Association for Jewish Studies, 1999, 2000
Association pour l’Autobiographie, 2014
Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1980, 2007
East‑Central/Eighteenth Century Studies, 1978
European Auto/Biography Association, 2011
French Colonial History Society, 2010
George Rudé Seminar, 2004, 2012
Haitian Studies Association, 2008, 2010, 2011
International Auto/Biography Association, 2000, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012
International Marcuse Studies Association, 2013
International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1991, 1999
Jewish-American Literary Studies (American Literature Association), 1999
Kentucky Association of Teachers of History, 1989, 2010
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, 1996, 2005, 2010
Midwest Journalism History Association, 1984
Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and America (MESEA), 2006
Modern Language Association, 2002
Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, 1998
Social Science History Association, 1986
Society for French Historical Studies, 1979, 1983, 1987, 1993, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014
Society for the Study of French History, 2001
Western Association for German Studies, 1983
Western Society for French History, 1977, 1980, 1990, 1996, 2003
World Congress of the Historical Sciences, 1985
Invited Presentations at Colloquia
(1) "Das europäische Zeitungswesen im Zeitalter des Aufklärung," Meersburg, West Germany, Sept. 1984
(2) "Die französische Revolution als Umbruch des kulturelles Bewusstseins," Bielefeld, West Germany, May 1985
(3) "The Political Culture of the Old Regime," Chicago, Sept. 1986
(4) "Decline, Enlightenment and Revolution: The Dutch Republic in the Eighteenth Century," Washington DC, Mar. 1987
(5) "Livre et Révolution," Paris, May 1987
(6) "Arbeitsalltag und berüfliches Selbstverständnis im frühen europäischen Zeitungswesen," Meersburg, West Germany, May 1987
(7) "La Diffusion et la lecture des journaux de langue française sous l'ancien régime," Nijmegen, June 1987
(8) "Presse d'élite, presse populaire et propagande pendant la Révolution française," Haifa, May 1988
(9) "La Presse devant la Révolution, 1788-1793," Vizille, France, July 1988
(10) "Die europäische Presse im Zeitalter der Französischen Revolution," Meersburg, West Germany, June 1989
(11) "1789--L'Evénement," Florence, Italy, June 1989
(12) "The Shape of Knowledge from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment," Warburg Institute, London, June 1989
(13) "The French Revolution and the Meaning of Citizenship," City University Graduate Center, May 1992
(14) "Les Gazettes européennes de langue française," Saint-Etienne, France, May 1992
(15) "Französische-deutscher Kulturtransfer und historische Semantik 1770-1815," Mainz, Germany, July 1992
(16) "Media and Revolution," Lexington KY, Oct. 1992
(17) "European Identities," Bloomington, Indiana, Feb. 1994
(18) "Nouvelles, Gazettes, Mémoires secrets," Karlstad, Sweden, Sept. 1994
(19) "The Mémoires secrets: Texts and Contexts," Chicago, Feb. 1995
(20) "Qu'est-ce qu'on ne sait pas? Histoire et historiographie du XXe siècle," Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris, Mar. 1995
(21) "Le Livre dans l'histoire de France du moyen age jusqu'à nos jours," Haifa, May 1996
(22) "Perspectives on Holocaust Studies," Murfreesboro TN, Oct. 1996
(23) "The Abbé Grégoire and his Causes," Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies, UCLA, Los Angeles, Feb. 1997
(24) "Les gazettes européennes et l'information politique de l'ancien régime," Lyon, June 1997
(25) “La perception de l’événement dans la presse,” Saarbrücken, March 1998
(26) “Millenarianism and Revolution,” Clark Library, UCLA, April 1998
(27) “Media History?” London, July 1998
(28) “Contre-Révolution en Europe, 18e-20e siècles,” Cholet, France, Nov. 1999
(29) “Autobiography and Changing Identities,” Univ. of British Columbia, July 2000
(30) “Committed to Memory,” Chicago, Ill., May 2002
(31) “Pour une histoire comparatiste des médias,” Paris, France, June 2002
(32) “News and Politics in Early Modern Europe,” Groningen, Netherlands, Oct. 2003
(33) “The Haitian Revolution: Viewed 200 Years After,” Brown University, June 2004
(34) “Economics and Life-Writing,” Duke, April 2006
(35) “The Legacies of Richard H. Popkin,” UCLA, June 2006
(36) “Les récits autobiographiques dans les sciences,” Paris, May 2007
(37) “La censura sulla stampa nell’età delle riforme e delle rivoluzioni,” Turin, May 2007
(38) “L’Echo de la fabrique: naissance de la presse ouvrière à Lyon,” Lyon, Sept. 2007
(39) “Scepticism from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment,” Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Oct. 2007
(40) “The French Atlantic,” Florida State University, Nov. 2007
(41) “Paris Croisé,” Freie Universität Berlin, Dec. 2007
