PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Renaissance Society of America:
1997-2002: Editor, Renaissance Quarterly
1987-1995: Executive Director
1984-1988: Editor, Renaissance Quarterly
1976-1984: Executive Board, Membership Chair
Other:
2004 -
Editorial Board, Renaissance et Réforme/Renaissance Reformation
(University of Toronto).
2004
NEH Summer Institute for Secondary Teachers on the "The Worlds of the
Renaissance," July 6-8, leader of 3-day unit on "Renaissance Society."
2003- Member, Board of Governors, The Historical Society
2001 Member, Selection Committee for the Kagan Prize,
The Historical Society
1998-2000: Member, Selection Committee for the Joan Kelly Prize,
American Historical Association
2000: NEH Summer Institute for Secondary Teachers on the
"The Worlds of the Renaissance," July 3-5, leader of 3-day unit on
"Renaissance Society."
1998: NEH Summer Institute for Secondary Teachers on the
"The Worlds of the Renaissance," July 6-8, leader of 3-day unit on
"Renaissance Society."
1996-1999: Editorial Board, Encyclopedia of the Renaissance
(New York: Charles Scribner's, 2000)
1996-1998: Member, Planning Committee, Brooklyn College
Children's Studies Program (supported by a New Visions Grant, CUNY,
1996-1998)
1996: NEH Summer Institute for Secondary Teachers on the
"The Worlds of the Renaissance," July 8-12, leader of 5-day unit on
"Renaissance Society."
1995: NEH Summer Institute for Secondary Teachers on the
"The Worlds of the Renaissance," July 10-14, leader of 5-day unit on
"Renaissance Society."
1994: NEH Summer Institute for Secondary Teachers on the
"The Worlds of the Renaissance," July, leader of 3-day unit on "Women in
the Renaissance."
1992: NEH Summer Institute for Secondary Teachers on the
"Renaissance and the Modern World," July, leader of 5-day unit on "Women
in the Renaissance."
1985: Honors Degree external examiner, Hobart and William
Smith Colleges
1983: Consultant, Visiting Committee for the review of
ACLS programs
1982: NEH, panelist in history for Summer Stipend grants
1979-80: Swarthmore College Honors Degree, outside examiner
1979: NEH panelist in history for Category B fellowships
1976-79: ACLS, panelist in history for Recent Recipients of
the Ph.D. fellowship program
1977-92: Associate, Columbia University Seminar on the
Renaissance
1976: Society for Values in Higher Education (Hobart &
William Smith), leader, one-week seminar
1974-75: Co-chair, seminars on "Understanding and Teaching
the Renaissance," Society for Values in Higher Education, at Williams
(July-August, 1974) and Hobart and William Smith Colleges, (August,
1975)
EVALUATIONS, MEMBERSHIPS, LISTINGS
Manuscript evaluations for Renaissance Quarterly, Cambridge
University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Oxford University
Press, Princeton University Press, and St. Martin's Press.
Proposal evaluations for the NEH, ACLS, American Academy in Rome and
Gladys Krieble Delmas foundations.
Evaluations of candidates for promotion/tenure at the University of
California, San Diego; University of Pennsylvania; Washington University
Member American Historical Association; The Historical Society;
Renaissance Society of America
Listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who of American Women,
2000 Outstanding Scholars of the Twentieth Century, Contemporary Authors,
Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (4th ed., 1996).
TEACHING
Undergraduate:
Core 4 (“Shaping of the Modern World”); Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome;
The City, 1000-1800: Zone of Innovation, Crucible of Culture;
Machiavelli, Erasmus, and More; History of Childhood; Humanism and the Classical
Tradition; The Italian Renaissance; Medieval and Renaissance Women;
Women and Learning in Early Modern Europe; participant in team-taught
“Perspectives on Children’s Studies” (with English, Film, Psychology and
Sociology)
Graduate:
Doctoral: The City in Early Modern Europe; History of Childhood;
Humanism; The Renaissance; Italian Cities: Society and Culture,
1200-1700; The Literature of European History, 1500-1848; Surveying the
Field - History, Historiography and Historians in the Early Modern Era;
Medieval and Renaissance Women; Women and Learning in Early Modern
Europe; Masters level: the Italian Renaissance; Colloquium: Early
Modern.
SERVICE
Brooklyn College - Departmental Committees:
Appointments, Curriculum, Honors and Awards, Library, Core 4
Coordinator; College: Faculty Recognition/Research; Faculty
Council (elected representative for division of Social Sciences);
Faculty Council (department representative); Academic Quality: Faculty
(Spring 2000); Faculty Council Core committee (2000-2002); Faculty
Council Library committee (1998-2000)
Graduate Center -
Deputy Officer; Curriculum Committee; Women’s History planning and
publicity; Membership Committee; Admissions and Awards; University
Faculty Senate (elected representative for doctoral faculty); Academic
Policy Committee of the UFS; Graduate Faculty Policy Committee; Graduate
Council; Renaissance Studies coordinating committee; chair, examination
committee, Early Modern field (several times); dissertation supervision
