Lebenslauf und Publikationsliste

THOMAS MAX SAFLEY
ADDRESS:
149 Upland Road
Havertown, PA 19083-3509
Department of History
208 College Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6379
PHONE:
(610) 789-8662, -6521
(215) 898-2186, -8452
EMAIL:
[email protected]
FIELDS:
Economic and social history of early modern Europe: family and household;
labor and business; poverty and charity; confession and church.
DEGREES:
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison;
1980
M.A., University of Wisconsin at Madison;
1976
B.A., Grinnell College.
1974
Visiting Professor of History
Free University
Berlin, Germany;
2006
Professor of History
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6379;
2005-present
Visiting Professor of History
University of Augsburg
Augsburg, Germany;
1997
Associate Professor of History
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6379;
1994-2005
Assistant Professor of History
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6379;
1988-1994
Byron K. Trippett Assistant Professor of History
Wabash College
Crawfordsville, IN 47933;
1984-1988
EXPERIENCE:
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AWARDS:
Assistant Professor of History
Upsala College
East Orange, NJ 07019.
1981-1983
Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities
(post-doctoral research grant);
2011-2012
Pro Suebia Prize
Dr. Eugen Liedl Foundation
(prize for scholarly achievements);
2008
Scholarship Award,
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
(prize for scholarly achievements);
2008
Solmsen Fellowship,
Institute for Research in the Humanities
University of Wisconsin at Madison
(post-doctoral research grant);
2006-2007
Research Grant,
University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation
(faculty research grant);
2002
Senior Fellowship,
American Council of Learned Societies
(post-doctoral research grant);
2000-2001
Study Visit,
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
(summer research grant);
2000
Research Grant,
University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation
(faculty research grant);
1996
Faculty Research Fellowship,
University of Pennsylvania
(faculty research grant);
1995-1996
Research Grant,
University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation
(faculty research grant);
1990
Fellowship,
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
(post-doctoral research grant);
1987-1989
Trippett Assistant Professorship,
Wabash College
(term endowed chair in history);
1983-1986
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PUBLICATIONS:
Brewer Prize,
American Society of Church History
(award for best book manuscript);
1981
Junior Fellowship,
National Endowment for the Humanities
(post-doctoral research grant);
1981
Fellowship,
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
(dissertation research grant).
1978-1979
Forthcoming:
A Material History of Early Modern Europe (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2016);
Failure at Idria: Bankruptcy and Business in a Capitalistic Age (2015);
Mercury in the Early Modern World (2015).
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Monographs:
Kinder, Caritas und Kapital. Studien zur Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte des
frühmodernen Augsburgs. Bd. 2: Die Waisenkinder (Augsburg: Wißner Verlag,
2010);
Kinder, Caritas und Kapital. Studien zur Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte des
frühmodernen Augsburgs. Bd. 1: Die Waisenhäuser. (Augsburg: Wißner Verlag,
2009);
Children of the Laboring Poor: Expectation and Experience among the
Orphans of Early Modern Augsburg (Leiden: Brill, 2005), 493 pp.;
Matheus Miller's Memoir: A Merchant's Life in the Seventeenth Century
(London: Palgrave, 1999), ix + 226 pp.;
Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Augsburg (Atlantic
Highlands, NJ: Humanities, 1997), xiii + 350 pp.;
Let No Man Put Asunder: The Control of Marriage in the German Southwest,
1550-1600 (Kirksville, MO: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1984),
viii + 210 pp.
