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CURRICULUM VITAE

Degrees and Education

1989 Ph. D., History, University of California, San Diego. Advisors: Kathryn Norberg and David Ringrose. Dissertation title: Nuns and Fallen Women: Social Control and Autonomy in Ancien Régime Convents.

1985 Master of Arts and Candidate in Philosophy, Early Modern European History, University of California, San Diego.

Minor Fields: United States Social History, Thomas Dublin, advisor, 1984; Modern Europe, H. Stuart Hughes, advisor, 1983.

1952 Bachelor of Arts in Literature and History, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, New Jersey (cum laude).

Papers

1992 "Is it me? Is it not me? A seventeenth century case of demonic possession," Religious Studies Department (brown bag lunch talk), University of California, San Diego.

1990 "Sweet Agony: The Celebration of the Body in Nuns' Memorial Literature," Berkshire Conference, Rutgers University, June, 1990.

1988 "The Case of Elisabeth Vauthier: Public Control of Women's Private Lives in the Early Eighteenth Century," Western Society for French History, November, 1988.

Books:

Rin-Rin-Rin (in process)

Twentieth Century Dogs (in process)

Grants

1990 Camargo Foundation Fellowship (a three-months residency in Cassis, France).

1985 Dissertation Fellowship, University of California.

1984 Humanities Grant, University of California.

Languages: Departmental requirements in French and Spanish, some reading knowledge of Italian.

Research Travel

May, 1993, France, post-doctoral research.

September-December, 1990, France, post-doctoral research.

July, 1985-June, 1986, France, dissertation research.

Summer, 1984, France, preliminary dissertation research.

Related Work Experience

Fall, 1995-Spring, 2010, 1990-1994 Lecturer, California State University, San Marcos. Courses: Historical Methods and Writing, Seminar: Animal-Human Relations in History, Women in Modern Europe, From Medieval to Modern, Church and State in Medieval Europe, Revolutionary Europe, Society and Culture in Early Modern Europe, Critical Thinking.

Fall, 1994-Spring, 1995 Full-time lecturer at California State University, San Marcos. Courses: Revolutionary Europe, From Medieval to Modern, Industrializing Europe, Society and Culture in Modern Europe, Historical Methods and Writing, Society and Culture in Early Modern Europe, Women in Modern Europe.

Fall, !992, Spring, 1993 Lecturer, University of California, San Diego. Courses: Women in Europe (Medieval-Renaissance); Women in Europe (Early Modern, Nineteenth Century)

1991 Lecturer, University of California, San Diego. Course: Making of the Modern World (world history, 1450-1750).

1988-1989 Lecturer, San Diego State University, San Diego, California. Courses: Women in Modern Europe, Medieval and Renaissance Humanities.

1982-1988 Teaching Assistant, University of California, San Diego (Revelle Humanities, European History, Third College Writing).

Partial List of Publications

Adult Trade

When They Were Kids: A Book of Lists about Childhoods of Famous People (Random House, 1998)

Life's Big Instruction Book, coauthored with Carol Madigan, Warner Books, 1995.

Test Your 80s Cultural Literacy, coauthored with Carol Madigan, Arco, 1990.

Articles for People's Almanac (3 editions), Book of Lists (2 editions), Intimate Lives, and Significa by Irving Wallace et al, Doubleday and William Morrow, 1975-1981. (I was one of two principal writers who contributed to these books.) Also articles for David Wallechinsky’s The People's Almanac of the 20th Century and The People's Almanac Presents The Book of Lists (the 90s Edition)

Brainstorms and Thunderbolts: How Creative Genius Works, coauthored with Carol Orsag Madigan, Macmillan, 1983.

Juvenile Trade

The Macmillan Book of Fascinating Facts: An Almanac for Kids, coauthored with Carol Orsag Madigan, Macmillan, Spring, 1989.

Macmillan Illustrated Almanac for Kids, coauthored with Carol Orsag and Sidney Solomon, Macmillan, 1981.

Windows in Space (nonfiction, astronomy and space travel), coauthored with Linda Wood, Walker, 1982.

Walking Out (young adult novel), coauthored with John Raht, Grosset and Dunlap, 1979.

Television Education

Reader/Study Guide for Cosmos, coauthored with Linda Wood, for University of California, San Diego, Random House, 1980.

Viewer's Guide for Cosmos, coauthored with Linda Wood, for University of California, San Diego, Random House, 1980.

College and Adult Education

Energy and the Way We Live: Source Book, for University of California, San Diego, Courses by Newspaper, Boyd and Fraser, 1979.

Connections: Technology and Change: Source Book, for University of California, San Diego, Courses by Newspaper, Boyd and Fraser, 1979.

Definition, Comparison and Contrast, Classification and Analysis, and Descriptive Exposition, four audio-tutorial tapes and manuals for College English, Educulture, 1976 (now distributed by W. C. Brown).

The World of Drill Team, ghost written for Kay Crawford, Dennis-Landman, 1976.

Elementary and High School Education

Our American Minorities, junior high school social studies textbook for remedial students, Globe, 1978.

Four junior high school textbooks for remedial readers (original fiction and non-fiction): Weird and Mysterious (1978); Something True, Something Else (1975); Points of View, coauthored with John Raht (1975); Legends for Everyone (1973), Globe Book Company.

Various teacher's manuals (reading, language arts, and psychology), articles and short stories for educational publishers (Charles Merrill, Houghton Mifflin, American Book Company), 1970s.

Study guides for films distributed by NBC Educational Enterprises, BFA Films, and Media Guild.

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