SARA TILGHMAN NALLE
CURRICULUM VITAE
(January, 2000)
Work:
Department of History
The William Paterson University of New Jersey
Wayne, NJ 07470
e-mail: nalles@wpunj.edu
(973 720-3049)
Home:
689 Ft. Washington Ave., 3-N
 New York, NY 10040
(212) 928-0516

 
EDUCATION
 
Ph.D.: The Johns Hopkins University. Jan., 1983.
M.A.: The Johns Hopkins University. May, 1978.
A.B.: Bryn Mawr College (cum laude). May, 1975.
(majors in History and Spanish.)
 
Graduate Fields:
Early Modern Spain.
Early Modern France.
Spanish Golden Age Religious Literature.
Medieval France.
Quantitative Methods for Historians.
 
Dissertation: "Religion and Reform in a Spanish Diocese: Cuenca, 1545-1650."
 
Foreign Languages: Spanish (fluent spoken and written); reading knowledge of French, Italian, Portuguese, and Latin.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
  • Current position: associate professor of history, William Paterson University (since 1991; Asst. Professor, 1986-1991)
  • Visiting Associate Professor, University of Virginia, 1997-98. Duties: undergraduate teaching (one course per semester), graduate advising, running a faculty-graduate student colloquium "Experimenting with Historical Narrative;" public lecture series in the Spring.
  • Member, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton, NJ, 1995-96.
  • Lecturer, Aston Magna Academy (NEH Summer Seminar), Rutgers Univ., June 18-July 8, 1995.
  • Visiting Associate Professor, Institute for Shipboard Education, University of Pittsburgh, Fall, 1992.
  • Assistant Professor, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, 1984-86.
  • Post-doctoral Teaching Fellow, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 1982-84.
  • Assistant Professor, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, 1981-82.
  • Teaching Assistant, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1980-81; 1977-78.

 

HONORS 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
  • Sabbatical leave, William Paterson College. 1992-93
  • 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.
  • Career development, travel, and/or assigned research time grants from William Paterson College. Every semester while not on leave.
  • Post-doctoral research grant, Treaty for Friendship, Defense, and Cooperation between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain. Jan-July, 1985; July, 1986.
  • Graduate fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University. 1979-80.
  • Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Scholarship to Spain. 1978-79.
  • Finalist, Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship (for high school teaching). 1975.

 

PUBLICATIONS

  • Under consideration: "Self Correction and Social Change in the Spanish Counter Reformation" in a proposed volume with Cambridge University Press, State Religion and Folk Belief in the Early Modern Period, ed. James D. Tracy.

  • Mad for God: Bartolomé Sánchez, the Secret Messiah of Cardenete. A book dealing with the connections between religious radicalism, rebellion, and perceptions of sanity in sixteenth-century Spain. University Press of Virginia, Jan., 2001.

  • "Printing and Reading Popular Religious Texts in Sixteenth-Century Spain," in Culture and the State in Spain, 1550-1850, ed. by Thomas Lewis and Francisco J. Sánchez. Hispanic Issues, Vol. 20 (New York: Garland Press, 1999): 126-156.

  • "Between Hope and the Devil: The Treatment of False Messiahs in the Iberian World." Actas de Primer Congreso Internacional "Hacia un nuevo humanismo" (Cordova, Sept. 8-12, 1997).

  • "The Millennial Moment: Revolution and Radical Religion in Sixteenth-Century Spain", in Mark Cohen and Peter Schäfer, eds., Toward the Millennium (Leiden: Brill Press, 1998): 153-173.

  • "Moya busca nuevo señor: aspectos de la rebelión comunera en el Marquesado de Moya" in Moya: estudios y textos, Diputación Provincial de Cuenca (1996), pp. 35-44.

  • "Bones and Crosses: Recent Trends in Early Modern Spanish Historiography." Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Winter, 1994.

  • God in La Mancha: Religious Reform and the People of Cuenca, 1500-1650. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

  • "A Saint for All Seasons," in Culture and Control in Counter-Reformation Spain, ed. by M. Perry and A. Cruz, Hispanic Issues Series. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991: 25-50.

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    • "Literacy and Culture in Early Modern Castile," Past and Present, No. 125 (November, 1989):    65-96.

  • "Inquisitors, Priests and the People during the Catholic Reformation in Spain," The Sixteenth Century Journal, 18 (1987): 557-587.

  • "Popular Religion in Cuenca on the Eve of the Catholic Reformation," in Inquisition and Society in Early Modern Europe, ed. by Stephen Haliczer (London: Croom-Helm, 1987; Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble, 1987), pp. 67-87.

  • "Desde el olvido a la fama: el culto a San Julin en los siglos XVI y XVII," Almud, Revista de Estudios Manchegos, 1 (1981): 25-41.

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    Book reviews:

    (Forthcoming).Poska, Allyson M. Regulating the People: the Catholic Reformation in seventeenth-century Spain. Leiden: Brill. 1998. For The Catholic American Historical Review.

    (Forthcoming) Parker, Geoffrey. The Grand Strategy of Philip II. New Haven: Yale Univesity Press, 1998. For the Journal of Modern History.

    (Forthcoming) Faith and Fanaticism: Religious Fervour in Early Modern Spain. Ed. by Lesley K. Twomey, assisted by Robert Hooworth-Smith and Michael Truman. Translator: Michael Truman. Aldershot, UK, 1997. For the Religious Studies Review.

    Nieto, José C. El Renacimiento y la otra España. Visión cultural socioespiritual (Geneva, 1997). Sixteenth Century Journal 30 (1999).

    Haliczer, Stephen. Sexuality in the Confessional. A Sacrament Profaned. (Oxford U.P., 1996). Religious Studies Review 23 (1997): 418.

    B. Yun Casalilla and I.A.A. Thompson, eds. The Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge, 1995). SSPHS Bulletin, winter, 1996.

    Teofilo F. Ruiz. Crisis and Continuity: Land and Town in Late Medieval Castile (Philadelphia, 1994). Hispanic American Historical Review. 75 (1995): 461-2.

    Henry Kamen. The Phoenix and the Flame. Catalonia and the Counter Reformation (New Haven, 1993). Journal of Modern History 67 (1995): 199-201.

    M. del Carmen Alvárez Márquez. El mundo del libro en la iglesia catedral de Sevilla en el siglo XVI (Seville, 1992). Libraries and Culture 29 (1994): 335-337.

    Alistair Hamilton. Heresy and Mysticism in Spain: The Alumbrados (Toronto, 1992). American Historical Review, Feb. (1994): 252-253.

    William A. Christian, Jr. Moving Crucifixes in Modern Spain (Princeton, 1992). Journal of Modern History, Fall, 1994.

    Timothy Mitchell. Passional Culture: Emotion, Religion, and Society in Southern Spain (Philadelphia, 1990). History of European Ideas, 17 (1993): 364-65.

    Maureen Flynn, Sacred Charity. Confraternities and Social Welfare in Spain, 1400-1700 (Ithaca, 1989). The Renaissance Quarterly, (1990): 844-45.

    Marvin Lunenfeld, Keepers of the City. The "Corregidores" of Isabella I of Castile (1474-1504) (Cambridge, 1987). The Renaissance Quarterly, (1989): 304-305.

    Edward Peters, Inquisition (New York, 1988). The Religious Studies Review, 15 (1989): 357.

    A. Redondo, ed., Amours legitimes, amours illegitimes en Espagne (XVIe-XVIIe siècles) (Paris, 1985) . Journal of Modern History, 61 (1989): 405-406.

    J.F. Schwaller, The Origins of Church Wealth in Mexico. Ecclesiastical Revenues and Church Finances, 1523-1600. (Albuquerque, 1985). The Sixteenth Century Journal, 19 (Fall, 1988): 517.

    Henry Kamen, Inquisition and Society in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Spain (Bloomington, 1985). History of European Ideas, (Spring, 1987): 246-8.

    A. Redondo, ed., Les problèmes de l'exclusion en Espagne (XVIe-XVIIe siècles) (Paris, 1983). Journal of Modern History, 58 (1986): 746-748.

     

    OTHER SCHOLARLY SERVICE

    Co-editor of the Bulletin of the Society of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (1995-1999).

    Occasional manuscript reviewer for several university presses and scholarly journals.

    Associate editor in charge of the Iberian World and beyond, Encyclopedia of the Renaissance ( Scribner’s and Sons, 1999). Principal duties: drawing up list of entries, scope descriptions, assigning contributors, and approving final texts for Spanish and Portuguese history and literature during the Renaissance, plus entries for the non-European world as appropriate.