Edited volumes:
with Claudia Jarzebowski, eds., Childhood and Emotion, 1450-1800:
Transcultural Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2013);
The History of Bankruptcy: Economic, Social and Cultural Implications in
Early Modern Europe (London: Routledge, 2013);
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with Rolf Kießling and Lee Palmer Wandel, eds., Im Ringen um die
Reformation: Kirchen und Prädikanten, Rat und Gemeinden in Augsburg
(Epfendorf: Bibliotheca academica, 2011);
A Companion to Multiconfessionalism in the Early Modern World (Leiden:
Brill, 2011);
with Johannes Burkhardt and Sabine Ullmann, eds., Geschichte in Räumen:
Festschrift für Rolf Kießling zum 65. Geburtstag (Konstanz: UVK-Verlag,
2006), 378 pp.;
Ad Historiam Humanam: Aufsätze für Hans-Christoph Rublack (Tübingen:
Bibliotheca Academica, 2005), 225 pp.;
The Reformation of Charity: The Secular and the Religious in Early Modern
Poor Relief (Leiden: Brill, 2003), viii + 206 pp.;
Die Aufzeichnungen des Matheus Miller (Augsburg: Wißner Verlag, 2003),
Ix + 214 pp.;
with James Brophy, Steven Epstein, John Robertson, eds., Perspectives on the
Past, 1st-4th eds., 2 vols., (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998/2002/2005/2008),
chapters 13-19, pp. 547-771, 1-376;
with Leonard N. Rosenband, eds., The Workplace before the Factory: Artisans
and Proletarians, 1500-1800 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993),
xi + 252 pp.
Selected articles (* published in refereed journals or volumes):
*”The Höchstetter Bankruptcy of 1529 and its Relationship to the European
Quicksilver Market,” in Philipp Robinson Rössner, ed., Cities – Coins –
Commerce: Essays Presented to Ian Blanchard on the Occasion of his
Seventieth Birthday (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012), 149-66;
*“Zentrum und Peripherie: Die Gemeinden Zu den Barfüßern und bei St.
Georg,” in Rolf Kießling, Thomas Max Safley and Lee Palmer Wandel, eds., Im
Ringen um die Reformation: Kirchen und Prädikanten, Rat und Gemeinden in
Augsburg (Epfendorf: Bibliotheca academica, 2011), 45-104;
*”After the Fall: The Dynamics of Social Death and Rebirth in the Wake of the
Höchstetter Bankruptcy, 1529-1596” in Lynne Tatlock, ed., Enduring Loss in
Early Modern Germany: Sixteen Interdisciplinary Essays (Leiden: Brill, 2010),
pp. 415-34;
*“The Question of Early Modern Business Culture: Methodological Reflections
on the Firm, “Ambrosius and Hans, the Brothers Höchstetter and Company”
1524-1529,” Wiener Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der Neuzeit 8 (2009): 7-23;
*“ Staatsmacht und geschäftliches Scheitern. Der Bankrott der
Handelsgesellschaft Ambrosius und Hans, Gebrüder Höchstetter, und
Mitverwandte im Jahr 1529,” Österreichische Zeitschrift für
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Geschichtswissenschaften 19 (2009): 36-55;
*“Church and Child Labor: The Protestant Reformation” and “Pre-industrial
Child Labor: Germany,” in Hugh Hindman, ed., Child Labor World Atlas
(New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2009);
*”Business Failure and Civil Scandal: Reflections on Bankruptcy in Early
Modern Europe,” Business History Review 83 (2009): 35-60;
*“Die Frage einer frühneuzeitlichen Standardisierung des Rechtsprozesses in
Bankrottsfällen am Beispiel des Höchstetter Konkurs 1529“ in Thomas M. J.
