RICHARD M. GOLDEN
Professor of History and Director, Jewish and Israel Studies Program ◊ University of North Texas
1155 Union Circle, # 310650 ◊ Denton, Texas 76203-5017
Office: (940) 369-8933 ◊ Home: (972) 317-4969 ◊ Fax: (469) 293-5433
26 October 2016
Educational BackgroundPh.D., 1975, The Johns Hopkins University
M.A., 1972, The Johns Hopkins University
Graduate Study, 1969-70, Vanderbilt University
B.A., 1969, Vanderbilt University: major in history, minor in economics.
Educational Honors and AwardsElected Co-chair, Jewish Studies Program Directors’ Network, Association for Jewish Studies, 2015-2016.
Awarded the Roland H. Bainton prize in 2007 for best reference book on the Early Modern Period by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference for Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition.
Named the “Jewish Professional of the Year” in the Dallas-Fort Worth area by the Regional Hillel of North Texas. Tribute dinner in Dallas, 9 April 2006.
Named the 1997 Regents' Faculty Lecturer by the University of North Texas Board of Regents.
“Professing Women Award,” presented by the University of North Texas Women's Studies Roundtable, 1994 and 1995.
Clemson University College of Liberal Arts nominee for South Carolina Governor's “Professor of the Year” award, 1994.
Marshal, College of Liberal Arts, Clemson University, 1994.
Teaching Improvement Award, Clemson University, 1991.
National Defense Education Act Fellow, 1970-73.
Vanderbilt University Fellowship, 1969-70.
Magna cum laude, 1969.
High Honors in history, 1969.
Phi Beta Kappa, 1969.
Undergraduate scholarships, 1965-69.
University Positions2001 – Present: Professor and Director, Jewish Studies Program, UNT (since 1 January 2014, Jewish and Israel Studies Program)
1994 – 2001: Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of North Texas
1983 – 94: Professor, Clemson University
1980 – 83: Associate Professor, Clemson University
1975 – 80: Assistant Professor, Clemson University
1974 – 75: Instructor, Clemson University
Courses TaughtUndergraduate
World History to 1500
World History since 1500
Western Civilization to 1648
Western Civilization since 1648
Paris and the Parisians
The Age of Louis XIV
The European Witch Hunts
The Age of Reason
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The Protestant Reformation
Early Modern European Social History
The Renaissance
Politics, Religion, and Morality in Early Modern Europe
England to 1603
England since 1603
Intellectual, Cultural, and Social History of Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Cultural Encounters: The European Discovery of America and the Clash of the
New and Old Worlds
The State of Israel
Graduate
European Historiography
The Age of Louis XIV
Religious Toleration in Early Modern Europe
The Nobility in Early Modern France
The European Witch Hunts
Seventeenth-Century France
Seventeenth-Century Europe
Religion in Early Modern Europe
Community
AP World History summer institute for high school teachers, 2000 - 2002
Elderhostel-Christopher Columbus, 1992
AP Social History summer institute for high school teachers, 1991
Publications and ResearchBooks
Editor, Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition. 4 vols. Santa Barbara, Denver, and Oxford, UK: ABC-CLIO, 2006. (Awarded the Roland H. Bainton prize in 2007 for best reference book on the Early Modern Period by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference.)
Editor, The Social Dimension of Western Civilization. 2 vols. Fifth edition. Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003. (First three editions under the title Social History of Western Civilization).
Coeditor (with Thomas Kuehn), Western Societies: Primary Sources in Social History. Two vols. New York: St. Martin's, 1993.
Editor, The Huguenot Connection: The Edict of Nantes, Its Revocation, and Early French Migration to South Carolina. Boston, Dordrecht, and Lancaster: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988.
Editor, Church, State, and Society under the Bourbon Kings of France. Lawrence, KS: Coronado Press, 1982.
The Godly Rebellion: Parisian Curés and the Religious Fronde, 1652-1662. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1981.
Articles and encyclopedia entries
“Introduction, “Girard, Jean-Baptiste,” “Langton, Walter.” In Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition. Edited by Richard M. Golden. 4 vols. Santa Barbara, Denver, and Oxford, UK: ABC-CLIO, January 2006.
“Using the Internet to Teach the European Witch Hunts,” in Historical Consciousness and History Teaching in a Globalizing Society/Geschichtsbewusstsein und Geschichtsunterricht in einer sich globalisierenden Gesellschaft, edited by Karl Pellens. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Brussels, New York, Oxford, and Vienna: Peter Lang GMBH, 2001.
“Didactic Dialectic in the Teaching of Early Modern European Religious History in the United States: The Conflict between Cultural Heritage and Historical Accuracy,” International Society for History Didactics/Mitteilungen der Internationale Gesellschaft für Geschichtsdidaktik 20/1 (1999): 31-38. Published also in Karl Pellens, Gordon Mork, V.R. Leschimer, E.I. Pivovar, and D. I. Poltorak, eds. Otvetstvennoct’ Istorika: Prepodavanie istorii v globaliziruiushchemsia obshchestve. Materialy mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii, Moskova 15-17 sentiabria 1998. Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, 2000, 112-120.
