William Eamon Regents Professor of History, Emeritus Dean Emeritus of the Honors College New Mexico State University Box 30001/Dept. 3HON Las Cruces, NM 88003 Tel. (505) 646-4601 Fax (505) 646-1755 weamon@nmsu.edu williameamon.com nmsu.academia.edu/WilliamEamon EDUCATION PhD, History of Science and Early Modern European History, University of Kansas, 1977 MA, History, University of Montana, 1970 BA, History, University of Montana, 1968 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND EMPLOYMENT 1976-2014 New Mexico State University 2014-present Regents Professor of History, Emeritus 2004-2014 Regents Professor of History 2005-2014 Dean, Honors College 2012 Named Distinguished Achievement Professor 2012-13 Director, New Frontiers Institute 2004-06 S. P. and Margaret Manasse Chair, College of Arts and Sciences 2004 Visiting Professor, University of Valencia (Spain), May-June 1995-2005 Director, University Honors Program 1994-2004 Professor of History 1994-95 Villa I Tatti Fellow, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies,

Florence, Italy 1991-95 Head, Department of History 1986-87 Guest Professor, Institute for the History of Medicine, University of Würzburg,

Germany 1985-86 Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin 1984-85 Acting Head, Department of History 1981-94 Associate Professor of History 1981-82 Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow, History of Science, Harvard University 1977-81 Assistant Professor of History 1976-77 Instructor of History

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1973-74 Visiting Instructor of History, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH GRANTS 2005 National Science Foundation Research Grant (for support of the conference,

“Beyond the Black Legend: Spain and the Scientific Revolution, co-PIs William Eamon and Victor Navarro Brotòns)

2002-3 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship 2000 Summer Research Grant, Renaissance Society of America 1994-98 National Endowment for the Humanities Research Grant 1994-98 National Science Foundation Research Grant 1997 National Trust for Historic Preservation (two grants for projects relating to

renovation of the YMCA building for use as an Honors Center) 1994-95 Villa I Tatti Fellowship 1994-95 ACLS Research Grant (declined) 1991 New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities grant 1989 Travel grant, National Research Council 1986-87 Senior Fulbright Fellowship, Federal Republic of Germany 1986-87 National Science Foundation Research Grant 1985-86 Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities,

University of Wisconsin 1982 Stipend, Institute for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology, M.I.T. 1981-82 Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellowship, Harvard University 1981 American Philosophical Society Research Grant (Penrose Fund) 1978-94 Arts and Sciences Research Center, New Mexico State University (10

minigrants) 1975 Newberry Library Fellowship 1970-72 United States Steel Foundation Fellowship, University of Kansas HONORS AND AWARDS 2012 Named Distinguished Achievement Professor 2007 University Research Council Award for Exceptional Achievement in Creative

Scholarly Activity 2004-2006 S.P. and Margaret Manasse Research Chair, College of Arts and Sciences 2005 25th Annual Church Memorial Lecturer, Brown University, October 27, 2005 2004 Named Regents Professor 2004 Visiting Professor, University of Valencia, May-June; taught a graduate seminar,

“La ciencia y su público en la época del Renacimiento y la Revolución Científica” (part of a seminar, “La ciencia y su público en la historia” team-taught with Bernardette Bensaude-Vicent, University of Paris-Sorbonne)

2004 Klaus Jankofsky Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Minnesota, Duluth, April 16, 2004

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2003 Visiting Research Professor, Instituto de Historia de la Ciencia y Documentación, University of Valencia, Spain, May-June, 2003

2002 Founding Member, New Mexico State University Teaching Academy 1995 Winner, History Book Award, Association of American Publishers 1985 Jack Williamson Lecturer, Eastern New Mexico University 1984 Winning Essay, New Mexico Humanities Council Essay Competition: “Albert

Einstein and the Generation of 1905” RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS 1. Books

The Professor of Secrets: Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy (Washington: National Geographic Books, 2010).

Il Professore di Segreti: Mistero, medicina e alchimia nell’Italia del Rinascimento (Italian translation of The Professor of Secrets; Rome: Carocci Editore, 2014).

Beyond the Black Legend: Spain and the Scientific Revolution / Mas allá de la Leyenda Negra: España y la Revolución Científica, ed. Victor Navarro Brotòns and William Eamon (Valencia: Soler, 2007)

Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994). Paperback edition, 1996. Nominated for Pulitzer Prize; winner of the Association of American Publishers History Book Award.

La Scienza e i segreti della natura: I ‘libri di segreti’ nella cultura medievale e moderna, translated by Renzo Repetti (Italian translation of Science and the Secrets of Nature; Genova: ECIG, 1999)

Co-editor, Culturhistorische Caleidoscoop (Gent: Stichting Mens en Kultuur, 1992) Editor, Studies in Medieval Fachliteratur, with introduction, Scripta, no. 6 (Brussels: UFSAL,

1982)

2. Articles, Essays, and Book Chapters “Science, Technology and Medicine in Golden Age Spain,” Companion to the Spanish

Renaissance, edited by Hilaire Kallendorf (Brill, forthcoming in 2016) “The Difference That Made Spain, the Difference That Spain Made.” Epilogue to Medical

Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire, ed. by John Slater, Miríaluz López Terrad, and José Pardo-Tomás (London: Ashgate, forthcoming in 2014)

“Astrology in Renaissance Society,” in Companion to Astrology in the Renaissance, ed. Brendan Dooley (Leiden: Brill, 2014), pp. 141-92

“Science and Medicine in Early Modern Venice,” in Handbook of Venetian History, 1450-1797, ed. Eric Dursteler (Leiden: Brill, 2013), pp. 701-41.

“On the Skins of Goats and Sheep: (Un)masking the Secrets of Nature in Early Modern Popular Culture.” In Visual Rhetorics of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe, ed. Tim McCall, Sean Roberts, and Giancarlo Fiorenza. (Kirksville, MO: Truman State University

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Press, 2013), pp.54-75 “Apariencia, artificio y realidad: El coleccionismo de secretos en la cultura cortesana.” In El

inquiridor de maravillas. Podiígios, curiosidades, y secretos de la naturalieza en la España de Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa. Edited by Mar Rey Bueno and Miguel López Pérez (Huesca: Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses, 2011), pp. 321-37.