Möllers, ed., Vielfalt und Einheit. Wirtschaftliche und rechtiche
Rahmenbedingungen von Standardisierung (Baden Baden: Nomos
Verlag, 2008), pp. 107-26;
*“Success and Failure: Reflections on the Effectiveness of Early Modern Poor
Relief in the Orphanages of Augsburg” in Christopher Ocker et al., eds. Politics
and Reformations – Essays in Honor of Thomas A. Brady Jr. (Leiden: Brill,
2007), Vol. 2, pp. 283-313;
*“Die Frage nach einer Säkularisierung der Kindererziehung in den städtischen
und konfessionellen Waisenhäuser Augsburgs, 1572-1780?” in Hans-Ulrich
Musolff, Juliane Jacobi, Jean-Luc Le Cam, eds., Säkularisierung vor der
Aufklärung? Bildung, Kirche und Religion, 1500-1700 (Cologne: Böhlau
Verlag, 2007), pp. 289-308;
“Konfessionalisierung der Kinder? Routinen und Ritualen im Alltag der
Augsburger Armenfürsorge und –disziplinierung der Frühen Neuzeit,” in
Johannes Burkhardt, Thomas Max Safley, Sabine Ullmann, eds., Geschichte in
Räumen: Festschrift für Rolf Kießling zum 65. Geburtstag (Konstanz: UVKVerlag, 2006), pp. 241-60;
“Zur Definition von ‘Dissent’ im Konfessionellen Zeitalter: Die Augsburger
Streitpredigten von Georg Philipp Riß,” in Thomas Max Safley, ed., Ad
Historiam Humanam: Aufsätze für Hans-Christoph Rublack (Tübingen:
Bibliotheca Academica, 2005), pp. 213-25 (13 pp.);
*“’So lang mir Got das Leben verlihen.’ Personkonzepte aus Selbstzeugnisse
der schwäbischen Kaufleuteschaft in der frühen Neuzeit,” Querelles: Jahrbuch
für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung 10 (2005);
“Bankruptcy,” “Charity and Poor Relief,” “Commerce and Markets,” “Frederick
III,” “Fugger Family,” “Monopoly,” and “Shops and Shopkeeping” in Jonathan
Dewald et al., eds., Europe 1450-1798: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern
World (New York: Scribner, 2004);
“Introduction” and “Conclusion,” in Thomas Max Safley, ed., The Reformation
of Charity: The Secular and the Religious in Early Modern Poor Relief (Leiden:
Brill, 2003), pp. 1-14, 193-200 (23 pp.);
*“Der Arme unter den Armen. Methodische und philosophische Überlegungen
zur Geschichte der Augsburger Waisen,” Mitteilungen des Instituts für
Europäische Kulturgeschichte (11:2003), pp. 71-85 (15 pp.);
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“Rethinking the Social History of Poverty,” in Lee Palmer Wandel, ed., History
Has Many Voices: In Honor of Robert McCune Kingdon (Kirksville, MO:
Sixteenth Century Publishers, 2003), pp. 113-30 (18 pp.);
*“Der Bürger im Spiegel des Augsburger Intelligenzzettels,” in Sabine
Doering-Mantueffel, et al., eds., Pressewesen der Aufklarung: Periodische
Schriften im Alten Reich (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2002), pp. 381-90 (10 pp.);
* “Bankruptcy: Family and Misfortune in Early Modern Augsburg,” Journal of
European Economic History (1:2000), pp. 53-73 (21 pp.);
*“Die Fuggerfaktoren Hörmann von und zu Gutenberg: Werte und Normen
Einer kaufmännischen Familie im Übergang zum Landadel,” in Johannes
Burkhardt, ed., Augsburger Handelshäuser im Wandel des historischen Urteils
(Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1996), pp. 118-29 (12 pp.);
“Divorce,” “Family,” “Marriage,” and “Marriage Courts” in Oxford
Encyclopedia of the Reformation (New York: Oxford University Press,
1995), pp. 490-92, 93-98, 18-23, 440-42 (18 pp.);
“Production, Transaction, and Proletarianization: The Textile Industry of Upper
Swabia, 1580-1660” in Thomas Max Safley and Leonard N. Rosenband, eds.,
The Workplace before the Factory: Artisans and Proletarians, 1500-1800
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993), pp. 118-45 (29 pp.);
*“Canon Law and Swiss Reform: A Study of Legal Theory and Practice in the
Marital Courts of Zurich, Bern, Basel, and St. Gall” in H. R. Helmholz, ed.,
Canon Law in Protestant Lands (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1992), pp. 187201 (14 pp.);
*“Civic Morality and the Domestic Economy” in R. Po-chia Hsia, ed., The
German People and the Reformation (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,
1988), pp. 173-90 (18 pp.);
“Families Unformed and Reformed” in Jerome Friedman, ed., Regnum, Religio
et Ratio: Essays Presented to Robert M. Kingdon (Kirksville, MO: Sixteenth
Century Journal Publishers, 1987), pp. 153-60 (8 pp.);
*“Protestantism, Divorce and the Breaking of the Modern Family” in Kyle E.
