CURRICULUM VITAE

TEOFILO F. RUIZ

Address: 1557 S. Beverly Glen Blvd. Apt. 304, Los Angeles, CA 90024Telephone: (310) 470-7479; fax 470-7208 (fax)

E-mail: tfruiz@history.ucla.edu HIGHER EDUCATION:

City College, C.U.N.Y., B.A. History, Magna Cum Laude. June 1969New York University, M.A. History Summer 1970Princeton University, Ph.D. History January 1974

TEACHING CAREER:

Faculty Director, International Education Office 2010-2013• Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese 2008 to present• Professor of History, University of California at Los Angeles 1998 to present• Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching, Princeton University 1997-98• Professor, Department of History, Graduate Center, C.U.N.Y. 1995-98• Tow Professor of History at Brooklyn College

1993-95• Director of The Ford Colloquium at Brooklyn College

1992-95• Visiting Professor, Princeton University, Spring 1995• Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. Professor, Michigan State University Spring 1990• Visiting Professor, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) Winter

1990• Professor of History, Brooklyn College

1985-98• Professor of Spanish Medieval Literature, Ph.D. Program in Spanish

and Portuguese, Graduate Center, C.U.N.Y. 1988-98• Associate Professor, History, Brooklyn College

1981-85• Visiting Assistant Professor, History, Princeton University Spring 1975• Assistant Professor, History, Brooklyn College

1974-81• Instructor, History, Brooklyn College 1973-74• Teaching Assistant, History, Princeton University Spring 1973•HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, ELECTIONS, AND LECTURESHIPS:

• Faculty Research Lecturer, UCLA 2011-12• National Humanities Medal 2011-12• Elected to the Société nationale des Antiquaires de France 2012 (for life)• PBK Lecturer of the Year 2011-12• Appointed Outside Reviewer for the European Research Council 2009- • Elected to the ACLS Board of Directors

2009-2013• Distinguished Teacher Award, UCLA 2008• Member of Advisory Board of the Wende Museum (LA) 2008

onwards• John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 2007-08• Elected Vice-President of the American Historical Association.

2005-08Research Division

• Elected president of the American Academy of Research Historians of 2005-08• Medieval Spain• Clark Library Professor

2002-03• Emma Willard 175th Anniversary Lectureship 2002• Wolfe Institute Fellowship 1996-97• PSC-CUNY Research Award 1996-97• Premio del Rey, The AHA Biennial Award for Best Book on Spanish History 1995• “Outstanding Master’s Universities and Colleges Professor of the Year,”

chosen by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching 1994-95

• Faculty, NEH Seminar, Mexico June, 1995

• Tow Professor of History, Brooklyn College 1993-95• Director of Studies, École des hautes études en sciences sociales,

Paris, France January 1993• Faculty, Community College Association, NEH Seminar,

The Johns Hopkins University 1992• CUNY Research Travel Grant Summer 1990• • Faculty, NEH Seminar, Essex Community College June

1990• Faculty, NEH Seminar, UCLA July 1989• Member, Screening Committee, ACLS 1988• Lecturer, International Workshops (Ettore Majorana). Erice, Italy Sept., 1988• Member, Selection Committee, “Spain and America in the Vth Centenary

of the Discovery,” Spanish Government 1988• Faculty, NEH Institute, Fordham University 22/6-31/7

1987• Lecturer, NEH Seminar, Newberry Library 9-12 June

1987• Director of Study, École des hautes études en sciences sociales. Paris, France January 1987• Member, Action Thematique Programmée (ATP) of the Centre National de

Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) on the Genesis of the Modern State. Spain 1985-89• Visiting Fellow, Antiquary Lectures, Denys Hay Seminar in

Medieval and Renaissance History, University of Edinburgh January 1986• Member, Fulbright Area Commission 1986-89• Member, Executive Committee SSPHS

1985-87• Travel Grant (ACLS) Summer 1985• Member, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 1983-84• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship 1983-84• Director of Study, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, France January 1983• Scholar Incentive Award, CUNY 1983-84• Faculty Research Award, CUNY, for travel to Spain 1983-84• Danforth Associate Program Fellow 1978-84• American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (ACLS) 1979-80• NEH Fellowship (declined) 1979-80 • Faculty Research Award, for research in Spain 1979-80

• Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies 1975-76• Faculty Research Award, CUNY, for travel and research in Spain 1975-76• NDEA Fellowship, Princeton University 1970-73• Martin Luther King Fellowship, New York University

1969-70• Phi Beta Kappa, CCNY•PUBLICATIONS—WORK PUBLISHED, IN PROGRESS, AND FORTHCOMING:

A) Accepted for publication or under contract:

Books:

The Western Mediterranean and the World, 400 to the Present. Under contract with Blackwell (manuscript due in December 2012).

Articles:

“Textile Consumption in Late Medieval Castile: The Social, Economic, and Cultural Meaning of Clothing, 1200-1350" forthcoming in a collection of essays Trans-Atlantic Consumption Patterns, edited by Amanda Angel.

B) Already in print:

BOOKS:

A King’s Travels: Festivals, Spectacles, and Power in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012).

Viajes apostolicos de California de los religiosos de Propaganda Fide, del Colegio de San Fernando de Mexico por Junipero Serra y Fr. Juan Crespi, edited by Angel Luis Encinas and Teofilo F. Ruiz. Prologo y transcripción de Encinas Epilogo de T. F. Ruiz (Madrid: Miraguano Ediciones, 2011).

The Terror of History: On the Uncertainties of Life in the Western World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011).

Co-edited with Gabriel Piterberg and Geoffrey Symcox, Braudel Revisited: The Mediterranean World 1600-1800 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010).

Spain: Centuries of Crisis, 1300-1474 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007). Spanish translation published by Crítica, Barcelona, 2008. Nominated for the best book about Spanish medieval history and literature by the journal La Coronica.

Co-author with Robin Winks, Medieval Europe and the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).

From Heaven to Earth: The Reordering of Castilian Society in the Late Middle Ages, 1150-1350 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).

Spanish Society, 1400 - 1600 (Longman: London, 2001). Spanish translation, La sociedad española, 1400-1600 (Crítica: Barcelona, 2002). This is a slightly revised translation of my Spanish Society, 1400-1600.

Crisis and Continuity: Land and Town in Late Medieval Castile (University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, 1994).(Awarded the “Premio del Rey” by the American Historical Association in 1995.) The City and the Realm: Burgos and Castile in the Late Middle Ages (London: Variorum Reprints, 1992). This is a collection of some of my previously published articles on Burgos and Castile.

Co-author, 516 pp. Burgos en la Edad Media (Valladolid, 1984). Sociedad y poder real en Castilla (Barcelona, 1981).

Co-editor of Order and Innovation in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Joseph R. Strayer (Princeton, N.J., 1976).

