CURRENT POSITION

Regents Professor of History
S. P. and Margaret Manasse Chair
Director, Honors College
New Mexico State University

1977  PhD, History of Science, University of Kansas
1970  MA, History, University of Montana
1968   BA,  History, University of Montana

1995-present    Director, Honors College, New Mexico State University
2004-present    Regents Professor of History
2004-2006        S. P. and Margaret Manasse Chair
1994-present    Professor of History, New Mexico State University
1994-95            Villa I Tatti Fellow, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy
1991-95            Head, Department of History, New Mexico State University
1981-94            Associate Professor of History, New Mexico State University
1986-87            Gastprofessor, Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Universität Würzburg, Germany
1985-86            Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin
1984-85            Acting Head, Department of History, New Mexico State University
1981-82            Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow, History of Science, Harvard University
1977-81            Assistant Professor of History, New Mexico State University
1976-77            Instructor of History, New Mexico State University
1973-74            Visiting Instructor of History, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida

2000        Summer Research Grant, Renaissance Society of America
1994-98    National Endowment for the Humanities Research Grant
1994-98    National Science Foundation Research Grant
1994-95    Villa I Tatti Fellowship
1994-95    ACLS Research Grant (declined)
1991        New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities grant
1989        Travel grant, National Research Council
1986-87    Senior Fulbright Fellowship, Federal Republic of Germany
1986-87    National Science Foundation Research Grant
1985-86    Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin
1985        Jack Williamson Lecturer, Eastern New Mexico University
1984        New Mexico Humanities Council Essay Competition Winner: "Albert Einstein and the Generation of 1905"
1982        Stipend, Institute for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology, M.I.T.
1981-82    Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellowship, Harvard University
1981        American Philosophical Society Research Grant (Penrose Fund)
1975        Newberry Library Fellowship

    1.  Books

Science and the Secrets of Nature:  Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994).  Paperback edition, 1996.  Nominated for Pulitzer Prize; winner of the History Book Award, Association of American Publishers.

La Scienza e i segreti della natura: I ‘libri di segreti’ nella cultura medievale e moderna, translated by Renzo Repetti (Italian translation of Science and the Secrets of Nature; Genova: ECIG, 1999)

Co-editor, Culturhistorische Caleidoscoop (Gent:  Stichting Mens en Kultuur, 1992)

Editor, Studies in Medieval Fachliteratur, with introduction, Scripta, no. 6 (Brussels:  UFSAL, 1982)

"L’experimentador comú: cultura popular i revolució científica,” Afers, fulls de recerca i pensament, 45 (2003) 35-50 (in Catalan)

“The Scientific Renaissance,” in A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance, ed. Guido Ruggiero (London: Blackwells Publishing 2002),
          pp. 403-24

“Sites of Natural Knowledge:  Markets, Piazzas, and Villages,” The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 3, ed. K. Park and L. Daston (scheduled for publication in 2003)

“The Scientific Renaissance,” A Companion to the Renaissance World, ed. Guido Ruggiero (London: Blackwells, scheduled for publication in 2001)

“Alchemy in Popular Culture: Leonardo Fioravanti and the Search for the Philosopher’s Stone,” Early Science and Medicine, 5 (2000), 196-213

“Magic and the Occult,” in The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition:  An Encyclopedia, ed. G. B. Ferngren, E. J. Larson, and D. W. Amundsen (New York:  Garland Publishing Co., 2000), pp. 533-40

“Secrets of Nature”; “Books of Secrets”; “Giambattista Della Porta”; “Vannoccio Biringuccio,” in The Scientific Revolution:  An Encyclopedia, ed. Wilbur Applebaum (New York:  Garland Publishing Co., 2000), pp.