Sessions and Philip Bebb, eds., Pietas et Societas: New Trends in Reformation
History (Kirksville, MO: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1985), pp. 35-56
(22 pp.);
* “To Preserve the Marital State: The Basler Ehegericht, 1550-1592,” Journal
of Family History (7:1982), pp. 162-79 (18 pp.);
* “Marital Litigation in the Diocese of Constance, 1550-1620,” Sixteenth
Century Journal (12:1981), pp. 61-78 (18 pp.).
REVIEWS:
Scholarly reviews published in:
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American Historical Review;
Business History Review;
Central European History;
Church History;
German Studies Review;
Jewish Quarterly Review;
Journal of Economic History;
Journal of Interdisciplinary History;
Journal of Modern History;
Journal of Social History;
Labor History;
Mentalité;
Renaissance Quarterly;
Sixteenth Century Journal;
Zeitschrift des historischen Vereins für Schwaben;
H-Net.org;
sehepunkte.de.
SOLICITED PAPERS: “The Paumgartner Failure of 1565: Business and Bankruptcy in a Capitalistic Age,” 12
November 2012, paper presented at the Yale Economic History Workshop, New Haven,
CT;
“The Questions of a Pietist Economic as Opposed to a Pious Economy: Funding and
Administering Social Institutions in Augsburg, 1650-1750,” 1 November 2012, paper
presented at the international conference, “Pietismus und Oekonomie, 1650-1750” at the
University of Mainz, Germany;
“Toward a Standard Legal Procedure: The Interplay of Practice and Principle in the
Resolution of Early Modern Bankruptcy,” 23 September 2011, paper presented at the
annual meeting of the German Studies Association in Louisville, KY;
“Die Reformation in der Kirche und Gemeinde Zu den Barfüßern,” 7 July 2011, paper
presented to the Augsburger Reformationskolloquium in Augsburg, Germany;
“Die Bedeutung des Scheiterns für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft am Beispiel der
Hoechstetter-Gesellschaft in der 2. Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts, ” 21 July 2010, paper
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presented to the Wirtschaftgeschichtliches Kolloquium at the University of Leipzig,
Germany;
“Wills, Transfers, Foundations and 'Trust' among South-German Merchant-Financiers in
the Early Modern Period,” 14 April 2010, paper presented at the European Social Science
History Conference in Ghent, Belgium;
“’Unser Sachen, Trauwen und Glauben’: The Ambiguous Role of Trust in Early Modern
Business Failure,” 4 August 2009, paper presented at the World Economic History
Conference, Utrecht, the Netherlands;
"Konkurs der Hoechstetter 1529 in Abhaengigkeit von Beschaffungs- und
Absatzmaerkten fuer Quecksilber," 17 July 2009, paper presented at the international
conference, “Beschaffungs- und Absatzmärkte oberdeutscher Firmen im Zeitalter der
Welser und Fugger,” Neunhof bei Lauf, Germany;
“Families and Fortunes in Early Modern Europe: Reflections on Economic History and
Historical Meaning,” 23 April 2009, the annual Shriber Lecture presented at the State
University of New York at Binghamton Binghamton, NY;
“Social and Economic Networks in Early Modern Bankruptcy: Reflections on the Utility
of a Theory,” 4 April 2009, paper presented at the annual meeting of the Economic
History Society, Warwick, UK;
“Regalien- und Finanzwesen der Habsburger unter Maximilian I.,” 20 March 2009, paper
presented to the international conference, “Maximilians Welt—Kaiser Maximilian I. im
Spannungsfeld zwischen Innovation und Tradition,” held at the Free University of Berlin,
Berlin, Germany;
"Families and Fortunes in Early Modern Europe: Reflections on Business and
Bankruptcy," 23 February 2009, paper presented to the Early Modern History Workshop
at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL;
“Standardisierung im frühneuzeitlichen Recht: Der Konkurs vor Gericht”, 20 May 2008,
paper presented to the Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit at the
Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany;
“After the Fall: The Dynamics of Social Death and Rebirth in the Wake of the
Höchstetter Bankruptcy, 1529-1586”, 29 March 2008, paper presented to the conference,
Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär, at Duke University, Durham, NC;
