Associate Professor, Florida State University, 1974 - 1979
Assistant Professor, Florida State University, 1969 - 1974
Publications:
Books:
The Historical and Nationalistic Thought of Nicolae Iorga,
(Boulder & New York: East European Monographs, Columbia University
Press, 1973), viii, 135p.
A Providential Anti-Semitism, Nationalism and Polity in
Nineteenth Century Romania, (Philadelphia: American Philosophical
Society, 1991), ix, 177p.
The Politics of Rite: Jesuit, Uniate, and Romanian Ethnicity
in
18th C. Transylvania, (Boulder & New York: East European
Monographs, Columbia University Press, 2005), vii, 220p.
Articles:
"Nicolae Iorga: The Romanian Nationalist as Historian", East
European Quarterly, VI (1973): 473-486.
"Romanian National Awareness Under the Habsburgs: Transylvania
from Enlightenment to
Revolution, 1791-1848",
International Review of History and Political Science, 14
(1977), no. 2:1-15.
"Romania and the Munich Crisis: August-September 1938", East
European Quarterly, XI (1977): 177-190.
"Bismarck Looks East: The Austro-Romanian Treaty of 1883", Il
Politico, LXII (1977): 290-300.
"A Clash of Nationalisms: Phanariot and Romanian in the 1821
Revolt", International Review of History and Political Science,
14
(1977), no. 3:14-29.
"The Research Libraries of Romania", International Library
Review, 11(1979): 73-385.
"Victims of Loyalty: The Transylvanian Romanians in the Age of
the Ausgleich," review article, International Behavioural Scientist,
XI (1979), no. 3: 57-65.
"Faculty Relations Before and After Collective Bargaining: The
Practitioner's View of Grievances", co-author, The Center for
Employment
Relations and Law Review, 2/3 (1981), nr. 4/1:12-18.
"Living Under the Contract: The Techniques of Collective
Bargaining Contract Administration in Higher Education", co-author, in The
Legal and Economic Status of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education,
edited by Joel M. Douglas (New York: Baruch College C.U.N.Y., 1982),
pp. 43-50.
"Ante Pavelic", in Historical Dictionary of Facist Italy,
Philip V. Cannistraro (ed.). (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1982), p.415.
"The Enlightenment and the Romanian National Revival
(Moldavia, Wallachia, Transylvania)", Canadian Review of Studies in
Nationalism, X(1983), no. 1:29-40.
"The Bureaucratization of the Academy: The Impact on
Scholarship and Culture of Professional Staff", Sociologia
Internationalis, 21(1983), no. 1/2: 81-91.
"Negotiations in University Collective Bargaining: Politics,
Problems, and Pitfalls in Policy Formation", International Review
of History and Political Science, 21(1984), no. 3:31-48.
"The Public Historian and Unions: The Challenges of
Professionalism and Discipline", The Public Historian, 8(1986),
no. 1: 69-79.
"Italy and the Question of Romanian Independence", Il
Politico, LIV(1989), 197-217.
"The Boyars Golesti: The Impact of French Revolutionary
Thought in Romania", Proceedings of the Consortium on
RevolutionaryEurope, 1750-1850, Donarld D. Horward & John C.
Horgan (eds). (Tallahassee: Institute on Napoleon & the French
Revolution, 1990), pp. 610-17.
"Tradition and Rite in Transylvania: Historic Tensions between
East and West", Labyrinth of Nationalism, Complexities of Diplomacy,
Richard Frucht (ed.). (Columbus: Slavica Pubishers, Inc., 1992), 161-79.
"Rationalizing Anti-Semitism: The Romanian Gambit," Proceedings
of the American Philosophical Society, 138(1994), Nr. 1: 25-30.
"Background to Catastrophe: Romanian Modernization Policies
and the Environment," East European Quarterly, XXX(1997), No.
4: 517-27.
"Nicolae Iorga," A Global Encyclopedia of Historical
Writing, Vol. 1. D. R. Woolf (ed). (New York: Garland Publishing,
1998), 470-1.
"Robert A. Kann,"A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing,
Vol. 2. D. R. Woolf (ed). (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998), 501.