ARTICLES:

“Philip II’s Entry into Zaragoza in 1685: A Theater of Power or Contestation?” in Mobs. An Interdisciplinary Inquiry, eds. Nancy Van Dusen and Leonard M. Koff (Leiden: Brill, 2012),269-84.

Epilogue: “Spain in California,” in Viajes apostolicos de California de los religiosos de Propaganda Fide, del Colegio de San Fernando de Mexico por Junipero Serra y Fr. Juan Crespi, edited by Angel Luis Encinas and Teofilo F. Ruiz. Prologo y transcripción de Encinas Epilogo de T. F. Ruiz (Madrid: Miraguano Ediciones, 2011).

“Voices of the Oppressed: Peasant Resistance in Late Medieval Castile,” in Castilla y el mundo feudal. Homenaje al Profesor Julio Valdeón, eds. María Isabel del Val Valdivieso and Pascual Martínez Sopena, 3 vols. (Valladolid: Junta de Castilla y León, 2009): III, 63-72.

“The Symbolic Meaning of Sword and Palio in Late Medieval and Early Modern Ritual Entries: The Case of Seville,” in Memoria y civilización. Anuario de Historia, Universidad de Navarra, 12 (2009), 13-48.

“Urban Historical Geography and the Writing of Late Medieval Urban History,” in A Companion to the Medieval World, ed. Carol Lansing and Edward D. English (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), 397-412.

“Jews, Muslims, and Christians,” in A People’s History of Christianity, ed. Daniel E. Bornstein, 4 vols. (Minneapolis, 2009), vol. 4: 265-99.

“A Master Historian at the Movies,” Perspectives on History, December 2008 (Essay).

“Medieval Europe and the World: Why Medievalists Should Also Be World Historians” in History Compass, a Blackwell on-line journal, November 2006.

“The Diocese Of Avila,” in International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages – Online Brepols.

“Reading Violence: Moriscos in Sixteenth-Century Spain,” in Sociedad y memoria en la Edad Media: Estudios in Homenaje de Nilda Guglielmi. (Buenos Aires, 2005), 351-57.

“Poverty,” in Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Supplement I (New York, 2004), 497-508. This is a synthetic and extensive examination of medieval poverty. 10 pages in double columns.

“Spain: Early and Medieval Economy,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, ed. Joel Mokyr (NY-Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), vol. 5: 539-541.

“Seville,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, ed. Joel Mokyr (NY-Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), vol. 5: 471-73.

“Granada,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, ed. Joel Mokyr (NY-Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), vol. 2: 446-47.

“Center and Periphery in the Teaching of Medieval History,” in Medieval Cultures in Contact (Fordham University Press, 2003).

“La historia medieval de España en el mundo norteamericano,” Medievalismo. Boletín de la Sociedad Española de estudios medievales, 12, 12 (2002), 299-312.

“Viajando pela planície Castelhana,” in Signum. Revista da Associação Brasileira de Estudos Medievais, 4 (2002), 117-152.

“Trading with the ‘Other’: Economic Exchanges Between Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Late Medieval Castile,” in Essays in Honour of Angus MacKay (London, 2002), 63-78.

“La cronología y la nueva historia social: enseñanza y escritura de la historia de España desde el centro y las periferias,” El hispanismo anglonorteamericano: Aportaciones, problemas y perspectivas sobre Historia, Arte y Literatura españolas (siglos XVI-XVIII) (Cordoba, 2001), 275-89.

“La Conquista de Sevilla: Una revisión del problema,” in Seville, 1248. Actas del Congreso Internacional para el 750 aniversario de la incorporación de Sevilla a la Corona de Castilla (Sevilla, 2002), 267-77.

“Centers and Peripheries: Writing and Teaching medieval and Early Modern Spanish History,” in Historia a debate II (Santiago de Compostela, 2000), 85-92.

“The Business of Salvation: Property and Charity in Late Medieval Castile,” in On the Social Origins of Medieval Institutions: Essays in Honor of Joseph F. O’Callaghan (Brill: Leiden, 1998), 63-89.

“Límites: De la comunidad a la nación en la Castilla bajomedieval,” in Anuarios de estudios medievales, 27/1 (1997), 23-41. Published in late 1998.

“The Peasantries of Iberia, 1400 - 1800,” in The Peasantries of Europe. From the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries, ed. Tom Scott (Longman: London, 1998), 49-73.

“Women, Work and Daily Life in Late Medieval Castile,” in Women at Work in Spain: From the Middle Ages to Early Modern Times, ed. M. Stone and C. Benito-Vessels (New York, 1998), 101-20.

“Propietat i llengua: Canvis d valors a la Castella medieval,” L’Avenç 213 (abril 1997), 63-7.

“Teaching as Subversion,” in Inspiring Teaching: Carnegie Professors of the Year Speak, ed. John K. Roth (Jaffrey, NH: Anker, 1996), 158-165.

“Violence in Late Medieval Castile: The Case of the Rioja,” Revista de História 133 (1995), 15-36.

“Representación: Castilla, los castellanos y el Nuevo Mundo a finales de la edad media y principios de la moderna,” in Historia a debate. Medieval (Santiago de Compostela, 1995),

63-77.

“La formazione della monarchia non consacrata: simboli e realtà di potere nella Castiglia mediovale,” in Federico II e il mondo mediterraneo, a cura di Pierre Toubert e Agostino Paravicino Bagliani, 3 vols. (Palermo: Sellerio editore, 1995), 230-47.

“Judíos y cristianos en el ámbito urbano bajomedieval: Avila y Burgos, 1200-1350” in Xudeos e conversos na historia. Actas do Congreso Internacional de Judíos y Conversos en la Historia, 2 vols. (Santiago de Compostela: Deputación de Orense, 1994), vol. 2, 69-93.

“Elite and Popular Culture in Late Fifteenth-Century Castilian Festivals: The Case of Jaén,” in City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe, eds. B.A. Hanawalt and K.L. Reyerson (Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1994), 296-318.

Co-authored with Scarlett Freund, “Jews, Conversos, and the Inquisition, 1391-1492: The Ambiguities of History,” in Jewish-Christian Encounters Over the Centuries: Symbiosis, Prejudice, Holocaust, Dialogue, edited by M. Perry and F.M. Schweitzer (New York: Peter Lang Inc., 1994), 169-95.

“Goodby Columbus and All That: History and Textual Criticism” (Review article), New West Indian Guide 67 (3 & 4) 1993, 281-85.

“Representación de uno mismo, representación de otros y por otros: Castilla, los castellanos y el Nuevo Mundo a finales de la edad media,” Temas Medievales 3 (1993), 49-70.

“Western Europe on the Eve of Expansion,” A Guidebook to Resources for Teachers of the Columbian Encounter (Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1992), pp. 15-30.“Festivités, couleurs et symboles du pouvoir en Castille au XVe siècle. Les célébrations de mai 1428,” Annales E.S.C., 3 (1991), 521-46.

