Margaret L. King
CURRICULUM VITAE
April 26, 2009
Email: marglking@gmail.com
EDUCATION:
Stanford University, 1967-1972: M.A., History, 1968; Ph.D., History, 1972
Sarah Lawrence College, 1963-1967: B.A., History, 1967
LANGUAGES:
French, German, Italian, Latin, ancient Greek
EMPLOYMENT:
1987--: Professor, Brooklyn College & Graduate Center, CUNY
1976-86: Associate Professor, Brooklyn College
1972-76: Assistant Professor, Brooklyn College
1969-70: Assistant Professor, California State College at Fullerton
AWARDS, PRIZES AND FELLOWSHIPS:
Broeklundian Professor, Brooklyn College (2006-2010)
Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature, Modern Language Association (2005)
PSC/CUNY Research Award (2002-2004)
Brooklyn College Scholar Incentive Award (2002-2003)
Leonard and Claire Tow Distinguished Professor, Brooklyn College (2000-2002)
Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize, best book in Italian history, American Historical Association (1996)
Distinguished Guest Professor, University of Toronto (February 20-25, 1995)
Tow Award for Distinction in Scholarship, Brooklyn College (1994-95)
Brooklyn College “Favorite Teacher” (1993)
American Philosophical Society, Grant-in-Aid (1991)
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant (1990)
PSC/CUNY Research Award (1990)
NEH Fellowship (1986-87)
Howard R. Marraro Prize, best book in Italian history, American Catholic Historical Association (1986)
NEH Summer Stipend (1984)
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant (1980-81)
PSC/CUNY Award (1980)
American Philosophical Society Grant (1979)
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1977-78)
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant (1977-78)
PSC/CUNY Award, Recent Academics (1977-78)
American Council of Learned Societies, Grant-in-Aid (1976)
CUNY, Faculty Research Award (1973-74)
CUNY, New Faculty Research Award (1973)
Danforth Foundation Fellowship (1967-72)
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1967-68)
WORK IN PROGRESS
Mothers and Sons, a history of the maternal role in the intellectual, spiritual, and psychological formation of successful or powerful sons (anticipated completion 2010).
Renaissance Humanism, an anthology of texts (under contract; publication 2012).
BOOKS
Monographs
1994 The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello (University of Chicago Press); winner of the Helen and Howard Marraro Prize for best book in Italian history, American Historical Association, 1996; available electronically through ACLS Humanities E-Books. http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
1991 Women of the Renaissance (University of Chicago Press); published in Italian as Le donne del Rinascimento (Laterza 1989); further translations into Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Dutch (1993-1994); and into Chinese (2008)
1986 Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance (Princeton University Press); winner of the Howard Marraro Prize for best book in Italian history, American Catholic Historical Association, 1986; Italian trans. Umanesimo e patriziato a Venezia nel Quattrocento, 2 vols. (Rome: Il Veltro Editrice, 1989); available electronically through ACLS Humanities E-Books. http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
Collected essays, editions, translations
2007 Teaching Other Voices: Women and Religion in Early Modern Europe, ed. Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil, Jr. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press); Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Honorable Mention award, Collaborative Project, for 2007.
2005 Humanism, Venice, and Women: Essays on the Italian Renaissance (Variorum Collected Studies Series; Hampshire UK: Ashgate)
2004 Isotta Nogarola, Complete Writings: Letterbook, Dialogue on Adam and Eve, Orations, ed. and trans. (with Diana Robin), for series “The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe” (University of Chicago Press); winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature, Modern Language Association, 2005
1983 Her Immaculate Hand: Selected Works By and About the Women Humanists of Quattrocento Italy, ed. and trans., with Albert Rabil, Jr. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 20; Binghamton, NY; 2nd ed., Pegasus, 1992).
Textbooks
2004 The Renaissance in Europe (Laurence King, © 2004; McGraw-Hill, ©. 2005); textbook, 384 pp., single-authored; Chinese translation (Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 2008).
