Ph. D., Department of History, University of Chicago (6/1993)

Doctoral research, Institut für europäische Geschichte, Germany (1/1991-8/1992)

Doctoral research, Universität Bielefeld, Germany (10/1987-3/1988)

"The Moderate Liberalism of Ernst Troeltsch (1865-1923): A Reconsideration of the Crisis of German Liberalism." Dissertation Director: Michael Geyer.

M.A., Department of History, University of Chicago (6/1984)

"The Critique of Religion in Marx and Nietzsche."

B.A., Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles (3/1983)

*Research fellowship from Max Planck Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen (July & August, 1999)

*Fulbright Fellowship, Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt-Oder / Max Planck Institut für Geschichte,     Göttingen, Germany (Fall, 1998 and May & June, 1999)

*DAAD faculty seminar fellowship, Potsdam, Germany (July, 1998)

*DAAD post-doctoral research fellowship, Universität Tübingen, Germany (Summer, 1995).

*Summer research grant, Hope College, Michigan (Summer, 1994).

*Knight Foundation Grant, Hope College, Michigan (Summer, 1993).

*Dissertation fellowship from the Institut für europäische Geschichte, Mainz, Germany (1/1991-8/1992).

*Progetto Federico II, International Workshop, Trani, Italy (9/1991).

*Award from the German Historical Institute and the Stiftung Volkswagenwerk, Germany (summer 1990).

*Award from the Atlantic Council of the United States for a study-tour of N.A.T.O. (and other European        countries), 10/1989.

*DAAD fellowships:

Summer 1987, Universität Regensburg, Germany.

Summer 1986, Universität Mannheim, Germany.

Summer 1984, University of California, Berkeley.

*Graduate Fellowships, University of Chicago, 1985-1988.

Assistant Professor of History, History Department, William Paterson University: Modern European and German History, 1995-Present.

Assistant Professor of History, History Department, Hope College: Modern European & German History, 1992-1995.

Teaching Intern, Department of History, University of Chicago: Introduction to Western Civilization, 1988-1989.

Course Offerings: History of Modern Germany; Germany from Luther to Bismarck; Germany from Bismarck to Hitler; Hitler and Nazi Germany; The Holocaust; Modern Intellectual & Cultural History; Nineteenth-Century Cultural and Intellectual History; Twentieth-Century Europe; Marx, Nietzsche and Freud; Women in Modern Europe; Introduction to Modern Europe.

Modern European and German History; The Idea of Europeanism; German Liberalism; Ernst Troeltsch; German Politics of Civilizations; Modern German Women; The Image of Asia in modern.

"The German Debate over Civilization: Troeltsch’s Europeanism and Jaspers’s Cosmopolitanism" (forthcoming, 2000, Journal of European Ideas).

"A Cosmopolitan Faith in Karl Jaspers: From Exclusion to Inclusion" (forthcoming, 2000, Journal of Ecumenical Studies).

"Historicism and Civilizational Discontinuity in Spengler and Troeltsch" (Zeitschrift fuer Religions- und Geistesgeschichte/ Journal of Religious and Intellectual History, Vol 51, No. 3, pp. 238-262,1999).

"A New Frontier in German Universal History: Continuity and Mutuality in Karl Jaspers" (Jahrbuch für der Österreichischen Karl-Jaspers-Gesellschaft/ Yearbook of the Austrian Karl-Jaspers Society, Vol. 12, pp. 59-81, 1999)

"The Idea of Compromise in Ernst Troeltsch (1865-1923): Modernism and Ambivalence" (The European Legacy, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 65-85, 1998).

"The Crisis of Historicism and Troeltsch's Europeanism" (History of European Ideas, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 195-207, 1995)

"The Politics of Civilizations from World War I to the Post-Cold War; Spengler, Huntington, and Civilizational Grafting," in Memory, History and Critique: European Identity at the Millennium. Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (CD Rom version, 1996).

"The Nation-states, Europeanism and Universalism," Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (The European Legacy, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1996)

Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Liberalism by John O. McCormick, German Studies Review (forthcoming).

Death of the Guilds: Professions, States, and the Advance of Capitalism, 1930 to the Present by Elliot A. Krause, History of Education Quarterly (Vol. 38, No. 1, Spring 1988, pp. 103-104).

"The Question of Integration in Multicultural Germany." German Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 10/1999.

"Troeltsch’s Europeanism versus Jaspers’s Cosmopolitanism." The Karl Jaspers Society of North America in conjunction with the APA-Pacific Division Meeting, Berkeley, California, 3/1999.

"The Politics of Civilizations in 20^th-Century Germany: The Case of Troeltsch and Jaspers." Faculty Lecture Series, Department of History, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ, 12/1998.

"Universal History in Karl Jaspers: Between Historicla Narration and Ahistorical Critique." Presented at the Sxith Conference of the ISSEI, Haifa, Israel, August 1998.

"Troeltsch's Idea of Europeanism: From German Sonderweg to European Sonderweg." Presented at the German Studies Association Conference, Washington D.C., September 1997.

"Models of Intercultural Relationship in Post-WW I Germany." Presented at the Sixth International Conference of the World Historical Association, Pamplona, Spain, June 1997.

"The Politics of Civilizations from WW I to the Present: Spengler, Huntington, and Civilization Grafting." Presented at the Fifth Conference of the ISSEI, Utrecht, the Netherlands, August 1996.

"The Idea of Europeanism in Spengler and Troeltsch." Presented at the International Institute of Sociology, Triest, Italy, July 1995.

"Is the West Declining? Ernst Troeltsch's Critique of Oswald Spengler in Post-WWI Germany." Presented at Arts and Humanities Colloquium Series, Hope College, November 1994.

"The Idea of Europeanism in Ernst Troeltsch: A Problematic Compromise." Presented at the Ernst Troeltsch Congress, Augsburg, Germany, September 1994.

"The Nation-states, Europeanism, and Universalism." Presented at the Fourth Conference of the ISSEI, Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz, Austria, August 1994.

"Troeltsch's Idea of Europeanism: Political and Historicist Aspects." Presented at the annual conference of the Society of Michigan Arts and Science, Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan, April 1994.

"Moderate Liberalism of Ernst Troeltsch." Presented at the Institut für europäische Geschichte, Mainz, Germany, June 1991.

"Ernst Troeltsch als Modernist." Presented at the Kollquium zur Historik, Geschichtsdidaktik und allegemeinen Geschichte: Historiographie-Theorie, Praxis, Geschichte, Universität Bielefeld, Germany, February 1991.

"A Liberal in Despair: The Social and the Individual in the Sociology of Ernst Troeltsch." Presented at the Writing and Reading Workshop on Modern European History at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, May 1990.

"Troeltsch's Response to Toennies: The Healthy Interaction Between Science and Religion." Presented at the ILS Conference, sponsored by Kentucky State University, Frankfort, Kentucky, April 1990.

"Historicism and Its Overcoming: Ernst Troeltsch as a Counterrelativist." Presented at the Great Lakes History Conference, sponsored by Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan, April 1990.

"The End of Liberal Theology: The Historical Approach to Religion in the Theology of Ernst Troeltsch." Presented at the Writing and Reading Workshop on Modern European History at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, November 1989.

Organizer of the Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference (New Jersey, New York City, Eastern Pennsylvania), April 1998.

Holocaust Awareness Committee, William Paterson University, 1996-Present.

Faculty Advisor to Freshmen, Hope College, 1993-95.

AP Reader in European History, June 1994.