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General Governance and Service

• Member, School of Social Science Curriculum Committee, 2006-
• Member, School of Social Science Policy Committee, 2003-2005.
• Member, School of Social Science Curriculum Committee, 2002-2003
• Member, Hampshire College Board of Trustees, 2000-2002
• Member, College Committee on Faculty Reappointment and Promotion, 1998-2001
• Member, Task Force for Revision of the First-Year Program, 2000-2001
• Chair, School of Social Science Reappointments Committee, 2001-2
• Member, School of Social Science Policy Committee, 2000-2001

• Co-chair, Five-College German Studies Seminar, 1994-2000
• Member, Five-College History Ph.D. Program Planning Committee, 1993-95
• Co-chair, Five-College Social History Seminar, 1992-1996
• Hampshire College History Representative, Annual Meeting of Five-College Department Chairs

• Town of Amherst Historical Commission: Vice Chair, 2005-; Member, 2002-5
• Town of Amherst Comprehensive Planning Committee: Member (Historical Commission Representative), 2004-

• Member, Amherst Public Schools Task Force on World Language Study, 1998-2000

History of the Book and Information Technologies

• Member, Board of Directors, Massachusetts Center for the Book, 2003-
• Member, Planning Committee on Five-College Interactive Networked Classrooms Project, 2000-1
• Participant, "Talking Toward Techno-Pedagogy: A Collaboration across Colleges and Constituencies." A Nine-College Technology Initiative for Librarians and Information Technology Staff, Faculty, and Students, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Bryn Mawr College, 1999-2002.
• Member, Steering Committee for the Reconceptualization and Renovation of the Hampshire College Library, 1999-
• Organizer, Hampshire College Seminar in the History of the Book, 1999-
• Co-author, Five-College Humanities Grant; co-organizer, Five-College Seminar: Computers and Information Technologies in History and the Humanities, 1992-94

modern Europe

cultural history

German studies

history of the book,
literature and literary life,
information technologies

Classicism, Romanticism

I welcome opportunities for cross-school and intercollegiate collaboration. In recent years, I have worked with colleagues in such fields as literary criticism, theater, art history, music, journalism, law, and politics. I have served on senior-thesis committees at Mount Holyoke College and on graduate examination committees at the University of Massachusetts.

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