“Unmannered Science: ‘Natural Philosophy’ and Medical Practice in the Piazza,” Science and Power: The Historical Foundations of Research Policies in Europe, ed. Luca Guzzetti (Luxembourg: European Communities, 2000), pp. 63-8

“Plagues, Healers, and Patients in Early Modern Europe” (review essay) Renaissance Quarterly, 52 (1999), 474-86

“El ‘Nou Asclepi’: Leonardo Fioravanti i les modes mèdiques al Renaixement,” Afers. Fulls de recerca i pensament, 31 (Valencia, 1998), 679-93

“Cannibalism and Contagion:  Framing Syphilis in Counter-Reformation Italy,” Early Science and Medicine, 3 (1998), 1-31

“Foreword” to John Ferguson, Bibliographical Notes on Histories of Inventions and Books of Secrets (Glasgow, 1882-1911; reprint edition Staten Island:  Pober Publishing, 1998)

“Natural Magic and Utopia in the Cinquecento:  Campanella, the Della Porta Circle, and the Revolt of Calabria,” Memorie Domenicane, n.s., 26 (1995), 369-402

“Science as a Hunt,” Physis 31 (1994), 393-432

“Making Knowledge,” review symposium of Science and the Secrets of Nature, in Metascience, n.s., 6 (1994), 24-45:  Author's Response, pp. 39-45

“ ‘With the Rules of Life and and Enema’:  Leonardo Fioravanti's Medical Primitivism,” in Renaissance and Revolution:  Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen, and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe, ed. J.V. Field and F.A.J.L. James (London:  Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 29-44

“Science as a venatio,” in Culturhistorische Caleidoscoop, ed. C. De Backer (Gent:  Stichting Mens en Kultuur, 1992), pp. 197-212

“Court, Academy, and Printing House:  Patronage and Scientific Careers in Late-Renaissance Italy,” in Patronage and Institutions, ed. B. Moran (Woodbridge:  Boydell Press, 1991), pp. 25-50

“Tragedy and Society in Ancient Athens,” (New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities/American Southwest Theater Company, 1991)

“From the Secrets of Nature to Public Knowledge,” in Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution, ed. D. C. Lindberg and R. S. Westman (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 333-66

“Brecht and the Historical Galileo,” Gestus: Journal of Brechtian Studies 3 (1989), 19-23

“Treatises on Technology,” in Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. J. R. Strayer, vol. 10 (New York:  Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988), 640-50

“Plebs amat empirica:  Nicholas of Poland and His Critique of the Medieval Medical Establishment,” (with Gundolf Keil), Sudhoffs Archiv 71 (1987), 180-96

“From the Secrets of Nature to Public Knowledge:  The Origins of the Concept of Openness in Science,” Minerva 23 (1985), 321-47

“Inventing the World:  Einstein and the Generation of 1905,” Antioch Review 43 (Summer, 1985), 340-51

“Technology and Magic,” Technologia 8 (1985), 57-64

“Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Science,” Sudhoffs Archiv 69 (1985), 26-49

“Artes quaerendi,” Isis 74 (1985), 393-96 (essay review of B. Vickers, ed., Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance, Cambridge, 1984)

“Science and Popular Culture in Early Modern Italy:  The 'Professors of Secrets' and Their Books,” The Sixteenth Century Journal 16 (1985), 471-85

“Drunk With the Cup of Liberty,” Southwest Review 70 (Winter, 1985), 534-41

“Arcana Disclosed:  The Advent of Printing, the Books of Secrets Tradition, and the Development of Experimental Science in the Sixteenth Century,” History of Science 22 (1984), 111-50

“The Accademia Segreta of Girolamo Ruscelli:  A Sixteenth Century Italian Scientific Society,” (with Françoise Paheau), Isis 75 (1984), 327-42

“Technology as Magic in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance,” Janus 70 (1983), 171-212

“The Tale of Monsieur Gout,” The Bulletin of the History of Medicine 55 (1981), 564-67

“New Light on Robert Boyle and the Discovery of Colour Indicators,” Ambix 27 (1980), 204-209

“Botanical Empiricism in Late-Medieval Technical Writings,” Res Publica Litterarum 3 (1980), 237-45

“The Secreti of Alexis of Piedmont, 1555,” Res Publica Litterarum 2 (1979), 43-55

“Ideas and Reform in the 17th and 18th Centuries,” Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History, ed. J. D. Falk (Santa Barbara, 1979), 30-33

J. M. Headley, Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World (1997), Renaissance Studies 13 (1999) 361-5.

S. Clark, Thinking With Demons. The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (1997), Seventeenth-Century News (1999).

