and the problem of outsider status in early modern urban communities. These letters also contain one of the few extant livres de commerce for a sixteenth century French merchant. I have already published an article (Sixteenth Century Journal, 2001) on Lecomte.
Review Articles
"Early Modern International Trade and Merchant Empires: A Review Article," The Sixteenth Century Journal, 23(1992)1:791-795.
Eric R. Dursteler, Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity, and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-8018-8324-5 (hbk.). Thomas Allison Kirk, Genoa and the Sea: Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic, 1559-1684. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. 296 pp. ISBN: 0-8018-8083-1 (hbk.). Forthcoming, Itinerario.
Encyclopedia Articles
“Indigenous Peoples,” in the Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999), 583-585.
“The World Economy and Colonial Expansion” in The Encyclopedia Of European Social History, (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001), Vol. 6, 461-474.
“Transportation and Communication,” Dictionary of Early Modern Europe, (New York: Charles Scribner and Sons, 2006).
“The Dieppe School of Cartography,” for the Oxford Companion to Exploration, forthcoming, Oxford University Press.
EDITORIAL POSITIONS
Editorial board member, University of Florida Press book series, “New World Diasporas,” General Editor, Kevin Yelvington, Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida. This series publishes monographs in history, anthropology, and cultural and gender studies, on the Atlantic World, 1995 to present.
Book review editor, H-France, 2005-present.
Editorial Board member, French Historical Studies, 2007-present
CREATIVE PROJECT
“France and Brazil in the First Century of Contact: The Lure of Brazilwood," a cartographic slide set prepared at the Newberry Library in Chicago and published with National Endowment for the Humanities funding by the Herman Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography. Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1989.
RESEARCH PROPOSALS WRITTEN AND FUNDED
External Grants
Social Science Research Council proposal funded with a grant of $10,000 for dissertation
research. Funded from May 15, 1985 through May 30, 1986.
National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant, $750, Summer 1990.
American Philosophical Society, Summer Research Grant, $2050, Summer, 1990.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, $4000, Summer, 1992.
Arthur H. Cole Grant, The Economic History Association, $1200, Summer, 1992.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowships for College Teachers, $30,000, Tenure beginning 9/1/93.
Under Consideration
Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, application submitted for Summer, 2008.
Internal Grants
Junior Faculty Research Grant, California State University, Fullerton, summer stipend, 1989, $3500.
General Faculty Research Grant, California State University, Fullerton, $734, Summer 1990.
California State University Summer Stipend Program, $2000, Summer 1990.
General Faculty Research Grant, California State University, Fullerton, $2000, 1992.
Summer Stipend, CSU Program for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity, $3492, Summer, 1993.
Junior Faculty Research Grant, California State University, Fullerton, $3500, Summer, 1995.
Junior Faculty Research Grant, California State University, Fullerton, $3500, Summer, 1996.
General Faculty Research Grant, California State University, Fullerton, $2000, Summer, 1997.
Senior Faculty Research Grant, California State University, Fullerton, Summer, 1999
General Faculty Research Grant, California State University, Fullerton, Summer, 2001
Faculty Development Center International Travel Grant, $500, 2002.
Faculty Development Center International Travel Grant, $112, 2004.
Summer Stipend, CSU Program for Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity, application submitted for 2008.
TECHNOLOGY GRANTS
2000 Summer Technology Grant, Faculty Development Center, California State University, Fullerton, $750, to enable me to learn WebCT for building and maintaining chat rooms for my students.
1999 Summer Technology Grant, Faculty Development Center, California State University, Fullerton, $1000, to enable me to learn the program for building and maintaining web sites called FrontPage, and to create a web site for my classes (http://faculty.fullerton.edu/gbrunelle2).
SUMMER INSTITUTE
"Transatlantic Encounters: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Early French-American Contact," a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute held in 1988 at the Herman Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography of the Newberry Library, Chicago.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Chair, Steering Committee, California World History Association. I am organizing the
conference of the CWHA, to be held November 16-17 at California State University, Fullerton.
