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Professor: Early Modern Europe; Spain; History of Religion
Atrium 213 - 973/720-3049
 
Education
Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University, 1983.
 
Selected Bibliography
Mad for God: Bartolomé Sánchez, the Secret Messiah of Cardenete (University Press of Virginia, 2001).
 
God in La Mancha: Religious Reform and the People of Cuenca, 1500-1650 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Electronic edition, LIBRO, 2001).
 
"El Encubierto Revisited: Navigating between Visions of Heaven and Hell on Earth," in Kay Edwards, editor, Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits (Truman State University Press, 2002).
 
"Spanish Religion in the Age of Velázquez," in Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt, editor, The Cambridge Companion Volume to Velázquez (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
 
"Printing and Reading Popular Religious Texts in Sixteenth-Century Spain," in Thomas Lewis and Francisco J. Sánchez, editors, Culture and the State in Spain, 1550-1850 (New York: Garland Press, 1999).
 
Fellowships and Awards
NEH Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, 1995-96.
 
Roland Bainton Book Prize, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, for best book on any aspect of the period 1400-1650 published in the preceding year, 1993.
 
New Jersey Governor's Fellowship in the Humanities, 1989-90.
 
Harold J. Grimm Prize, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, for best article published in the preceding year which reflects a broad understanding of the Reformation, 1988.
 
Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Scholarship to Spain, 1978-79.
 
Research in Progress
Family Identity in Early Modern Spain.
 
Courses Offered
HIST 101 The Foundations of Western Civilization
HIST260 Historical Methods
HIST307 Imperial Spain
HIST309 Italy during the Renaissance
HIST312 Age of the Reformation
HIST313 Age of Discovery and Conquest
HIST444 Social History of Religion in Early Modern Europe
HIST480 Searching for the Millennium
HIST538 Seminar on Empire (focus on the early modern world).
HIST599 Teaching the Western Civilization Survey
HIST616 Seminar on Early Modern Europe