W. Newman, Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution (1994), Technology and Culture (1997), 758-60

A. G. Debus, Paracelso e la tradizione paracelsiana (1996), Bulletin of the History of Medicine 72 (1998), 539-41

S. Shapin, A Social History of Truth (1994), Journal of Modern History 69 (1997), 134-5

A. G. Debus, The French Paracelsians (1992), Renaissance Quarterly 47 (1994), 186-8

P. Curry, Prophecy and Power:  Astrology in Early Modern England (1990), Renaissance Quarterly, 47 (1994), 206-8

B. Moran, The Alchemical World of the German Court (1991), Pharmacy in History 35 (1993) 46-7

B. Moran, Chemical Pharmacy Enters the University: Johannes Hartmann and the Didactic Care of Chymiatria in the Early Seventeenth Century (1991), Isis 84 (1983), 145-6.

V. Nutton, ed., Medicine at the Courts of Europe, 1500-1837 (1990), Social History of Medicine 4 (1991), 340-2

R. W. Southern, Robert Grosseteste: The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe (1986), The Historian 50 (1988)

C. Gilly, Spanien und die Basler Buchdruck bis 1600 (1985), Isis 80 (1989) 181-2

Nicolas Chuquet, Renaissance Mathematician: A Study With Extensive Translation of Chuquet's Mathematical Manuscript Completed in 1484, ed. G. Flegg, C. Hay, and B. Moss (1985), Isis 77 (1986), 690-1

C. Kren, Medieval Science and Technology: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography (1985), Isis 77 (1986), 337-8

A. Desmond, Archetypes and Ancestors: Paleontology in Victorian England, 1850-1875 (1982), The Historian 48 (1986), 438

Pseudo-Aristotle, The "Secret of Secrets":  Sources and Influences, ed. W. F. Ryan and C. B. Schmitt (1982), Isis 76 (1985), 94-5

G. Keil, ed., Fachprosa-Studien:  Beiträge zur mittelalterlichen Wissenschafts- und Geistesgeschichte (1980), Isis 75 (1984), 608-9

N. Siraisi, Taddeo Alderotti and His Pupils:  Two Generations of Italian Medical Learning (1981), The Historian 45 (1983), 89-90

R. Schmitz and F. Kraft, eds., Humanismus und Naturwissenschaften (1980), Isis 73 (1982), 312

A. Coudert, Alchemy: The Philosopher's Stone (1979), Isis 72 (1981), 511-12

A. G. Debus, ed., Robert Fludd and His Philosophical Key (1979), Pharmacy in History 23 (1981), 94-5

J. Godwin, Robert Fludd: Hermetic Philosopher and Surveyor of Two Worlds (1979), The Sixteenth Century Journal 12 (1981), 100

K. Butti and J. Perlin, A Golden Thread: 2500 Years of Solar Architecture and Technology (1980), American Scientist 68 (1980), 712

C. Herberger, The Riddle of the Sphinx: Calendric Symbolism in Myth and Icon (1979), American Scientist 68 (1980), 346

The Charlatan’s Tale:  The Life and Times of a Renaissance Surgeon (book project funded by grants from NSF, NEH, and the Villa I Tatti)

"The Ciarlatani and the Origins of the Commedia del'Arte" (article)

"Greek Tragedy and the Origins of Science" (essay)

History of Science
History of Medicine
History of Technology
Intellectual History of Europe
Renaissance and Reformation
Early Modern Europe

Italian:  fluent speaking and reading
Spanish:  speaking and reading
German:  reading, limited speaking
French:  reading
Latin:  reading

    1. Membership in Professional Societies

History of Science Society (Committee on Honors and Prizes, 1986-87)
American Association for the History of Medicine
Renaissance Society of America
Society for Italian Historical Studies

“‘Amateur Science’ in the Piazza: The Scientific Underworld of Sixteenth-Century Italy”
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, November 4, 2000

Chair and commentary, Session on “Putting Fraud on Trial: Dishonest Quacks, False Alchemists and Deceptive Painters in Early Modern Europe”
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, November 6, 1999

“Science in the Piazza:  Performance, Parody, Appropriation”
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 7, 1997

"Unmannered Science:  'Natural Philosophy' and Medical Practice in the Piazza"
Scienza e Potere, international conference sponsored by the European Science and Technology Forum, Istituto e Museo di Storia delle Scienze, Florence, December 8, 1994

"Science and the Secrets of Nature:  Books of Secrets, Popular Culture, and the Origins of Experimental Science"
XIXth International Congress of History of Science, Zaragosa, Spain, August 1993

"Science and the Secrets of the Arts:  Another Look at the Zilsel Thesis"
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., plenary session, December 27, 1992

"Metaphors of Scientific Discovery in the Renaissance”
Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Society Annual Meeting, Las Cruces, NM, April 11, 1992

"Science and Secrets in Late-Renaissance Italy"
Society for Italian Historical Studies, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, December 1991

"Curiosity and the Polemic Against Secrecy in the Renaissance"
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Madison, October 1991

"Science as a Hunt, and Some Other Metaphors of Discovery in the Renaissance"
Society for Literature and Science Annual Meeting, Portland, October 1990

"Science as a Venatio"
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Gainesville, Fla., October 28, 1989

"Court, Academy, and Printing House:  Patronage and Scientific Careers in Late-Renaissance Italy"
XVIIIth International Congress of History of Science, Hamburg and Munich, August 3, 1989

"Science and Popular Culture in Sixteenth-Century Germany:  The Career of Walther Hermann Ryff (1500-1548)"
Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, Mo., October 29, 1988

"Natural Magic and Utopia in the Cinquecento:  Campanella and the Revolt of Calabria"
Mid-America History Conference, Lawrence, Kansas, September 27, 1988

"The Accademia Segreta:  The Earliest Italian Scientific Society?"
Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Society Annual Meeting, Tempe, Arizona, March 17, 1984

"Science and Popular Culture in Sixteenth Century Italy:  The 'Professors of Secrets' and Their Books"
American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, December 29, 1983

Co-organizer, session on "Artisans and Intellectuals in Early Modern Italy"
American Historical Association Annual Meeting, December 1983

"Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Science"
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, October 20, 1982

Organizer and Chair, session on “Medieval Fachliteratur,”
Sixteenth International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 10, 1981

Chair, session on "Research Opportunities in Agricultural History"
Joint Meeting of the Texas State Historical Association-New Mexico Historical Association , El Paso, Texas, March 6, 1981

"Arcana Disclosed:  The Künstbuchlein and the Books of Secrets"
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, October 16, 1980

"Technology as Magic in the Late-Middle Ages and the Renaissance"
Fifteenth International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 3, 1980

"New Light on Robert Boyle and the Discovery of Color Indicators"
Midwest Junto of the History of Science Society, Madison, Wisconsin, April 11, 1980

"Botanical Empiricism in Late-Medieval Technical Writings"
Fourteenth International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 5, 1979

"Books of Secrets and the Empirical Foundations of English Natural Philosophy"
Midwest Junto of the History of Science Society, Lawrence, Kansas, April 7, 1978

Commentary on session on "The Impact of Science in the Age of Reason"
Western Society for French History, San Diego, November 10, 1978

"Books of Secrets in the Sixteenth Century"
Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, March 7, 1975

“Medical Fashions and Medical Self-Fashioning in 16th Century Italy”
History and Philosophy of Science Seminar, Indiana University, February 26, 1999