(42) “Républiques en miroir,” Institut de l’histoire de la Révolution française, Paris, Jan. 2008
(43) « Affranchis et descendants d’affranchis dans le monde atlantique (Europe, Afrique et Amériques) du XVe au XIXe siècle, » Bordeaux, May 2009
(44) "The Work of Life-Writing," King’s College, London, May 2009
(45) « Writing the Holocaust and World War II Today, » Hebrew University, June 2009
(46) "Stories of Saint-Domingue, Stories of Haiti," UCLA, Oct. 2009
(47) « The French Revolution in 2010, » University of Portsmouth, July 2010
(48) « Mutinies and Maritime Radicalism, » Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, June 2011
(49) « Atlantic Networks and the Problem of Liberty in the Age of Revolution, » University of New Hampshire, November 2011
(50) « Revolution ! The Atlantic World Reborn, » New-York Historical Society, Jan. 2012
(51) « Reappraising Revolutions : France and Haiti, », Rice University, April 2012
(52) « The Haitian Declaration of Independence in an Atlantic Context, » International Center for Jefferson Studies, Charlottesville VA, March 2013
(53) « Private Lives, Intimate Readings, » Tartu University, Estonia, June 2013
Invited Talks
University of Michigan, Dept. of History, 1983
Newberry Library, Fellows' Seminar, 1983
Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, seminar of François Furet, 1985
Max‑Planck‑Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen, West Germany, 1985
University of Cincinnati, Department of History, 1985
Conference on "East Germany: People, Problems, Progress," University of Kentucky, 1986
Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies, UCLA, 1989
Macro-Sociology Colloquium, UCLA, 1989
Pepperdine University, 1989
Centre College, 1989
New York Public Library, Pforzheimer lecture series, 1989
Newberry Library, Wing Foundation, 1989
Louisville Public Library, 1989
University of Cincinnati, Dept. of Romance Languages, 1989
Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania, 1989
Vassar College, 1989
Graduate Center, City University of New York, 1991
Institut d'histoire moderne et contemporaine (Paris), seminar of Daniel Roche and Jean-Claude Perrot, 1992
Centre de recherches historiques (Paris), seminar of Roger Chartier, 1992
Centre d'études du 18e siècle (Lyon), 1992
Centre Pierre Léon (Lyon), 1992
SUNY-Stony Brook, Dept. of History, 1992
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques (Lyon), 1993
University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of History, 1993
New York French Historians' Group, 1993
Northeastern University, Dept. of History, 1993
Transylvania University, Phi Alpha Theta, 1993
Midwest/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1993
New York University, Institute for French Studies, 1994
Vanderbilt University, Dept. of History, 1994
UCSD (NEH Summer Institute), 1995
UCLA, Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies, 1996
UCSD, Dept. of History, 1996
Mills College, Dept. of History, 1996
UC Santa Cruz, Humanities Institute, 1997
ENSSIB, Lyon, 1997
European University Institute, Fiesole, 1997
University of Illinois, Dept. of History, 1999
DeBartolo Conference on 18th-Century Studies, Univ. of South Florida, 1999
Florida State University, Dept. of Modern Languages, 2000
North Carolina French Historians’ Colloquium, 2000
D.C. Area Old Regime Colloquium, 2000
National Humanities Center, North Carolina, 2001
University of North Carolina, Dept. of History, 2001
Pomona College, Dept. of History, 2002
University of California-Irvine, Dept. of History, 2002
Centre d’histoire culturelle, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 2002
Louisiana State University, Dept. of History, 2003
Huizinga Institute, The Hague, 2003
Centre d’Etudes du 18e Siècle, Lyon, France, 2004
Monash Univ., School of Historical Studies, Melbourne, Australia, 2004
Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences, 2004
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2004
John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, 2005
Wesleyan University, History and Theory program, 2005
Cogut Humanities Center, Brown University, 2005
School for Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, 2006
Johns Hopkins University, Department of History, 2006
George Mason University, Department of History, 2006
Universidad de Navarra, 2006
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2006, seminars of François Hartog, Jacques Revel, Myriam Cottias and Jean Hébrard
Institut de l’histoire de la Révolution française (Université de Paris-I), 2006
University of Leeds Eighteenth-Century Group, 2006
University of La Verne, 2007
University of North Carolina-Greensboro, 2007
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil), 2007
Institut des études du XIXe siècle, Université de Paris-I, 2008
University of California, Riverside, Dept. of Political Science, 2008