2000 Western Civilization: A Social and Cultural History (orig. ed.; 3rd ed.; Prentice Hall. 2004); textbook, 919 pp., single-authored
SERIES EDITOR
Co-editor (with Albert Rabil, Jr.) of texts series The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe (University of Chicago Press) consisting of translations from Latin, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Polish, and Russian of works by and about women of the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries; 52 titles published 1996-2008; an eventual 75 titles will appear with Chicago, and some 50 more in a second series with the University of Toronto, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies; anticipated launch 2009.
ARTICLES and ESSAYS
2009 (in press) “Renaissance Selves, Renaissance Bodies,” in A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Renaissance, ed. William Bynum and Linda Kaloff (London: Wellcome Institute).
2008 “The Emergence of Mother as Teacher in Early Modern Europe,” in The Renaissance in the Streets, Schools, and Studies: Essays in Honour of Paul F. Grendler, ed. Konrad Eisenbichler and Nicholas Terpstra (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2008), 41-86.
2007 “Concepts of Childhood: What We Know and Where We Might Go,” Renaissance Quarterly 60.2: 371-407.
2006 “Petrarca, l’autocoscienza, e le prime umaniste” in Petrarca e i canoni del sapere: la dinamica della esemplarità, ed. Valeria Finucci (Bulzoni); Italian translation of “Petrarch, the Self-Conscious Self,” etc., at 2005
2006 “Kristeller ad feminam,” in The Scholarship of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed. John Monfasani, et al. (New York: Italica Press), 127-140.
2005 “Petrarch, the Self-Conscious Self, and the First Women Humanists,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 35.3:537-558.
2003 “Mothers of the Renaissance.” Europa e America nella storia della civiltà: studi in onore di Aldo Stella, ed. Paolo Pecorari (Treviso: Antilia), 211-236.
1997 “Women’s Voices, the Early Modern, and the Civilization of the West.” Shakespeare Studies, 25: 21-31.
1995 "Iter Kristellerianum: The European Journey (1905-1939)." With Paul Oskar Kristeller. Renaissance Quarterly 47:4 (1995): 907-29.
1994 "Isotta Nogarola," in Italian Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, ed. Rinaldina Russell (Westport, CT: Greenwood) 313-23
1993 "Jacopo Antonio Marcello and the War for the Lombard Plain," in Continuità e discontinuità nella storia politica, economica e religiosa: Studi in onore di Aldo Stella (Vicenza: Neri Pozza) 63-88
1991 "Isotta Nogarola, umanista e devota," in Rinascimento al femminile, ed. Ottavia Niccoli (Rome: Laterza) 3-33
1989 "L'Umanesimo cristiano nella Venezia del Quattrocento," in La chiesa di Venezia tra medioevo ed età moderna (Venice: Edizioni Studium Cattolico Veneziano) 15-54
1988 "La donna," in L'uomo del Rinascimento, ed. E. Garin (Rome: Gius. Laterza Edizioni) 273-327; Eng. trans. by Lydia Cochrane in Renaissance Characters (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991)
1988 "Humanism and Venice," in Renaissance Humanism: Foundations, Forms and Legacy, ed. Albert Rabil, Jr. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988) 1:209-34
1988 "The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello." In Renaissance Studies: Intertext and Context, ed. by Anne J. Cruz, Wendy A. Furman, and Maryanne C. Horowitz (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988)
1987 "An Inconsolable Father and his Humanist Consolers: Jacobo Antonio Marcello, Venetian Nobleman, Patron, and Man of Letters," in Supplementum Festivum: Essays in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed. by J. Hankins, J. Monfasani, M. Pine, and F. Purnell (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies; Binghamton, NY, 1988) 221-46
1980 "Book-Lined Cells: Women and Humanism in the Early Italian Renaissance," in Beyond Their Sex: Learned Women of the European Past, ed. P.H. Labalme (New York University Press, 1980) 66-90; also rpt. in Renaissance Humanism (see above at 1988) 1:434-53
1980 "Goddess and Captive: Antonio Loschi's Epistolary Tribute to Maddalena Scrovegni (1389)," Medievalia et Humanistica, NS 1 (1980):103-127.
