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Daniel Louis Gordon Commonwealth Honors College University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst, MA 01003 (413) 577-3902, [email protected] Summary Ethics-oriented leader and distinguished scholar with a proven track record in mentoring faculty and staff; raising funds and managing budgets; piloting new and cutting-edge courses; founding and invigorating interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial programs; eliciting a sense of common purpose among constituents, including faculty, alumni, donors, students, staff, and the wider community. A nationally recognized authority on ideals of liberal education and champion in the mass media of public university honors colleges; a loyal supervisor and peer who seeks out and assertively listens to colleagues across the whole disciplinary and ideological spectrum; a self-critical yet resolute leader with a commitment to achieving dialogue and diversity. University Positions University of Massachusetts Amherst: Interim Dean of the Commonwealth Honors College (September , 2013-Present) Acting Dean of the Commonwealth Honors College (August 1, 2013-September 1, 2013) Associate Dean of the Commonwealth Honors College (September 1, 2009-August 1, 2013) Director of the Bachelor’s Degree with Individual Concentration (BDIC) (2008-2011) Professor of History (2003-present) Associate Professor (1997-2003) Assistant Professor (1995-1997) Collège de France, Visiting Professor (January, 2000) Stanford University, Visiting Associate Professor (1998-1999) Harvard University Assistant Professor of History and of History and Literature (1991-94) Stanford University Teaching and Research Postdoctoral Fellow (1989-91) Selected Leadership and Administrative Achievements Executive Leadership/Spokesperson:  As associate dean, 2009-2013, contributed to forward movement in the Commonwealth Honors College by taking on significant leadership and ceremonial roles during lengthy illness of the CHC dean (20092013), including oversight and evaluation of faculty, public speaking at recruiting events, reform of curriculum, supervision of student advisory board, presiding at selected alumni advisory board meetings, etc. All functions as associate dean were performed while this was officially a part-time position. An ability to perform multiple and demanding tasks is evident from simultaneous service in the history department, which included offering the only Integrative Experience courses in the department for three semesters.  As acting and interim dean, August 2013-present, helped facilitate successful unveiling/opening of $200 1

million new residential and learning space for 1,500 students; partnered effectively with Residential Life staff on numerous initiatives; articulated for the UMass Amherst community and the external media/press the residence as innovative living and learning community  As director of BDIC, 2008-2011, raised campus profile of the program; brought the Entrepreneurship Initiative into BDIC; enhanced revenue through fundraising, grants, and online courses; established the BDIC Student Advisory Board; elevated BDIC from number 20 to 10 in Graduating Senior Survey: Comparison of Departmental Averages (and for “Overall Experience” BDIC rose to number 6) Strategic Planning/Vision:  Worked closely with prior dean and unit directors to create strategic plan that guided CHC to September, 2013 Budget/Fiscal Decision-Making:  As interim dean, directly oversaw budget of over $4,000,000 including operating funds and gift funds; worked with departments to develop and fund new capstone courses; scaled up funding for Community Engaged Research Program; repaired relations with and provided to Community Engagement and Service Learning’s Citizens Scholars Program; committed funds to University Without Walls to assist with the piloting of a UWW honors track Resolution of Sensitive Situations and Conflicts  Supervised CHC lecturers whose teaching responsibilities were redefined by the dean; loyally implemented dean’s limitations on teaching by lecturers, while enhancing faculty voice in the new curriculum  Responded to hard-hitting questions about diversity and inclusion in the Residential Academic Community from newspaper and radio journalists, yielding positive publicity for the honors college and university as a whole  Successfully responded to student complaints passing through the ombuds office about allegedly excessive workload of 291A, “Ideas that Changed the World”  Responded effectively to one student complaint about alleged racism of other students in Honors 291A, leading to first professional workshop for honors instructors on unconscious social bias in the classroom (scheduled for spring, 2014)  Negotiated with the legal counsel of the UMass Foundation the resolution of questions emanating from faculty concerning fairness in awarding certain system-wide scholarships  Successfully defended the right of BDIC students to use creative language in concentration titles when challenged by faculty  Contributed to cohesion of new Languages, Literatures, and Cultures department, formed through administrative fiat, by successfully heading 2005 national search for departmental chair and building faculty morale in the process Faculty and Staff Development, Mentoring and Recruitment:  As associate dean created, in partnership with director of assessment and curricular development, an SRTI-based metric to evaluate the quality of honors teaching that was used to interpret student evaluation forms to incorporate into faculty annual reviews.  Conducted annual reviews of honors lecturers, reviewing all annual faculty reports, contributing to decisions regarding merit raises.  First dean or interim dean to comment on joint tenure track faculty’s annual faculty reports and to meet 2