“Masters of Fire: Italian Alchemists in the Court of Philip II,” in Chymia: Science and Nature in Early Modern Europe (1450-1750), ed. Miguel López Pérez and Didier Kahn (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), 138-56

“How to Read a Book of Secrets,” in Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500-1800, ed. Alisha Rankin and Elaine Leong (London: Ashgate, 2011), pp. 23-46; a volume of essays on current research on early modern books of secrets, a research field that was initiated with the publication of my book, Science and the Secrets of Nature.

“‘Nuestros males no son constitucionales, sino circunstanciales’: The Black Legend and the History of Early Modern Spanish Science,” Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies 7 (2009): 13-30

“Appearance, Artifice, and Reality: Collecting Secrets in Courtly Culture,” in The Gentleman, the Virtuoso, the Inquirer: Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa and the Art of Collecting in Early Modern Spain, ed. Mar Rey-Bueno and Miguel López-Pérez (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), 127-43.

“Physicians and the Reform of Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe” Acta Histriae, 17 (2009): 615-26

“The Canker Friar: Piety and Intrigue in an Era of New Diseases,” in Piety and Plague in Europe: From Antiquity to the Early Modern Period, ed. Franco Mormando and Thomas W. Worcester, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies (Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2007), 156-76

“Spain and the Scientific Revolution: Historiographical Questions and Conjectures” (with Victor Navarro Brotòns), in Beyond the Black Legend: Spain and the Scientific Revolution, ed. Victor Navarro Brotòns and William Eamon (Valencia: Soler, 2007), pp. 21-32

“Introduction” to Beyond the Black Legend: Spain and the Scientific Revolution, ed. Victor Navarro Brotòns and William Eamon (Valencia: Soler, 2007), pp. 11-16

“Markets, Piazzas, and Villages,” in The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 3, ed. K. Park and L. Daston (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 206-23

“The Secrets of Nature and the Moral Economy of Early Modern Science,” in Il Segreto / The Secret, ed. A. Paravacini Bagliani, Micrologus, vol. XIV (Florence: SISMEL, 2006), pp. 215-35

“The Charlatan’s Trial: An Italian Surgeon in the Court of King Philip II, 1576-1577,” Cronos 8 (2005), 1-30

“Science Moves West,” Humanities: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities (March/April, 2005), 42-5

“L’impacte de les novetats: La ciència popular en una època de descobriments,” Mètode:

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Revista de Difusión de la Investigatión de la Universitat de Valencia 41 (2004) 50-55 (in Catalan)

“Pharmaceutical Self-Fashioning, or How to Get Rich and Famous in the Renaissance Medical Fashion Industry,” Pharmacy in History, 45 (2003), 123-29

“L’experimentador comú: cultura popular i revolució científica,” Afers, fulls de recerca i pensament, 45 (2003), 533-48 (in Catalan)

“Prólogo,” in Miguel López Pérez, Asclepio renovado: Alquimia y medicina en la España moderna (Madrid, 2003), pp. 15-17

“The Scientific Renaissance,” in A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance, ed. G. Ruggiero (London: Blackwells, 2002), pp. 403-24

“Alchemy in Popular Culture: Leonardo Fioravanti and the Search for the Philosopher’s Stone,” Early Science and Medicine, 5 (2000), 196-213

“Unmannered Science: ‘Natural Philosophy’ and Medical Practice in the Piazza,” Science and Power: The Historical Foundations of Research Policies in Europe, ed. Luca Guzzetti (Luxembourg: European Communities, 2000), pp. 63-8

“Plagues, Healers, and Patients in Early Modern Europe” (review essay) Renaissance Quarterly, 52 (1999), 474-86

“El ‘Nou Asclepi’: Leonardo Fioravanti i les modes mèdiques al Renaixement,” Afers. Fulls de recerca i pensament, 31 (Valencia, 1998), 679-93 (in Catalan)

“Cannibalism and Contagion: Framing Syphilis in Counter-Reformation Italy,” Early Science and Medicine, 3 (1998), 1-31

“Foreword” to John Ferguson, Bibliographical Notes on Histories of Inventions and Books of Secrets (Glasgow, 1882-1911; reprint edition Staten Island: Pober Publishing, 1998)

“Natural Magic and Utopia in the Cinquecento: Campanella, the Della Porta Circle, and the Revolt of Calabria,” Memorie Domenicane, n.s., 26 (1995), 369-402

“Science as a Hunt,” Physis 31 (1994), 393-432 “Making Knowledge,” review symposium of Science and the Secrets of Nature, in

Metascience, n.s., 6 (1994), 24-45: Author's Response, pp. 39-45 “‘With the Rules of Life and an Enema’: Leonardo Fioravanti’s Medical Primitivism,” in

Renaissance and Revolution: Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen, and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe, ed. J.V. Field and F.A.J.L. James (London: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 29-44

“Science as a venatio,” in Culturhistorische Caleidoscoop, ed. C. De Backer (Gent: Stichting Mens en Kultuur, 1992), pp. 197-212

“Court, Academy, and Printing House: Patronage and Scientific Careers in Late-Renaissance Italy,” in Patronage and Institutions, ed. B. Moran (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1991), pp. 25-50

“Tragedy and Society in Ancient Athens,” (New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities/American Southwest Theater Company, 1991)

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“From the Secrets of Nature to Public Knowledge,” in Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution, ed. D. C. Lindberg and R. S. Westman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 333-66

“Brecht and the Historical Galileo,” Gestus: Journal of Brechtian Studies 3 (1989), 19-23 “Plebs amat empirica: Nicholas of Poland and His Critique of the Medieval Medical

Establishment,” (with Gundolf Keil), Sudhoffs Archiv 71 (1987), 180-96 “From the Secrets of Nature to Public Knowledge: The Origins of the Concept of Openness

in Science,” Minerva 23 (1985), 321-47 “Inventing the World: Einstein and the Generation of 1905,” Antioch Review 43 (Summer,

1985), 340-51 “Technology and Magic,” Technologia 8 (1985), 57-64 “Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Science,” Sudhoffs Archiv 69 (1985), 26-49 “Artes quaerendi,” Isis 74 (1985), 393-96 (essay review of B. Vickers, ed., Occult and

Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance, Cambridge, 1984) “Science and Popular Culture in Early Modern Italy: The ‘Professors of Secrets’ and Their

Books,” The Sixteenth Century Journal 16 (1985), 471-85

“Drunk With the Cup of Liberty,” Southwest Review 70 (Winter, 1985), 534-41 “Arcana Disclosed: The Advent of Printing, the Books of Secrets Tradition, and the

Development of Experimental Science in the Sixteenth Century,” History of Science 22 (1984), 111-50

“The Accademia Segreta of Girolamo Ruscelli: A Sixteenth Century Italian Scientific Society,” (with Françoise Paheau), Isis 75 (1984), 327-42

“Technology as Magic in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance,” Janus 70 (1983), 171-212

“The Tale of Monsieur Gout,” The Bulletin of the History of Medicine 55 (1981), 564-67 “New Light on Robert Boyle and the Discovery of Colour Indicators,” Ambix 27 (1980),

204-209 “Botanical Empiricism in Late-Medieval Technical Writings,” Res Publica Litterarum 3

(1980), 237-45 “The Secreti of Alexis of Piedmont, 1555,” Res Publica Litterarum 2 (1979), 43-55 “Ideas and Reform in the 17th and 18th Centuries,” Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting

of the Western Society for French History, ed. J. D. Falk (Santa Barbara, 1979), 30-33 3. Encyclopedia and Catalog Entries

“Nicholas of Poland”; “Leonardo Fioravanti,” in Dictionary of Medical Biography, ed. W. Bynum and H. Bynum (New York: Greenwood Press, 2006).

“Vĕdecké vzdĕlání renesančniho vladaře: arcivévoda Rudolf u španělského dvora” (“The Scientific Education of a Renaissance Prince: Archduke Rudolf in the Spanish Court”) in Alchymie a Rudolf II (Alchemy in the Time of Rudolph II), exhibition catalogue,

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Klementinum Gallery (Prague: Artefactum, 2011), 129-38 (in Czech). English version: “The Scientific Education of a Renaissance Prince: Archduke Rudolf in the Spanish Court” (www.academia.edu/5442039/)

“Libros de secretos” / “Books of Secrets,” in Alquimia. Ciencia y pensamiento a través de los libros (Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2005), 112-15

“Books of Secrets,” in Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, ed. J. DeWald (New York: Scribner’s, 2004), 5:365-6

“Natural Magic,” in Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, ed. J. Heilbron (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 479-81

“Magic and the Occult,” in The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia, ed. G. B. Ferngren, E. J. Larson, and D. W. Amundsen (New York: Garland Publishing Co., 2000), pp. 533-40

“Secrets of Nature”; “Books of Secrets”; “Giambattista Della Porta”; “Vannoccio Biringuccio,” in The Scientific Revolution: An Encyclopedia, ed. W. Applebaum (New York: Garland Publishing Co., 2000), pp.

“Treatises on Technology,” in Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. J. R. Strayer, vol. 10 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1988), 640-50

4. Web Publications 2014: ANTIPOCRAS: A Medieval Treatise on Magical Medicine By Brother Nicholas of the Preaching Friars (c. 1270), translated by William Eamon (https://www.academia.edu/6179784/) 2014: “Medieval Wonder Drugs: Two 13th Century Snake Tracts,” translated by William Eamon (https://www.academia.edu/6496337/) 2010-present: “Labyrinth of Nature” Blog. “Labyrinth of Nature” (http://www.williameamon.com) joins a small group of blogs about Renaissance science and medicine. The blog averages over 1,000 hits per week from visitors from around the world. Recent posts have included:

“The Invention of Discovery. Part I: Travel and Discovery in Antiquity,” January 14, 2014 “Kepler and the Star of Bethlehem”: December 24, 2011 “Renaissance Astrology and the Vagaries of Markets”: November 27, 2011 “Astrology and Prophecy in the Renaissance”: November 20, 2011 “‘Two hundred thousand hardships, privations, and dangers’: A Spanish Natural in the New World”:

June 21, 2011 “The Age of How-To”: May 13, 2011 “The Marvelous Virtues of Precipitato”: April 27, 2011 “The Monster of Ravenna”: April 11, 2011 “Science as a Hunt”” March 30, 2011 “The Lure of the Charlatan”: March 20, 2011 “Practical Alchemy in the Renaissance”: March 7, 2011 “The Canker Friar”: February 26, 2011 “The ‘Professors of Secrets’ and Their Books”: February 21, 2011 “The Aquavitae Brothers”: February 13, 2011 “A Balm To Heal All Wounds”: February 5, 2011 “The Monk Who Loved to Eat Toads”: January 24, 2011

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“The Iconography of Scientific Discovery in the Renaissance (Part I)”: January 3, 2011 “The Tale of Monsieur Gout”: December 13, 2010 “Thessalos and the Magic Bowl”: October 17, 2010 “The Legend of Ambroise Paré and the ‘Liberation’ of Surgery”: October 3, 2010 “The World’s First Mail Order Doctor”: September 22, 2010 “The Mysterious Malady of Marulla Greco”: September 5, 2010 “The Renaissance Curioso”: August 27, 2010 “The Renaissance Snake Handler”: August 12, 2010 “The University of War”: August 6, 2010 “The Disease Called Curiosity”: August 2, 2010 “The Renaissance Nose Job”: July 20, 2010 “‘With the Rules of Life and an Enema’: Alternative Medicine and the Way of Nature”: July 12, 2010 “Labyrinth of Nature”: June 22, 2010

5. Reviews Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey, Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy (Oxford, 2013),

in Bulletin of the History of Medicine (forthcoming). Monica Azzolini, The Duke and the Stars: Astrology and Politics in Renaissance Milan

(Cambridge, MA, 2013), in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 44 (2013): 389-90 Frank Klaassen, The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle

Ages and Renaissance (Philadelphia, 2012), in Renaissance Quarterly, 66 (2013): 1384-6

David Gentilcore, Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy (2006), Isis 2 (2009): 402-3 Allison Kavey, Books of Secrets. Natural Philosophy in England, 1550-1600 (2007),

Renaissance Quarterly 61 (2008): 1357-8 Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Nature, Empire, and Nation. Explorations of the History of

Science in the Iberian World (2006), Renaissance Quarterly 60 (2007): 1414-16. Pamela Smith, The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution

(2004), Isis 97 (2006): 159-60. Steven J. Williams, The ‘Secret of Secrets’: The Scholarly Career of a Pseudo-Aristotelian

Text in the Latin Middle Ages (2003), Bulletin of the History of Medicine 80 (2006): 578-9.