1978-- "A Study in Venetian Humanism at Mid-Quattrocento: Filippo da Rimini and his
1980 Symposium de paupertate, Analysis and Text," Studi veneziani, NS 2 (1978): 75-96; NS 3 (1979): 141-86; NS 4 (1980): 27-44.
1978 "The Religious Retreat of Isotta Nogarola (1418-1466)," Signs, 3: 807-22
1978 "The Social Role of Intellectuals: Antonio Gramsci and the Italian Renaissance," Soundings, 61: 23-46
1976 "Thwarted Ambitions: Six Learned Women of the Renaissance," Soundings, 59: 280-304
1976 "Caldiera and the Barbaros on Marriage and the Family: Humanist Reflections of Venetian Realities," Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 6: 19-50
1975 "The Patriciate and the Intellectuals: Power and Ideas in Quattrocento Venice," Societas, 5: 295-312
1975 "Personal, Domestic and Republican Values in the Moral Philosophy of Giovanni Caldiera," Renaissance Quarterly, 28: 535-74
SHORT ARTICLES, REVIEW ESSAYS, AND REVIEWS
2009 Article: “Women in Italy, 500-1500" (2500 words), Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, in press.
2009 Review: of Venice, Cità Excelentissima: Selections from the Renaissance Diaries of Marin Sanudo, ed. Patricia H. Labalme and Laura Sanguineti White, trans. Linda L. Carroll (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), in Renaissance Quarterly 62.1 (2009):193-195.
2009 Review: of Francesco Ludovico Maschietto, Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684): The First Woman in the World to Earn a University Degree, trans. Jan Vairo and William Crochetiere; ed. Catherine Marshall (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2007), in Catholic Historical Review, 95.2 (2009):355-357.
2008 Review: of Christina Antenhofer, Briefe zwischen Süd und Nord: die Hochzeit und Ehe von Paula de Gonzaga und Leonhard von Görz im Spiegel der fürstlichen Kommunikation (1473-1500) (Innsbruck: Universitätsverlag Wagner, 2007), in Renaissance Quarterly, 61.4 (2008):1230-1231.
2008 Review: of Bernardo Piciché, Argisto Giuffredi: gentiluomo borghese nel vicereame di Sicilia (Rome: EUROMA, 2006), Renaissance Quarterly, 61.1 (2008), 128-130.
2008 Article: “Childhood” (1000 words), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship, and Sexuality throughout History, vol. 3: The Early Modern Period (Westport CT-London: Greenwood Press, 2008), 46-49.
2007: Review: of Nicholas Terpstra, Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance: Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), American Historical Review 112.1 (2007): 301-302.
2007: Review: of Eric R. Dursteler, Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity, and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), Renaissance Quarterly, 59:1 (2006):155-156.
2007: Review: of Francesco Bianchi, La Ca' di Dio di Padova nel Quattrocento: riforma e governo di un ospedale per l'infanzia abbandonata (Venice: Istituto Veneto di Storia, Lettere, ed Arti, 2005), Renaissance Quarterly, 59.3 (2006):847-849.
2006 Article: “A Fistful of Ducats,” The World of Interiors (February):94-99.
2006 Articles: “Humanism” (1000 words) and “D’Este, Beatrice and Isabella” (250 words) in encyclopedia of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (London: Routledge).
2006: Review: of Aubrey Diller, Henri D. Saffrey, and Leendert G. Westerink,. Bibliotheca graeca manuscripta cardinalis Dominici Grimani (1461-1523) (Venice: Edizioni della Laguna, 2003), Renaissance Quarterly, 58.4:1305-1307.
2006 Review: of Daniela Hacke, Women, Sex and Marriage in Early Modern Venice (Aldershot, England and Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2004), Renaissance Quarterly, 58.4:1311-1312.
2005 Article: “Childhood and Childrearing,” New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons), 1:309-316. Also eBook publication by Gale Virtual Reference Library.