Member, “Sites of Encounters and Cultural Production,” a joint UC-CSU project sponsored by the AHA Teaching and Research Divisions to bring together a wide array of US and international scholars and institutions to enhance world history teaching by improving the transmission of the latest world history scholarship into the classroom. This project will focus not only on research but on K-16 schools and museums as well. We will: a) examine a variety of geographical and chronological contexts where different peoples and culture meet; b) deploy a global comparative perspective from which to examine how these encounters work out; c) create working partnerships with public institutions (museums) and elementary and secondary public schools; d) test new methodological tools, and reshape world history as an epistemology.
BOOK REVIEWS
Constructing Early Modern Empires: proprietary ventures in the Atlantic world, 1500-1750, L. H. Roper and B. Van Ruymbeke, eds. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. Forthcoming, Terrae Incognitae.
The Discovery of Guiana by Sir Walter Ralegh with Related Documents, Edited with an Introduction by Benjamin Schmidt. Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2007. Forthcoming, Terrae Incognitae.
Henriette de Bruyn Kops, A Sprited Exchange: the wine and brandy trade between France and the Dutch Republic in its Atlantic framework, 1600-1650. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. Forthcoming, The American Historical Review.
Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Pathfinders: a global history of exploration. (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2006. Forthcoming, Itinerario.
Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, A Nation Upon the Ocean Sea: Portugal’s Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640. Oxford and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007. x + 242 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-517569-1 (pbk.). Forthcoming, Itinerario.
Un regicide au nom de Dieu: L’assassinat d’Henri III. Le Roux, Nicolas. Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 2006. 451 pp. €24.00. ISBN 2-07-073529-X. Forthcoming, The Sixteenth Century Journal.
Francis A. Dutra, Military Orders in the Early Modern Portuguese World: The Orders of Christ, Santigo and Avis. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. 400 pp. ISBN: 0-86078-998-5 (hbk.). Itinerario, 31/1(2007): 163.
Madeleine, Haehl. Les Affaires Étrangères au Temps de Richelieu: Le secrétariat d’État, les agents diplomatiques (1624-1642). Bern: Peter Lang, 2006. 370 pp. Forthcoming, The Sixteenth Century Journal.
Sumathi Ramaswamy, The Lost Land of Lemuria: fabulous geographies, catastrophic histories. (Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004). World History Connected.
Andrea Finkelstein, The Grammar of Profit: the Price Revolution in Intellectual Context, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2006. American Historical Review, 112/3 (June 2007), 920-921.
Marjorie Keniston McIntosh. Working Women in English Society, 1300-1620. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. The Sixteenth Century Journal, 38/1 (Spring, 2007), 177-179.
Kay Reyerson, Jacques Coeur: Entrepreneur and King’s Bursar. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2005. H-France. http://h-france.net/vo15reviews/brunelle2.html May, 2005.
The Cambridge History of Western Textiles. 2 vols. David Jenkins, ed. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 2003. Forthcoming, The Sixteenth Century Journal.
The Consumption of Justice: emotions, publicity, and legal culture in Marseille, 1264-1423, Daniel Lord Smail, (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003), The Sixteenth Century Journal, 36/2 (Summer, 2005): 541-542.
Barbara Stephenson, The Power and Patronage of Marguerite de Navarre, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), The American Historical Review, 110/1(February, 2005): 229.
Global Connections and Monetary History, 1470-1800, Dennis O. Flynn, Arturo Giráldez, Richard von Glahn, editors, (Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2003), The Sixteenth Century Journal, 35/4 (Winter, 2004), 1126-1127.
James Pritchard._In Search of Empire: the French in the Americas, 1670-1730. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi + 484 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. H-Atlantic, August, 2004.
Pré-Histoires II: langues étrangères et troubles économiques au XVIe siècle, Terence Cave, (Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2001), The Sixteenth Century Journal, 35/1 (Spring, 2004): 224-225
David Buisseret. The Mapmakers’ Quest: Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Itinerario, 28/3(2004): 142-143.