Reed College, Dept. of History, 2008
McNeil Center for Atlantic History, University of Pennsylvania, 2009
University of Pennsylvania, Jewish Studies Program, 2009
University of Virginia, 2009
Purdue University, Judaic Studies program, 2009
Hebrew University, Jewish History program, 2009
Early American History Seminar, Kentucky Historical Society, 2009
Rocky Mountain Seminar on Early American History, Utah, 2010
Workshop on Modern France, University of Chicago, 2010
College of William and Mary, History Dept., 2010
US State Department, Haiti Group, 2011
George Washington University, History Department, 2011
University of British Columbia, History Department, 2011
Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, seminar of Jean Hébrard and Myriam Cottias, 2011
Association Pour l’Etude des Colonies et de l’Esclavage, Paris, 2011
Institut d’Histoire de la Révolution française, Paris, 2011
Freie Universität Berlin, Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos, 2011
Humboldt-Universität Berlin, History Department, 2011
American University, History Dept., 2011
McGill University, French Atlantic seminar, 2011
Vassar College, Dept. of History, 2011
Ball State University, annual Burkhardt History Lecture, 2012
University of Wisconsin, History Department, 2012
Vanderbilt University, Circum-Atlantic Studies Seminar, 2012
Waikato University, New Zealand, History Department, 2012
Victoria University, New Zealand, History Department, 2012
Australian National University, History Department, 2012
University of Queensland, Center for the History of European Discourses, 2012
University of Melbourne, Dept. of History, 2012
Monash University, Dept. of History, 2012
University of Buffalo, Dept. of History, 2012
East Carolina University, Dept. of History, 2012
Leibniz-Universität Hannover, Germany, Dept. of History, 2013
Triangle French Studies seminar, North Carolina, 2013
Duke University, HaitiLab, 2013
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle, Germany, Center for Enlightenment Studies, 2013
Humboldt-Universität Berlin, History Department, 2013
Early American History Seminar, Frankfort KY, 2013
Miami University (Ohio), History Department, 2013
University of Miami, History Department, 2013
Hampden-Sydney College, History Department, 2014
CUNY Graduate Center, History Department, 2014
Brandeis University, Sawyer Seminar, 2014
Harvard University, Center for European Studies, 2014
Conferences Organized
“Media and Revolution,” University of Kentucky, Oct. 1992
“The Mémoires secrets: Text and Contexts,” Newberry Library, Feb. 1995
"The Abbé Grégoire and his Causes," Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies, UCLA, Feb. 1997
Society for French Historical Studies national meeting, Lexington KY, Mar. 1997
“Millenarianism and Revolution,” Clark Library, UCLA, April 1998
“Autobiography and Life-Writing: The French Tradition,” University of Kentucky, Apr. 2005
“The Legacies of Richard H. Popkin,” Clark Library, UCLA, June 2006
“Stories of Saint-Domingue, Stories of Haiti,” Clark Library, UCLA, Oct. 2009
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Executive Director, Society for French Historical Studies, 2004-8
Editorial Board, American Historical Review, 2009-12
Executive Council, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2008-2011
Editorial Board, Journal of Modern History, 2002-2005
Co-Moderator, AHA History Chairs’ email list, 1998-2000
President, Society for French Historical Studies, 1996-97
Editorial Board, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, 1996-2002
Board of Editors, H-France email list, 2000-
American Historical Association, Gershoy Prize Committee, 1994-96, 2001-2
Committee of Examiners for the Advanced History GRE Test, Educational Testing Service, member, 1980‑90; Committee chair, 1986‑90
Board of Editorial Advisors, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1990-97, 2004-7
Board of Editors, French Historical Studies, 1987-90
Editorial Board, International Archives of the History of Ideas, 1989-
Advisory Board, Program in the History of the Book in American Culture, American Antiquarian Society, 1989-95
Outside Reviewer, University of Pittsburgh History Dept., 1997; Eastern Illinois University History Dept., 1999; Queen’s University History Dept., 1999; Richard Stockton College Historical Studies Program, 2000, California State University-Hayward History Dept., 2000
NEH Review Panel, Summer Seminars for College Teachers, 1991
Manuscript reader for University of California Press, Princeton University Press,