2004 Review: of Marino Zorzi, ed. La vita nei libri: edizioni illustrate a stampa del Quattro e Cinquecento dalla Fondazione Giorgio Cini (Venice: Edizioni della Laguna, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 2003), Renaissance Quarterly, 57.4 (2004):1372-1374.
2004 Review: of Konrad Eisenbichler, ed., The Premodern Teenager: Youth in Society, 1150-1650 (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2002); and Ilaria Taddei, Fanciulli e giovani: crescere a Firenze nel Rinascimento (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2001), Renaissance Quarterly, 57.1 (2004):289-291.
2003 Review: of Sister Prudence Allen, The Concept of Woman, volume II: The Early Humanist Reformation, 1250-1500 (Grand Rapids MI-Cambridge UK: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002), Journal of Religion 83:4 (2003):633-636.
2003 Review: of Joanne M. Ferraro, Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), American Historical Review 108:1 (2003):281-282.
2003 Article: “The KC Johnson Case: A Question of Collegiality,” Academic Questions 16.2 (2003): 21-30.
2001 Article: “Paul Oskar Kristeller,” American National Biography Online: http://www.anb.org/
2001 Review: of Judith Brown and Robert Davis, eds., Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy (London: Longman, 1998), International Journal of the Classical Tradition 106 (Summer):146-148.
2001 Review: of Peter Godman, From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), Speculum 76.4:55-57.
2001 Review: of Stanley Chojnacki, Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society (Baltimore-London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), Journal of Family History, 26.1:138-139.
2001 Review: of Craig Kallendorf, Virgil and the Myth of Venice: Books and Readers in the Italian Renaissance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), American Historical Review, 106.2: 675-676.
2001 Review: of Ellen H. Kittell and Thomas F. Madden, eds., Medieval and Renaissance Venice (Urbana-Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999), Journal of Modern History 73.2: 424-426.
2000 Articles: on “Venice” (5000 words); “Women” (5000 words); “Francesco Barbaro” (500 words); “Lucrezia Borgia” (250 words); “Margaret of Austria” (500 words); “Isotta Nogarola” (500 words), for the Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (New York: Scribner’s).
2000 Review Essay: “Female Errancy as Medium and Message,” on Deanna Shemek, Ladies Errant: Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy (Durham, NC-London: Duke University Press, 1998), Journal of Women’s History, 12.2:209-211.
1996 Review: of A History of Women in the West, ed. Georges Duby & Michelle Perrot, trans. Arthur Goldhammer et al. (Cambridge, MA-London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press), vols. 1-3 (1992-1993), Renaissance Quarterly 49:2: 431-33.
1991 Review: of Paul Grendler, Schooling in Renaissance Italy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), Renaissance Quarterly 44 (1991)
1988 Review essay: "The Renaissance of the Renaissance Woman," on Margaret W. Ferguson, et al., eds. Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe (Chicago, 1986), and Martha C. Howell, Women, Production and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities (Chicago, 1986), Medievalia et Humanistica 16:165-75.