Mary Ann Lyons, Franco-Irish Relations, 1500-1610: Politics, Migration and Trade. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Royal Historical Society and The Boydell Press, 2003. ix-242pp. Bibliography, glossary, and index. H-France, 2004, URL Http://www3.uakron.edu/hfrance/reviews/brunelle.html.
Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson and Will Kaufman, eds., New Perspectives in Transatlantic Studies, (Lanham, New York, Oxford: University Press of America, 2002), Itinerario, 28/2 (2004): 165-167.
Windler, Christian, La diplomatie comme expérience de L’autre: Consuls Francais au Maghreb (1700-1840), (Geneve: Librairie Droz, 2002), Itinerario, 27/1(2004), 101-104.
Chasing Empire across the Sea: Communications and the State in the French Atlantic, 1713-1763, Kenneth J. Banks, (Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002), http://H-Atlantic@h-net.msu.edu, December, 2003.
Decentring the Renaissance: Canada and Europe in Multidisciplinary Perspective, 1500-1700, Germaine Warkentin and Carolyn Podruchny, eds., (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001), The Sixteenth Century Journal, 35/1(Spring, 2004): 312-313.
The Shaping of Africa: cosmographic discourse and cartographic science in late medieval and early modern Europe, Francesc Relaño, (Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2002), Itinerario, 27/3-4(2003): 285.
Marco Polo and the discovery of the world, John Larner, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), The Sixteenth Century Journal, 33/2 (Summer, 2002): 612-613.
Other Pasts: Women, gender, and history in early modern Southeast Asia, Barbara Watson Andaya, ed. (Hololulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2000), Itinerario, 2001/3-4.
A History of Rape: Sexual Violence in France from the 16th to the 20th Century, Georges Vigarello. Trans. Jean Birrell. (Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 2001), The Historian, 2002.
Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World, John Larner. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), The Sixteenth Century Journal, 33/2(Summer, 2002): 612-613.
<<Messieurs des finances>>: Les grands officiers de finance dans la France de la Renaissance, Philippe Hamon, (Paris: Comité pour l’histoire économique et financière de la France, 1999), The American Historical Review, 107(February, 2002): 288-289.
Noble Power During the French Wars of Religion. The Guise Affinity and the Catholic Cause in Normandy, Stuart Carroll, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), The Canadian Journal of History, 34 (December, 1999): 439-440.
Luxury Trades and Consumerism in Ancien Régime Paris. Studies in the History of the Skilled Workforce, Robert Fox and Anthony Turner, ed. (Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain: Ashgate, 1998), The Sixteenth Century Journal, 30/4 (December, 1999): 1042-1043.
The Practice of Patriarchy, Julie Hardwick, (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998), The American Historical Review, 104/4 (October, 1999): 1385-1386.
Le notaire, la famille et la ville (Aix-en-Provence à la fin du XVIe siècle), Claire Dolan, (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 1998), The Sixteenth Century Journal, 30(Summer, 1999)2:604-605.
Urban Europe, 1500-1700, Alexander Cowan, (London: Arnold, 1998), The Sixteenth Century Journal, 30(Summer, 1999)2:491- 492.
Les Élites Urbaines au Moyen Âge, Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, ed. Société des Historiens Médiévistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur Public. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1997, The Sixteenth Century Journal, 30(Fall, 1998)3:917.
Colbert, Mercantilism and the French Quest for Asian Trade. Glenn J. Ames. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1996. French History, (1997):83-84
City on the Seine: Paris in the Time of Richelieu and Louis XIV, 1614-1715. Andrew Trout, New York. St. Martin's Press. 1996. The Sixteenth Century Journal, 28(1997)2:644.
A History of French Louisiana. Vol. 1, "The Reign of Louis XIV, 1698-1715". Marcel Giraud. Baton Rouge. Louisiana State University Press. 1990. Gulf Coast Historical Review, 8(1993)2:103-105.