    Grants evaluator for the ACLS (1998)

     

    CURRENT RESEARCH

    An article on Spanish religious life in the seventeenth century, for the Cambridge Companion Volume to Velázquez.

    An article on a Spanish millennial leader known as El Encubierto (1522) and the contemporary reporting on his revolt.

     

    CONFERENCES AND INVITED TALKS

    Papers:

    Panel presentation on the state of the Spanish church on the Eve of the Reformation. American Historical Association, Chicago, Jan. 7, 2000.

    Panel presentation, "Spain" in panel on "Catholicism in Comparative Perspective: Three Views", Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Oct. 29, 1999.

    "El Encubierto Revisited." Annual Meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, San Diego, April 16, 1999.

    Invited speaker, "The Spanish Inquisition: Old Bottles and New" Legacies of Empire Series, Atlantic Studies Program, The Johns Hopkins University, Nov. 13, 1998.

    Keynote speaker, Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Studies Association, Big Sky, Montana, June3-6, 1998.

    Invited speaker, conference called "State Religion and Folk Belief in the Early Modern World", Minneapolis, May 1-3, 1998.

    Keynote speaker, Mid-Atlantic Renaissance-Reformation Society, March 20, 1998 Charlottesville, Va.

    Invited speaker, "Between Hope and the Devil: The Treatment of False Messiahs in the Iberian World." Primer Congreso Internacional "Hacia un nuevo humanismo" (Cordova, Sept. 8-12, 1997).

    Spring, 1996. Several talks on current research in Princeton and Tempe, AZ.

    "Vision, Authority, and Religious Texts in Rural Castile ca. 1550." Dept. of Romance Languages, Princeton University, Dec. 5, 1995. Revised version delivered at the symposium on "Intercultural Communication and Communities in Iberian Imperialism", Ball State University, Muncie, In., April 13, 1996.

    Public Lecture, "Golden Age Spain: Myths and Realties", for series of lectures and concerts, "Spain and Its New World Empire" in Milwaukee, WI, March 19, 1996.

    "Millennial Inspiration and Iberian Revolution, 1519-1522." Institute for Advanced Study, Nov. 9, 1995.

    "Popular Messianism in Sixteenth-Century Spain." Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Toronto, April 20-23, 1995.

    "Sixteenth-Century Spanish Books of Hours and Popular Religious Knowledge." Society for Textual Scholarship Conference, New York, NY, April 7, 1995.

    "Moya Wants a New Lord: Aspects of the Comunero Revolt in the Marquesado de Moya." Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Chicago, April 7-10, 1994.

    Invited Speaker, "Insanity and Heresy in Early Modern Castile." College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, Nov. 13, 1993.

    Invited Speaker, "To Sin in Thought and Deed: Ideas and Society in Counter Reformation Spain." Univ. Menéndez Pelayo Seminario de Historia Moderna, under the directorship of Dr. John H. Elliott, Soria, Spain, July 20-24, 1992.

    "Insanity, and the Insanity Plea in the Spanish Inquisition." Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, San Juan, P.R., April 23-26, 1992.

    "A Cultural Reconstruction of Printing in Small-Town Castile: Cuenca, 1483-1676." Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Philadelphia, Oct. 17, 1991.

    "The Cost of Salvation in an Age of Decline." Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Millersville, Pa, April, 1991.

    "'Morsels of Gold': Popular Religious Publishing in Early Modern Castile," American Catholic Historical Association-AHA, New York, December, 1990.

    "Primers and Prayers in Sixteenth-Century Castile," Social Science History Association, Minneapolis, October, 1990.

    Invited Speaker, "The End of Diversity," Quincentenary of the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, Trinity College, Hartford, Ct, March, 1990.

    "The Castilian Catholic Reformation," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Tempe, Az, October, 1987.

    "Parish Priest or Inquisition Comisario: Conflicting Networks for the Spanish Counter Reformation" at "The Inquisition as Court and Bureaucracy: An International Symposium," Chicago and Dekalb, October, 1985.

    "Absolutism and Absolution: the Role of the Royal Confessor in the Habsburg Monarchy" at the Simposio Hispano-Luso-Norteamericano de Historia, Madrid, June, 1985.

    "La lectura popular en el siglo XVI," public address sponsored by the Asociación Cultural Hispano-Norteamericano, Madrid, May, 1985.

    "What People Read: Sixteenth-Century Bookreadership in La Mancha," Simposio sobre la Literatura Medieval, Wellesley College, April, 1984.

    "The Unknown Reader: Women and Literacy in Golden Age Spain," Fifth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Vassar College, June, 1981.

    "Saint-Making and Saint-Cults: Cuenca and the Case of San Julián," Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, New York, April, 1980.

     

    Conference Panels:

    Commentator, "National Identity before Nationalism: the Formation of Early Modern Spanish National Identity" at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Seattle, WA, Jan. 9, 1998.

    Chair and comment, "Educating Aristocrats, Royals and Rogues: Ideals and Practices of Medieval and Early Modern Education" Annual Meeting of the SSPHS, Minneapolis, MN, April, 1997.

    Chair and comment, "Absolute Aspiration and Rhetorics of Resistance" at the Annual Meeting of the SSPHS, Tucson, AZ, April 28, 1996.

    Chair, "Religion, 'Race,' and Rhetoric in Pre-Modern Spain," American Historican Association, Atlanta, Jan. 6, 1996.

    Chair and Comment, "Miracles and Politics in Early Modern Europe." The Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, Dec. 9-12, 1993.

    Commentator, "Work and Literacy: The Social Reconstruction of Skill and Learning." Social Science History Association, Baltimore, Nov. 4-7, 1993.

    Chair and Comment, "Politics, Piety and Charades in Early Modern Spain," Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, St. Louis, April, 1989.

    Chair and Comment, "The Mirror and the Myth: (De)constructing Literary and Historical Images of Women in Early Modern Spain," Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Nasville, TN, April, 1988.

    Comment, Panel on Economy and Society in Habsburg Spain, 98th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Francisco, December, 1983.

    DEPARTMENTAL AND COLLEGE SERVICE (William Paterson University only)

    1999-00 University Middle States Accreditation, Subcommittee on Faculty. Director, History Graduate Program. Dept. Executive Council.

    1998-99 University G.E. Assessment Committee; University Sabbatical Committee (Chair); University Visiting Distinguished Professor Search Committee; School of Humanities, Management, and Social Sciences Curriculum Committee; Dep’t. Executive Council; Dep’t. G.E. Committee.

    1996-97 College Academic Standards Committee; School of Humanities, Management, and Social Sciences Curriculum Committee (chair); Dep't. Executive Council; Dept. G.E. Committee; co-drafted plan for Master's program in History and worked on its implementation..

    1994-5. Search Committee, Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs; College-wide GE reform committee; Dep't. Executive Council.

    1993-4. Dep't. Executive Council; Promotions Committee; Western Civ. Comm.

    1991-2. Dep't. Executive Council; Western Civ. Committee (chair); Member, search committee for WPC Distinguished Hispanic Scholar.

    1990-91. Dep't. Curriculum Committee; Western Civ. Committee.; College Research Awards Committee.

    1988-89. Dep't. Curriculum Committee (Chair).

    1987-88. School of Humanities General Education Committee; All-College Academic Computing Committee; Dep't. Curriculum Committee.

     

    COURSES TAUGHT

    Surveys: Western Civilization (all configurations)• Early Modern Europe, 1500-1789.• Modern Europe, 1789 to Present.• Ancient Mediterranean World.• Making of Modern Spain.

    Advanced: Italy during the Renaissance.• Age of the Reformation.• Nature of Historical Inquiry.• Age of Discovery and Conquest.• Imperial Spain.• Society and Culture in Early Modern Spain.• Social History of Religion in Early Modern Europe.• Searching for the Millennium.

    Graduate: Seminar on Early Modern Empires. • Teaching Western Civilization.• Directed reading, Spain, 1700-1820 (at UVa)

     

    PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND SERVICE

    • Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. Since 1980. Co-Chair, 2000 Program Committee Co-editor of the SSPHS Bulletin (1995-99.) Membership Secretary, 1989-1995; Nominating Committee, 1985-88; Chair, 1990 Program Committee.

    • American Historical Association. Since 1981. Nominating Committee (1999-2001).

    • International Institute Foundation in Spain. Since 1983.

    • Sixteenth Century Studies Association. Since 1987.

    • Historians of Early Modern Women. Since 1995.

    • Society for Reformation Research. Since 1997. Nominating Committee (1997-99).