“Bankruptcy in the Economic History of Early Modern Europe”, 29 February 2008,
introduction and comment presented in the sessions on “Bankruptcy” at the European
Social Science History Conference, Lisbon, Portugal;
“Die Frage einer frühneuzeitlichen Standardisierung des Rechtsprozesses in
Bankrottsfällen am Beispiel des Höchstetter Konkurs 1529“, 30 November 2007, lecture
presented to the conference on Standardisierung durch Markt und Recht at the Augsburg
Center for Global Economic Law and Regulation, University of Augsburg, Augsburg,
Germany;
“Der Fall des Hauses Höchstetter”, 4 July 2007, lecture presented to the Freundeskreis
des Stadtarchivs Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany;
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“Selbstzeugnisse als Quelle der Wirtschaftsgeschichte”, 26 June 2007, lecture presented
to the Research Group, Selbstzeugnisse in transkultureller Perspektive, at the Free
University Berlin, Berlin, Germany;
“The Rise and Fall and Rise of Families and Firms in Early Modern Europe,” 17 April
2007, Roberts History Lecture presented at Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA;
“Early Modern Bankruptcy and Related Questions: The Collapse of the Höchstetter,
1529”, 26 March 2007, lecture presented at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at
The University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI;
“Säkularisierung vor der Aufklärung? Zum Verhältnis von Schule, Kirche und Religion
in der frühen Neuzeit ,” 16 November 2006, lecture presented to the conference on [] at
University of Bielefeld, Germany;
“Time is Money: The Construction and Reconstruction of Time in the Testimonies of
Early Modern Bankrupts,” 15 June 2006, lecture presented to the conference, Controlling
Time and Shaping the Self: The Rise of Autobiographical Writing since 1750, at the
Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Holland;
“Von 'verdorbenen Kaufleuten' und glücklosen Kapitalisten: A Work-in-progress
Report on Economic Ethics and Economic Praxis from the Perspective of Early
Modern Bankruptcies ,” 24 May 2006, paper presented to the seminar on Early
Modern German History at Oxford University, Oxford, UK;
“Landeswirtschaftsgeschichte, Weltwirtschaftsgeschichte und die Rolle Augsburgs in der
Frühglobalisierung: Ein Werkstattbericht über Wirtschaftsethik und Wirtschaftspraxis
aus der Perspektive Bankrottsfällen ,” 4 May 2006, lecture presented to the Kolloquium
zur Landesgeschichte at the University of Augsburg, Germany;
“The Orphanage Dispute of the 18th Century and the Question of Success and Failure in
Early Modern Poor Relief,” 22 March 2006, paper presented at the annual meeting of the
European Social Science History Association in Amsterdam, Holland;
“Die Wirtschaft der Frühen Neuzeit und die Frage der Periodisierung,” 9 September
2006, introduction and comment presented at triannual meeting of the Arbeitsgruppe
Frühneuzeit at the University of Erlangen, Germany;
“Das Waisenhausstreit des 18. Jahrhunderts und die Frage nach Erfolg und Misserfolg
aufgeklärter Armenfürsorge am Beispiel der Augsburger Waisenhäuser,” 13 June 2005,
lecture presented to the Kolloquium zur Geschichte der frühen Neuzeit at the University
of Saarbrucken, Germany;
“Von verdorbenen Kaufleuten" und glücklosen Kapitalisten. Selbszeugnisse
frühneuzeitlicher Bankrotteure als Quellen für die Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte,”
6 June 2005, lecture presented at the Kolloquium zur Geschichte Selbstzeugnisse at
the Free University of Berlin, Germany;
“Reflections on the Social History of Poverty and Charity,” 5 September 2004,
lecture presented at the colloquium, Defining and Redefining Early Modern History,
at the University of California—Berkeley, Berkeley, CA;
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“Überlegungen zu einer neuen Wirtschaftsgeschichte der Früheneuzeit: Ein
Werkstattsbericht über Wirtschaftsethik und Wirtschaftspraxiz aus der Perspektive
Bankrottsfällen,” 16 July 2004, lecture presented at the Kolloquium zur Geschichte der
frühen Neuzeit at the Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany;
“Rituale des Alltags. Riten und Routinen der Armenfürsorge und der
Armendisziplinierung in der frühen Neuzeit,” 14 July 2004, lecture presented at the
Kolloquium zur Geschichte der Rituale at the University of Münster, Germany;
“‘So lang mir Gott das Leben verlihen.’ Selbstbewußtsein und Selbstdarstellungen aus
Selbstzeugnisse der schwäbischen Kaufleuteschaft in der Frühen Neuzeit,” 22 June 2004,
lecture at the Kolloquium zur Geschichte der Frühneuzeit at the Free University,
Berlin, Germany;
“Erfolg und Misserfolg: Überlegungen zur Wirksamkeit der frühneuzeitlichen
Armenfürsorge am Beispiel der Augsburger Waisenhäuser,” 17 June 2004, lecture at
the Kolloquium zur Landesgeschichte at the University of Augsburg, Germany;
“‘So lang mir Gott das Leben verlihen.’ Selbstkenntnis und Selbstbildnis aus
Ego-Dokumenten der schwäbischen Kaufleuteschaft in der Frühen Neuzeit,”
22 May 2003, lecture presented at the Colloquium Augustanum of the Institute for
European Cultural History, Augsburg, Germany;
“Povertas et Caritas in der frühen Neuzeit: Methodische Überlegungen und
philosophische Auswirkungen,” 11 July 2002, lecture presented at the University of
Augsburg, Germany;
“Discipline and Faith: Religious Ideology and Religious Identity among the
Orphans of Early Modern Augsburg,” 5 January 2002, paper presented at the annual
meeting of the American Society for Church History/American Historical Association,
San Francisco, CA;
“Individuality and Autobiography in Early Modern Germany,” 5 October 2001, paper
presented at the annual meeting of the German Studies Association, Washington, DC;
“The Question of Leisure,” 11 November 2000, comment presented at the annual
meeting of the Midwest German History Workshop, Madison, WI;
“Der Bürger im Spiegel des Augsburger Intelligenzzettels,” 9 April 2000, paper
presented at the colloquium, “Pressewesen der Aufklärung: Periodische Schriften im
Alten Reich,” at the Institute for European Cultural History, Augsburg, Germany;
“Rethinking the Social History of Poverty,” 25 February 2000, lecture presented at a
colloquium in honor of Prof. Robert M. Kingdon at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI;
“Becoming Catholic: Issues of Confessional Identity and Religious Minority,”
8 January 2000, paper presented at the annual meeting of the Catholic Historical
Association/American Historical Association, Chicago, IL;
“Die Streitpredigten von Philipp Georg Riss: Über religiöse Dissenz in der frühen
Neuzeit,” 23 August 1999, paper presented at the joint meeting of the Verein für
Reformationsgeschichte and the Society for Reformation Research, University of
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Halle/Wittenberg, Germany;
“Die Erbschaft der Armut: Weber’sche Traditionalismus und wirtschaftliche
Opportunismus unter den Waisen Augsburgs in der frühen Neuzeit,” 18 June 1999,
lecture presented at the University of Augsburg, Germany;
“Honor among Thieves: The Development of Legal and Commercial Practice in
Early Modern Bankruptcy,” 10 March, 1999, lecture presented at the Department
of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI;
“Reflections on the History of the Family in Early Modern Europe,” 5 January 1999,
paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Church
History/American Historical Association, Washington, DC;
“Die Augsburger Waisenhäuser: Marktwirtschaft und Sozialdisziplinierung in der
frühen Neuzeit,” 7 November 1995, lecture presented at the University of Augsburg,
Germany;
“Coercion in the Market,” 13 September 1994, paper presented at the Eleventh
International Economic History Congress in Milan, Italy;
“Die Fuggerfaktoren Hörmann von und zu Gutenberg: Werte und Normen einer
kaufmännischen Familie im Übergang zum Landadel,” 22 July 1993, paper presented
at the colloquium, “Augsburger Handelshäuser im Wandel des historischen Urteils,” at
the Institute for European Cultural History, Augsburg, Germany;
“The Orphans of Augsburg,” 12 March 1991, lecture presented at a colloquium in
honor of Prof. Philip Kintner at Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA;
“Production, Transaction, and Proletarianization: The Textile Industry of Upper
Swabia, 1580-1660,” 12 October 1990, paper presented at the colloquium, “The