Leonhart Fuchs, De historia stirpium commentarii insignes, Basel, 1542, commentary by Karen Reeds, CD-ROM edition (2003), Journal of the History of Biology 37 (2004): 417-8.

J. M. Headley, Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World (1997), Renaissance Studies 13 (1999) 361-5.

S. Clark, Thinking With Demons. The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (1997), Seventeenth-Century News (1999).

W. Newman, Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution (1994), Technology and Culture (1997), 758-60

A. G. Debus, Paracelso e la tradizione paracelsiana (1996), Bulletin of the History of Medicine 72 (1998), 539-41

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S. Shapin, A Social History of Truth (1994), Journal of Modern History 69 (1997), 134-5 P. Curry, Prophecy and Power: Astrology in Early Modern England (1990), Renaissance

Quarterly, 47 (1994), 206-8 A. G. Debus, The French Paracelsians (1992), Renaissance Quarterly 47 (1994), 186-8 B. Moran, The Alchemical World of the German Court (1991), Pharmacy in History 35

(1993) 46-7 B. Moran, Chemical Pharmacy Enters the University: Johannes Hartmann and the Didactic

Care of Chymiatria in the Early Seventeenth Century (1991), Isis 84 (1983), 145-6. V. Nutton, ed., Medicine at the Courts of Europe, 1500-1837 (1990), Social History of

Medicine 4 (1991), 340-2 R. W. Southern, Robert Grosseteste: The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe

(1986), The Historian 50 (1988) C. Gilly, Spanien und die Basler Buchdruck bis 1600 (1985), Isis 80 (1989) 181-2 Nicolas Chuquet, Renaissance Mathematician: A Study With Extensive Translation of

Chuquet's Mathematical Manuscript Completed in 1484, ed. G. Flegg, C. Hay, and B. Moss (1985), Isis 77 (1986), 690-1

C. Kren, Medieval Science and Technology: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography (1985), Isis 77 (1986), 337-8

A. Desmond, Archetypes and Ancestors: Paleontology in Victorian England, 1850-1875 (1982), The Historian 48 (1986), 438

Pseudo-Aristotle, The "Secret of Secrets": Sources and Influences, ed. W. F. Ryan and C. B. Schmitt (1982), Isis 76 (1985), 94-5

G. Keil, ed., Fachprosa-Studien: Beiträge zur mittelalterlichen Wissenschafts- und Geistesgeschichte (1980), Isis 75 (1984), 608-9

N. Siraisi, Taddeo Alderotti and His Pupils: Two Generations of Italian Medical Learning (1981), The Historian 45 (1983), 89-90

R. Schmitz and F. Kraft, eds., Humanismus und Naturwissenschaften (1980), Isis 73 (1982), 312

A. Coudert, Alchemy: The Philosopher's Stone (1979), Isis 72 (1981), 511-12 A. G. Debus, ed., Robert Fludd and His Philosophical Key (1979), Pharmacy in History 23

(1981), 94-5 J. Godwin, Robert Fludd: Hermetic Philosopher and Surveyor of Two Worlds (1979), The

Sixteenth Century Journal 12 (1981), 100 K. Butti and J. Perlin, A Golden Thread; 2500 Years of Solar Architecture and Technology

(1980), American Scientist 68 (1980), 712 C. Herberger, The Riddle of the Sphinx: Calendric Symbolism in Myth and Icon (1979),

American Scientist 68 (1980), 346

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6. Work in Progress

Science and Everyday Life in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1750 (book under contract with Cambridge University Press)

Conquistadors of Nature: How the Spanish Explorers Paved the Way to Modern Science (book in planning stages)

“Greek Tragedy and the Origins of Science” (essay)

TEACHING 1. Teaching Fields History of Science

History of Medicine History of Technology Intellectual History of Europe Renaissance and Reformation Early Modern Europe

2. Courses Taught (selected) European History Survey

Medicine and Society History of Science Survey History of Technology The Age of Discovery Disease and Healers from Antiquity to Modernity Magic and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Europe Historians and History Intellectual History of Modern Europe Renaissance and Reformation The Scientific Revolution God and Nature (Honors) The Scientific Revolution Undergraduate Seminar: History of Magic and the Occult Sciences

Undergraduate Seminar: The Scientific Revolution Graduate Research Seminar: Popular Culture in Early Modern England Graduate Reading Seminar: Modernization and Its Discontents Graduate Reading Seminar: Nature and Society 3. Undergraduate and Graduate Theses Hayley Cotter, New Mexico State University, English, MA (examining committee), 2014

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James Sherwood, New Mexico State University, History, MA (chair), 2012 Kristina Leifeste, New Mexico State University, MA (Mathematics; dean’s representative),

2012 Thasha McVey, New Mexico State University, History, MA (examining committee), 2010 Eilleen Garcia, New Mexico State University (examining committee), MA, 2007 Tayra Lanuza Navarro, Universitat de Valencia, Tésis Doctoral (Chair of Examining

Committee), 2005 Chad Reid, New Mexico State University, History, MA (examining committee), 2001 Joseph Denk, New Mexico State University, History, MA (chair), 1999 Sheila Klopfer, New Mexico State University, History, MA (chair), 1994 Melanie Baca, honors thesis (director), 2006 Ursa Brown Glaberman, honors thesis (director), 2000 LANGUAGES

Italian: speaking and reading Spanish: speaking and reading German: reading, limited speaking French: reading Latin: reading

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 1. Membership in Professional Societies

History of Science Society (Committee on Honors and Prizes, 1986-87; Advisory Editor, Isis, 2014-2017)

American Association for the History of Medicine Renaissance Society of America National Collegiate Honors Council (Committee on International Education, 2001-4) Würzburger medizinhistorisches Gesellschaft

2. Papers and Commentaries at Professional Meetings and Conferences

Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 22, 2012: “Extreme Makeover: How Leonardo Fioravanti Became a Doctor”

History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, November 19-22. Chair and commentary on session, “Knowledge and Practice in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.”