“Fiestas, torneos, y símbolos de realeza en la Castilla del siglo XV,” in Realidad e imágenes de poder. España a fines de la edad media (Valladolid, 1988), 249-66.

“The Holy Office in Medieval France and in Late Medieval Castile: Origins and Contrasts,” in The Spanish Inquisition and the Inquisitionial Mind, ed. Angel Alcalá (Highland Lakes, N.J. 1987), 33-52.

“La formazione del mercato della terra nella Castiglia del basso medioevo,” in Quaderni Storici 65, XXII, n. 2 (August 1987), 423-52.

“L’image du pouvoir á travers les sceaux de la monarchie Castillane,” in Genese médiévale de l’etat moderne (Valladolid, 1987), 217-27.

“Images of Power in the Seals of the Castilian Monarchy, 1135-1469,” in Estudios en homenaje a C. Sánchez Albornoz, vol. 4 (Buenos Aires, 1986), 455-63.

“Unsacred monarchy: The Kings of Castile in the Late Middle Ages,” in Rites of Power. Symbolism, Ritual and Politics Since the Middle Ages (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985), 109-44.

“Burgos and the Council of 1080,” in Santiago, St. Denis and St. Peter (Fordham University Press, 1985), 121-30.

“Burgos y el comercio castellano en la Baja Edad Media,” in Actas del Ier Congreso de Historia de

Burgos (Leon, 1985), 37-55.

“La inquisición medieval y la moderna: Paralelos y contrastes,” in Inquisición española y mentalidad inquisitorial (Barcelona, 1984), 45-66.

“Une royauté sans sacre: La monarchie castillane du bas Moyen Age,” Annales E.S.C., 3 (mai-juin 1984), 429-52.

“Une note sur la vie rurale dans la région d’Aguilar de Campóo,” in Les Espagnes médiévales. Aspects économiques et sociaux (Nice, 1983), 13-20.

“Notas para el estudio de la mujer en el área del Burgos medieval,” in El pasado histórico de Castilla y León. Edad Media, 3 vols. (Burgos, 1983), vol. 1: 419-28.

“Oligarchy and Royal Power: The Castilian Cortes and the Castilian Crisis 1248-1350,” Parliaments, Estates and Representation, vol. 2, no. 2 (Dec. 1982), 95-101.

“Une nota sobre la estructura y relaciones fiscales del Burgos bajomedieval,” Estudios en memoria del Profesor D. Salvador de Moxó, II (Madrid, 1982), 387-398.

“Expansion et changement: la conquête de Séville et la société castillane, 1248-1350,” Annales E.S.C., 3 (mai-juin 1979), 548-65.

“Reaction to Anagni,” The Catholic Historical Review 65 (1979), 385-401.

“The Transformation of the Castilian Municipalities. The Case of Burgos, 1248-1350,” Past & Present 77 (1977), 3-33.

“Castilian Merchants in England, 1248-1350,” in Order and Innovation in the Middle Ages, (Princeton, N.J., 1976), 173-185.

“Mercaderes castellanos en Inglaterra, 1248-1350. Con un apéndice documental de mercaderes y marinos de los Cuatro Puertos,” Anuario de Estudios Marítimos `Juan de la Cosa’, I (1977): 11-38. This is a revised and expanded version of my “Castilian Merchants.”

“La estructura económica del área de Burgos,” Boletín de la Institución Fernán González, 186 (1976): 819-30.

“Prosopografía burgalesa, 1248-1350,” Boletín de la Institución Fernán González 184 (1975): 467-99.

DICTIONARY ARTICLES—DICTIONARY OF THE MIDDLE AGES:

• “Reconquest, The” (New York, 1988), vol. 10: 279-280. • “Mesta” (New York, 1987), vol. 8: 279-281.• • “Law, Spanish” (New York, 1986), vol. 7: 518-524, 5,000 words. • “Hermandades” (New York, 1985), vol. 6: 209-210.• “Julianus of Toledo” (New York, 1986), vol. 6: 181. • “Eulogius of Cordoba” (New York, 1984), vol. 4: 521.• “Converso” (New York, 1983), vol. 3: 577-78.• “Castilian Language,” (New York, 1983), vol. 3: 141-142, 1,000 words.• “Castile (1037-1476),” (New York, 1983), vol. 3: 125-141, 10,000 words.• “Order of Aviz” (New York, 1983), vol. 2: 16-17.• “Asturias-Leon (718-1037)” (New York, 1982), vol. 1: 625-631, 5000 words.

• “Andalusia” (New York, 1982), vol. 1: 243-44.• “Almogávares” (New York, 1982), vol. 1: 190-191.

• Dictionary articles in The Columbus Encyclopaedia, The Iberian Encyclopaedia, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History

More than seventy reviews in the Americas, American Historical Review, Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Colonial Latin American Review, Renaissance Quarterly, Annales, E.S.C., Speculum, Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, L’Avenç, L’Avenç, Technology and Culture, Journal of Comparative History, The Catholic Historical Review, Shofar.

Chair and organizer of panels and conferences. More than eighty invited papers given at universities, research institutions and scholarly gatherings in France, England, Spain, Italy, Canada, the U.S, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina.

PAPERS AND CONFERENCES—A Selection:

“From Concejo to Regimiento,” to the Columbia University Seminar on Political and Legal Thought, November 1974.

“Burgos: Urban Oligarchy and Royal Power, 1248-1350,” at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, New York, April 1975.

“The Impact of the Conquest of Seville on Castilian Society, 1248-1350,” at the Xth Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1975.

Commentator in session on Medieval Spanish Historiography at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, December 1975.

“La crisis del siglo XIV en Castilla,” to the Department of Medieval History, University of Valladolid, Spain, 6 May 1980.

“Las mujeres del Burgos medieval,” to the Department of Medieval History, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, 26 February 1980.

“Burgos and the Council of 1080,” to a symposium organized by the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain, Fordham University, New York, 12 October 1980.

“Oligarchy and Royal Power: The Castilian Cortes and the Castilian Crisis, 1248-1350,” at the meeting of the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1981.

“Neither Sacred nor Thaumaturgical: The Kings of Castile in the Late Middle Ages,” to the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, 26 March 1982.

“Pageantry and Ceremony in Medieval Spain,” at Barnard College, New York, 25 October 1982.

A month long seminar (in French) on rituals and symbols of power in late medieval Castile at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, January 1983.

“The Medieval and Spanish Inquisitions: Parallels and Contrasts,” at the XIIth Brooklyn College Conference on Society and Change, New York, April 1983.

“The Women of Medieval Burgos,” at the XIVth Annual Conference of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Boston, April 1983.

“The Kings of Castile in the Late Middle Ages,” at the International Congress on Alfonso X, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, April 1984.

