CURRICULUM VITAE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2006- Professor of History and Department Head, MIT

1998-06 Associate Professor of History with Tenure, MIT

1995-98 Associate Professor of History without Tenure, MIT

1991-95 Assistant Professor of History, MIT

1993, 2002 Faculty Instructor, Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies at Radcliffe

1990 Acting Instructor, Dept. of History, UC Berkeley

1988 Graduate Student Instructor, Dept. of History, UC Berkeley

1986-88 Research Assistant, Family Reconstitution Project, UC Berkeley

1987 Graduate Student Instructor, Dept. of Economics, UC Berkeley

PUBLICATIONS

Book:

Civic Charity in a Golden Age: Orphan Care in Early Modern Amsterdam, University of Illinois Press, 1997.

Articles:

“Exotic Goods, Popular Consumption, and the Standard of Living: Thinking About Globalization in the Early Modern World,” forthcoming in Journal of World History, 2007.

“Poor Consumers as Global Consumers: the Diffusion of Tea and Coffee Drinking in the Eighteenth Century,” forthcoming in The Economic History Review.

“Goods at Pawn: the Overlapping Worlds of Material Possessions and Family Finance in Early Modern Amsterdam,” Social Science History, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2007:213-238.

“Inequality Among the Poor of Eighteenth Century Amsterdam,” Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 44, #1, January, 2007: 1-21.

“After-Death Inventories as a Source for the Study of Material Culture, Economic Well-Being, and Household Formation Among the Poor of 18^th c. Amsterdam,” Historical Methods, Vol. 39, No. 1, Winter, 2006: 10-23.

“Summaries of Dissertations: Gerschenkron Prize Panel Discussion,” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 66, #2, June 2006: 499-502.

"The Not-So-Merry Widows of Amsterdam, 1740-1782." Journal of Family History, Vol. 24, No. 4, 1999: 441-467.

"Individual Life Chances Within the Rural Norwegian-American Family, 1850-1910," coauthored with Jon Gjerde. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 30, No. 3, 1999: 377-406.

"Nederlands Republikeinisme en de Politiek van Liefdadigheid," Tijdschrift voor Sociale-Geschiedenis, Vol. 22, No. 4, 1996: 443-455.

"Fertility, marriage, and culture: demographic processes among Norwegian immigrants to the rural Middle West," coauthored with Jon Gjerde, Journal of Economic History, Vol. 55, December, 1995: 860-888.

"Meeting needs and suppressing desire: consumer choice models and historical data," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 26, Autumn, 1995: 191-207.

"Monotonous but not meager: the diet of burgher orphans in Early Modern Amsterdam," Research in Economic History, 1993: 69-116.

"Consumer behavior in an early modern Dutch orphanage: a wealth of choice," Journal of European Economic History, Vol. 22, #1, 1993: 121-142.

"Summaries of recent dissertations," Journal of Economic History, Vol. 52, June, 1992: 447-449.

"Internal migration in Friesland: 1750-1805," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 22, Winter, 1992: 387-409.

Book chapters:

“Christian Charity and the Politics of Orphan Care in the Dutch Republic.” In Richard

McKenzie, ed. The History of Orphanages Reconsidered. Forthcoming, Spring 2008.

“A Home Fit for Children: The Material Possessions of Amsterdam Orphans,” forthcoming in Domestic and Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe, London: Ashgate, forthcoming Autumn 2007.

“The Transmission of Assets and Family Networks: Managing the Property and Care of Orphans in Eighteenth Century Amsterdam.” In David Green and Alastair Owens, eds., Family Welfare: Gender, Property and Inheritance since the Seventeenth Century. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004: 143-162.

“Petty Debts and Family Networks: The Credit Markets of Widows and Wives in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam.” In Beverly Lemire et al., eds. Women and Credit: Researching the Past, Refiguring the Future. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2001: 33-50.

Review articles:

“Maps Matter: a new spatial view of the 13th century manorial economy.” A review of Bruce

M.S. Campbell and Ken Bartley. England on the Eve of the Black Death: an Atlas of the Lay

Lordship, Land and Wealth, 1300-49. Forthcoming in Historical Methods.

"Urban Identification in Early Modern Europe," Journal of Urban History, Vol. 33, #2, January, 2007: 306-309.