University of Pittsburgh Press, Nijhoff, Dorsey Press, Alfred Knopf, University Press of Kentucky, Harvard University Press, Houghton Mifflin, Cornell University Press, D.C. Heath, Cambridge University Press, Duke University Press, University of Chicago Press, Routledge, Johns Hopkins University Press, Bedford Press, Catholic University Press, Kluwer Press, Manchester University Press, SUNY Press, Indiana University Press, Penn State Press, Prentice Hall, Blackwell, Oxford University Press, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Oxford University Press, Harvard Historical Monographs, University of Pennsylvania Press, University of North Carolina Press, Yale University Press
Article referee for American Historical Review, Dix-huitième Siecle, French
Historical Studies, History Teacher, Studies in Eighteenth‑Century Culture, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, History of European Ideas, Eighteenth-Century Studies
Journal of the History of Ideas, Encyclopedia Britannica, Journal of Modern History, Book History, William and Mary Quarterly, Modern Intellectual History, Journal of the Early Republic, Annales E.S.C., French History
Advisory committee, New York Public Library, exhibition on "Printing and the French Revolution," (1989)
Section co-editor, French Revolution Research Collection and Videodisk, Pergamon Press
Academic Advisor, Central Kentucky Jewish Federation project: "Small-Town Jews: Jewish Life in Central Kentucky," sponsored by Kentucky Humanities Council
Fellowship application reviewer for NEH, Newberry Library, MacArthur Foundation, Australian Humanities Center, National Humanities Center, Institute for Advanced Study
Program Committee, Society for French Historical Studies, 1981
Program Committee, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies national meeting, 1987
COURSES TAUGHT
Survey Level: Europe, 1450‑1750; Europe, 1750‑present; World War II
Undergraduate: Europe in the 17th, 18th, 19th Centuries; France 1600-1815, France since 1815; European Social History, 1400-1800; 18th Century European Intellectual History; Jewish History since 1492; the Holocaust; Impact of Printing since 1450; Junior research seminar
Graduate: Introduction to Graduate Study in History; European Enlightenment; French Revolution; French Revolutions, 1789-1830-1848; American and French Revolutions; Intellectuals, Society and Politics 1750‑1815; Historiography of the Holocaust; Interdisciplinary Seminar on Social Theory; Interdisciplinary Seminar in German Studies
DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Departmental Committees: Director of Undergraduate Studies,
1980‑1982; Lecture Committee, 1979‑80 and 1983‑6; Chair Selection Committee, 1984; chair, Computer Committee, 1986-87; Graduate Committee, 1987-88; Asian History recruitment committee, 1988-89; Library Committee, 1989; Executive Committee, 1989-91; Acting Chair Selection Committee, 1991; Chair, British/European History Recruitment Committee, 1991; Priorities and Planning Committee, 1992; Acting Department Chair, 1993-1994; Chair, Planning and Priorities Committee, 1994-95; Lecture Committee, 1995-96, Department Chair, 1996-2000; Planning, Priorities and Program committee, 2001-2; department course scheduler, 2002-4, 2007-9; Executive Committee, 2007-9; American History endowed chair recruitment committee, 2007-8; chair, Asian history search committee, 2008-9. Current service: graduate committee, 2009-10
College and University Committees: Religious Studies Committee, 1980‑88;
Slavic and Oriental Languages Department Review Committee, 1980; Dean's Priorities and Plans Committee, 1982; UKRF Research Committee, 1983‑1986; Summer Faculty Fellowship Committee, 1986; College Area C Review Committee, 1986‑7; Chair, Summer Faculty Fellowship Committee--Humanities, 1987; Chair, Spanish Dept. review committee, 1987-88; UKRF Research Committee, F1987; Program Committee, "Project 1968"; 1987-88; Chair Selection Committee, French Dept., S88; Project director, UK French Revolution Bicentennial program, 1989; Humanities and Arts Area Advisory Committee, 1989-91; Graduate Council, 1989-90; Russian and Eastern Studies review committee, 1989; Committee on Social Theory, 1989- ; Philosophy Department Chair Selection committee, 1990; Chair, Humanities and Arts Area Committee, 1990-91; College of Arts and Sciences Dean Selection Committee, 1990-91; NEH Summer Stipend Nomination Committee, 1990; University Self-Study (Committee on Faculty), 1990-91; Chair, French Dept. Chair Search Committee, 1993-94; Senate Privilege and Tenure Committee, 1994-97; Dean's Advisory Committee for College Review, 1996-7; French Studies committee, 1996-; Gaines Center Director search committee, 1997-8; Task Force on Foreign-Language Graduate Programs, 1999; Current Service: Chair, Philosophy Department review committee, 2001-2; College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Advisory Committee, 2001-3; UCAPP Research Domain sub-committee, 2007-8; University Research Professorship selection committee, 2007- 9;
Other: Faculty sponsor, UK Chess Club, 1988-1999
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