“Burgos y el comercio castellano en la Baja Edad Media: Economía y mentalidad,” paper on the 1100 Anniversary of the Foundation of Burgos, Burgos, Spain, May 1984.

“Rural and Urban Life in Medieval Northern Castile,” at the Humanities Institute, Brooklyn College, November 1984.

“Feeding and Clothing the Poor: Diet, Charity and Social Difference in Late Medieval Castile,” to the Medieval Studies Program, Fordham University, New York November 1984.

“Dieta, Caridad y distinctión social en Castilla bajomedieval,” at the XVIIth Annual Meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Madrid, Spain, June 1985.

“Toledo in the Middle Ages,” at a conference on The Medieval City and Its Image, New York, October 1985.

“Estructuras de poder en Castilla bajomedieval,” at a Colloquium on Medieval Historiography in Castile, CNRS Research Group on the Genesis of the Modern State, Madrid, Spain, November 1985.

“Charity and Welfare in Late Medieval Castile,” Dennis Hay Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance History. Antiquary Lecture, 21 January 1986.

“Charity, Diet, and Social Distinctions in Late Medieval Spain,” at the University Lecture Series, Vanderbilt University, 24 February 1986.

“From Love to Ritual: Feeding and Clothing the Poor,” at the Shelby Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, March 1986.

“Crusade, Religion, and the Civil War in Castile,” Andrew W. Mellon Conference on Medieval History, Princeton University, March 1986.

“L’image du pouvoir a travers les sceaux de la monarchie castellaine,” at the Colloquium on the “Genese medievale de l’Éspagne Moderne, Nice, France, 16-18 October 1986.

“Dieta, carida y diferencias sociales en los textos castellanos de la Baja Edad Media,” Spanish Program Lecture Series, CUNY Graduate Center, 7 November 1986.

“Crusade, Religion, and the Castilian Civil War,” at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, December 1986.

Month-long seminar on charity in late medieval Spain (in French and Spanish) at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, January 1987.

“Wills and History in Late Medieval Castile,” to the XVIIIth Annual Meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (SSPHS), Austin, TX, April 1987.

Chair and Organizer of a session on the Capetians in Spain at the International Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI, 1-5 May 1987.

Cycle of four lectures on late medieval Spain to a NEH Institute at the Newberry Library, Chicago, June 1987.

Cycle of five lectures at a NEH Institute on Medieval Spain at Fordham University, New York, July 1987.

“Símbolos de realeza y poder en la Castilla bajomedieval. Las fiestas de mayo de 1428,” to the III Annual Meeting of the CNRS Research Group on the Genesis of the Modern State, Madrid, November 1987.

“Jews and Christians in Castilian Towns in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries,” at the Conference on Jewish-Christian Relations, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, 1 March 1988.

“Royal Entries in Medieval Castile,” Andrew W. Mellon Lecture, School of Architecture, Princeton University, February 1989.

“The Inquisition, the Jews and the Conversos,”with Scarlett Freund, at a Conference on Christian-Jewish Relations, New York, 1 March 1989.

“Festivals, Colors, and Symbols of Power: The Feasts of May 1428 in Valladolid,” to the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, 3 March 1989.

Five lectures on the social and cultural history of late medieval Spain, NEH Institute, UCLA, 23-30 July 1989.

“Rituals of Power in the Iberian Peninsula,” at the International Workshop on Frederick II, Erice, Sicily, 18-24 September 1989.

“Símbolos de poder y resistencia en la Castilla bajomedieval,” to the IV Annual Meeting of the CNRS Research Group on the Genesis of the Modern State, Paris, 27 September 1989.

“The Inquisition and the Conversos in Late Medieval Spain,” at Trinity College, Hartford, CT, November 1989.

Week long cycle of conferences on eating and dressing in medieval Castile at the Universidad de Granada, Spain, April 1990.

Three lectures on Spanish history for NEH Seminar for Community College Teachers at Essex County Community College, June 1990.

“The Contributions of D. Claudio Sánchez Albornoz,” at the Spanish Institute, New York, December 1990.

“Popular and Elite Culture in Jaén,” History Seminar, Princeton University, March 1991.

“Elite and Popular Culture in Late Fifteenth-Century Castilian Festivals: The Case of Jaén,” Conference on City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe, University of Minnesota, April 1991.

“Jewish Life on the Eve of the Expulsion: Towards 1492,” at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, September 1991.

“Judíos y cristianos en el ámbito urbano medieval. Avila y Burgos,” International Conference on Jews and Christians. Ribadavia, Spain, 14-17 October 1991.

“Towards 1492: Columbus’ Second Voyage,” Princeton History Department Seminar, March 1992.

“The Business of Salvation in Late Medieval Castile,” at the Annual Meeting of the SSPHS, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 1992.

Three lectures on late medieval Spanish History. NEH Seminar, The Johns Hopkins University, June 1992.

Month-long seminar on violence in late medieval Spain (in French and Spanish) at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, January 1993.

Seminar on Teaching and lecture on Spanish History at Humboldt University, Arcata, CA, March 1993.

“Culture and Society in Late Medieval Castile,” Spanish Institute, New York, May 1993.

“Representación: Castilla y los castellanos al final de la edad media,” International Conference “Historia a debate I, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 1993.

Chaired session at a conference in honor of Jacques Le Goff. King’s College, Cambridge, England, April 1994.

“Violence in Late Medieval Castile,” at the Annual Meeting of the SSPHS, San Antonio, TX, April 1994.

Workshop on Teaching and lecture on “Witchcraft in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe,” at Baylor University, Waco, TX, May 1994.

“Burgos and Royal Power: 1332,” at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, January 1995.

Three lectures on Spanish History, NEH Institute, Mexico City, June 1995.

“Violence in the Late Medieval Rioja,” (in Portuguese) University of São Paulo, Brazil, August 1995.

“Learning about Violence in Medieval Texts,” Center for Medieval Studies (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 1995.

Workshop on teaching and lecture on “Festivals and Royal Entries in Late Medieval Spain,” at Northern Arizona State University, Flagstaff, AZ, October 1995.

“Understanding Violence in a Medieval Context,” Yale University, History, March 1996.

“Property and Boundaries,” at the Cornell University History Seminar, October 1996.

“From Heaven to Earth: Property and salvation in Late Medieval Castile,” Stanford University History Seminar, January 1997.

“Teaching in the Community,” St. Claire’s County Community College, Port Huron, MI, February 1997.

“Boundaries: From Local Community to the Nation,” Andrew W. Mellon Seminar, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), March 1997.

“Resistance to Violence in Late Medieval Castile,” New England Medieval Assoc. Conference, Brown University, April, 1997.

Since hired at UCLA in summer 1997:

Seminar on Mentality and History, University of São Paulo, Brazil, November 1997.

“Festivales y entradas reales en Castilla,” Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 1997.

“España Invertebrada: Las posibilidades de España en su historia,” Fundación Ortega y Gasset, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 1997.