1986 Review: of Joan Kelly, Women, History and Theory: The Essays of Joan Kelly (University of Chicago Press, 1984), Journal of Modern History (1986)
1985 Article: "Specialization and Professionalism within the University," American Council of Learned Societies Newsletter, 36:3&4 (1985): 18-22; see the Chronicle of Higher Education, May 1, 1985
1980 Review: of Barbara Marx, Bartolomeo Pagello, Epistolae Familiares (1464-1525), Materialen zur Vicentiner Kulturgeschichte des 15. Jahrhunderts und kritische Edition des Briefwechsels (Padua: Editrice Antenore, 1978), in Renaissance Quarterly, 33 (1980)
PAPERS AND COMMENTS
2007 Chair, panel on “Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” conference “Worlds Apart? Early Modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire,” CUNY Graduate Center, March 30
2005 Invited Women’s History Month lecturer, “Renaissance Mothering: the Maternal Promotion of Sons, 1250-1750,” University of North Texas, March 22
2004 Invited speaker, “In Retrospect: Humanism, Women, Venice, and the Transmission of Culture,” Stuyvesant High School, September 8
2004 Paper, “Maternal Injunctions,” Renaissance Society of America, 50th Anniversary Conference, New York City, April 2
2004 Invited speaker, “Petrarch, the Self-Conscious Self, and the First Women Humanists,” for the conference “In the Footsteps of Petrarch: Poetry, Music, Art, Culture” at Duke University in honor of the 700th anniversary of Petrarch’s birth: March 26
2002 Invited speaker, “Mothers of the Renaissance,” Columbia University Seminar on the Renaissance, March 5
2001 Invited speaker, annual Giamatti Lecture, “Mothers of the Renaissance,” Mount Holyoke College, April 19
2001 Organizer and Chair, Session on “Renaissance Childhoods,” Renaissance Society of America, Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 31
2001 Paper,“Kristeller Ad feminam,”Renaissance Society of America, Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 30
2001 Invited Speaker, “Mothers of the Renaissance,” New York Historical Society, Fordham U, March 2
2000 Chair, Session, “Women and Gender,” Renaissance Society of America, Florence 2000 Conference, Florence, Italy, March 22
2000 Paper, “Mothers of the Renaissance,” Renaissance Society of America, Florence 2000 Conference, Florence, Italy, March 22
1997 Chair, Session, “Teaching the Other Voice in Early Modern Europe,” Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, University of Maryland, College Park, November 8
1997 Invited lecturer, on“Women of the Renaissance,” at seminar “The Civilization of the Renaissance, New Jersey Council for the Humanities, at Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ, July 23
1997 Chair, Session “Women and Religion,” April 4, Renaissance Society of America National Conference
1997 Chair, Keynote Session, Friday, March 7: “‘Shadows of an Unquiet Sleep’: America and the Conflicting Discourses of European Universalism”), CUNY Renaissance Studies Conference of the Renaissance Society of America, “Early Modern Trans-Atlantic Encounters: England, Spain and the Americas”
1996 Panelist, commenting on children's history, on "All Things Considered," weekly news show broadcast by National Public Radio, New York City, May 31
1995 Respondent, Renaissance Studies Program, Graduate Center, City University of New York, November 17, session on "Social and Literary Space in Renaissance and Early Modern Cities: Italy and England"
1995 Respondent, Renaissance Studies Program, Graduate Center, City University of New York, April 24, session on Professor Alan Gabbey's presentation "Women's Voices in Early Modern Philosophy: Ann Conway and the Cambridge Platonists"
1995 Panelist, RSA Annual Meeting (New York City), publication initiatives, Early Modern works by or about women, March 31
1995 Guest Speaker and Panelist, "Classicism and Sexuality in the Renaissance" Conference, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA, March 10-11
1995 Distinguished Guest Professor, University of Toronto, February 20-25
1995 Comment, American Historical Association, Annual Convention (Chicago), January 7, "Gender and Mysticism" in the Middle Ages
1994 Presentation, Medieval Study, Graduate Center, City University of New York, November, on "The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello"
1994 Invited speaker, Bergen Community College, "Women in the Renaissance," Women's History Month (NCHC Portz Fund)
1992 Planning committee and session chair, Lorenzo de' Medici Conference, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
1991 Session chair, Renaissance Naples, International Conference, Graduate Center, CUNY
1991 Paper, Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Annual Meeting (Duke University, Durham, North Carolina), April, "Jacopo Antonio Marcello and the War for the Lombard Plain"
1991 Paper, Renaissance Forum (Graduate Center, CUNY), "Hidden Pictures: Reconstructing the Life of Valerio Marcello"
1991: Invited speaker and panelist, University of San Francisco, 2-day Symposium on Venice
1990: Panelist, American Historical Association, Annual Convention (New York City)
1988: Invited speaker, Harvard University, Department of History, "Hidden Pictures: Reconstructing the Life of Valerio Marcello"
1987: Paper, RSA Annual Meeting (Arizona State University, Tempe), "Humanism in Regional Perspective"
1985: Paper, RSA Annual Meeting (Huntington Library, Los Angeles, California), "An Inconsolable Father and his Humanist Consolers"
1985: Paper, Columbia University Seminar on the Renaissance
1985: Panelist and speaker, American Council of Learned Societies, Annual Meeting, "Specialization and the Disciplines"
1980: Paper, Columbia University Seminar on the Renaissance
1978: Paper, Columbia University Seminar on the Renaissance
1978: Paper, Swarthmore College, Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia Conference, "The Religious Retreat of Isotta Nogarola"
1976: Paper, RSA, Northeastern Conference (SUNY, Buffalo)
1975: Paper, Sarah Lawrence College
1974: Paper, Columbia University Seminar on the Renaissance
1973: Paper, American Historical Association, Annual Convention (San Francisco), "Venetian Humanism and Social Control"
1973: Paper, RSA, Northern California Conference (Santa Clara), "The Idea of Poverty in Renaissance Venice"
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
since 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."