The Mysterious History of Columbus: An Exploration of the Man, the Myth, the Legacy. New York. Alfred A. Knopf. 1991. History, 20(1992)4:176-177.
On the Threshold of Modernity: Relativism in the French Renaissance. Zachary Sayre Schiffman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. The Historian, 55(1992)1:139-140.
Indigenous Migration and Social Change. The Forasteros of Cuzco, 1520-1720. Ann W. Wightman. Durham: Duke University Press, 1990. The Sixteenth Century Journal, 22(1991)4: 866-867.
The Rise of Merchant Empires. Long Distance Trade in the Early Modern World, 1350-1750. James D. Tracy, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. The Sixteenth Century Journal. 22(1991)3:587-588.
Les Oeconomies Royales de Sully, v. II, "1595-1599", Bernard Barbiche and David Buisseret, eds. Paris: Société de l'Histoire de France, 1988. The Sixteenth Century Journal, 20(1989)3.
The Diario of Christopher Columbus' First Voyage to America, 1492-1493. Oliver Dunn and James E. Kelley, Jr., eds. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. History.
CONFERENCES
Conferences Organized
Chair, Steering Committee, California World History Association. I am organizing the
conference of the CWHA, to be held November 16-17 at California State University, Fullerton.
Conference on Scholarship on Women and Gender at California State University, Fullerton. I organized the conferences of 2002, 2004 and 2007.
Presentations
“Judaizing Jews in France and the Spanish Inquisition: the Reports of Juan Bautista de Villadiego and Diego de Cisneros on the Portuguese New Christians in France,” Academic Conference on Inquisition Studies (Inquisition and Empire), Springfield, Missouri, February 8-10, 2008.
“Fishwives and Fish merchants: The Role of Women in the Fish Trade in the Ports of Northern France,” American Historical Association, January 3-6, 2008.
“Religious Strife and National Unity: Remembering and Forgetting National Religious Conflict,” with Annette Finley-Croswhite, at the conference entitled “Transitional Politics. The quest for stability after war and revolution in modern European history,” to be held at Utrecht University, 6-9 December 2007. The papers from this conference will be published in an edited collection.
“Maritime Insurance and Commercial Law Practices in Early Modern France,” Western Society for French History, Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 7-9, 2007.
“’Jewish Jews’ and “Catholic Jews’: Confessionalization and Portuguese New Christians in Early Modern Rouen,” Renaissance Society of America, Miami, FL, March 22-25, 2007.
“The Spanish Inquisition Abroad: the Surveillance of Conversos in Early Modern France,” Renaissance Conference of Southern California, San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, March 3, 2007.
“From ‘Gentle Lamb’ to ‘Femme Fatale’: Gender, Ethnicity and the Murder of Laetitia Toureaux,” with Annette Finley Croswhite, at the Berkshire Conference of Women’s Historians, Claremont, CA, June 2-5, 2005.
“The Migration of an Institution: the Commercial Courts of Early Modern France,” 49th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Conference of Southern California, March 4-5, 2005, San Marino, California.
“Ambivalent Partners: French, Spanish, and Portuguese Merchants in Early Modern Rouen,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference,” October 28-31, 2004, Toronto, Canada.
“Planning for the Apocalypse: Arms Trafficking in 1930s France,” The Western Society for French History, Lubbock, Texas, September 30-October 3, 2004.
“From Consulado del Mar to Juridiction Consulaire: Spanish Migrants and the Development of Merchants’ Courts and Commercial Law in Early Modern France,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 30-November 1, 2003.
Migration and Religious Identity: The Portuguese of seventeenth-century Rouen,” American Historical Association, Chicago, January 2-5, 2003.
“The Negotiation of Rape in Early Modern France,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Antonio, Texas, October 24-27, 2002.
“Policies of Deceit: Insurance Fraud in Early Modern France,” at conference, “Shell Games: Scams, Frauds, Deceit (1300-1650), An International Conference at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, 29-29 April, 2001.