Workshop on Graduate Teaching at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Seattle, January 1998.

“Property, Salvation and Representation in Late Medieval Castile,” (pre-distributed paper) at the Spanish Consortium at University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, February 1998.

Organized conference on medieval Spanish History and Literature and presented a paper on “Violence and Resistance in Late Medieval Castile,” Medieval Studies Program, Princeton University, April 1998.

“Property and Salvation in Late Medieval Castile,” at Harvard University, April 1998.

Three conferences on Late Medieval Spain, NEH Institute, Mexico City, June 1998.

“A Social History of Spain,” to the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Roundtable, University of California Los Angeles, October 1998.

“La Conquista de Sevilla: Una Revisión del Problema,” at the International Conference on the 750th Anniversary of the Conquest of Seville. Seville, Spain, November 1998.

“Festivals, Royal Entries, Carnival and Power in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain,” The Samuel Pepys Annual Lecture, CMRS, UCLA, December 1998.

“From Carnival to Corpus Christi,” (two chapters distributed for discussion beforehand), Department of History European Seminar, University of California Los Angeles, January 1999.

“On the Margins of Society in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain,” (chapter distributed for discussion) at University of California Medieval Seminar, Huntington Library, February 1999.

“The Making of a Noble in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain,” plenary presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of the Pacific, Pomona, CA, March 1999.

Chair and commentator of a panel on “Violence in Early Modern Spain,” at the 30th Annual Meeting of the SSPHS, San Diego, April 1999.

“Jews, Conversos, and the Inquisition,” Public Lecture (Amado Lecture), at University of California Los Angeles, April 1999.

“The Terror of History: Witchcraft in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe,” Public Lecture to the Bruin Supporters of the History Department, University of California Los Angeles, January 1999.

Seminar on teaching and lecture on “The Witchcraze in Late and Early Modern Europe,” at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, May 1999.

“Centers and Peripheries: Writing and Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Spanish History,” at the Second International Conference, Historia a Debate, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 1999.

Seminar and lecture on “Festivals in Late Fifteenth-Century Castile,” at the Program in Iberian Civilization, UC Berkeley, 15 September 1999.

Organizer and chair of a Colloquium on Rural History at University of California Los Angeles; in attendance: Thomas Bisson (Harvard), Robert Brenner (UCLA), Paul Freedman (Yale), and William Jordan (Princeton).

“The Terror of History: Witchcraft in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe,” Public Lecture to the Friends of History, University of California Los Angeles, 12 January 2000.

“Becoming a Noble in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain: The Case of the Chirinos,” at Annual Meeting of the SSPHS, New York University, 28 April 2000.

Organizer of a Colloquium on the 100th Anniversary of the Graduate School at Princeton University. Princeton, 26-27 May 2000.

“La Historia medieval en Los Estados Unidos,” A seminar at the Padre Sarmientos Institute. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 14 July 2000

Commentator of a panel on French History at the Western Society for French History Annual Meeting, University of California Los Angeles, 9-11 November 2000.

“Eating and Drinking: Poverty and Charity in Late Medieval Castile,” at a Conference on Poverty, Claremont Graduate University, 11 November 2000.

Workshop on Teaching: “The First of Classes teaching Western Civilization Courses,” at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Boston, 5 January 2001.

Two lectures on Spanish history to a UCLA Extension course on “The Road to Compostela,” 24 February 2001.

Commentator to John Padgett’s paper at the “Rules of the Game” Conference, at the Getty Museum and University of California Los Angeles, 28 February-3 March 2001.

“Echoes of the Hermetic Tradition in Early Modern Spain,” Conference on Hermetism in early Modern Europe at the Clark Library, University of California Los Angeles, October 2001.

“Power and Spectacle in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain,” at Conference on Performance and Ritual at Claremont Graduate School, 8-10 November 2001.

Lecture on the “End of Childhood,” (High School Teachers’ Development) to the History-Geography Project at the Center for European and Russian Studies, University of California Los Angeles, October 2001.

Lecture on “Teaching the Middle Ages,” (High School Teachers’ Development) to the History-Geography Project at the Center for European and Russian Studies, University of California Los

Angeles, November 2001.

“The Encounter of the Old World and the New,” (High School Teachers’ Development) to the National History Center. 6 December 2001.

Lecturer at Workshop in Teaching, History-Geography Project, El Camino Community College, Winter, 2002.

175th Anniversary Speaker at Emma Willard School, Troy, NY, 15 lectures over three days,17-20 February, 2002.

Chair of panel at “Skepticism as a Force in Renaissance and Post-Renaissance Thought,” Clark Library, University of California Los Angeles, 8-9 March 2002.

Commentator at conference on Middle East History, University of California Los Angeles, 12-13 April 2002

Keynote Speaker at “Working with ELL Students in Social Studies Classrooms,” History-Geography Project, University of California Los Angeles, 27 April 2002.

Since last merit advancement 2002:

Commentator on panel on Medieval Iberian Law at the Annual Meeting of the American legal History Society, San Diego, November, 2002.

“Voices of Protest: Peasant Resistant in Late Medieval Castile,” at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. Chicago, 2-5 January 2003.

Chair and Commentator of section of “Concepts of Time in the Middle Ages,” Calendar Reform and Religious Reformation Conference, University of California Los Angeles, 24-25 January 2003.Co-Organizer of the year long conference on Braudel and the Mediterranean World, Clark Library, University of California Los Angeles.

“Reading Violence: Moriscos in Early Modern Spain,” Braudel Conference, Clark Library, University of California Los Angeles, 31 January-1 February 2003.

“The Witchcraze in Early Modern Europe,” Public lecture, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 14 February 2003.

Workshop on teaching the Middle Ages, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 15 February 2003

“Property, Language, and Salvation in Late Medieval Castile,” (pre-distributed paper) California Medieval Conference, Huntington Library, San Marino, 22 February 2003.

“Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Spain,” at the Center for European and Russian Studies, University of California Los Angeles.

Presenter and commentator at the Spinoza Conference at University of California Los Angeles, 11 February 2003.

Commentator and Chair at the Jews in Italy Conference, Clark Library, University of California Los Angeles, 3 April 2003.

Lecture on early modern popular culture to the Friends of History, University of California Los Angeles, 14 January 2004.

Chair of the Conference on Theorizing the Dynamics of Core-periphery Relations at the Clark Library, University of California Los Angeles, 30-31 January 2004.

“Violence in Sixteenth Century Spain,” at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 1-4 April 2004.

“Echoes of the Hermetic Tradition in Early Modern Spain: Calderón’s La Vida es Sueño, Spanish Department, Duke University, Durham, NC, 20 September 2004

“Reading Violence: Moriscos in Sixteenth Century Spain,” Honor Lecture at the University of Oregon, Eugene, 5 November 2004.