Encyclopedia articles:

“Pilgrim Donations & the Economics of Shrines,” in The Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage.

Forthcoming. Leiden: Brill Publishers.

“Orphans and Foundlings” and “Poverty,” in Europe, 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World. Vols. 4 and 5. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004.

Working papers:

“Public Goods versus Private Spending: a model for linking surplus production, capital accumulation, and monumental architecture in Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean,” March 2006.

Book reviews:

Review of Maarten Prak, Catharina Lis, Jan Lucassen, and Hugo Soly, eds. Craft Guilds in the

Early Modern Low Countries: Work, Power, and Representation, forthcoming in Social History.

Review of Herman Roodenburg, The Eloquence of the Body: perspectives on Gesture in the

Dutch Republic, forthcoming in Journal of Social History.

Review of Maarten Prak, The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century, in Journal of

Economic History, Vol. 67, No. 2, June 2007.

Review of Govind Sreenivasan, The Peasants of Ottobeuren, 1487-1726: A Rural Society in Early Modern Europe , in Journal of Economic History, Vol. 65, No. 3, September 2005.

Review of Sheilagh Ogilvie, A Bitter Living: Women, Markets, and Social Capital in Early Modern Germany, for the Journal of Economic History, Vol. 65, No. 2, June 2005.

Review of Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, The Peasants of Languedoc, for the Economic History Net Project 2001. http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/mccants.shtml

Review of Patrick O’Brien, ed., Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe: Golden Ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam and London, in Journal of Economic History, Vol. 63, No. 1, March 2003.

Review of Rudolf Dekker, Childhood, Memory and Autobiography In Holland: From The Golden Age To Romanticism, in American Historical Review, Vol. 107, No. 5, December 2002.

Review of Richard Lachmann, Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe, in Enterprise and Society, Vol. 2, No. 4, December 2001.

Review of Pamela Sharpe, ed., Women’s Work: The English Experience, 1650-1914, in Victorian Studies, Vol. 43, No. 1, Autumn 2000.

Review of Peter Musgrave, The Early Modern European Economy, in The Sixteenteenth Century Journal, Vol. 30, No. 3, Fall 2000.

Review of Charles H. Parker, The Reformation of Community: Social Welfare and Calvinist Charity in Holland, 1572-1620, in Social History, Vol. 25, No. 2, May 2000.

Review of Craig Muldrew, The Economy of Obligation: The Culture of Credit and Social Relations in Early Modern England on EH.Net, August 1999.

Review of C. Trompetter, Agriculture, Proto-Industry and Mennonite Entrepreneurship: A History of the Textile Industries in Twente, 1600-1815, in American Historical Review, Vol. 104, No. 1, February 1999.

Review of Benjamin Roberts, Through the Keyhole: Dutch Child-rearing Practices in the 17th and 18th Century, Three Urban Elite Families, in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 30, No. 2, Autumn 1999.

Review of Jan de Vries and Ad van der Woude, The First Modern Economy: Success, Failure, and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500-1815, in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 29, No. 2, Autumn 1998.

Review of Marjolein ‘t Hart, Joost Jonker and Jan Luiten van Zanden, eds., A Financial History of the Netherlands, in Journal of Economic History, Vol.

Review of Benjamin Orlove, ed. The Allure of the Foreign: Imported Goods in Postcolonial Latin America, Electronic publication on the Economic History in February 1998.

Review of Thomas Max Safely, Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Augsburg, in Journal of Economic History, Vol. 58, No. 1, March, 1998.

Review of Barbara Krug-Richter, Zwischen Fasten und Festmahl: Hospitalverpflegung in Munster 1540 bis 1650, in Food & Foodways, 1997.

Review of Karel Davids and Jan Lucassen, eds., A Miracle Mirrored: The Dutch Republic in European Perspective, in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 27, No. 4, Spring, 1997.

Review of Steven Harrell, ed., Chinese Historical Microdemography, in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 27, No. 2, Autumn, 1996.

Review of Herman van der Wee, The Low Countries in the Early Modern World, in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 26, No. 3, Winter, 1996.

SEMINARS and COLLOQUIA

December Gothic Economies: Small Gifts, High Finance, and the Politics of Investing in

2006 Eternity.” Presented at the Columbia University Seminar in Economic

History.