“American Perspectives on the European Witch Hunts,” The History Teacher 30/4 (August 1997): 409-426. A version was published in G.N. Sevost’ianov, ed. Problemy Istoricheskogo Poznaniia: Materialy Mezhdunarodnoi Conferentsii. Moscow: “Nauka,” 1999, 260-269.
“Satan in Europe: The Geography of Witch-Hunts,” in Changing Identities in Early Modern Europe, edited by Michael Wolfe. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997, pp. 216-247. Reprinted in Brian P. Levack, New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic and Demonology. Hamden, CT: Routledge, 2001, II, 2-23.
“France, 1450-1789: Religious Practice and Thought,” in Guide to Historical Literature, edited by Mary Beth Norton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. (With Barbara Diefendorf.)
“Notions of Social and Religious Pollution in Nicolas Rémy's Demonolatry,” in Politics, Ideology and the Law in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of J. H. M. Salmon, edited by Adrianna E. Bakos. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1994, pp. 21-33.
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“Jean Rousse, Religious Frondeur.” French Historical Studies 12 (Fall 1982): 461-85.
“Jesuit Refutations of Pascal's Lettres provinciales,” in Church, State and Society under the Bourbon Kings of France, edited by Richard M. Golden. Lawrence, KS: 1982, pp. 83-124.
“The Bibliothèque de la Société de Port-Royal.” French Historical Studies 12 (1979): 278-80.
“Religious Extremism in the Mid-seventeenth Century: The Parisian Illuminés.” European Studies Review 9 (1979): 195-210.
“The Mentality of Opposition: The Jansenism of the Parisian Curés during the Religious Fronde.” The Catholic Historical Review 64 (October 1978): 565-80.
Current Research
Biography of Louis-Marie, Vicomte de Noailles.
Comments
“Comment on Papers by Martin and Sonnino.” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 19 (Riverside, California, 1992): 109-110.
“Commentary on Papers by Hayden and Greenshields.” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 18 (Auburn, Alabama, 1991): 205-207.
“Commentary on Paper by Wolfe.” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 17 (Auburn, Alabama, 1990): 159-60.
“Patronage and Academies in the Ancien Régime.” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, 9 (Lawrence, Kansas, 1982): 107-109.
Book Reviews and Book Notes
More than one hundred in The American Historical Review, The Catholic Historical Review, Church History, The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, The Historian, History: Reviews of New Books, Journal of Church and State, The Journal of Economic History, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Journal of Modern History, Religious Studies Review, The Sixteenth-Century Journal, South Eastern Latin Americanist, and Theological Studies.
Offices In Professional OrganizationsCo-director, Jewish Studies Program Directors’ Network, Association for Jewish Studies, 2015-17
Member, North Texas Association of Jewish Studies Professors, 2015-present.
Member, Advisory Board, The Litvak Studies Institute (Australia), 2010-present.
Member, Partnership with Israel Joint Steering Committee, 2009-2013.
Member, Western Galilee College (Akko, Israel) Faculty Steering Committee, 2009-2010.
Member, Hadassah Academic Advisory Board, 2009.
Member, Editorial Board, of the journal Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft (published by the University of Pennsylvania Press), 2005-present.
Chair, CLEP Social Studies Test Development Committee, Educational Testing Service (1998-2006).
Book review editor, Religious Studies Review, for seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European history, 1985-2010.
Chair, Snell Prize Committee of the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association, 1999 (member in 1998)
Member, Local Arrangements Committee, Southern Historical Association, 1999.
Member, Chateaubriand Scholarship Program Committee (for doctoral research in France), French Cultural Service, 1998.
Member, Governing Council, Western Society for French History, 1992-95.
Editorial Board, University of North Texas Press, 1994-2001.
Editorial Board, Essays in European History, 1992-94.
Member, Speakers' Bureau, South Carolina Council for the Humanities, 1990-94.
Chair, Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize Committee, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, 1986-87.
Member, Executive Committee, Southeast American Society for French Seventeenth-Century Studies, 1986-87.
Grants and FellowshipsLeo and Rhea Fruhman Foundation, for events, course development, student and faculty stipends, 2011-16.
Schultz Family Foundation, for Israel students and events, 2006-2008, 2011-15
EIS Foundation, for Jewish studies, 2011-16.
Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, for curriculum development, speakers, scholarships, and faculty support, 2011.
Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas--annual grants to the Jewish Studies Program as Federation beneficiary, 2008-16
Jewish Federation of Fort Worth and Tarrant County--annual grants to support Israeli speakers and the purchase of books and films on Judaism and Israel, 2005-16.
M. B. and Edna Zale Foundation--two-year grant to support the Jewish Studies Program, 2008-2009 and 2011-12.
Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation--three-year grant for curriculum development, speakers, and undergraduate scholarships for study in Israel, January 2007.