Since last merit advancement 2005:

Instructor at a Smithsonian program on The Terror of History, Washington, DC, 7 May 2005.

Three lectures on the Renaissance given to the University of California Los Angeles Alumni Association in Marchialla, Tuscany, Italy, 18- 26 September, 2005.

“Witchcraft in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe,” at a conference given to CUNY Alumni in Los Angeles, 26 October 2005.

Workshop on writing CVs at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2006.

“Charles V and the Imperial Ideal,” to a Humanities West Conference, San Francisco, 1 April 2006.

“Migrations in Human History,” to the History-Geography Project, University of California Los Angeles, 9 August 2006.

“The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern History,” to University of California Los Angeles Alumni Summer Program, 11 August 2006.

“1492 Revisited: Jews, Muslims, and Natives,” to the History-Geography Project, University of California Los Angeles, 16 August 2006.

“Theater of Power: The Ceremonial Entry of Philip II in Zaragoza in 1585," at the Claremont Graduate Conference on Processions, 9-11 November 2006.

Organized three sessions for the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain, at the AHA Annual Meeting, January 2007.

Chair and Organizer of Session on Medieval Historiography at the AHA Annual Meeting, January 2007.

Member of a Panel: Lives in History: Four Master Historians Reflect on their Careers with Eric Foner, Anthony Grafton, Lynn Hunt, and James McPherson at the AHA Annual Meeting, January 2007.

“Crusades in Spain,” Humanities West, San Francisco, 24 February 2007.

“Encounters with Another World,” Plenary Speaker at the National Council for History Education, Williamsburg, VA, 11-12 April 2007.

Since last merit advancement 2007

“Becoming a Noble in Spain,” at a Medieval Symposium, Stanford University, 10 October 2007.

“Itemizing the Past Revisited: Litigation, Memory, and History,” at a Medieval Symposium, University of California Berkeley, 11 October 2007.

“Witchcraft in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe,” at Parent’s Weekend, University of California Los Angeles, 20 October 2007.

Chair and Participant at a workshop on “Sites of Encounter and Cultural Production,” at the AHA Annual Meeting, 3-6 January 2008.

Chair and Organizer of panel on Late Medieval and Early Modern Spanish History at the AHA Annual Meeting, 3-6 January 2008.

Chair, Organizer and Participant in a workshop on Historical Fiction with noted children’s book writer Avi, at the AHA Annual Meeting, 3-6 January 2008.

“Philip II’s Royal Entry into Zaragoza: Theater of Power or Contestation?” Reidy Lecture at Occidental College, 6 February 2008.

“From Ancient to Medieval: The Legacy of Greece and Rome in the Middle Ages,” Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus, Spain, 27 February 2008.

“Spain and the New World in the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period,” Plenary Lecture at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 31 March 2008.

“From Dante to Chaucer: The Crisis of Late Medieval Society,” paper at Middlebury College, Vermont,8 May 2009.

Panelist in round table on “Writing History,” Middlebury College, Vermont, 8 May 2008.

“Giving Voices to the Peasantry in Medieval Castile,” Huntington Conference on the Medieval Peasantry, 16-17, Huntington Library, San Marino, May 2008.

Chair of a session on late medieval and early modern Moriscos at the Pacific American Historical Association Meeting, August 2008.

“Ruling the Habsburg Lands: Philip II, the Crown of Aragon and Barcelona,” Paper at Conference on the Habsburg Lands, Zurich, Switzerland, 9 to 12 October 2008.

Lecture on Teaching the European Witchcraze to Graduate Students in the School of Education, University of California Los Angeles, 27 October 2008.

Chair, AHA panel on “Global Perspectives and Local Understandings in Historical Narratives about the Conquest of Mexico,” 5 January 2009.

Organized two panels on Sites of Encounter, AHA Meeting, 2-5 January 2009.

“Discourses of Blood and Kinship in Late Medieval and early Modern Castile,” at the Conference on Kinship and Blood: Incorporation-Genealogy-Race-Genes, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, 16-18 April 2009.

“A King Goes Traveling: Philip II and Barcelona,” at the International Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI, 6-10 May 2009.

“1492. Revisited,” University of California Los Angeles Bruin Women’s Group, 20 May 2009.

“Spanish Law and Los Angeles,” to the Law School Faculty, University of California Los Angeles, 21 September 2009.“Jews, Conversos, and the Inquisition in Iberia,” Plenary Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the California Council for History Education, Costa Mesa Hilton, 24 September 2009.

“Discourses of Blood in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain,” First Initial Lecture of the CMRS’s series Voces Nostrates, University of California Los Angeles, 17 November 2009.

Chair of plenary presentation at the I Jornadas de Cultura, Lengua y Literatura Coloniales, Annual Conference of El Centro de Estudios Coloniales Iberoamericanos (CECI), University of California Los Angeles, 19 November 2009.

Chair and Presenter of panel on Sites of Encounter and Teaching World History K-12 at the AHA Annual Meeting, San Diego, 9 January 2010.

“Spain, New Spain, California, and the Californios, 1715-1821,” at the Quarterly Meeting of Californios, Warner Spring, CA, 23 January 2010.

“Kings and Knights at Play in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain,” (pre-distributed paper) at the Southwestern Iberian Consortium, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 6 February 2010.

“Discourses of Blood,” at the Claremont All College Conference on Blood, Dynasty, Sacrament, Sacrifice, 27 February 2010.

“The Terror of History: Heresy and the Millennium in Late Medieval Europe,” Stanford University. 4 November 2010

“Royal Entries in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain,” pre-circulated paper to the California medieval Seminar, Huntington Library, 6 November 2010

SINCE LAST ADVANCEMENT 1 July 2011

Chair of panel on Mediterranean History. AHA meeting in Boston. Jan 2011Commentator in panel on the Spanish Middle Ages at AHA meeting in Boston, Jan.2011Member of a panel on the Ecology of Jobs in History at the AHA annual meeting in Boston. Jan 2011

Humanities West. San Francisco. Toledo through the Ages 4 February 2011Plenary presentation on the Limits of Convivencia. 5 February 2011

Six formal lectures at St. Louis University, Virginia Tech, and Randolph Macon College as PBK lecturer. September 2011

Keynote speech at the Conference on Religious Minorities under the Fatimid Caliphs. UCLA, 2 October 2011

Commentator on a panel at the History Graduate Students Conference, 8 October 2011.

Four formal lectures at Amherst College and Washington College as PNK lecturer. November 2011

Four formal lectures at Haverford College and Villanova University, 13-17 February

“Writing festivals in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain,” Delaware Valley Medieval Association, 18 February 2012.

“From The Mediterranean to the Atlantic: Protests against the Sea in early Modern Mediterranean,” 24 March 2012. Florida International University, Miami Florida.

