EDUCATION

Ph.D.Princeton University, Department of History, Jan. 1994

M.A.Emory University, Department of History, Aug. 1986

B.A.Emory University, Magna Cum Laude, May 1986

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Associate Professor--University of Florida (2001-present)

Associate Professor--University of Notre Dame (2001)

Assistant Professor--University of Notre Dame (1995-2001)

Visiting Professor--University of Warsaw (1997-1998)

Visiting Assistant Professor--University of Notre Dame  (Fall 1994-Spring, 1995)

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

ACLS Research Fellowship: 2007-2008

Fellow of the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey: 2007-2008

Louisville Institute short-term grant: 2006-2007

Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship: 2003-2004

Herzog August Bibliothek Research Fellowship: Summer 2003/Summer 2004

Mahon Teaching Award—University of Florida, 2003

International Research and Exchanges Board--Individual Advanced Research Grant: Spring-Summer 2002

National Council for Eurasian and East European Research: Spring 2002

Fulbright-Hays Research Fellowship (Czech Republic): Spring-Fall 2002 (declined)

Institute for Advanced Study (Member School of Historical Studies): 2001-2002

Max-Planck Institut für Geschichte--short term fellow: Fall 2001 (declined)

Newberry Library--short term fellow: Summer 2001

Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts: Summer Research Fellowship: Summer 2000

Fellow of the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey: Summer 1998

Fellow of the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey: Winter-Fall, 1997.

American Council of Learned Societies-East European Postdoctoral Fellowship: Winter-Fall, 1997

Smithsonian Institute Research Grant, Dibner Award: Summer 1996

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars-Short term grant: Summer 1995--Winter 1996

A.W. Mellon Post-Enrollment Fellowship: 1993

American Council of Learned Societies-Eastern Europe Dissertation Grant: 1990-1991

American Council for Collaboration in Education and Language Study-Prague, Summer Language Grant: Summer 1989

Fulbright Teaching Assistant Fellowship-Vienna, Austria: 1987-1988

Awarded DAAD Fellowship, Tübingen, West Germany: 1986-1987

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Co-organzied and directed conference “Renaissance Visions of Christian Origins,” Calvin College (October 2008)

Co-organized and directed two part conference, “Religion and Authority in Pre-Modern Central Europe,” University of Minnesota (Spring 2006); University of Alberta (Fall 2006)

Executive Secretary of the Society of Austrian and Habsburg History (2004-2006)

Member of the Executive Committee of the Society of Austrian and Habsburg History (2001-2006)

Co-organized and directed conference, “From Conciliarism to Confessional Church,” University of Notre Dame (October 2000)

PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS)

Sacred History: Uses of the Christian Past in the Renaissance World, eds. Howard Louthan, Simon Ditchfield and Kate van Liere, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Diversity and Dissent. Negotiating Religious Difference in Central Europe, 1500-1800, eds. Howard Louthan, Gary Cohen and Franz Szabo, New York: Berghahn Press, 2011.

Converting Bohemia: Force and Persuasion in the Catholic Reformation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Conciliation and Confession: The Struggle for Unity in the Age of Reform, 1415-1648, ed. Howard Louthan and Randall Zachman, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004.

Interpretive essay and translation of John Comenius: The Labyrinth of the World, Classics of Western Spirituality, Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, with Andrea Sterk, 1998.

The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna, Studies in Early Modern History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. (Paperback edition, 2006)

Reforming a Counter-Reform Court: Johannis Crato and the Austrian Habsburgs, Studies in Reformed History and Theology, Princeton, Summer 1995.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS (ARTICLES)

“Confessionalizing architecture: Charles Bridge and the crafting of a Catholic identity in Baroque Prague,” in Embodiments of Power: Building Baroque Cities in Europe, eds. G. Cohen and F. Szabo (New York: Berghahn, 2008)

“The Cult of Saints,” in Colloquia. Journal of Central European History, Vol. XII, No. 1-2, 2005, pp. 135-163.

“New Perspectives on the Bohemian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century,” in Early Modern Europe: From Crisis to Stability, eds. P. Benedict and M. Gutman, Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005, 52-79.

“Breaking images and building bridges: the making of sacred space in early modern Bohemia,” in Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe, eds. Will Coster and Andrew Spicer, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 282-301.

“Mediating Confessions in Central Europe: The Ecumenical Activity of Valerian Magni (1588-1661),” Journal of Ecclesiastical                                                                  History, 55, no. 4, October 2004, 681-699.

“From Rudolfine Prague to Vasa Poland: Valerian Magni and the Twilight of Irenicism in Central Europe,” in Conciliation and Confession, ed. Howard Louthan and Randall Zachman, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004, 199-227.

“Popular Piety and the autobiography of Athanasius Kircher, S.J.,” in Catholicism and Austrian Culture, ed. Ritchie Robinson and Judith Benniston, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 1999, 3-15.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES

“Holy Histories from a Heretical Past: Imagined Christian Origins in Central Europe,” Renaissance Visions of Christian Origins, Calvin College, October 2008.

“Tongues, Toes and Bones: Remembering Saints in Early Modern Bohemia,” Past and Present Conference, Unversity of Exeter, September 2008.

“Pilgrimage, Space and the ‘Self’ in Early Modern Bohemia (1620-1750),” Spaces of the Self in Early Modern Culture, UCLA, Clark Memorial Library, March 2008.

“Rethinking Jewish Christian Relations in Early Modern Bohemia: The Case of Simon Abeles,” American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, January 2008.

“Remembering a Holy Past: Antiquarianism and Seventeenth-Century Bohemia,” Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, Villanova University, October 2007.

“Conflict or Compromise: The Erasmian Legacy of Seventeenth-Century Central Europe,” Renaissance Society of America, Annual Meeting, Miami, March 2007.

“Uses of the Holy in Seventeenth-Century Bohemia,” Authority and Religion in pre-modern Central Europe, Edmonton, September 2006.

“Crossing Boundaries: Challenges for the Study of Religion in Pre-Modern Central Europe”

Plenary Speaker: Religion and Authority in Central Europe, Conference sponsored by the North American Centers of Austrian Studies--University of Minnesota, April 2006

“Catholic Historians and Religious Revival in Seventeenth-Century Bohemia,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, January 2006.

“Refashioning Noble Identity in Early Modern Bohemia,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Atlanta, October 2005

“Crafting a Confessional Identity: Sermons and Hymns in Post-White Mountain Bohemia,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, January 2005

“Political order, public ritual and cultural authority in early modern Prague,” University of Konstanz, Germany, July 2004

“Confessionalizing Architecture: Charles Bridge and the Crafting of a Catholic Identity in Baroque Prague,” Embodiments of Power: Building Baroque Cities in Austria and Europe,

Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota , September 2003

“Sacred Space in Early Modern Bohemia,” Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, University of Exeter, Great Britain, April 2003