individually with each of the joint faculty to discuss potential challenges in joint reporting system and future role of faculty in CHC curricular development  Mentored faculty, both CHC lecturers and departmentally based faculty, who were experiencing difficulties with their honors classes, measurably improving student evaluations and teaching performance.  As director of BDIC, successfully advocated for the two staff members to be promoted to improve recognition and equity—the first and only such staff reclassification in BDIC in 40 years of the program’s history. Fundraising/Revenue Creation:  As Director of the Bachelor’s Degree with Individual Concentration (BDIC), collaborated with marketing and engineering professors to receive for BDIC a multi-year grant from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance; dramatically increased annual fund giving; and created first revenue generating online courses--allowing BDIC to double or triple its operating fund each year and thus to revise its curriculum, hire new faculty, and create new student research and travel opportunities.  As interim dean of CHC, worked with Development to cultivate prospective major donors; assisted with closing of lead gift in the CHC capital campaign  As director of BDIC and interim dean, assisted other colleges with their fundraising efforts by helping cultivate donors and recognizing co-equal interests with respect to alumni with multiple connections to the university.  Worked with CHC’s director of assessment and curricular development and the assistant provost for summer programs to create a new summer program for high school students in 2014 Student Recruitment and Diversity:  As CHC associate and interim dean, actively engaged guidance counselors, parents, prospective students, including minority student groups, at numerous open houses and information sessions  As interim dean, launched a strategic planning process, in collaboration with Residence Life and Enrollment Management, to increase the number of under-represented minority students in CHC and also establish CHC leadership in sponsoring public dialogues on the conceptual and legal foundations of diversity  As part of the above process, piloted the fist use of unrestricted donations to enhance Community Scholarships targeted toward first generation college students (in process now, in collaboration with Enrollment Management and Office of Admissions)  As director of BDIC, maintained strong student enrollment, even as the university created new competitor programs based on BDIC concentrations, such as Public Health Sciences and Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science (two programs whose founders I assisted in the process of creating their new programs)  In 1999-2001, proposed (with professor Alexandrina Deschamps) to General Education Task Force the current General Education requirement in global diversity Curriculum Design and Innovation  Oversaw in 2009-2010 the design of 291A, “Ideas that Changed the World,” the required honors freshmen seminar and signature core course of CHC. Since the course was piloted in 2010, supervised the lecturers who teach it to over 700 honors freshmen per year. Course has consistently scored very 3

high in SRTI forms (4.2. for Overall Rating of the Course for 700 students) and contributed to distinctiveness of honors curriculum  With the CHC director of assessment and curricular development, worked closely for a year, 20122013, with leaders of the Writing Program to differentiate College Writing 112H from the non-honors version of the class—new version of course offered in fall 2013 contributes to distinctiveness of honors curriculum  Worked closely with CHC staff and University Without Walls leadership, 2011-present, to create first honors track in UWW  Oversaw (2009-present, with the executive director of CHC) the expansion of “Gateway” courses on leadership and professional development. Personally responsible for recruitment of instructors and development of new courses including "Professional Networking and Leadership" and “Psychology in the Workplace: An Introduction to Applied Concepts and Tools.” This series of courses also serves to bring alumni and local professionals as instructors into the CHC community  Piloted “Law in Action” program, 2012-2013, in collaboration with university’s prelaw advisor and by leveraging alumni network; the program connects honors students with practicing attorneys on real legal cases.  Laid foundations for a future “Great Works” program, piloting it, 2013-2014, with five students serving as a focus and advisory group  As Co-Director of the UMass Entrepreneurship Initiative (EI), 2009-2012, brought the program into BDIC and co-taught the program’s signature course, Intro to Entrepreneurship. The course scaled up from 25 to over125 students per semester. In 2012, helped transition key EI personnel and courses to the Entrepreneurship Institute in the Isenberg School of Management  Conceived of and co-organized the first-ever national conference for directors and advisors of individualized major programs like BDIC. The first conference was in 2009 and it continues to meet every year to discuss curricular innovation and share best practices.  As director of BDIC, persuaded the university’s sustainability coordinator to pursue a Five College certificate instead of a new UMass Amherst major in sustainability (to make the program available to all students). Attended first meetings at Five Colleges to get process started and withdrew once discussion launched (approval of the certificate is now pending).  As professor of history, designed the first graduate seminar required of all history grad students, regardless of specialization, contributing to cohesion of first-year graduate cohort  As professor of history, developed the department’s first Integrative Experience course. “Ideas that Changed History,” and offered it successfully as the department’s only IE course for three semesters in a row (while also serving as associate dean of CHC). Communication:  Worked closely with University Relations to handle TV, radio, and newspaper interviews, successfully yielding positive publicity for CHC and UMass Amherst  Dramatically raised the on-campus and national profile of BDIC through faculty and alumni newsletters, guest lectures sponsored by BDIC, and my own national and international speaking engagements  Co-authored or edited with the dean many of the print materials emanating from CHC for the general public or devised for the Campus Leadership Council 4