"R.W. Seton-Watson,"A Global Encyclopedia of Historical
Writing, Vol. 2. D. R. Woolf (ed). (New York: Garland Publishing,
1998), 827.
"The American Diplomatic Assessment of the Romanian 'Jewish
Problem,' 1900-1944," Proceedings of the 2nd International
Symposium on the Jews in Romania, Ion Stanciu (ed). (Bucharest:
SILEX, 2000), 171-78.
"Alibi for Prejudice: Eastern Orthodoxy, the Holocaust, and
Romanian Nationalism," East European Quarterly,
XXXVI(2002), No. 3: 301-11.
“ ‘With Love for Country and People’: Anti-Semitism and the
Holocaust in Romania,” Proceedings
of the2004 Hawaii International
Conference on Arts and Humanities, CD-ROM, 2004: 4428-48.
Manuals:
Contract Administration: From Grievance to Arbitration,
co-author (Tallahassee: UFF/AFL-CIO Publications, 1978), vii, 104p.
History of Russia, 1825-Present (Gainesville:
University of Florida, 1983), 65p.
Russia to Nicholas I (Gainesville: University of
Florida, 1985), 68p.
Nineteenth Century Europe (Gainesville: University of
Florida, 1985), 89p.
Twentieth Century Europe (Gainesville: University of
Florida, 1985), 85p.
Ancient and Medieval Civilizations (Gainesville:
University of Florida, 1986), 96p.
Hitler's Third Reich (Gainesville: University of
Florida, 1989), 100p.
The Holocaust (Gainesville: University of Florida,
1996), 112p.
Research In Progress:
"Just Doing My Job": The World War II Letters of an
American
"Everyman," Captain Joseph Upchurch (410 mss pages;
co-authored, edited
letters
+ critical chapters on historic and literary background).
"Superfluous Jews":
Anti-Semitism and the Background to the Romanian Holocaust (154
mss pages).
Honors, Grants, and Fellowships:
Honors Fellow, Loyola University
Sigma Pi Sigma, National Physics Honor Society
B. A. Magna Cum Laude
Russian & East European Institute Fellow, Indiana University
(1965-6)
National Defense Foreign Language Fellow, Indiana University
(1966-7)
Fulbright-Hays Fellow; Bucharest, Romania (1967-8)
Romanian State Fellow; Bucharest, Romania (1967-8)
Russian & East European Institute Grantee; Bucharest,
Romania(1967-8)
International Research & Exchanges Board Fellow; Cluj,
Romania(1973)
Delta Tau Kappa, International Social Science Honor
Society (1974)
Semifinalist, Amoco Foundation Award for Excellence in
Undergraduate Teaching (Florida State University, 1974)
Florida State University Foundation Travel Grantee (1982)
Phi Alpha Theta Professor of the Year (Florida State
University, 1988)
Committee on Faculty Research Support Grantee (Florida State
University, 1972-3, 1990)
Phi Eta Sigma Outstanding Teacher Award (Florida State
University, 1990)
Charter Member, President's Council for Excellence in College
Teaching (1990)
John Frederick Lewis Award (American Philosophical Society, 1991)
National Jewish Book Award [for Scholarship] Nominee (1992)
Holocaust Project Microfilming Grant (Florida State University,
1993)
Holocaust Educational Foundation Fellow (1994)
Teaching Incentive Program Award (Florida State University, 1994)
Council on Research & Creativity Planning Grant (Florida
State University, 1994-1995)
University Teaching Award (Florida State University, 1988, 1995)
Louis E. & Patrice J. Wolfson Foundation Grant (1995)
Holocaust Educational Foundation Grant (1994, 1996)
Wolfson Family Foundation Grant (1996)
Fellow, Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization,
Northwestern University (1996)
International Research & Exchanges Board Short-Term Travel
Grant (1996)
Professorial Excellence Program Award (1999)
Dorothy & Jonathan Rintels Charitable Foundation Endowment
(2000)
Patrick Henry Silver Medallion for Patriotic Achievement,
Military Order of
the World Wars (2002)
Historic Preservation Medal, National Society of the Daughters of
the American Revolution (2005)
Cited in:
Contemporary Authors
Dictionary of International Biography
Directory of American Scholars
Who's Who in America
Who's Who in American Education
Who's Who in Humanities Higher
Education
Who's Who in the South and Southwest
Who's Who in the World
Professional Activities:
Papers:
American Historical Association National Convention
American Philosophical Society
Consortium on Revolutionary Europe
Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