“Kings and Knights at Play in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain,” Faculty Research Lecture. UCLA, 26 April 2012

“Fear in the Medieval West,” Plenary presentation at a graduate student conference at UC Santa Barbara, 28 April 2012.

“The Other 1492,” Plenary lecture at the PBK general meeting. Palm Beach, Florida, 4 August 2012

SERVICE:

Service: Discipline

Elected to the Board of Directors of the ACLS, 2009-2013Elected President of the AARHMS, 2005-2008Elected Vice-President for Research, AHA, 2005-2008Chair of Review Committee, Department of History, University of Minnesota, November 2005Member of Review Committee, University of Oregon, Department of History, April 2007

Service: UCLA

Department:

1998-99

Member of the FTE-Priorities CommitteeMember of the Teaching CommitteeMember of the Graduate Placement CommitteeOrganizer of Workshop on Interviewing at the AHA Annual Meeting, November 1998

1999-00

Vice-Chair of Academic PersonnelChair, Graduate Placement CommitteeOrganized Training Session on interviewing for AHA, November 1999

2000-01

Vice-Chair of Academic PersonnelChair, Graduate Placement CommitteeMember of Sub-Committee for Associate Professors’ Guidelines for Promotion to Full

Chair, Committee on MentoringOrganized workshops on interviewing at AHA

2001-02

Vice Chair of Academic PersonnelChair, Graduate Placement CommitteeOrganized workshops on interviewing and CV preparation for students in the job marketCo-Chair of the Department’s European Colloquium

2002-03

Chair, Department of HistoryChair, Placement Committee

2003-04

Chair, Department of HistoryChair, Placement Committee

2004-05

Chair, Department of HistoryChair, Placement CommitteeMember of Undergraduate Awards Committee

2005-06

Member of Academic Personnel Committee (elected for two years) Chair, Placement Committee Member of ad hoc Committee for the promotion of Claudia Rapp to Full professor Member of ad hoc Committee for the promotion of Kevin Terraciano to Full professorMember of the Medieval Field Admissions CommitteeExam Writer and Reader for the Early Modern comprehensive exams, European field

2006-07

Chair of ad hoc Committee for the Mediterranean History SearchMember of the ad hoc Committee for Ron Mellor’s promotion to Above ScaleElected member of the Academic Personnel CommitteeChair of the Graduate Placement CommitteeMember of the Graduate Awards (European field) Committee

2007-08

Chair of the Graduate Placement CommitteeMedieval Field, Admissions and Awards CommitteeEuropean Field, Admissions Committee

2008-09

ad hoc Committee for the Promotion to Tenure of Robin DerbyPlacement Committee History and Spanish and PortugueseInterim Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

European Graduate Admissions CommitteeMedieval Graduate Admissions CommitteeMedieval Field Coordinator, winter 2009Teaching CommitteeAlternate Member (elected), Academic Personnel Committee

2009-10

Chair, Committee for the Nomination of Distinguished Teacher, Lecturer, and TAad hoc Committee for Dora Weiner’s Promotion to Above Scalead hoc Committee for Ronald Mellor’s Promotion to Above ScaleReport on Gabi Piterberg’s Promotion to Full Professor, Step II (one year acceleration)Placement OfficerAlternate Member (elected) Academic Personnel CommitteeField Admissions Committee

2010-11

Chair Ad Hoc Committee for the 4th year appraisal of Peter StaceyElected to the Academic personnel Committee, 2010-2012Chair, Committee for the Nomination of Distinguished Teacher, Lecturer and TAReport on David Sabean’s advancement to Further Above ScalePlacement OfficerMedieval Field Admissions Committee

2011-12

Elected member of the APC. Wrote two reports.Placement OfficerField Coordinator (medieval)Medieval Field Admissions CommitteeAwards Committee

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

2008-09

Chair of the DepartmentPlacement OfficerMember of the Development Committee

2009-10ad hoc Committee for John Dagenais’ Promotion to Full Professor Step VIad hoc Committee for Jesus Torrecilla’s promotion to Full Professor Step VIPlacement OfficerMember of the Undergraduate Affairs Committee

2010-11

Member of the Chair’s Advisory CommitteeMember of the Undergraduate Committee

2011-12

Member of the Chair’s Advisory CommitteeMember of the Undergraduate Committee University

1998-99

Member of an ad hoc Review Committee for Tenure

1999-00

Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Center of Medieval and Renaissance StudiesMember of the Advisory Committee Repertorium ColombianumMember of the RA Selection Committee for the Center of Medieval and Renaissance Studies

2000-01

Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Center of Medieval and Renaissance StudiesMember of the Advisory Committee Repertorium ColombianumMember of an ad hoc Review Committee for a senior appointmentMember of the successful Search Committee for the Amado Chair in Sephardic StudiesMember of the Maurice Amado Fellowship Selection Committee

2001-02

Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Center for Medieval and Renaissance StudiesMember of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies and the Clark LibraryMember of the Advisory Committee of the Repertorium Colombianum Member of the Maurice Amado Fellowship Selection CommitteeExternal Member of the Spanish and Portuguese Department Search Committee for a Senior Latin AmericanistMember of Ahmanson-Getty Fellowship Selection CommitteeChair, Committee on Exchange between the UCLA Social Sciences Division and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, ParisMember of Division Wide Committee for Recertification and Reuniting of GE CoursesMember of Selection Committee for the Lynn White Award, Center of Medieval and Renaissance Studies

2002-03

Member of an ad hoc Committee for the Review of AdministratorsMember of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Center for Medieval and Renaissance StudiesMember of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies and the Clark LibraryMember of the Advisory Committee of the Repertorium ColombianumChair, Committee on Exchange of Scholars between the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris

2003-04Member of ad hoc Committee for the Review of Administrators. Member of the Selection Committee Gold Shield Award

Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Center for Medieval and Renaissance StudiesMember of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies and the Clark LibraryMember of the Advisory Committee of the Repertorium ColombianumChair, Committee on Exchange of Scholars between the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris

2004-05

Chair, ad hoc Committee for the Appointment of a new director to the Center for Latin American Studies.Member of ad hoc Committee for the Review of Administrators Member of the Selection Committee Gold Shield AwardMember of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Center for Medieval and Renaissance StudiesMember of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies and the Clark LibraryMember of the Advisory Committee of the Repertorium ColombianumChair, Committee on Exchange of Scholars between the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris

2005-06

Member of the ad hoc Committee for the Selection of the next Vice Chancellor for Academic PersonnelMember of the General Education (GE) Governance CommitteeMember of the Selection Committee, Gold Shield AwardMember of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Center for Medieval and Renaissance StudiesMember of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies and the Clark LibraryMember of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Orsini Conference Member of the Advisory Committee of the Repertorium ColombianumMember of CAP ad hoc Committee for a Promotion to Step VI