“Alchemy in a Popular Context:  Leonardo Fioravanti and the Search for the Philosopher’s Stone”
Alchimia ed Ermetismo dal Medioevo al Seicento, Seminar at the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, Florence, Italy, November 27, 1998 (invited paper)

“Doctors and Charlatans in Early Modern Italy”
University of Syracuse at Florence, Italy, invited lecture, November 25, 1998

“‘The New Asclepius’: Leonardo Fioravanti and the Medical Fashions of the Renaissance”
Instituto de Estudios Documentales e Históricos sobre la Ciencia, University of Valencia, Spain, invited lecture, June 30, 1998

“Boundaries, Orders and the Fashioning of Scientific Identities,”
Identities, Borders and Orders: Rethinking Area Studies, workshop at New Mexico State University, March 23, 1998

Symposium Organizer
“Preserving a Regional Architectural Heritage:  Henry C. Trost and the Architecture of the Southwest”
New Mexico State University, October 13, 1997

“(Un)masking Nature in Early Modern Popular Culture”
The Rhetorics and Rituals of (Un)veiling in Early Modern Europe, Interdisciplinary conference at the University of Michigan, October 3-5, 1997

Exhibition Planner and Curator
“Imagining a Campus in the Arid Southwest:  NMSU Architecture by Henry C. Trost (1907-1928)”
New Mexico State University Museum, September 1997-May 1998

“Medical Self-Fashioning:  The Careers of Leonardo Fioravanti”
New Directions in the Study of Early Modern Culture and Society:  Nature and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, December 6-7, 1996

"Cannibalism and Contagion:  Syphilis and the Assimilation of the Other in Late-Renaissance Italy"
International Summer School for the History of the Biomedical Sciences, Annecy, France, invited lecture, July 8, 1996

"Cannibalism and Contagion:  Syphilis and the Assimilation of the Other at the End of the Renaissance”
Seminar on Ritual, Magic, and Popular Culture in Europe and Latin America 1450-1700, University of Nevada, Reno, November 9, 1995

"The Common Experimenter:  Popular Culture and the Scientific Revolution"
University of Nevada -- Reno, invited lecture, November 9, 1995

"The Politics of Purgation:  The Body and Society in Counter-Reformation Italy"
Villa I Tatti Seminar, Florence, Italy, November 17, 1994

"The 'Secrets of Nature' and the Moral Economy of Early Modern Science"
Working Group on Religion, Science and the Early Modern World-View, Istituto Universitario Europeo, Florence, Italy, October 6, 1994

Organizer and speaker, symposium on "Social Science at the Crossroads"
Colloquium on Science and Culture, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, April 23, 1992

"The Hortus sanitatis and the History of Science”
UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Los Angeles, November 8, 1991

Discussion Leader and Project Organizer
"Tragedy in Ancient and Modern Culture"
American Southwest Theatre Company, a series of forums in conjunction with the production of Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, Las Cruces, New Mexico, March 1991

Dramaturg
American Southwest Theatre Company production of Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
Las Cruces, New Mexico, March 1991

"'With the Rules of Life and an Enema:  Leonardo Fioravanti's Medical Primitivism,"
Symposium on the Scientific Revolution, Keble College, Oxford, July 1990

"Brecht and the Historical Galileo"
Oregon Museum of Natural History Lecture Series, Portland, Oregon, February 28, 1988 (in conjunction with the New Rose Theater production of Brecht's Galileo)

"Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Science"
Institut für Geschichte der Pharmazie, Heidelberg University, invited lecture, November 1, 1986

"Leonardo Fioravanti, Surgeon:  Science and Secrets in the Renaissance"
Humanities Institute Lecture, University of Wisconsin, March 20, 1986

"Science and Popular Culture in Sixteenth Century Italy"
Renaissance Studies Group, University of Wisconsin, colloquium, September 27, 1985

"From the Secrets of Nature to Public Knowledge:  The Origins of the Ideology of Openness in Science"
Colloquium, Committee for Historical Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, May 2, l985