Chymia. Science and Nature in Early Modern Europe (1450-1750), conference at San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain, September 7-12, 2008: invited paper, “Masters of Fire: Italian Alchemists in the Court of Philip II”

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Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 3-5, 2008: commentary, session on “Gender and Medicine in Renaissance Italy”

Secrets and Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Commerce, 1500-1800, conference at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, Cambridge University, 15-16 February 2008, plenary address: “How to Read a Book of Secrets”

Interpreters of Culture, international conference, University of Primorski, Koper, Slovenia, September 27-29, 2007: “Physicians and the Reform of Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe”

Lastanosa: Art and Science in the Baroque, International Conference, Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses, Huesca, Spain, May 28-June 2, 2007: “Appearance, Artifice, and Reality: Collecting Secrets in Courtly Culture”

De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de Revolución Científica, Seminario International Complutense, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, 24-25 May 2007: “The Scientific Revolution and the Rhythms of Everyday Life”

Beyond the Black Legend: Spain and the Scientific Revolution, International Conference, Valencia, Spain September 21, 2005: “Spain and the Scientific Revolution: Historiographical Questions and Conjectures,” with Victor Navarro Brotòns

New England Renaissance Conference, Worcester, MA, April 23, 2005, keynote address: “The Canker Friar: Piety and Intrigue in an Era of New Diseases”

Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, March 29, 2003: “Medical Self-Fashioning, or, How to Get Rich and Famous in the Medical Fashion Industry”

Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, March 28, 2003: Commentary, Session on “Science and Literature in the Renaissance”

National Collegiate Honors Council Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 6, 2003: “Building the Dream: The Creation of the William B. Conroy Honors Center at New Mexico State University”

History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, November 4, 2000: “ ‘Amateur Science’ in the Piazza: The Scientific Underworld of Sixteenth-Century Italy”

History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, November 6, 1999: Chair and commentary, Session on “Putting Fraud on Trial: Dishonest Quacks, False Alchemists and Deceptive Painters in Early Modern Europe”

History of Science Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 7, 1997: “Science in the Piazza: Performance, Parody, Appropriation”

Scienza e Potere, international conference sponsored by the European Science and Technology Forum, Istituto e Museo di Storia delle Scienze, Florence, December 8, 1994: “Unmannered Science: ‘Natural Philosophy’ and Medical Practice in the Piazza”

XIXth International Congress of History of Science, Zaragosa, Spain, August 1993: “Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets, Popular Culture, and the Origins of Experimental Science”

History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., plenary session, December

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27, 1992: “Science and the Secrets of the Arts: Another Look at the Zilsel Thesis” Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Society Annual Meeting, Las Cruces, NM, April

11, 1992: “Metaphors of Scientific Discovery in the Renaissance” Society for Italian Historical Studies, American Historical Association Annual Meeting,

Chicago, December 1991: “Science and Secrets in Late-Renaissance Italy” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Madison, October 1991: “Curiosity and the

Polemic Against Secrecy in the Renaissance” Society for Literature and Science Annual Meeting, Portland, October 1990: “Science as a

Hunt, and Some Other Metaphors of Discovery in the Renaissance” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Gainesville, Fla., October 28, 1989: “Science as

a Venatio” XVIIIth International Congress of History of Science, Hamburg and Munich, August 3, 1989:

“Court, Academy, and Printing House: Patronage and Scientific Careers in Late-Renaissance Italy”

Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, Mo., October 29, 1988: “Science and Popular Culture in Sixteenth-Century Germany: The Career of Walther Hermann Ryff (1500-1548)”

Mid-America History Conference, Lawrence, Kansas, September 27, 1988: “Natural Magic and Utopia in the Cinquecento: Campanella and the Revolt of Calabria”

Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Society Annual Meeting, Tempe, Arizona, March 17, 1984: “The Accademia Segreta: The Earliest Italian Scientific Society?”

American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, December 29, 1983: “Science and Popular Culture in Sixteenth Century Italy: The ‘Professors of Secrets’ and Their Books”

American Historical Association Annual Meeting, December 1983: Co-organizer, session on “Artisans and Intellectuals in Early Modern Italy”

History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, October 20, 1982: “Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Science”

Sixteenth International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 10, 1981: Organizer and Chair, session on “Medieval Fachliteratur”

Joint Meeting of the Texas State Historical Association-New Mexico Historical Association , El Paso, Texas, March 6, 1981: Chair, session on “Research Opportunities in Agricultural History”

History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, October 16, 1980: “Arcana Disclosed: The Künstbuchlein and the Books of Secrets”

Fifteenth International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 3, 1980: “Technology as Magic in the Late-Middle Ages and the Renaissance”

Midwest Junto of the History of Science Society, Madison, Wisconsin, April 11, 1980: “New Light on Robert Boyle and the Discovery of Color Indicators”

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Fourteenth International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 5, 1979: “Botanical Empiricism in Late-Medieval Technical Writings”

Midwest Junto of the History of Science Society, Lawrence, Kansas, April 7, 1978: “Books of Secrets and the Empirical Foundations of English Natural Philosophy”

Western Society for French History, San Diego, November 10, 1978: Commentary on session on “The Impact of Science in the Age of Reason”

Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, March 7, 1975: “Books of Secrets in the Sixteenth Century”

3. Invited Lectures, Colloquia, and Special Programs

Dissident Medicine Colloquium, University of Geneva: December 7, 2013: “The Charlatan and the King: An Italian Surgeon in the Court of Philip II” The Academy for Learning in Retirement, Las Cruces, NM (4 part program), November 2013: “Science and the Secrets of Nature” Goode Symposium in the Humanities, University of Wyoming, September 19, 2013: “Medicine as a Hunt: The Pursuit of Secrets in Renaissance Science”