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Founded the BDIC student advisory board and deployed it to organize faculty recognition events and alumni speaker series. Established leadership voice in higher education through articles and lectures such as “The Confidence Factor in Liberal Education,” “Research for Whom? Changing Conceptions of Disciplinarity in American Higher Education,” “The Tension Between Teaching and Research: A History of the Debate Since 1900,” and “Three Competing Visions of Higher Education in the 1960s and 1970s.” Education

Yale Law School, M.S.L. (2003) University of Chicago, Ph.D. (1990) and M.A. (1984) in History. Dissertation: "The Idea of Sociability in Prerevolutionary France," supervised by Keith Baker, François Furet, Stephen Holmes. Honors:  Von Holtz Lecturer in the core curriculum (1988-89).  Olin Fellowship for dissertation writing (1987-88).  Georges Lurcy Grant for research in France (1986-87).  University Fellow in the Humanities (1983-86). Columbia University, B.A. (1983) in History. Honors:  Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa (1983).  Ellsberg Award for best history student (1983).  Carmen Award for service and academic achievement (1983).  London School of Economics, Junior Year Abroad (1981-82). Postdoctoral Awards and Fellowships ISHA: Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities and Fine Arts, UMass Amherst, fellow in 2004-05 and 2008-09 Visiting Educator, Whitman College, March 1996. Fellow of the Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France (January-May, 1995). Georges Lurcy Fellow for research in France (fall 1994). German Academic Exchange Service, "Learn German in Germany" Grant for Scholars (SeptemberDecember, 1994). Editorial and Prize-Committee Positions Coeditor of the journal Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques (2002-present) Member of the editorial board of Journal of the History of Ideas (1997-2007). Chair of the Gottschalk annual book prize committee, 2002-2003, American Society for EighteenthCentury Studies Publications 5

