Education:     Ph.D., University of Oregon, August 2000
                       Major Field: Early Modern and Modern European History
                       Minor Field: Early Modern Britain
                       Dissertation: “The Origins of Celebrity: The Eighteenth-Century
                                           Anglo-French Press Reception of Jean-Jacques
                                           Rousseau.”
                       Dissertation Committee Chair: Raymond F. Birn

                       M.A., University of Oregon, August 1994
                       History of Britain and its Empire (Colonial American Minor)
                       Thesis: “The Role of the Religious Struggle in the Revolution
                                   of 1688:  James II and the Politics of Toleration.”

                        M.A., Texas Tech University, August 1992
                        British and American Literature
                        Thesis: “The Influence of Saturn and Venus in Shakespeare’s
                                   Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus: Cosmo-
                                    logical Interplay and the Saturnalian Festival.”

                         B.A., The University of Texas at Arlington, May 1990
                         History and Classical Studies
 

Fellowships, Grants, and Honors:

2007/2008      Amelia Gallucci-Cirio Research Grant, Fitchburg State College
2007               Massachusetts Commonwealth Citation for Outstanding Performance, 5 October, 2007
2002               FSC Mission Monies Grant, Fitchburg State College
2002               FSC Continuing Scholarship Grant, Fitchburg State College
2001               NEH Summer Seminar Grant, Newberry Library, Chicago
2001               University-Wide Faculty Development Grant, Clarion University
2001               College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Development Grant, Clarion
1999-2000      University of Oregon Doctoral Research Fellowship, Oregon
1999                Kenneth E. and Dorothy V. Hill Fellowship, Huntington Library
1997-1998      Thomas T. Turner Research Fellowship, Oregon
1996-1999      Graduate Teaching Fellow, Department of History, Oregon
1995-1996      Graduate Research Fellow, Ava and Linus Pauling Papers, Oregon
1993-1995      Graduate Teaching Fellow, Department of History, Oregon
 

Editing:

History Section Editor of The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, from summer 2000 to summer 2008.

History Section Assistant Editor of The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, from the summer of 1996 to the summer of 2000.

Krishnamurthy, Ramesh, Sean C. Goodlett and Marvin E. Kirk, eds. The Pauling Symposium: A Discourse on the Art of Biography.  Proceedings of the Conference on the Life and Work of Linus Pauling (1901-1994), 28 February to 2 March, 1995. Corvallis: Oregon State University Libraries, 1996.

Publications:

Currently revising “Un Homme ‘fait pour devenir célèbre’: Rousseau’s Early Reception in the French Media, 1736-1753,” as the first chapter in La Voix publique et Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Newsprint and the Culture of Publicity.

Review of Eli Friedlander’s J.J. Rousseau: An Afterlife of Words. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004) for H-France: Vol. 9, No. 128 (October, 2009), pp. 537-540.

Review of James M. Lang's On Course: A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008) for Currents in Teaching and Learning, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2009), pp. 61-62.

Entry for “Guillaume-Thomas Raynal” in France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. Bill Marshall, editor. (Oxford: ABC-Clio, 2005), Vol. 3, pp. 978-9.

Biographical entry for Marc-Michel Rey in the OUP Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), Vol. 3, pp. 457-8.

Entries for “Switzerland,” “Guillaume-Thomas Raynal,” and “Paul-Henri Thiry, baron d’Holbach” in Censorship: A World Encyclopedia, (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001), Vol. 2, pp. 1076-77; Vol. 3, pp. 2030-31; and Vol. 4, pp. 2357-61.

Editor and translator of the correspondence of Jean André Deluc, Jean-André Mongez, Jean Senebier, Martin van Marum, and Pahin de la Blancherie within Jungnickel, Christa and Russell McCormmach, Cavendish: The Experimental Life. (Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press, 1999), pp. 546-51, 557-8, 604-6, 611-623, and 697-9.

Review of Adrian Johns’ The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998) for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 33 (Fall 1999), pp. 149-150.

Review of Maurice Cranston’s Solitary Self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Exile and Adversity (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997), for The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, n.s. 23 (1997), pp. 293-4.

Conference Presentations:

“The Workaday Public Sphere: Rousseau in Newsprint, 1736-1753,” 1 October, 2005, at the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

“Demosthenes in Paris: The Early Critical Reception of Jean-Jacques Rousseau,” 6 November, 2003, at the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Providence, Rhode Island.

“‘La Publicité dévoilée’: Performance in the Public Sphere during Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Exile in England,” at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 3-7 April, 2002.

“Carving Rousseau into Stone: The Print Media and the Culture of Publicity in the Era of the French Revolution,” at the Newberry Library, NEH Summer Seminar, 3 August, 2001.

“The Many Deaths of Rousseau: Media Construction and the Origins of Celebrity,” at the South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1-3 March, 2001.

“Academic Duty and the Historian’s Task,” Keynote Address at the Third Annual History Symposium at the University of Oregon, April 2000.

“The Idea of the University,” Keynote Address at the Second Annual History Symposium at the University of Oregon, April 1999.

“Corresponding Philosophies:  Voltaire's Role in the Publication of the Article GENÈVE in the Encyclopédie,” delivered at the Perspectives in English Studies Conference at Texas Tech University, April 1996.