Workplace before the Factory,” at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA;
“Canon Law and Swiss Reform: A Study of Legal Theory and Practice in the Marital
Courts of Zurich, Bern, Basel, and St. Gall,” 20 September 1989, paper presented at
Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland;
“Frauen in der Wirtschaft der frühen Neuzeit,” 12 June 1988, lecture presented at the
University of Essen, Germany;
“Familie, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in Schwaben während der frühen Neuzeit,”
18 May 1988, lecture presented at the University of Augsburg, Germany;
“Women's Wills: Gender and Inheritance in Early Modern German Cities,”
30 December 1987, paper presented at the annual meeting of the American
Historical Association, Washington, DC;
“Public Sermons and Popular Culture in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth
Centuries,” 9 May 1987, paper presented at the Spring meeting of the American
Society for Reformation Research, Kalamazoo, MI;
“Families Unformed and Reformed: Protestant Divorce and Its Domestic
Consequences,” 28 December 1985, paper presented at the annual meeting of the
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American Historical Association, New York, NY;
“Domestic Morality and the Domestic Economy,” 28 March 1985, paper presented
at the annual Burdick-Vary Symposium at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
PROJECTS:
The following are ongoing projects for which substantial research has been completed,
manuscript texts written and, in some instance, papers presented or published.
“Decline, Bankruptcy, and Revival: The Economics and Ethics of Early
Capitalist Enterprise, 1500-1800” (a study of bankruptcy in early modern Europe and its
effects on capital formation, business practices, and legal theory, based on over 200 cases
between 1500 and 1750);
“Work and Worth in Preindustrial Europe” (a synthetic account of the
transformation of nonagricultural work and technology in early modern Europe,
being undertaken in collaboration with Prof. Leonard Rosenband of Utah State
University, Logan, UT);
“Of Commerce and Class” (a history of the merchant family Hörmann von und
zu Gutenberg and the relationship between their domestic economy, estate
management, business fortunes, and social status, based on the family's private
archive).
“Family and Fortune in Early Modern Germany, 1500-1800" (an economic
history of the urban family in eight free, imperial cities in southern Germany
with particular focus on attitudes toward wealth and property as well as
strategies for their acquisition and preservation).
OFFICES:
Chair, Undergraduate Studies
Department of History
University of Pennsylvania;
2012-2015
College House Fellow
Harrison College House
University of Pennsylvania;
2011-
List Editor
H-Kinship;
2010-
Member
Social Inequality Network
European Social Science History Conference
2008-
Member
Graduate Council of the Faculties
University of Pennsylvania;
2002-2004
Academic Director
Berlin Consortium for German Studies
Free University
Berlin, Germany;
2003-2004
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Member
Senate Executive Committee
University of Pennsylvania
2002-2003, 2009-2010
Chair, Humanities Subcommittee
University Research Foundation
University of Pennsylvania;
1997-2004
Chair, Graduate Studies
Department of History
University of Pennsylvania;
1997-2000
Chair, Undergraduate Studies
Department of History
University of Pennsylvania;
1996-1997
Chair
Medieval/Early Modern Council
University of Pennsylvania;
1996-2002
Member
Senate Executive Committee
University of Pennsylvania;
1994-1996
Member
University Council
University of Pennsylvania;
1994-1996
Member
Board of Editors
Sixteenth Century Journal;
1992-present
Secretary of the Faculty
School of Arts and Sciences
University of Pennsylvania;
1991-1995
President
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference;
1992-1993
Vice-President
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference;
1991-1992
Member
Executive Council
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference.
1990-1993
REFERENCES:
Provided on request.
REVISED:
2 January 2013
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