The Art of Alchemy, Getty Foundation Workshop to prepare for an exhibition of alchemical books, April 21, 2011. As one of about twenty international scholars invited to participate in the workshop, I made a presentation on a German craft manual, Kunstbüchlein (1535). Les Signes de la Maladie et l’Harmonie du Monde: Histoire, Science, Ethique. Symposium at the Fondation Bodmer, Geneva, Switzerland, November 24-26, 2010: “Signs, Symbols and Signatures: The Harmony of the World in Early Modern Natural Philosophy.” The Secret Spaces of Early Modern Europe, symposium sponsored by USC/Huntington Library Early Modern Studies Institute, University of Southern California, 24 February 2009: “On the Skins of Goats and Sheep: (Un)masking the Secrets of Nature in Early Modern Popular Culture” The History and Representation of Spanish Science, symposium at the University of Colorado, Boulder, April 11-12, 2008: “The Black Legend and the History of Early Modern Spanish Science” University of the West Indies Medical School, Cave Hill, Barbados, March 27, 2007: “Stupendous Surgery: Incidents of Medical Self-Fashioning in the Renaissance” History of Science Colloquium, University of California, Berkeley, February 5, 2007: “The Canker Friar: Piety and Intrigue in an Era of New Diseases” The Academy for Learning in Retirement, Las Cruces, NM (4 part program), April 2007: “The Origins of Modern Science: Four Key Ideas” University of Wisconsin History of Science/Early Modern History Colloquium, December 8, 2006: “‘The Kittens Have Opened Their Eyes’: Popular Science and Political Protest in 16th Century Italy” Health and Medicine in the Spanish Empire: Discourses, Practices and Representation, international symposium at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, London, June 16, 2006: “The Charlatan’s Trial: An Italian Surgeon in the Court of King Philip II, 1576-

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1577” Fourth Annual Seminar on Medieval Science and Medicine (Blades and Blood: Surgery and Anatomy in the Middle Ages and Beyond), Institute for Medieval Studies, University of New Mexico, November 19, 2005: “Stupendous Surgery and Renaissance Self-Fashioning” 25th Annual Church Memorial Lecture, Brown University, October 27, 2005: “‘The Kittens Have Opened Their Eyes’: Popular Science and Political Protest in Counter-Reformation Italy” History and Philosophy of Science Program Invited Speakers Series, University of Notre Dame, March 31, 2005: “ ‘The Kittens Have Opened Their Eyes’: Popular Science and Political Protest in Sixteenth-Century Italy” Institute for the History of Science, University of Valencia, Spain, invited lecture, May 24, 2004: “Books, Readers, and the Sciences in Early Modern Europe” Klaus Jankofsky Lecture, University of Minnesota-Duluth, April 23, 2004: “Popular Science and Political Protest in Sixteenth-Century Italy” Càtedra de Divulgaciò de la Ciència (Lecturship on Scientific Popularization), University of Valencia, May 27, 2003: “High and Low: Popular Science, Popular Culture, and the Scientific Revolution”

Catalan Society of the History of Science, Barcelona, Spain, May 16, 2003: “The Common Experimenter: Popular Culture and the Scientific Revolution” Il Segreto nel Medio Evo. Potere, scienza e cultura, International Conference, University of Lecce, 24-26 October 2002: “The Secrets of Nature and the Moral Economy of Early Modern Science” History and Philosophy of Science Seminar, Indiana University, February 26, 1999: “Medical Fashions and Medical Self-Fashioning in 16th Century Italy” Alchimia ed Ermetismo dal Medioevo al Seicento, Seminar at the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, Florence, Italy, November 27, 1998, invited paper: “Alchemy in a Popular Context: Leonardo Fioravanti and the Search for the Philosopher=s Stone”

University of Syracuse at Florence, Italy, invited lecture, November 25, 1998:“Doctors and Charlatans in Early Modern Italy” Instituto de Estudios Documentales e Históricos sobre la Ciencia, University of Valencia, Spain, invited lecture, June 30, 1998: “ ‘The New Asclepius’: Leonardo Fioravanti and the Medical Fashions of the Renaissance” Identities, Borders and Orders: Rethinking Area Studies, workshop at New Mexico State University, March 23, 1998: “Boundaries, Orders and the Fashioning of Scientific Identities” The Rhetorics and Rituals of (Un)veiling in Early Modern Europe, Interdisciplinary conference, University of Michigan, October 3-5, 1997: “(Un)masking Nature in Early Modern Popular Culture” New Directions in the Study of Early Modern Culture and Society: Nature and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, December 6-7, 1996: “Medical Self-Fashioning: The Careers of Leonardo Fioravanti” International Summer School for the History of the Biomedical Sciences, Annecy, France, invited lecture, July 8, 1996: “Cannibalism and Contagion: Syphilis and the Assimilation of the

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Other in Late-Renaissance Italy” Seminar on Ritual, Magic, and Popular Culture in Europe and Latin America 1450-1700, University of Nevada, Reno, November 9, 1995: “Cannibalism and Contagion: Syphilis and the Assimilation of the Other at the End of the Renaissance” University of Nevada – Reno, invited lecture, November 9, 1995: “The Common Experimenter: Popular Culture and the Scientific Revolution” Villa I Tatti Seminar, Florence, Italy, November 17, 1994: “The Politics of Purgation: The Body and Society in Counter-Reformation Italy” Working Group on Religion, Science and the Early Modern World-View, Istituto Universitario Europeo, Florence, Italy, October 6, 1994: “The ‘Secrets of Nature’ and the Moral Economy of Early Modern Science” Colloquium on Science and Culture, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, April 23, 1992: Organizer and speaker, symposium on “Social Science at the Crossroads’ UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Los Angeles, November 8, 1991: “The Hortus sanitatis and the History of Science” American Southwest Theatre Company, a series of forums in conjunction with the production of Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, Las Cruces, New Mexico, March 1991: Discussion Leader and Project Organizer: “Tragedy in Ancient and Modern Culture” American Southwest Theatre Company Las Cruces, New Mexico, March 1991: Dramaturg, production of Sophocles, Oedipus Rex Symposium on the Scientific Revolution, Keble College, Oxford, July 1990: “‘With the Rules of Life and an Enema’: Leonardo Fioravanti’s Medical Primitivism” Oregon Museum of Natural History Lecture Series, Portland, Oregon, February 28, 1988 (in conjunction with the New Rose Theater production of Brecht's Galileo): “Brecht and the Historical Galileo” Institut für Geschichte der Pharmazie, Heidelberg University, invited lecture, November 1, 1986: “Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Science” Humanities Institute Lecture, University of Wisconsin, March 20, 1986: “Leonardo Fioravanti, Surgeon: Science and Secrets in the Renaissance” Renaissance Studies Group, University of Wisconsin, colloquium, September 27, 1985: “Science and Popular Culture in Sixteenth Century Italy” Committee for Historical Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine Colloquium, University of California at Los Angeles, May 2, l985: “From the Secrets of Nature to Public Knowledge: The Origins of the Ideology of Openness in Science” University of California at Los Angeles, invited classroom lecture, May 2, 1985: “Science and Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe” Jack Williamson Lecture, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, New Mexico, April 3, 1985: “Albert Einstein and the Generation of 1905”