Scholarship covers three distinct subjects: -The history of higher education, and theories of liberal education (since serving as director of Bachelor’s Degree of Individual Concentration (2008-2011) and Associate Dean of the Commonwealth Honors College (2009-present). -The comparative study of political and legal ideas with an emphasis on current legal concepts (since taking the M.S.L. at Yale Law School in 2003). -French history with special reference to the eighteenth century (the primary focus of my work from the late 1980s to 2003). Books and edited volumes: In progress with Kenneth Fuchsman (UConn Storrs), Becoming Human in A Large University (book) Co-Editor (With Michael Kwass), Money in the Enlightenment, special volume of Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, Spring 2005, vol. 31, no. 1. Editor, The Death Penalty in History: Spectacles and Predicaments, special volume of Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, Summer, 2004, vol. 29, no. 2. Editor, Postmodernism and the Enlightenment: New Perspectives in Eighteenth-Century French Intellectual History (Routledge, 2001) Translator and editor, Voltaire, Candide (Bedford St. Martins, 1999—50,000 copies sold). Citizens Without Sovereignty: Equality and Sociability in FrenchThought, 1670-1789 (Princeton University Press, 1994). Sample Articles and Book Chapters: “Legitimation, Ambivalence, Condemnation: Three Competing Visions of Higher Education in the 1960s and 1970s,” to appear in A Conservative in Academe: The Life and Legacy of Robert Nisbet, ed. Peter Baehr (forthcoming Transaction Publishers, 2014). “From Secularism to Reciprocity: Banning the Veil in France and Beyond,” e-International Relations: The World’s Leading Website for Students of International Politics, 16 September, 2013 “Raynal and the Formation of a Colonial Public Sphere” (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, based on a keynote address given at Cambridge University conference, “Colonial Writing, Cultural Exchange, and Social Networks in the Age of Enlightenment,” July 1-3, 2010. “Research for Whom? Changing Conceptions of Disciplinarity in the American University,” to appear in Knowledge for Whom? ed. Christian Fleck and Andreas Hess (Ashgate, 2013). “From the Headscarf to the Burqa: The Role of Social Theorists in Shaping Laws on the Veil,” Economy and Society, vol. 42, no. 2, 2013, 249-280. “Unmasking and Disclosure as Sociological Practices: Contrasting Modes for Understanding Religious and Other Beliefs” (with Peter Baehr), Journal of Sociology, vol. 48, no. 4, 2013, 380-396. “The Voice of History Within Sociology: Robert Nisbet on Structure, Change, and Autonomy,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, vol. 38, no. 1, 43-63, 2012. “The Confidence Factor in Liberal Education,” Liberal Education, vol. 99, no. 5, 2012, 457-467. “On the Edge of Solidarity: The Burqa and Public Life” (with Peter Baehr), Society, vol. 49, no. 5, 6

2012, 457-467. "In Search of Limits: Raymond Aron on 'Secular Religion' and Communism.” Journal of Classical Sociology, vol 11, number 2, 2011, 139-154. “Why Is There No Headscarf Affair in the United States?” Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiqes,Volume 34, Number 3, Winter 2008 , pp. 37-60. “From Legal Process to Emergency Law: Herbert Wechsler and the Second World War,” co-authored with Malick Ghachem, Suffolk University Law Review, vol. 40, no. 2, 2007, pp. 333-381. “The Dematerialization Principle: Sociability, Money, and Music in the Eighteenth Century,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, Spring, 2005, vol. 31, no. 1, 71-92. “The Theater of Terror, or the Jacobin Execution in Comparative and Theoretical Perspective,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, Summer, 2003, vol. 29, no. 2, 251-273. "Citizenship,” “Sociability,” "Ernst Cassirer," “Peter Gay,” and “Postmodernism and Post-Structuralism,” in The Encyclopedia of Enlightenment, ed. Alan Kors(New York, Oxford University Press, 2003). “The Canonization of Norbert Elias in France: A Critical Perspective,” French Politics, Culture, and Society, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring, 2002 with a response from Roger Chartier and my reply to him, 68-94, 100. "Democracy and the Deferral of Justice in France and the U.S," Yale French Studies, special volume France/USA: The Cultural Wars, vol. 100,2001, 65-87. "The Glow of History,” Early Modern France, vol. 6, 2000, 61-65. "The Querelle Over Cultural History," Correspondence: An International Review of Culture and Society, Spring/Summer, 1999, p. 2. "Modernity and its Discontents: Some Critical Thoughts on Conceptual History," History of European Ideas,vol. 25, nos. 1-2, 1999, 23-30. "Introduction" and "Is the French Enlightenment Obsolete?" in Postmodernism and the French Enlightenment (see edited volumes above), 177-182, 365-385. "Sur le multiculturalisme," Le Débat, May-Aug. 1997, no. 95, 183-86. "In Memoriam: François Furet," French Politics and Society, Summer, 1997, 67-69. "Confrontations with the Plague in Eighteenth-Century France," in Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment, ed. Alessa Johns (Routledge, 1999), 3-30. "The City and the Plague in the Age of Enlightenment," Yale French Studies, no. 92, June, 1997, 67-87. "Militarism and Morality," Philosophy and Literature, vol. 22, no. 1, April, 1998, 186-92. This was part of forum I helped to organize: a set of responses to the “Aims of Education” speech given by John Mearsheimer, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, in 1997. "The Great Enlightenment Massacre," The Darnton Debate: Books and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Haydn T. Mason (Oxford, 1998), 129-156. "Beyond the Social History of Ideas: Morellet and the Enlightenment," in André Morellet in the Republic of Letters and the French Revolution, ed. Jeffrey Merrick and Dorothy Medlin (Peter Lang, 1995), 39-62. "Teaching Western History at Stanford," in Learning History in America: Schools, Cultures, and Politics, ed. Lloyd Kramer, Donald Reid, and William 7

