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Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, June, 2002.
Master of Arts and Candidate in Philosophy, University of California,
San Diego, April, 1999.
Major Field: Modern European History
Minor Field: Early Modern European History
Outside Field: Anthropology
Preparing Professional Faculty Seminar, University of California, San Diego, January-June, 2001.
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) German Studies Summer Course, University of Regensburg, Germany, June-July, 1996.
Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science, University of Rochester, May, 1988.
Humanities Graduate Student Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, University of California, San Diego, Fall, 2001.
Travel Award, UCSD History Department, to attend Berlin conference, August, 2001.
Teaching Assistant Excellence Award, Making of the Modern World and Eleanor Roosevelt College Writing Program, University of California, San Diego, 2000-2001. June, 2001.
Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship Finalist, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, February, 2001.
The Laura and John Galbraith Travel Award in History, UCSD History Department, to attend New Delhi conference, December, 2000.
DAAD Annual Grant for dissertation research, Leipzig Universität, Germany, 1999-2000.
Predissertation Travel Grant, UCSD History Department, 1999.
Travel Grant, UCSD History Department, to deliver German Studies Association conference paper, 1998.
DAAD German Studies Summer Course Scholarship, University of Regensburg, 1996.
Magna Cum Laude, University of Rochester, 1988.
Full Academic Scholarship, Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps, 1984-1988.
Dissertation
The Sanskrit Reich: Translating Ancient India for Modern Germans, 1790-1914, Dissertation.
Edited Volume
Douglas McGetchin, Peter K. J. Park, and Damodar SarDesai, eds., Sanskrit
and
“Orientalism”: Indology and Comparative Linguistics in Germany,
1750-1958 (New Delhi: Manohar, forthcoming). Manuscript submitted
2002. First set of page proofs edited and returned to the publisher
in July, 2003.
Articles
"'Into the Centre of Sanskrit Study': Ancient Indian Studies and German
Culture in Berlin and
Leipzig in the Nineteenth Century" To be published in McGetchin,
Park, et al., Sanskrit and “Orientalism” (New Delhi: Manohar, forthcoming).
"Wayward Disciples: Indology and Buddhism in fin-de-siècle Germany."
To be published in
McGetchin, Park, et al., Sanskrit and “Orientalism” (New Delhi:
Manohar, forthcoming).
"Wilting Florists: The Turbulent Early Decades of the Société
Asiatique, 1822-1860," accepted
in September 2003 for publication in the Journal of the History
of Ideas.
Book Review
Calloway, Colin G., Gerd Gemünden, and Susanne Zantop, eds. Germans
and Indians:
Fantasies, Encounters, Projections. Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press, 2002. Forthcoming in German Studies Quarterly (expected
76.3).
"German Popular Interest in Buddhism, 1890-1914," paper delivered to the Association for the Study of Esotericism conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, June 5, 2004.
"The German Study of Sanskrit in the Nineteenth Century," paper delivered
to the
German Studies Association conference, New Orleans, September 20, 2003.
"An Indo-Germanic Connection," paper delivered at the University of
California Multi-Campus
Research Group in World History conference "Research, Teaching, Agendas"
at University of California, Riverside on May 18, 2002.
"Wayward Disciples: Indology Professors, their Students, and the Spread
of Buddhism in Fin-
de-siècle Germany," paper delivered on August 11, 2001 at the
International Conference of Asian Scholars II, Freie Universität,
Berlin, August 9-12, 2001.
"Max Müller Embattled: William Dwight Whitney’s Critique," paper
delivered on December 12,
2000, at the Congress of Philosophy and Foundations of Science-V, the
International Symposium “After Max Müller: Philosophy in the Dialogue
of Civilizations,” India International Centre, New Delhi, December 11-15,
2000.
“‘Zum Mittelpunkte des Sanskrit-Studiums’ (Into the center of Sanskrit Study): The Development of Indian Studies in Berlin and Leipzig, 1821-1914,” paper delivered at the German Historical Institute's Sixth Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar, Humboldt University, April 26-29, 2000, and at The History of Indology and Comparative Philology in Germany, 1750-1958 conference at the University of California, Los Angeles, April 15, 2000.
"The French Enlightenment and the Orient," tour given at the J. Paul
Getty museum for
University of California, San Diego Revelle Humanities class field
trip, April 3, 1998 and
April 2, 1999.
"The Sunrise of German Orientalism: Sakuntala and Germany 1790-1830,"
paper delivered to
the German Studies Association conference, Salt Lake City, October
10, 1998.
Guest Lectures
"The Military Revolution and the Rise of the Modern State," lecture
in "Making of the Modern
World 4," Eleanor Roosevelt College Writing Program, University of
California, San Diego, November 26, 2002.
"The Ottoman Challenge to Europe," lecture in "Making of the Modern
World 4," Eleanor
Roosevelt College Writing Program, University of California, San Diego,
July 26, 2001.
"The Sung Dynasty, 960-1279 C.E.," lecture in "Making of the Modern
World 3," Eleanor
Roosevelt College Writing Program, University of California, San Diego,
April 19, 2001.
"The Bhagavadgita: Dharma and its Discontents" lecture in "Making of
the Modern World 2,"
Eleanor Roosevelt College, University of California, San Diego, March
2, 2001.
"Hitler in Power," lecture given in "Modern German History" history
class, University of
California, San Diego, May 20, 1999.
"Hitler's Army: Soldiers Like Any Others?," lecture given in "The Nazi
Revolution," German
history class, University of California, San Diego, August 27, 1998.
"German Occupation and the Holocaust," and "The Holocaust: Perpetrators
and Victims,"
lectures given in "World War Two," European history class, University
of California, San
Diego, January 30, 1998 and February 2, 1998.
Assistant Professor of History, Florida Atlantic University/MacArthur Campus, 2005-present.
Lecturer and Academic Coordinator, The Making of the Modern World
Writing Program,
Eleanor Roosevelt College, University of California, San Diego, 2003-2005.
Instructor, University of California, San Diego, Spring, 2003.
HITO 133, "War and Society:
The Second World War." www.geocities.com/joysurf/ww2.html
Instructor, California State University San Marcos, Spring, 2003.
History 362,
"Asia and the West." www.geocities.com/joysurf/asiawest.html
Instructor, San Diego State University, Fall, 2002. HIST 440, "The Holocaust."
Instructor, University of California, San Diego, Fall, 2002. HIEU 146, "Fascism and Communism, 1917-1945."
Co-Instructor, University of California, San Diego, July-August, 2002. HIEU 137, "War and Society: The First and Second World Wars."
Teaching Assistant, Eleanor Roosevelt College Writing Program, Making of the Modern World, University of California, San Diego, 2000-present. Appointed Senior TA for two quarters, January-June, 2001.
Teaching Assistant, Revelle College Humanities Writing Program, University of California, San Diego, 1996-1999.
Reader for History and Summer Session classes, University of
California, San Diego, 1996-
2001:
Making of the Modern World 4, Cardoza, Summer
2001
Modern Austria, Luft, Fall 2000
Modern American Literature, Cox, Summer 1997
and Summer 1998
Modern German History, Luft, Spring 1998
World War Two, Hellyer, Winter 1998
Europe in the Eighteenth Century 1688-1789,
Truant, Fall 1997
Fascism, Communism and the Crisis of Liberal
Democracy: Europe, 1919-1945, Radcliff,
Fall 1996
Reformation Europe, Marino, Spring 1996
English - native.
German - fluent speaking and reading.
French - reading.
Facilitator, "China in Transition: Is Real Change Imminent?" Great Decisions
2003 Foreign
Policy Discussions, Lake San Marcos, April 24, 2003.
Presider, "Historical Perspectives" roundtable panel, Faculty Mentor Program Research Symposium, Academic Enrichment Programs, University of California, San Diego, May, 2001.
Toastmasters International, 1995-present.
Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) award, December,
2001.
Advanced Toastmaster (ATM) Gold award, May,
2001.
Area Governor, responsible for six clubs,
1998-1999.
Club President, Encinitas/Solana Beach Toastmasters,
1997-1998.
Competent Toastmaster (CTM) award, October,
1996.
American Historical Association
German Studies Association
World History Association