History of Medicine Seminar
Holocaust Study Summer Institute for Secondary School Teachers
International Conference on Comparative Historical and
Critical Analysis of Bureaucracy
International Symposium on the Jews in Romanian History
National Association for the Study of Collective Bargaining in
Higher Education Convention
Northern Arizona University Interdisciplinary Symposium
Organization of American Historians/National Council on Public
History Joint National Convention
Scholar's Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches
Southern Conference on Slavic Studies Convention
Southwestern Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Convention
Southwestern Labor Studies Association Convention
The Smithsonian Institution
Book Reviews:
American Historical Review
Canadian-American Slavic Studies
East European Quarterly
Slavic Review
Southeastern Europe
Departmental, University, & State University System Service:
Executive Committee
Faculty Adviser, Phi Alpha Theta
Undergraduate Education Committee
Graduate Studies Committee
Faculty Evaluation Questionnaire Committee
Director, History Department Tutorial Program
Schedule Committee
Registration Committee
Curriculum Committee
Travel Committee
Historical Administration and Public History Committee
Word Processor Committee
Salary Committee
Search Committee for History Department Chairman
Social Science Education Advisory Committee
University Calendar Committee
University Council for International Education and Programs
University Florence/London Committee
University Faculty Welfare Committee
University Slavic & East European Studies Committee
University Committee on Faculty Research Support
University Holocaust Studies Committee
University Honorary Degree Committee
University Council for International Education and Programs
Academic Appeals Committee of the College of Arts & Sciences
Florida State University Faculty Senate
Chairman, United Faculty of Florida/Florida State University
Grievance Committee
Director, Grievances and Arbitrations, United Faculty of Florida
Chief Negotiator, United Faculty of Florida
Florida Department of Education Task Force for Minimum Student
Performance Standards
Inter-Institutional Curriculum Planning and Development Committee
Associate Director, Holocaust Study Summer Institute for
Secondary School Teachers
Courses:
The Balkans Since 1699
The Habsburg Monarchy, 1699-1918
19th Century Russia, 1800-1917
Twentieth Century Russia
Hitler's Third Reich
Nineteenth Century Europe
Twentieth Century Europe
Modern Romania
Russia to Nicholas I History of Russia, 1825-Present
Ancient and Medieval Civilizations
Rise and Fall of Classical Civilization
The Modern World to 1815
The Modern World Since 1815
Historical Methods Historical Methods/Public History
Teaching History at the College Level
The Holocaust in Historical Perspective: the Background &
Course of Genocide
Senior Seminar: World War II & The Human Experience
President's Seminar: Interpreting the Past--The 20th Century
Through the Lens of the Historical Novel
Areas of Specialization:
Anti-Semitism/The Holocaust
Ethnicity and Nationalism
Eastern Europe (especially Romania and Russia)
Collective Bargaining/Labor Relations
Miscellaneous:
Member of various M.A. & Ph.D. committees (including
doctoral directive status)
Campus representative for the International Research &
Exchanges Boards (ACLS/SSRC)
Popular culture program at the Smithsonian Institution received
the "Program of Excellence" award given by the National University
Continuing Education Association (Region III)
Member, articulation group between State University
System and Secondary Schools (Florida Institute of Education)
Speaker, "Comparative Studies in the Holocaust: The Cases of
Germany and Romania," Florida Council for the Social Studies
Interviewed on NBC TODAY SHOW on the Institute on World
War II & the Human Experience and veterans' insights
Interviewed on C-SPAN regarding the goals of the Institute on
World War II & the Human Experience & the nature of FSU's
archival collection
Moderator, “How World War II Changed Home and Family Life,” WORLD
WAR II HOME-FRONT, MUSIC AND MEMORIES, The Smithsonian Institution.