L. Barney (University of Minnesota Press,1994). First published as "Inside the Stanford Mind," Perspectives of the American Historical Association, April, 1992. "Philosophy, Sociology, and Gender in the Enlightenment Conception of Public Opinion," French Historical Studies, vol. 17, no. 4, 1992, 882-912. "'Public Opinion' and the Civilizing Process in France: The Example of Morellet," EighteenthCentury Studies, special issue, The French Revolution in Culture, ed. Lynn Hunt, no. 3, 1989, 302-329. Review Essays in History and Theory The journal History and Theory publishes long review essays and “encourages scholars to range widely over a field, to integrate any sources they consider appropriate, and to extend the discussion as long as they consider appropriate.” These review essays are thus comparable to scholarly articles. “Is Tocqueville Defunct?” History and Theory, vol. 43, no. 2, 2004, pp. 209-225. "Capital Punishment for Murderous Theorists?" History and Theory, vol. 38, no. 3, 1999, pp. 378-388. "Bernard Groethuysen and the Human Conversation," History and Theory, vol. 36, no, 1997, 289-312. "History as an Art of Memory," History and Theory, vol. 34, no. 4, 1995, 340-355. "Ideologies and Mentalities," History and Theory, vol. 32, no. 2, 1993, pp. 196-213. Reprinted in Historiography: Critical Concepts in History, ed. Robert Burns (Routledge, 2006), vol. 2 of 4 vols., pp. 361-380. Short Book Reviews Over 25 for American Historical Review, Journal of Modern History, Social History, Philosophy and Literature, The Historian, The Catholic Historical Review, History of European Ideas, Eighteeenth-Century Studies, Philosophy and Literature, European History Quarterly, etc. Videos Commentator on “This Week in History: Marie and Louis,” a History Channel program, July 14, 2001. The nature of terrorism [video recording] : a panel discussion sponsored by University of Massachusetts Amherst Academic Affairs and the Faculty Senate : October 11, 2001 : Campus Center 168, University of Massachusetts Amherst / produced by Academic Instructional Media Services (AIMS). Educational Sources “Interpretations of the Western World,: a custom publishing project directed by Mark Kishlansky (Pearson Publishers). I was responsible for the period 1600-present. Released 2004. A Daily Dose of Knowledge: History—chief consultant, editor, contributor. West Side Publishing, 2008. Conferences and Lectures Conference Organized: 8

I proposed and eventually co-organized with Margaret Lamb (UConn Storrs) and Ray Hedin (University of Indiana Bloomington), the first national conference for directors and advisers in individualized major programs, “Individualized Major Programs: Best Practices and Besetting Challenges,” March 5-6, 2009, Indiana University Bloomington. The conference has continued to meet every year. One of three organizers (with Patrice Higonnet and Daniel Goldhagen) of an international conference, "Terror in Comparative Perspective," held at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, November 19-21, 1993. Conference Papers: “The Reign Of Results: Finding Harmony Between the Liberal Arts and Undergraduate Research,” National Collegiate Honors Council, Boston, November 16, 2012. (Panel shared with Alex Phillips.) Other Conference Papers: Over 40, including the American Historical Association (three times), French Historical Studies (three times), National Conference of the Association of American Universities and Colleges (twice), The Western Society for French History, The American Political Science Association, Individualized Major Programs Conference (four times); and others.