“Wives as Business Partners in Early Modern France,” Business History Conference Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida, April 20-22, 2001.
“The Price of Assimilation,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, November 2-4, 2000.
“Female Business Acumen in Early Modern France,” French History Conference, UCLA, April 22, 2000.
“Policing the Monopolizing Women of Nantes,” Society for French Historical Studies, Annual Meeting 2000, 30 March, April 1, Arizona State University.
“‘To Beggar Thy Neighbor or Not?’ Cooperation and Rivalry with the Merchants’ Tribunal of Rouen,” Conference on Institutional Culture, King’s College, London, July 8-10, 1999.
"Entrepreneurial Women in Early Modern France," Syposium, "Women and Money in the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds," sponsored by the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, March 20, 1998.
"Contractual Kin: Servants and Mistresses in Sixteenth-Century Nantes," American Historical Association, Seattle, January 8-11, 1998.
"Constructing Kinship in Early Modern Toulouse," Western Society for French History, 24th Annual Conference, October 30 - November 2, 1996, Charlotte, North Carolina.
"Kinship, Urban Alliances and the Meaning of 'Étranger' in Sixteenth-Century Toulouse," at the Conference on French History, held by the Society for the Study of French History, April 2-3, 1996, University of Sussex, Brighton, England.
"Policing the Unruly Women of Nantes, 1565-1580," at the Society for French Historical Studies, Annual Meeting, March 23-25, 1995, Atlanta, Georgia.
"The Boundaries of Community: Spanish and Portuguese Merchants in Rouen, 1580-1650," at Seventeenth Century Studies Today: A Conference in Honor of Professor Lloyd Moote, The Clark Library, Los Angeles, April 16-17, 1993.
"Les éstrangers naturalisés": Spanish Merchants in French Cities, 1480-1630," The American Historical Association, Meeting, December 28, 1991.
"The South American Connection: Legal and Semi-Legal French Trade with Spanish America," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Saint Louis, Missouri, October 26, 1990.
"Le programme colonial de Henri IV: Empire Building and Municipal Politics," Society for French Historical Studies, Columbus, Ohio, March 30-31, 1990
"Sixteenth Century Perceptions of the New World: Rouennais Commerce and a Renaissance Tableau," Western Society for French History, New Orleans, Oct. 18-21, 1989.
"Dispossession and Debt: The Use of Foreclosure for Debt in Bourgeois Acquisition of Urban and Rural Real Estate," Western Society for French History, UCLA, November, 1988.
"The Apprenticeship of the Rouennais Merchant Community." Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Saint Louis, Missouri, October, 1988.
"Notarial Documents: A Neglected Source in the Study of Elite Finances during the Religious Wars in France?" Western Society for French History, Baltimore, November, 1986.
Conference Participant
Comment, Panel, “From Daily Life to Factional Strife: The Internal dynamics of Three Early Modern French Cities,” Western Society for French History, 20th Annual Conference, Orcas Island, Washington, October 21-24, 1992.
Comment, Panel, “Constructing and Forgetting the Past in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries,” Society for French Historical Studies, 39th Annual Conference, Chico, California, March 18-20, 1993.
Comment, Panel, “Duels, Musical Riots, Political Protest in Prerevolutionary France,” Western Society for French History, 23rd Annual Conference, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, November 8-11, 1995.
Discussant, Academy Colloquium, "Reformation, Revolution and Civil War in France and the Netherlands," Amsterdam, 29-31 October, 1997.
Comment, Panel, “Economics, Politics, and Diplomacy in Early Modern Spain,” Conference of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese History, San Diego, California, April 15-18, 1999.
Comment, Panel, “Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Early Modern France,” Western Society for French History, Asilomar, California, 27th Annual Conference, 31 October- 3 November, 1999.
Comment, Panel, “Stranger Merchants and the Making of the Atlantic World,” Social Science History Association, 1999 Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, Texas, November 11-14, 1999.
