SOL GITTLEMAN Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor. Tufts University Ballou Hall

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1 January 2013 SOL GITTLEMAN Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor Tufts University Ballou Hall EDUCATION B.A., Drew University, 1955 M.A., Columbia University, 1956 (Comparative Literature) Ph.D. University of Michigan,1961 (Comparative Literature) ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor, Alice and Nathan Gantcher Professor of Judaic Studies, Lee McCollester Professor of Religion, Tufts University, Chairman of the Department of German and Russian, Professor of German, Tufts University, Associate Professor of German, Tufts University, Assistant Professor of German, Tufts University, Assistant Professor of German, Mt. Holyoke College, Visiting Professor of American Studies, University of Tuebingen,

2 2 ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS: Tufts University Chairman, Department of German and Russian, Provost and Academic Vice President, Provost and Senior Vice President, Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor, MAJOR SCHOLARLY INTERESTS Twentieth Century German Civilization; The Rise of Dictatorship; Intellectuals in a Century of Total War; The Literature of European Emigration; The Immigrant Experience in America; American Literature in an Age of Immigration; American Baseball History; American Higher Education; Yiddish Culture MAJOR PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Reynolds, Raschi, and Lopat: New York s Big Three and The Great Yankee Dynasty, Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press, The Entreprenuerial University: The Transformation of Tufts, Hanover,NH: University Press of New England, Frank Wedekind and His Age. New York: Ungar Publishers, an Ungar Reprint Series, From Shtetl to Suburbia: The Family in Jewish Literary Imagination. Boston: Beacon Press, 1978, paperback edition, Sholom Aleichem: An Introduction. The Hague: Mouton, Frank Wedekind. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1969.

3 3 ARTICLES(Peer reviewed, pre-1982) On Bellow, Roth, Brecht, Thomas Mann, Sternheim, Hesse, Hannah Arendt, Guenter Grass, Wedekind, German Expressionism, film, German Studies in America ARTICLES(Peer reviewed, since 1993) A Study in Synergy: Raschi, Lopat, and Reynolds, The Baseball Research Journal, volume 22, 1993, One Trade, Three Teams, and Reversal of Fortune, The Baseball Research Journal, volume 41, Spring 2012 No. 1, Allie Reynolds and Vic Raschi: The Building Blocks of a Dynasty, in The 1947 New York Yankees, ed. Lyle Spatz, University of Nebraska Press (forthcoming, Spring 2013) Does Liberal Education Have a Future in the 21 st Century?, Continuing Higher Education Review, volume 71, Fall 2007, For Tufts Magazine. Since the Spring of 2009, nine General Education articles under the title Scholar at Large MAJOR EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS The role of Humanities in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; historical memory for an ahistorical culture; the blend of technology and humanities for the liberal arts education; education and historical literacy; the role of secondary school education in the twenty-first century;the history of American higher education. SPECIAL ACTIVITIES AND RECOGNITION Robert J.McKenna Award, New England Board of Higher Education, for contributions and service, 2009 Lowell Lecture, Harvard University, 2007

4 4 HONORARY DEGREES Hebrew College, Hon. D. Humane Letters, 1993 Stonehill College, Hon. D. Humane Letters, 1996 Drew University, Hon. D. Humane Letters, 2003 Eberhard-Karls University, Tuebingen, Ehrendoktor, 2006 Director and Master Teacher, National Endowment for the Humanities: * 1975, 1976, 1979, 1981: For college teachers: The Road to Hitler: Culture and Society in Germany, 1900 to * 1983, 1984, 1986: For secondary school teachers: The Road to Hitler, and After Siegfried s Death: Germany, 1900 to * 1985: For undergraduate fellows: Three German Texts and the Rise of Hitler. Ehrenmedaille (Silver), awarded by the University of Tubingen, Federal Republic of Germany, 1985 Ehrenmedaille (Bronze), awarded by the University of Tubingen, Federal Republic of Germany, 1977 National Professor of the Year, Citation of the Council for the Support and Advancement of Education, 1982 Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, 1981 Distinguished Service Award, Alumni Association of Tufts University, 1976 Outstanding Alumni Award, Drew University, 1975 E. Harris Harbison Award of the Danforth Foundation for Gifted Teaching, 1971 Fulbright Awards, 1956 and 1970

5 5 SELECTED INVITED UNIVERSITY LECTURESHIPS Barrett Memorial Lecture, Mt. Holyoke College Bentley College Lecture in the Humanities Stanford University Colby College Wesleyan University Villanova University University of Rochester University of Virginia College of William and Mary Clark University University of Kentucky Wayne State University Harvard University Boston University Stonehill College Merrimack College Over 200 invited non-university lectures for educational, business, religious and service organizations locally, nationally, and internationally; over 200 Tufts-sponsored lectures to alumni organizations. SELECTED NATIONAL COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS; TRUSTEESHIPS National Advisory Committee on Foreign Language Education, National Endowment for the Humanities National Humanities Council Awards Committee, Woodrow Wilson Foundation National Endowment for the Humanities Peer Review Panels on Fellowships, Exemplary Awards, and Seminars, National Executive Committee, American Professors for Peace in the Middle East Facing History and Ourselves, National Foundation, Inc., Board of Directors, Stonehill College, trustee , The Jewish Memorial Hospital, Boston, appointed trustee 1985 Visiting Committee to the Program in Continuing Education Harvard University, 1991 Member of the Board of Directors, Teagle Foundation, elected 2003, elected emeritus, Who s Who in America,

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JENNIFER M. MILLER EDUCATION

JENNIFER M. MILLER EDUCATION JENNIFER M. MILLER 6107 Carson Hall History Department, Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755 Jennifer.M.Miller@dartmouth.edu http://www.jennifermmiller.com EDUCATION 2012 Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison