Education

	Ph.D. in History, University of Chicago, December 1984.
	M.A. in History, University of Chicago, 1979.
	B.A.  Magna cum Laude with high honors in History, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1977
	Attended Harvard University as Special Student,1975-76.

Teaching

	Professor of History and Patricia Hamar  Boldt Professor of Liberal Studies,  Lawrence University, 2003 to present
	Professor of History, Lawrence University, 1999 to present
	Assistant and Associate Professor of History, Lawrence University, 1985-1998
	Lecturer in Western Civilization, The University of Chicago, 1983-1985
	Instructor in history, The American College in Paris, 1982-1983

	Chair, Department of History, 2000 to 2005
	Director, Lawrence Freshman Program, 1996 to 1998
	Director, ACM/GLCA Newberry Library Seminar in the Humanities, Chicago 1991 to 1992.

	American Historical Association
	Editorial Board, Contemporary French Civilization, 2002
	Society for Film and History

	Lawrence University Excellence in Teaching Award, 2008
	Freshman Studies Teaching Award, Lawrence University, 1999
	Phi Beta Kappa, 1976.

	Freedom's Moment: An Essay on the French Idea of Liberty from Rousseau to Foucault (Chicago, the University of  Chicago Press, 1997).
	Piety and Politics: Catholic Revival and the Generation of 1905-14 in France (New York, Garland Press, 1987).
	"Les Élèves Catholiques de  l'École Normale Supérieure1905-14,” Cahiers d'Histoire, Spring 1984
	"Liberalism, Intransigence, and the Catholic Avant-garde in France, 1890-1914: A Reassessment," Contemporary  French Civilization, Fall 1984
	"Reason and Faith: The Bergsonian Catholic Youth of Pre-War France," Historical Reflections, Summer-Fall 1986
	"Heroes and Dilettantes: Action Française, Le Sillon, and the Generation of 1905-14 in France," French Historical Studies, Fall 1989