Comment, Panel, “Money, Commerce, and Governance in Early Modern Europe,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Antonio, Texas, October 24-27, 2002.
Chair, Panel, “The Roles of Noble Women in Early Modern Marriage,” Annual Meeting, American Historical Association, Seattle, Washington, January 6-9, 2005.
Comment, Panel, “Cultural Contacts and Accommodations: French Encounters with Asia in the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (William Roosen Memorial Panel,” Western Society for French History, Long Beach, California, October 19-20, 2006.
Comment, Panel, “New Directions Medieval Economic History,” Part 2: “Revisiting Medieval Trade,” Annual Meeting, American Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, January 4-7, 2007.
Offices in Professional Organizations
Member, Council of the Western Society for French History, 1992-1995, 1998-2000
Member, Program Committee, Western Society for French History, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003.
Member, Local Arrangements Committee, Western Society for French History, 1999-2000.
Member, Koren Prize Committee, French History Society, 2002-2004
Chair, Steering Committee, California World History Association, 2006-2007.
MANUSCRIPT READER
“Family Business: the political economies of daily life in early modern France,” Julie Hardwick, reviewed for University of North Carolina Press
“Blood and Religion: The Conscience of Henry IV, 1553-1593,” Ronald Love, 1998, reviewed for McGill-Queen’s University Press.
“In the Eye of the Hurricane,” John McGrath, 1999, reviewed in 1998 and again in 1999 for University Press of Florida.
Textbook Consultant
I have worked closely editing, revising, and writing supplementary materials such as test banks, study questions, timelines, map captions and boxed supplementary sections for most of the major world history textbooks currently on the market, including Felipe Fernández Armesto, The World, Craig Lockard, Societies, Networks, and Transitions: A Global History, and Craig, et. al., The Heritage of World Civilizations (for which I authored sections on gender and art in world history), as well as for several textbooks under development at McGraw-Hill and Bedford-St. Martin and more specialized work for Longman.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Historical Association, 1984 - present.
Western Society for French History, 1986 - present.
French Historical Studies Association, 1988 - present.
Sixteenth Century Studies Association, 1988 - present.
Society for the History of the Discoveries, 1990 - present.
Coordinating Council for Women in History, 1992 - present
Western Association of Women Historians, 1992 - present
Society of Spanish and Portuguese History, 1996 - present
Social Science History Association, 1989-present
Business History Conference, 1998-present
World History Association, 1999-pre
TEACHING
Affirmative Action Grants
Affirmative Action Grant, Fall, 1990, 3 WTU (= one course released time) and $300.
Affirmative Action Grant, Spring, 1993, 3 WTU.
Affirmative Action Grant, Spring, 1995, 3 WTU.
Faculty Enhancement and Educational Development Award
FEID, Fall, 1991, To develop a senior research seminar on Europe in the Age of Expansion. 3 WTU
FEID, Spring, 1998 To develop an advanced course, primarily for teachers, on concepts and theories in world history. 3 WTU
FEID, Spring, 2001, to develop an advanced course on Atlantic World History for inclusion in an eventual World History concentration.
General Education Grant
Grant, 3 WTU for myself and two faculty collaborators, from the General Education Committee of the Academic Senate, in order to strengthen our introductory world history sequence. The goal of the project is to teach content and skills in an integrated way, to incorporate appropriate instructional technology, and to develop new connections between in-class and out-of-class learning. Fall semester, 1999.
Project QUE
I am a member of California State University, Fullerton’s team in Quality in Undergraduate Education, a project sponsored by the Education Trust and the National Association of System Heads in association with Georgia State University. On 22-24 September, 2000, we met in Atlanta, Georgia. QUE is a national project of faculty at selected four-year public institutions and their partner two-year colleges who are establishing draft, voluntary discipline-based standards in the undergraduate major.