Invited Lectures and Presentations (Sample of): “Balancing Research and Teaching in the American University: A History of the Debate Since 1900,” Trinity University (San Antonio), November 20, 2013. “New Disciplines, New Indulgences.” One of two keynote speakers (the other being Andrew Abbot, editor in chief of the American Sociological Review) at conference of International Sociological Association entitled “Changing Universities: Changing Sociology,” Dublin, Ireland, June 27-30, 2012. “Robert Nisbet on Higher Education,” one of twelve contributions to small international conference in Hong Kong, “The Work and Legacy of Robert Nisbet,” May 7-8, 2012. “Tradition and Innovation in American Higher Education, 1945 to the Present,” Lingnan University, Hong Kong, March 9, 2011. Also gave small workshops on honors education and individualized major programs. February, 2006, UMass Law and Society Initiative, “The Cult of Democracy: Regulating the Islamic Veil in France, Turkey, Germany, and the U.S.” April, 2005, keynote speaker, Massachusetts Honors Students Conference, at UMass Boston, “The Headscarf Controversy” March, 2002, “The Debate Over The Religious Origins of Human Rights,” Humanities Research Center, North Carolina 9

January, 2001, Annenberg lecture in history at University of Pennsylvania, “The Young Norbert Elias: From Zionism to Sociology.” October, 1997, annual Freedman lecture in European history, Brandeis University, “The Plague and its Legacy in Modern French Literature and Philosophy.” Other invited talks given to Harvard Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, MIT History and Literature Workshop, History workshops at University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, etc. Teaching Innovation Course innovation has been a theme of my work across diverse programs: the history department, BDIC, the honors college, and the Entrepreneurship Initiative. * In the late 1990s I was the coordinator for “The University Through the University,” a course for students classified by the administration as likely to drop out in the absence of mentoring. * One of the first professors to develop an Integrative Experience course at UMass Amherst. * Designed with Bruce Laurie the historiography seminar for all first year history grad students when the department decided to create a common course experience for first years. * Oversaw the design of Honors 291A, Ideas that Changed the World. * I have also assisted numerous professors in creating innovative new courses and drawn alumni and area professionals into the teaching of 1-credit courses on leadership and professional development.

Selected Titles of Courses Taught “The University Through the University (UNIV 190F). Course designed for students without majors and designated by the university as likely to drop out of the university. Taught it fall 1997 and fall 1998. “Ideas that Changed History,” Integrative Experience course in history department “Ideas that Changed the World,” honors freshmen core seminar (I not only led the design process but taught the course in 2010) “Introduction to Multidisciplinary Research” (an honors course) Introduction to History” (with Bruce Laurie), core seminar for first year history grad students “Introduction to Entrepreneurship” (offered in BDIC, with Robert Hyers, Kwong Chan, Bob Lowry, and Paul Silva, until it morphed into ISOM course taught by Paul Silva and Bob Lowry alone) “Comparative Law” “U.S. Constitutional History since 1865” “Honors Western Thought to 1600” “Western Thought from 1600” “French Civilization from the Middle Ages to the Present” “Disasters in European History from 1700 to the Present” 10

“The Enlightenment and French Revolution” “European Political Thought, 1500-1800” “European Historiography from Antiquity to the Enlightenment” “European Historiography from the Enlightenment to the Present” “History and Literature in France and America, 1700 to the Present (with Claudine Frank, Harvard University)” “Foreign Perceptions of the U.S.” (with Bruce Laurie) Current Ph.D. Students Andrew Dausch, primary supervisor of his thesis on history of academic exchanges between France and Brazil, 1930-1970. Gary Garrison, primary supervisor of his thesis on history of legal conceptions of privacy, 1700-present. Selected Service Activities University Relations and Advancement Committee (2012-present) History Department Personnel Committee (2012-2013) Undergraduate Education Council (2011-2012). Co-Director of the Entrepreneurship Initiative (with Robert Hyers, associate professor Mechanicla nd Industrial Engineering), 2008-2011. Chair, Search Committee for Chair of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (2005-2006) Honors Coordinator in History Department (1998-2002, 2004-2006) Humanities representative to Honors College Curriculum Committee (1998-2002—the period when the honors college curriculum was crafted) General Education Council (1999-2001) Chair of History Department Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2000-2001). Faculty Advisor in Honors College (one of four university wide, 1997-2000) Referee of applications to Stanford Humanities Center and Social Science Research Council. Frequent reviewer of manuscripts for several university presses. Tenure reviews for NYU, William and Mary, University of Virginia, and elsewhere. Languages French and German (advanced). Russian (had 5 years but not active now). Elementary Latin and Hebrew.

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