2003-2006 Board of Governors, The Historical Society
1997-2002 Editor, Renaissance Quarterly
2001 Selection Committee for the Kagan Prize, The Historical Society
1998-2000 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: NEHSummer 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: NEH Summer Institute for Secondary Teachers on the "The Worlds of the Renaissance," July 8-12, leader of 5-day unit on "Renaissance Society."
1987-1995: Executive Director, Renaissance Society of America
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."
1984-1988: Editor, Renaissance Quarterly
1976-1984: Executive Board, Renaissance Society of America
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, Renaissance and Reform, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Oxford University Press, Prentice Hall, Princeton University Press, the University of Chicago Press, and St. Martin's Press.
Proposal evaluations for ACLS Senior Fellowships, ACLS Ryskamp Fellowships, American Academy in Rome, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the NEH.
Evaluations of candidates for promotion/tenure at Emory University; the University of Alabama; University of California, San Diego; University of Southern California; University of Southern Illinois; University of Pennsylvania; Washington University.
Memberships: 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.
TEACHING
Undergraduate: Core Curriculum (“Shaping of the Modern World”); Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome; The City, 1000-1800; Machiavelli, Erasmus, and More; History of Childhood; Humanism and the Classical Tradition; The Italian Renaissance; The Renaissance in Europe; Women and Learning in Early Modern Europe; Women in Europe to 1800; 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; Machiavelli, Erasmus, and More (tutorial); 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; Special Topics: Women and Learning in the Renaissance; Colloquium: Early Modern.
SERVICE
Brooklyn College - Departmental Committees: Appointments, Curriculum, Honors and Awards, Library, Core 4 Coordinator; Children’s Studies: Planning Committee (supported by a New Visions Grant, CUNY), 1996-1998); Executive committee (1998-2007); Search committee 2004-2006; College: Faculty Recognition/Research; Faculty Council (elected representative for division of Social Sciences, two terms); Faculty Council (department representative, two terms); ad hoc committee on Academic Quality: Faculty (Spring 2000); Faculty Council Core committee (2000-2002); Faculty Council Library committee (1998-2000); Curriculum Task Force (2003-2004); Faculty Council Graduate Curriculum Committee (2005-2007)
Graduate Center - Deputy Officer; Admissions Committee; Curriculum Committee; Women’s History planning and publicity; Membership Committee; Admissions and Awards; University Faculty Senate (elected representative for doctoral faculty, two terms); Academic Policy Committee of the UFS; Doctoral Faculty Policy Committee (three terms); Renaissance Studies coordinating committee; dissertation supervision (Patricia Franz, PhD 2006; Victoria Mondelli, in progress; Patricia Nardi, PhD 2006; Seth Parry, PhD 2008; Wladislaw Roczniak, PhD 2004); orals examination, dissertation proposal, and dissertation defense committees (numerous times).
University – UCRA (University Committee on Research Awards), liaison to History panel, 2007-2010.