Dallas Jewish Community Foundation--grant proposal accepted for presentation to
more than 300 private Dallas foundations, from which numerous small grants have been received, November 2006.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE)--two annual grants to hire a visiting Israeli scholar for 2007-08 and 2008-09 at UNT, November 2006 and November 2007.
Tauber Institute, Brandeis University: to attend a two-week seminar at Brandeis followed by a week in Israel in order to prepare the design of a new course on the history of the State of Israel, June-July 2005.
Jewish Agency--grant to attend a conference in Jerusalem, July 2002.
Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas--travel grant to attend a conference in Israel, June 2001.
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UNT Faculty Research Grant--for research in England, 1998.
Innovation Fund Award, Clemson University, 1991.
South Carolina Department of Education: for summer institute for high school teachers, summer 1991.
NEH summer institute, The Newberry Library, June 1988.
Clemson Faculty Research Council--for research in France, summer 1988.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation: for curriculum development, 1985-87.
South Carolina Committee for the Humanities, The Huguenot Society of South Carolina, The Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia, and the Council for European Studies--for lecture series on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, January-December 1985.
Provost's Research Award, Clemson University: for research in France, May 1984.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend--for research in France, May-June 1983.
Center for Renaissance Studies Fellowship, The Newberry Library, Chicago, January-June 1982.
Clemson Faculty Research Council--for research in Paris, summer 1978.
Clemson Faculty Research Council--for research in Paris, summer 1976.
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Manuscript and Grant ReviewsReview of manuscripts for French Historical Studies, The Catholic Historical Review, Church History, The Catholic University of America Press, West Publishing Company, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, Harcourt Brace, Random House, Prentice-Hall, Macmillan Publishing Company, Bedford/St. Martin's Press, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Houghton Mifflin, Addison Wesley Longman, D.C. Heath, and Routledge.
Review of grant/fellowship proposals for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Professional ActivitiesOrganizer and moderator of session, “The Role of Israel Studies in Jewish Studies Programs,” Association for Jewish Studies conference, San Diego, 19 December 2016.
“Antisemitism/Anti-Israelism in the Contemporary World,” Temple Shalom, Dallas, 16 November 2016
“Masada and the Great Jewish Revolt,” Temple Shalom, Dallas, 2 November 2016
Talk on university antisemitism, session on “Jewish Studies: Current Trends and Best Practices,” Association for Jewish Studies conference, Boston, 14 December 2015.
“The Age of Persecution,” Temple Shalom, Dallas, 25 November 2015.
“The Witch Hunt and the Jews,” Temple Shalom, Dallas, 18 November 2015.
The Smithsonian Institution invited me to represent it as “Smithsonian Lecturer” and so I gave 8 talks on topics in the history of Western Civilization off Greece, Turkey, Israel, and Egypt and also provided historical expertise on two 12-hour tours of Israel and Egypt, September 2015.
“Antisemitism—ant-Israelism in the Middle East,” St Andrews Presbyterian Church, Denton, TX, 13 May 2015.
“The European Witch Hunts and the Jews,” Jewish Federation of Fort Worth and Tarrant County, 25 February 2014.
“The Age of Persecutions, 14th-17th Centuries,” Jewish Federation of Fort Worth and Tarrant County, 18 February 2014.
Chair and organizer of session, “Israel in the Contemporary Middle East,” UNT Middle East Pease Conference, Denton, March 2013.
“Anti-Israelism/Anti-Semitism at American Universities,” Congregation Anshai Torah, March 2013.
Chair of session, “Industry and Jewish Emancipation in the Revolutionary Era, Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, Fort Worth, February 2013.
Delivered five talks/presentations on topics in European history in the Mediterranean as a representative of Smithsonian Institution through its educational travel program. “The Greek Olympic Games: The World Cup of Antiquity”; “Ghost Beliefs in Western Civilization”; “Fighting for Freedom. How Spartacus Brought Rome to its Knees”; “Cleopatra: Egypt’s Last Pharaoh”; “Point of Honor: The Rise and Fall of the Duel.” September-October 2012.
Delivered five talks/presentations on topics in European history in the Mediterranean as a representative of Smithsonian Institution through its educational travel program. “Three Drinks that Changed Europe: Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate”; “Ghost Beliefs in Western Civilization”; “Fighting for Freedom. How Spartacus Brought Rome to its Knees”; “The Surprising Lives of Medieval University Students”; “Point of Honor: The Rise and Fall of the Duel.” September-October 2011.
“Religious Hatred: Early Modern Europe and 21st-Century Muslim Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism,” American Jewish Committee, the Museum of Biblical Art, Dallas, 23 February 2011.
“The Demonization of Israel,” Temple Beth-El, Fort Worth, 19 November 2010.
“Israel’s Detractors,” talk at Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas’ Celebration of Israel, American Airlines Center's Plaza at Victory Park, Dallas, 22 August 2010.
“The Holocaust: Where Does It Fit in Jewish Studies?” Talk at symposium, “Arts and the Holocaust,” UNT, 1 April 2010.
“The Witch Hunts and the Jews,” Center for Jewish Education LearningFest, Dallas, 4 February 2010.