Diplomas/Degrees
Diplomas/Degrees
Ph.D. , University of Wisconsin Madison (1996)
B.S., Cornell University (1987)
Professional Experience
Professional Experience
Interim Provost 7/2025-present. 海角社区, Garden City, NY
Dean, Honors College 7/2019-7/2025. 海角社区, Garden City, NY
Dean and Director, Pforzheimer Honors College
8/2015 – 5/2019, Pace University, New York and Pleasantville, NY
Director, University Honors College
7/2005 -7/2015, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
Vice-chair, Faculty Senate
9/2013 -5/2015, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
Chair, History Department
2003 to 2005, C.W. Post - Long Island University, Brookville, NY
Assistant Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Science
2002 to 2003, C.W. Post campus of Long Island University, Brookville, NY
Research Interests
Research Interests
My interests as a historian center on women and religion in Catholic Reformation Europe, especially France. As a dean, i am interested in pedagogies that bring the most value to honors education.
Books
Books
Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France: The Early History of the Daughters of Charity. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Women and Religion in Old and New Worlds, edited with Debra Meyers. NY: Routledge.
Translated into Spanish under the title Mujeres y religion en el Viejo y el Nuevo Mundo, en la Edad Moderna. Narcea, 2002.
Chapters
Chapters
“Crafting Habits of Resistance” written with Karen Nelson and Michele Osherow, in Challenging Women’s Agency and Activism in Early Modernity, edited by Merry Wiesner-Hanks. University of Amsterdam Press.
“Nursing as a Vocation or a Profession? Women’s Status and the Meaning of Healing in Early Modern France and England,” Without Solemn Vows: Devout Laywomen before and after Trent, edited by Alison Weber. Aldershot: Ashgate: 69-88.
Articles
Articles
“The Importance of the First-Semester Experience: Learning Communities and Clustered Classes” Breaking Barriers in Teaching and Learning, edited by James Ford and John Zubizarreta. NCHC Monograph Series: 35-43.
“How Gender Differences Shape Student Success in Honors” Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council 17/1:289-304.
Professional Activities
Professional Activities
2022-2024 Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal advisory board
2023-2024 President, National Collegiate Honors Council Board of Directors
2022-2023 President-elect, National Collegiate Honors Council Board of Directors
2021-2022 Vice President, National Collegiate Honors Council Board of Directors
2018-present Chair, Sixteenth Century Studies Society Endowment Committee
2001-2015 Member, conference planning committee. Attending to Early Modern Women, conferences held in November 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, and 2015.
2009-2011 Faculty Representative, Northeast Regional Collegiate Honors Council
2007-2008 President, Northeast Regional Collegiate Honors Council
2006-2007 Vice President, Northeast Regional Collegiate Honors Council
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