Education:

Ph.D. in History, Yale University (1962)

M.A. in History, Yale University (1958)

M.A. in History, University of Kansas (1957)

Fulbright Scholarship, University of Marburg, Germany (1954-55)

B.A. in History, with honors, University of Kansas (1954)

Honors:

Designated "Honored Nominee" in the 1987 Professor of the Year Award

Competition of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (Washington, D.C.)

Metcalf Cup & Prize for Teaching Excellence, Boston University (1984)

Honorable Mention, Shell Book Award, Boston University (1970)

Elected Honorary Member of the Classes of 1964 & 1965, Amherst College

Malcolm Chace Fellow, Yale University (1957-59)

Fulbright Scholar to Germany (1954-55)

Summerfield Scholar, University of Kansas (1952-54)

Honor Societies and Professional Associations:

Phi Beta Kappa

Delta Phi Alpha (German)

Phi Alpha Theta (History)

Phi Beta Delta (International Scholars)

New England Historical Association (President, 1974-75)

American Historical Association

Conference Group on Central European History

German Studies Association

American Association of University Professors

Listed in Who's Who in the East, Directory of American Scholars, Dictionary of International Biography

Summary of Teaching Career:

1970-present: Professor of History, Boston University

1968-70: Associate Professor of History, Boston University

1965-68: Assistant Professor to Associate Professor (1967) of History, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle

1960-65: Instructor to Assistant Professor (1963) of History, Amherst College

Professional Activities:

Co-organizer and session chairman of international conference on Politics and Society in the Holy Roman Empire, 1500-1806, University of Chicago, 1984

Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Strategy, Naval War College

Editorial Board, Continuity: A Journal of History

Visiting Professor, Brandeis University, 1970

Panelist at various sessions of the American Historical Association and New England Historical Association

Frequent reviewer of book manuscripts for both commercial and academic presses, and of articles for professional journals

Areas of Teaching Interest:

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe; Germany and Central Europe in the early modern period; European diplomatic history; the history of war in western civilization as a social institution.

Courses presently or recently taught at Boston University include:

HI 208: War & Society in Western Civilization; HI 231: The Age of Synthesis: Europe, 1815-1914; HI 301: Critical Reading in History; HI 313: Early Modern Europe, 1600-1715; HI 314: Early Modern Europe, 1715-1815; HI 336: German History, 1648-1848; HI 340: Modern European Diplomacy, 1400-1919.

Major Committee and Administrative Service at Boston University

Department of History:

Chairman, Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1968-71, 1989-90

Chairman, Curriculum Committee, 1973-75, 1989-94

Executive Committee, 1990-94

College of Liberal Arts:

Associate Director, Center for International Relations (1982-87)

Appointments, Promotions and Tenure Committee, 1970-71, 1977-79, 1983-84, 1990-92, 1993-94 (Chairman, 1978-79, 1983-84, 1990-92, 1993-94)

Chairman, Pre-Law Advisory Committee, 1974-76

Chairman, Study Abroad Committee, 1982-85

Administrator, International Relations Program, 1980-87

Six-Year CLA/MED Joint Advisory Committee, 1975-88

Graduate School:

Chairman, Overseas M.A. Program in International Relations, 1969-72

Research Advisory Committee, 1973-74

University:

Internal Board of Advisors, Center for Defense Journalism (CQM), 1989-present

Military Education Committee, 1988-present

Chairman, Fulbright Scholarship Committee, 1988-89

Chairman, Metcalf Awards Committee, 1988-89 (member, 1986-87, 1992-93)

Grievance Committee, Faculty Council, 1984-85

Chairman, Academic Policy and Procedures Committee of the Faculty Senate Council and member of its Executive Committee, 1975-76

Curriculum and Academic Policy Committee, Faculty Council, 1979-80

Committee on New Degrees and Degree Programs, 1974-76

Student Organizations:

Faculty Advisor to the Boston University Model United Nations Organization, 1979-1987

Publications:

Books, Book Translations:

Translation of Otto Büsch, Military System and Social Life in Old Regime Prussia, 1713-1807: The Beginnings of the Social Militarization of Prusso-German Society, translated and with an introduction by John G. Gagliardo (Atlantic Highlands, N.J., 1996)

Germany under the Old Regime, 1600-1790 (London & N.Y., 1991)

Reich & Nation: The Holy Roman Empire as Idea and Reality, 1763-1806 (Bloomington, Indiana, 1980)

From Pariah to Patriot: The Changing Image of the German Peasant, 1770-1840 (Lexington, Kentucky, 1969)

Enlightened Despotism (New York, 1967; now in second edition)

Articles:

"A World History for the Year 2100 -- Maybe," Continuity: A Journal of History, No. 19 (Spring, 1995), pp. 33-39.

"Cosmopolitanism and Federalism: Germany's Neglected Tradition," Continuity: A Journal of History, Nos. 4/5 (Spring/Fall, 1982)

"Moralism, Rural Ideology, and the German Peasant in the Late Eighteenth Century," Agricultural History, XLII, 2 (April, 1968)

"A Defense of American Policy," in American Neutrality and the Spanish Civil War, ed. by Allen Guttman (Boston, 1963)

"Germans and Agriculture in Colonial Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, LXXXIII, 2 (April, 1959); also anthologized in United States Economic History, ed. by Harry Scheiber (New York, 1964)

"Archives in East Germany," American Archivist (July, 1957)

Reviews:

I have written, and continue to write, reviews of books for such journals as The American Historical Review, The Journal of Modern History, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, and others.