Curriculum Vitae
Professional Employment
May
2004-Present: President, Lebanon Valley College
1998-2004:
Dean of the Faculty/Vice President
for Academic Affairs, Lebanon Valley College
1988-1998:
Associate Dean of the College, Dickinson College
1983-1988:
Director, Central Pennsylvania Consortium
1978-1983:
Assistant Professor of History; Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor of
History, University of Maine at Fort Kent
1977-78:
Acting Assistant Professor of History, Lynchburg College
1972-73:
Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia
Education
Tufts University, B.A. (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), history
major, 1969.
University of Virginia, Ph.D., major field: modern European history, 1977.
Study
Abroad:
- University of Munich; Munich, Germany. Winter
semester, 1969-70.
- University of Marburg; Marburg, Germany.
Research grant, 1972-73; funded by the German
Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademische Austauschdienst).
- National Endowment for
the Humanities summer research fellowship for Germany, 1979.
Publications
A German Revolution: Local Change and Continuity in Prussia, 1918-1920. Garland Press, New York,
1991.
“Giving First-Year
Students What They Deserve.” College
Teaching. vol. 45, no. 2
(Spring 1997).
Co-author (with
Sylvie Davidson, Grace Jarvis, Dieter Rollfinke), “Rekindling the Love of
Foreign Languages.” Thought
and Action, vol. VII, no. 1
(Spring 1991).
“Revolution and Near Revolution in Europe, 1917-1920,” Neutral Europe
Between War and Revolution, 1917-1922, ed.
By Hans A. Schmitt, University of Virginia Press, 1988.
“Teaching Critical
Thinking: ‘Grokking the Fullness,’” College
Teaching, vol. 36, no. 3
(Summer 1988).
“Lutheran Conscience
and the Holocaust; the German and Norwegian Cases.” Holocaust Studies Annual, vol. 2 (Summer 1986).
Co-author (with
Laurence S. Moss), “An Economical or a Secure Currency? Ludwig von Mises and
the Defense of the Gold Standard. ”Wirschaftspolitische Blätter (Vienna),
vol. 28, no. 4 (Fall 1981).
“The Consortium
Director as Old Mole.” CIL
Newsletter, no. 2 (Spring 1984).
Presentations & Consultancies
Visiting team member, Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE), University of Oklahoma
(2003), Clark College
[Iowa] (2004), Pacific
University [Oregon]
(2005), Andrews University
[Michigan]
(2006).
Member of evaluation
teams, Commission on Higher Education, Middle States Association for Utica College
(1998), Marymount Manhattan College
(2002), McDaniel College (2003).
Program Presenter. “The
American Mosaic Semester and Multicultural Education.” Invited presentation by
team of Dickinson
faculty at conference on “Rethinking Key Issues in College Learning.” Elon College;
Elon, North Carolina. September 1997.
Curricular
Consultant on Writing Programs. Principia
College; Elsah, Illinois.
September 1996.
Curricular
Consultant on International Programs. Furman
University; Greenville, South Carolina.
March 1995.
Curricular
Consultant on Freshman Seminar Programs. Nebraska
Wesleyan University;
Lincoln, Nebraska.
September 1994.
Program Commentator,
“Resistance in the Netherlands
and Switzerland,” Fifth
Annual Conference on the Holocaust, Millersville University, 1986.
Program Commentator,
“The International Politics of Blockade, 1914-1919.” American Historical
Association annual meeting, New York, NY 1985.
Program Commentator,
“Public Opinion on Peace and War.” Society for Historians of American Foreign
Relations annual meeting, Washington D.C., 1984.
Program Commentator,
“1917/18: Revolts and Threats of Revolts Among Europe’s Neutrals.” Southern
Historical Association annual meeting, Louisville,
1981.
“The Limits of the Liberal
Critique: Ludwig von Mises and the German Hyperinflation of 1923.” Paper
delivered at the Virginia Social Science Association annual meeting, Virginia Beach, 1980.
Military Service
United States Army,
1962-1965. Served in Vietnam
(1963-64) and Okinawa (1964-65).
Honorably discharged with rank of Specialist 5 (E5).