"Science and Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe”
University of  California at Los Angeles, invited classroom lecture, May 2, 1985

"Albert Einstein and the Generation of 1905"
Jack Williamson Lecture, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, New Mexico, April 3, 1985

"Technology and Magic"
Luncheon Address of the Jack Williamson Lecturer, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, New Mexico, April 3, 1985

"Albert Einstein and the Generation of 1905"
New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities Awards Ceremony Address, Las Cruces, New Mexico, January 25, 1985

"Science and Secrets in the Renaissance"
History of Science Colloquium, Harvard University, January 22, 1982

"Technology as Magic in Medieval and Renaissance Thought and Literature"
Medieval Society Lecture, Harvard University, March 29, 1982

"Magic and Technology in the Middle Ages"
Medieval Studies Lecture Series, Brown University, December 14, 1981

"Albert Einstein and the Twentieth Century"
Einstein Centennial and Exhibition, invited lecture, San Juan College, Farmington, New Mexico, October 21, 1980

"History of Technology"
NMSU Civil Engineering Society, invited lecture, New Mexico State University, March 4, 1980

"Technology and Magic"
NMSU Chemical Engineering Society, invited lecture, New Mexico State University, March 6, 1979

"Closing the Cultural Gap"
Sigma Xi Lecture, New Mexico State University, December 3, 1976

Comitato Scientifico (Advisory Board), Medicina & storia: Rivista di storia della medicina e della sanità (Florence, Italy)

Corresponding Editor, Technologia (Brussels, Belgium)

Referee of manuscripts for Isis, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Renaissance Quarterly, Physis, Speculum, Journal of the History of Ideas, Princeton University Press, Cambridge University Press, University of Chicago Press, Simon and Schuster, Zone Press, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies

Referee of numerous grant proposals to the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Review Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1997

Member, RISE (Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement) Advisory Committee, New Mexico State University

Member, General Education Assessment Committee, New Mexico State University, 1998-present

Member, Board of Trustees, University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, 1996-99

Member, Architect Selection and Design Committee, YMCA building renovation, New Mexico State University, 1999

Chair, Executive Vice President Search Committee, New Mexico State University, 1998-99

Co-Chair, Committee on Institutional Image, Strategic Planning Committee, New Mexico State University, 1997

Ad-hoc Committee on Interdisciplinary Programs, New Mexico State University, 1997-98

Inauguration Planning Committee, inauguration of Michael J. Orenduff as President of New Mexico State University, 1995

Committee for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science, New Mexico State University, organizer and chair, 1991-94

Organizer, Colloquium on Science and Culture, New Mexico State University, 1991-92

University Outcomes Assessment Committee, New Mexico State University, 1992

General Education Committee, New Mexico State University, 1989-94

University Honors Faculty Council, New Mexico State University, 1989-present

Coordinator of visit of Alfred W. Crosby, Distinguished Visiting Professor, New Mexico State University, Nov. 18-20, 1993

Faculty Library Committee, New Mexico State University, 1984-85, 1987-91 (Chairman, 1989-1991)

Member, Faculty Board of Curators, University Museum, New Mexico State University

Library Dean Search Committee, New Mexico  State University, 1989-90

Phi Alpha Theta Faculty Advisor, History Department, New Mexico State University, 1988-1991

Committee on Science, Technology, and Society, New Mexico State University (Chairman, 1984-85)

Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Committee on the University Research Park, New Mexico State University, 1985

University Self-Study Committee for International Education Exchange, New Mexico State University, 1984-85

Ad Hoc Committee on the Library, College of Arts and Science, New Mexico State University, 1983-84

Curriculum Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, New Mexico State University, 1978-81, 1983-84 (Secretary, 1980-81)

History Department Undergraduate Advisor, New Mexico State University, 1980-81, 1982-84

Coordinator of visit of Lynn White, jr., Distinguished Visiting Professor, New Mexico State University, April 4-16, 1979