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Luncheon Address of the Jack Williamson Lecturer, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, New Mexico, April 3, 1985: “Technology and Magic” New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities Awards Ceremony Address, Las Cruces, New Mexico, January 25, 1985: “Albert Einstein and the Generation of 1905” History of Science Colloquium, Harvard University, January 22, 1982: “Science and Secrets in the Renaissance” Medieval Society Lecture, Harvard University, March 29, 1982: “Technology as Magic in Medieval and Renaissance Thought and Literature” Medieval Studies Lecture Series, Brown University, December 14, 1981: “Magic and Technology in the Middle Ages” Einstein Centennial and Exhibition, invited lecture, San Juan College, Farmington, New Mexico, October 21, 1980: “Albert Einstein and the Twentieth Century” NMSU Civil Engineering Society, invited lecture, New Mexico State University, March 4, 1980: “History of Technology” NMSU Chemical Engineering Society, invited lecture, New Mexico State University, March 6, 1979: “Technology and Magic”

Sigma Xi Lecture, New Mexico State University, December 3, 1976: “Closing the Cultural Gap”

4. University Service (New Mexico State University) Member, International and Border Programs Advisory Council, 2013-14 Chair, Honors College Faculty Search Committee, 2011-12 Mentor to Dr. Wiebke Boeing (Fisheries & Wildlife), ADVANCING Leaders Program, 2010-2011 Mentor to Dr. Graciela Unguez (Biology), ADVANCING Leaders Program, 2008-2009 Member, Faculty Senate Committee on General Education, 2007 Member, “Foundations of Excellence” task force on the first year experience (co-chair of

Transitions Dimension), 2005-6 Member, ACE Internationalization Task Force, 2006-7 Member, Board of Trustees, American Southwest Theatre Company, 2006-9 Co-chair, United States Latino/a history search committee, 2005-6 Institutional representative, American Council of Learned Societies annual meeting, Philadelphia,

PA, May 5-7, 2005 Member, Task Force on Scholarships Strategy, 2005-6 (charged with redesigning the university’s

scholarships menus and creating new scholarships to attract academically talented students) Member, Presidential Search Committee, 2003-4 (one of 2 elected faculty representatives) Faculty Representative, American Council of Education “Internationalizing the Curriculum” project Member, Task Force on the General Education Program (redesigned the university General

Education Program), 2003-4

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Organizer and chair, Honors College Planning Committee, 2004 Member, RISE (Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement) Advisory Committee Chair, University Speakers Series Selection Committee Member, Ad hoc committee on the Teaching Academy, Summer 2002 (created plan and design

for the NMSU Teaching Academy) Member, Promotion and Tenure committees for History, English, Languages and Linguistics,

Sociology and Anthropology, Government, and the College of Health and Social Services Member, Board of Trustees, University Art Gallery, 1996-99 Member, Architect Selection and Design Committee, YMCA building renovation, 1999 Chair, Provost Search Committee, 1998-99 Member, General Education Assessment Committee, 1998-2002 Co-Chair, Committee on Institutional Image, Strategic Planning Committee, 1997 Member, Ad-hoc Committee on Interdisciplinary Programs, 1997-98 Symposium Organizer, “Preserving a Regional Architectural Heritage: Henry C. Trost and the

Architecture of the Southwest,” October 13, 1997 Exhibition Planner and Co-Curator, “Imagining a Campus in the Arid Southwest: NMSU

Architecture by Henry C. Trost (1907-1928),” New Mexico State University Museum, September 1997-May 1998

Member, Inauguration Planning Committee, inauguration of Michael J. Orenduff as President of New Mexico State University, 1995

Chair, Committee for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science, 1991-94 Organizer, Colloquium on Science and Culture, 1991-92 Member, University Outcomes Assessment Committee, 1992 Member, General Education Committee, 1989-94 University Honors Faculty Council, 1989-present Coordinator of visit of Alfred W. Crosby, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Nov. 18-20, 1993 Faculty Library Committee, 1984-85, 1987-91 (Chair, 1989-1991) Member, Faculty Board of Curators, University Museum, 1985-1988 Member, Library Dean Search Committee, 1989-90 Phi Alpha Theta Faculty Advisor, History Department, 1988-1991 Committee on Science, Technology, and Society, (Chair, 1984-85) Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Committee on the University Research Park, 1985 University Self-Study Committee for International Education Exchange, 1984-85 Ad Hoc Committee on the Library, College of Arts and Science, 1983-84 Curriculum Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 1978-81, 1983-84 (Secretary, 1980-81)

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History Department Undergraduate Advisor, 1980-81, 1982-84 Coordinator of visit of Lynn White, jr., Distinguished Visiting Professor, April 4-16, 1979

5. Editorial, Review, and Referee Activities Advisory Editor, Isis (2014-17) Comitato Scientifico (Advisory Board), Medicina & storia: Rivista di storia della medicina e della

sanità (Florence, Italy). Board of Advisors, Renaissance Studies: Journal of the Society of Renaissance Studies. Editorial Advisory Board, Interpretatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Classical Philosophy

and Science. Grant review committee, American Council of Learned Societies, 2009-2010 Referee of articles for Isis, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Renaissance Quarterly, Physis,

Speculum, Journal of the History of Ideas, Revista Hispánica Moderna, Renaissance Studies, Society and Politics (Bucharest), JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, Annali dell’Università di Siena.

Referee of book manuscripts for Princeton University Press, Cambridge University Press, University of Chicago Press, Simon and Schuster, Zone Press, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Penn State University Press, Polity Press, and Wadsworth.

Referee of grant proposals to the American Philosophical Society, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, Wellcome Trust, New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities, Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (Belgium), Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Member, Grants Committee, New Mexico Humanities Council, 2004-2007 Review Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1997

6. Other Professional and Community Service

Member, Scientific Committee, conference on “Books and Technique Across the Globe Before the 20th Century,” Paris, University of Paris 7, 18-20 June 2014

Member, Board of Directors, New Mexico Humanities Council, 2004-2008; member of the Grants Committee and the Program Committee. Duties include reviewing grant proposals, setting long-term goals, developing and evaluating programs, and advising the Executive Director on goals, policies, and strategies.

Member, New Mexico Statehood Centennial Celebration Committee, New Mexico Humanities Council, 2006.

Conference co-organizer, “Beyond the Black Legend: Spain and the Scientific Revolution,” international conference, Valencia, Spain, September 2005

Institute for International Education, member of Screening Committee for Italy, Student Fulbright Committee, 2001-2004. Duties included reviewing proposals for Fulbright Fellowships.

History of Science Society Committee on Honors and Prizes, 1986-87

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National Collegiate Honors Council (Committee on International Education, 2001-4; Committee on Diversity, 2006-2012).

UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION 1. Dean, Honors College, New Mexico State University, 1995-2014 Principal Duties:

Reporting to the Executive Vice President and Provost, I oversaw an Honors College (formerly the Honors Program) comprising about 40 faculty, an Associate Dean, an Assistant Dean for External Affairs, and an office staff of six persons; operating budget of approximately $300,000; duties included scheduling classes; advising students; planning and coordinating social and extracurricular academic activities for honors students; organizing the annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Arts Symposium; organizing the National Scholars Day; overseeing the duties of the Associate Director of Honors; serving on the University Fellowships Committee; coordinating recruiting to the Honors College; coordinating the University Speakers Series; coordinating exhibitions in the Conroy Honors Center Gallery; advising in selection of President’s Associates Scholars.

Highlights:

Founding Dean of the New Mexico State University Honors College, the first honors college in New Mexico

Chaired the Honors College Planning Committee, which developed a proposal for converting the honors program to an honors college at NMSU. (The proposal was approved in 2004)

Created the Honors College Circle for Excellence, a citizen’s advisory board to the Honors College Created “Great Conversations” scholarships fundraising event Created NMSU’s first living and learning community, the Honors Residential College (opened Fall

2004) Created the Honors College’s “Reading in Common Program,” which invites entering freshmen in

the Honors College to read a book over the summer and participate in seminars led by honors faculty during the fall student orientation week

Created the Crimson Scholar Residential Mentors Program, a tutoring and mentoring program for residence hall students at New Mexico State University; beginning with 6 students, the program now employs 15 students as peer mentors in nine living and learning communities

Created the Honors College Scholarship, a $5,000 award for undergraduate research in an international setting, and raised funds for the endowment of the scholarship

Created NMSU’s National Scholars Program, a program aimed at recruiting, recognizing, and providing scholarships to National Merit finalists and semifinalists, National Hispanic Scholars, and National Achievement Scholars. During its first three years the program more than quadrupled the number of National Merit Scholars and tripled the number of National Hispanic Scholars attending NMSU

Conceived and sponsored the first NMSU National Hispanic Scholar Recognition Day, a

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recruitment event aimed at recruiting National Hispanic Scholars. The program was expanded to the National Scholars Day.

Oversaw the design and planning of the William B. Conroy Honors Center; worked with architects to implement design for the building. The Conroy Honors Center was the recipient of the Doña Ana County Historical Society’s “Worthy Historic Preservation” award for 2002.

Proposed and helped design the “Cornerstone Campaign for Excellence,” which raised $1.8 million for the renovation of the YMCA building for use as an honors center.

In conjunction with the ‘Cornerstone Campaign,’ coordinated events relating to the architectural history of New Mexico State University, including a museum exhibition and a symposium on the work of Henry C. Trost; obtained grants from the National Trust for Historic Preservation to fund the activities.

Originated the Undergraduate Research and Creative Arts Symposium, a professional conference for undergraduate researchers at New Mexico State University.

Consolidated the Crimson Scholars Program with the University Honors Program. Created a listserv for honors students and an electronic newsletter, CrimsonNews, which is

distributed to Crimson Scholars.

Created the Office of National Scholarships and International Education (ONSIE), which assists student in preparing for major scholarship and fellowship competitions.

Created the Honors Living Learning Community Inaugurated campus chapter of Phi Eta Sigma, a scholastic honorary society for freshmen. Coordinated the University Speakers Series, NMSU’s leading lecture series, which has included

Sir Salman Rushdie, Carlos Fuentes, Stephen J. Gould, Alice Walker, Gloria Steinem, Oliver Sacks, Susan Sontag, F. W. De Klerk, N. Scott Momaday, Judy Chicago, Edward James Olmos, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Karen Armstrong, Seymour Hersh, Ed Morales, Edward O. Wilson, María Hinojosa, Richard Rodriguez, Alma Guillermoprieto, Jaron Lanier, Louis Alberto Urrea, and Steven Pinker.

2. Head, Department of History, New Mexico State University, 1991-95

Principal duties: Reporting to the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, I managed a department with approximately 13 permanent and part-time faculty; managed office staff of 3 persons; created schedule; represented the history department at department heads’ meetings; and oversaw hiring of 5 faculty members. Highlights:

Increased representation of women faculty in the department by 50% Created a new tenure-track line in East Asian history and hired the first East Asian historian at NMSU

Created a tenure-track line in Latino history

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Hired the first tenure-track Hispanic faculty member Coordinated development of the department’s General Education curriculum Coordinated revision of the undergraduate curriculum Secured rotating course reductions for faculty engaged in major research projects