CURRICULUM VITAE
Degrees and Education
1989 Ph. D., History, University of California, San Diego. Advisors: Kathryn Norberg and David
Ringrose. Dissertation title: Nuns and Fallen Women: Social Control and Autonomy in Ancien Régime
Convents.
1985 Master of Arts and Candidate in Philosophy, Early Modern European History, University of
California, San Diego.
Minor Fields: United States Social History, Thomas Dublin, advisor, 1984; Modern Europe, H. Stuart
Hughes, advisor, 1983.
1952 Bachelor of Arts in Literature and History, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, New
Jersey (cum laude).
Papers
1992 "Is it me? Is it not me? A seventeenth century case of demonic possession," Religious Studies
Department (brown bag lunch talk), University of California, San Diego.
1990 "Sweet Agony: The Celebration of the Body in Nuns' Memorial Literature," Berkshire Conference,
Rutgers University, June, 1990.
1988 "The Case of Elisabeth Vauthier: Public Control of Women's Private Lives in the Early Eighteenth
Century," Western Society for French History, November, 1988.
Books:
Rin-Rin-Rin (in process)
Twentieth Century Dogs (in process)
Grants
1990
Camargo Foundation Fellowship (a three-months residency in Cassis, France).
1985
Dissertation Fellowship, University of California.
1984
Humanities Grant, University of California.
Languages: Departmental requirements in French and Spanish, some reading knowledge of Italian.
Research Travel
May, 1993, France, post-doctoral research.
September-December, 1990, France, post-doctoral research.
July, 1985-June, 1986, France, dissertation research.
Summer, 1984, France, preliminary dissertation research.
Related Work Experience
Fall, 1995-Spring, 2010, 1990-1994 Lecturer, California State University, San Marcos. Courses:
Historical Methods and Writing, Seminar: Animal-Human Relations in History, Women in Modern
Europe, From Medieval to Modern, Church and State in Medieval Europe, Revolutionary Europe, Society
and Culture in Early Modern Europe, Critical Thinking.
Fall, 1994-Spring, 1995 Full-time lecturer at California State University, San Marcos. Courses:
Revolutionary Europe, From Medieval to Modern, Industrializing Europe, Society and Culture in Modern
Europe, Historical Methods and Writing, Society and Culture in Early Modern Europe, Women in
Modern Europe.
Fall, !992, Spring, 1993 Lecturer, University of California, San Diego. Courses: Women in Europe
(Medieval-Renaissance); Women in Europe (Early Modern, Nineteenth Century)
1991 Lecturer, University of California, San Diego. Course: Making of the Modern World (world
history, 1450-1750).
1988-1989 Lecturer, San Diego State University, San Diego, California. Courses: Women in Modern
Europe, Medieval and Renaissance Humanities.
1982-1988 Teaching Assistant, University of California, San Diego (Revelle Humanities, European
History, Third College Writing).
Partial List of Publications
Adult Trade
When They Were Kids: A Book of Lists about Childhoods of Famous People (Random House,
1998)
Life's Big Instruction Book, coauthored with Carol Madigan, Warner Books, 1995.
Test Your 80s Cultural Literacy, coauthored with Carol Madigan, Arco, 1990.
Articles for People's Almanac (3 editions), Book of Lists (2 editions), Intimate Lives, and Significa by
Irving Wallace et al, Doubleday and William Morrow, 1975-1981. (I was one of two principal writers
who contributed to these books.) Also articles for David Wallechinsky’s The People's Almanac of
the 20th Century and The People's Almanac Presents The Book of Lists (the 90s Edition)
Brainstorms and Thunderbolts: How Creative Genius Works, coauthored with Carol Orsag Madigan,
Macmillan, 1983.
Juvenile Trade
The Macmillan Book of Fascinating Facts: An Almanac for Kids, coauthored with Carol Orsag Madigan,
Macmillan, Spring, 1989.
Macmillan Illustrated Almanac for Kids, coauthored with Carol Orsag and Sidney Solomon, Macmillan,
1981.
Windows in Space (nonfiction, astronomy and space travel), coauthored with Linda Wood, Walker, 1982.
Walking Out (young adult novel), coauthored with John Raht, Grosset and Dunlap, 1979.
Television Education
Reader/Study Guide for Cosmos, coauthored with Linda Wood, for University of California, San Diego,
Random House, 1980.
Viewer's Guide for Cosmos, coauthored with Linda Wood, for University of California, San Diego,
Random House, 1980.
College and Adult Education
Energy and the Way We Live: Source Book, for University of California, San Diego, Courses by
Newspaper, Boyd and Fraser, 1979.
Connections: Technology and Change: Source Book, for University of California, San Diego, Courses by
Newspaper, Boyd and Fraser, 1979.
Definition, Comparison and Contrast, Classification and Analysis, and Descriptive Exposition, four
audio-tutorial tapes and manuals for College English, Educulture, 1976 (now distributed by W. C.
Brown).
The World of Drill Team, ghost written for Kay Crawford, Dennis-Landman, 1976.
Elementary and High School Education
Our American Minorities, junior high school social studies textbook for remedial students, Globe, 1978.
Four junior high school textbooks for remedial readers (original fiction and non-fiction): Weird and
Mysterious (1978); Something True, Something Else (1975); Points of View, coauthored with John Raht
(1975); Legends for Everyone (1973), Globe Book Company.
Various teacher's manuals (reading, language arts, and psychology), articles and short stories for
educational publishers (Charles Merrill, Houghton Mifflin, American Book Company), 1970s.
Study guides for films distributed by NBC Educational Enterprises, BFA Films, and Media Guild.