Courses
History 110A, World History
Honors 210A, Honors World History
History 300A, Historical Thinking
History 300B, Historical Writing
History 302A (was 303A), Historical Dimensions of Liberal Studies
History 400A, Concepts in World History
History 409, European Urban History
History 410, The Rise of the Atlantic World
History 424T, Women in Early Modern Europe
History 425A, The Renaissance
History 425B, The Reformation
History 425C, “Society and Culture in Early Modern Europe”
History 490T, Europe in the Age of Expansion
History 499, Independent Study
History 504, Graduate Historical Research, "Immigration and Assimilation in History"
History 521T, Directed Readings in European History
History 522T, Research Seminar in European History
History 551T, Directed Readings in World History
History 552T, Research Seminar in World History
History 599, Graduate Independent Study
At the University of Minnesota during the 2005-2006 academic year I taught the second half of world history (1500-1918), an advanced course on women’s history, 1500-1945 (History 3615W), and a graduate course on European expansion in the early modern era (History 5962).
I am currently on the committees of eight M.A. students. I have directed several theses and am currently directing three others. Two of the students whose theses I directed have gone on to Ph.D. programs. One obtained a Fulbright, graduated from UCLA, and now teaches at a college in Pennsylvania. At UMN I taught a graduate research class on the topic of European expansion and one of the students, Matt Voss, wrote a paper under my direction that won an award from the Society for the History of Discoveries and was published recently in Terrae Incognitae.
Teaching Conferences and Other Activities
"Approaches to World History," with co-presenter Dr. Nancy Fitch, Conference on Teaching Undergraduate History, 28-29 February, 1992, Los Angeles, California.
"Western or World Civilization: Does it Make a Difference?". Guest speaker on a panel addressing this topic at the invitation of the Fullerton College History Department, Friday, May 29, 1992.
CSU-UC Humanities Teaching Coalition Meeting, April 29, 1995, at the University of California, Irvine. I am a founding member of the Coalition.
IMPAC Conference, November 15, 2003.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Director, CSU Fullerton Humanities Institute, 1992-present.
Member, Liberal Studies Program Committee, 1989-1993.
Participant, Faculty Mentor Program, 1989-1996.
Chair, History Department Library Research Committee, 1990-1991.
Chair, History Department Development Committee, 1991-1992.
Member, Graduate Sub-Committee of the Curriculum Committee, History Department, 1990-present.
Member, Academic Senate, 1995-1997 (2 year term)
Member, University Curriculum Committee, 1995-1997
Member, European Studies Program Council, 1995-present
Member, Ad-Hoc Performance Salary Step Increase Committee of the Academic Senate, 1995-1996
Member, History Department Recruitment Committee, 1997-1998
Chair, Ad-Hoc Calendar Committee of the Academic Senate, 1997-1998
Member, History Department Personnel Committee, 1997-1999 (Chair, 1998-1999)
Member, Curriculum Committee, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, 1997-2000
Member, History Chair’s Advisory Committee, 1997-present
Member, History Department World Civilization Board, 1998-present
Member, History Department Curriculum Committee, 1999-present
Member, Southeast Asia Subcommittee, Recruitment Committee, 1999-2000
Member, Recruitment Committee, Dean of School of Humanities and Social Sciences, 1999-2000
Member, Women’s History Month Committee, 2001-present
Chair, Medieval Subcommittee, Recruitment Committee, 2000-2001
Member, University Leaves Committee, 2002-2005
Member, President’s Resource and Budget Council, 2007
Member, University Athletic Compliance Committee, 2006-present
Chair, History Department Personnel Committee, 2006-2007
Chair, Early Modern Europe Sub-committee, Recruitment Committee, 2007-2008
Member, History Department Personnel Committee, 2007-2008
Member, History Department Curriculum Committee, 2007-2008
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Co-President, The Unitarian-Universalist Church in Fullerton, 2002-2004
Participant, Rebuilding Orange County Together, 2001, 2002
Delegate, Pacific Southwest District Conference, Unitarian Universalist Church, April, 2003.