2006-07

Member of the General Education (GE) Governance CommitteeMember of the Selection Committee, Gold Shield AwardMember of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Center for Medieval and Renaissance StudiesMember of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies and the Clark LibraryMember of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Orsini Conference Member of the Advisory Committee of the Repertorium Colombianum

2007-08

Chair, CAP ad hoc CommitteeMember of CAP Review Committee

2008-09

Serving as Interim Chair for Spanish and PortugueseMember of the Academic Senate Development Committee

Member of Library Committee for Undergraduate PrizeMember of the Committee for Civil Discourse on CampusMember of the Center for Jewish Study Advisory CommitteeMember of the Junior Faculty Advisory CommitteeMember of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Personnel ad hoc Committee on Reforming the Personnel Process

2009-10

Chair of Humanities Task ForceMember of the Junior Faculty Advisory CommitteeMember of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Personnel ad hoc Committee on Reforming the Personnel Process Vice Chair of the Academic Senate Development Committee

2010-11

Member of the Ad Hoc Committee for the Selection of the New Vice Chancellor for Academic PersonnelMember of the Academic Senate Development CommitteeMember of Library Committee for Undergraduate PrizeMember of the Center for Jewish Study Advisory CommitteeMember of the Junior Faculty Advisory Committee

2011-12

Faculty Director, International Education OfficeMember, ex-officio of the Academic Senate for International EducationMember of the Center for Jewish Study Advisory CommitteeMember of the Junior Faculty Advisory Committee

Member of:

The American Historical AssociationThe Medieval AcademySociety for Spanish and Portuguese Historical StudiesThe American Academy of Research Historians on Medieval SpainPast and Present Society

TEACHING:

Department of History Graduate Students:

Dissertation Chair or Co-Chair:

Bryan Givens, filed 2003. Teaching at Pepperdine, tenure track.Jenny Jordan, filed 2004. A Harvard Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2005-2006.Gregory Milton, filed 2004. Teaches at the University of South Florida Tampa, tenure track.Claudia Mineo, filed 2006. Taught at Florida State University, tenure track. Abandoned the discipline.Aaron Moreno, admitted to candidacy 2007.Antonio Zaldivar, admitted to candidacy 2008.Sam Conedera, filed 2009.Claire Gilbert, advanced to candidacy 2010.

Carrie Sanders., advanced to candidacy 2010Mercedes Gonzalez Ontono (left the program)Kathryn RentonAlvaro Molina (co-chair, Spanish Department, filed June 2012

Committee Member:

Eric Johnson (History, filed 2003)Edna Yahil (History, filed 2004)Petula Iu (History, filed 2004)Maher Memarzadeh (History, 2005)Gail Ostergren (History, filed 2005) Céline Dauverd (History, filed 2007)Toba Friedman (History, filed 2009)Dana Murillo (History, filed 2009)Dana Polanichka (History, filed 2009)Veronica Gutierrez (History, advanced to candidacy 2007)Bradley Benton (History, advanced to candidacy 2007)Leon Garcia (History, advanced to candidacy 2007)James Sadler (History, advanced to candidacy 2009)Nhung Tuyet Tran (History)Xochitl Flores-Marcial (History)Kate Craig,Maya MerenicJorge AriasIngrid SantosKristina Markman

Other Department Graduate Students

Committee Member:

Kent L. Dickson (Spanish, filed 2005)Christian Zegarra (Spanish, filed 2006)Alvaro Molina (Spanish, filed)Michael F. Hammer (Spanish, filed)Eric Mayer (Spanish, filed)Elena Sponeko (Spanish, filed)Allison Li (Spanish, filed)Miguel Angel Rotondale (Spanish, filed)David E. Webb (Spanish, filed)Yasmine Beale (Spanish, filed)Nora Zepeda (Spanish)Allison Stewart (Spanish)Mariam Saadat (Spanish)Christina Fitzgerald (English, filed)John David Lopez (English, filed)Sara Torres (English) Loli Tsan (Romance Language and Linguistics)Aristi Emmanoulidou (Comp. Lit.)Lauren Kilroy (Art History, filed)Sandra Torres, EnglishYuen-Gen-Liang (Princeton, History, filed 2004)

Rowena Muzquiz (Columbia, History, filed 2005) Maya Soifer (Princeton, History, filed June 2007) Lori Woods (University of Toronto, filed August 2007)Abigail Dyer (Columbia, History, filed) Nathalie Oltejen (University of Toronto)Jarbel Rodriguez (Princeton, filed)Covadonga Lamar Prieto (Spanish, filed 2012)Bryan Green (Spanish, filed 2012)

EDITORSHIPS AND OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:

• Reviewer for ACLS, 2007-10• Member of the editorial board of Journal of Iberian Studies,US• Member of the editorial board of ImagoTemporis. Medium Aevum, Spain• Member of the editorial board of Cuadernos de Historia de España, Argentina• Member of the editorial board of Revista de Histori. Universidad de Murcia, Spain• Member of the editorial board of Journal of Medieval History,England• Member of the editorial board of Medieval Encounters, Spain

• Member of the organizing committee of the International Conference “Hacia un Nuevo Humanismo,” (“Towards a New Humanism”) Cordoba, Spain 1997

• Elected to the Medieval Academy of America Nominating committee, 1998-2001• Elected to the Teaching Division Committee of the AHA, 1995-98• Member of the International Advisory Board of Eadem Utraque Europa. Revista de Historia

Cultural e Intelectual, Buenos Aires, Argentina• Member of Editorial Board of Journal of History of the University of Granada, Spain• Member of editorial board of the Revista de História, published by the Universidad de Sao

Paulo, Brasil• Member of the Advisory Committee to Acanate. Revista de Estudios Alfonsíes, Seville• Member of the editorial board of Edad Media. Revista de Historia, University of Valladolid• Member of the Advisory Board of Historia a debate• Member of the Advisory Committee of Romance Philology, UC Berkeley• Member of the selection committee for the best dissertation in 2000-01 for the Society of

Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies• Chair, Premio del Rey Award. AHA Committee, 2002-2003

Other Activities:

• “Interview with Teófilo F. Ruiz,” in Temas medievales, 8 (1998), 215-20.• With William C. Jordan, article on Joseph R. Strayer, in Luminaries. Princeton Faculty

Remembered, ed. Patricia H. Marks (Princeton, 1996).• Member of the New York Public Library Humanities Advisory Council (1997-98).• With Scarlett Freund, op-ed article in Newsday, 12 November 1995.• Host of TV Program “Spain in the Americas,” 12 October 1995.• Audio and Video lectures. Three different courses (16, 12 and 6 hours) for the Teaching Co.

Fiction:

• “Cubans and Airports.” Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXIII, No. 4 (fall, 1994).• “Alternatives,” Linden Lane Magazine, vol. IV, no. 1 (January/March, 1985).• “Venice,” Linden Lane Magazine, vol. I, no. 2 (April/June, 1982).