November “Public Goods versus Private Spending: Surplus Production, Capital Accumulation, and

2005 Monumental Architecture in Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean.” Presented at

the Medieval Global Economies conference, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.

October “Exotic Goods, Popular Consumption, and the Standard of Living: Thinking about

2005 Globalization in the Early Modern World.” Presented at the Economic History

Workshop, Yale University.

March “Global Consumers in Unexpected Places: Working Class Consumption of Tea

2005 and Coffee in 18^th century Amsterdam.” Presented to the Economic History Workshop,

University of Utrecht.

November “A Home Fit for Children: The Material Possessions of Amsterdam Orphans.” Invited

2004 lecture at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, as part of their program on Domestic

and Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe.

April “Wealth Inequality in 18^th Century Amsterdam: A case study of the poor to middling

2004 citizenry.” Presented at the All-UC Conference in Economic History: The New History

of Economic Inequality, UCLA.

September “Wealth Inequality in 18^th Century Amsterdam.” Presented at the Annual Meetings

2003 of the Economic History Association.

June “How much did it cost to discover America” Teaching World History symposium at MIT

2003

January “Declining Fertility in Post-Industrial Societies.” Panelist for MIT/MISTI forum.

2003

July “Goods at Pawn: the Overlapping Worlds of Material Possessions and Family Finance in

2002 Early Modern Amsterdam” Presented at the Thirteenth International Economic History

Congress, Buenos Aires.

February “Clothing on Credit.” Presented at the European Social Science History Conference,

2002 The Hague.

April “Global Trade brought Home: Consumption of Tea, Coffee and Porcelain in Middling

2001 and Poor Households in 18th Century Amsterdam..” Presented at the All-UC Economic

History Conference.

April “The Transmission of Assets and Family Networks: Managing the Property of

2000 Orphans in 18th Century Amsterdam.” Presented at the European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam.

June “Migration and the Opportunity to Marry Among Norwegian-American Children,

1999 1850-1910.” Presented at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute conference on “Leavers and Stayers in the Household.”

March “The Cost of Discovering America: Columbus and the 2 Million Maravedis.”

1999 Lecture for MIT Odyssey Series, with the John’s Hopkins University Center for the Academic Advancement of Youth

September “Let Them Drink Tea: The Consumption of Colonial Groceries Among the Amster-

1998 dam Kleine Burgerij.” Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Economic History Association.

August “The Credit Markets of Widows and Wives in 18th Century Amsterdam.” Presented

1998 at the Twelfth International Economic History Congress, Madrid.

March “Organized Paternalism, Risk-Sharing, and the Deserving Poor in Republican

1998 Holland.” Presented at the European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam.

November "The Acquisition of Status: Cultural Consumption among Amsterdams

1997 Kleine Burgerij." Invited lecture at N.W. Posthumus Instituut conference on "Culture and Consumption in the Eighteenth Century," Rotterdam.

April "The Politics of Inequality: Widows and Orphans in Early Modern Europe."

1997 Invited lecture by Women's Studies Program, Rhode Island College.

February "From Petty Debts to State Finance: the Credit Markets of the Working Poor in

1997 Eighteenth Century Amsterdam." Presented to the Harvard Economic History Workshop.

November "The Not-so-Merry Widows of Amsterdam, 1740-1782." Presented at the

1996 Indiana University Economic History Workshop.

October "The Methodology of the Economic Historian," Ford Methodology Colloquium,

1996 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

October "Men, Women and Debt: Gender and Access to Credit in Eighteenth Century

1996 Amsterdam." Presented at the Social Science History Association.

April The John Lax Memorial Alumnae Lecture, Department of History,

1996 Mount Holyoke College.

December "Nederlands Republikeinisme en de Politiek van Liefdadigheid." Presented

1995 at the invitation of the N.W. Posthumus Instituut, Rotterdam.

November "The Debts and Possessions of Amsterdamers: Evidence from the Mid-eighteenth

1995 Century." Presented at the Social Science History Association.

March "Dutch Republicanism and the Politics of Charity." Presented at Stanford

1995 University, History Department Lecture Series.

October "Consumption, leisure and the gendered division of labor." Presented to

1994 the MIT Burchard Scholars' program.

December "Civic Duty and Personal Gain: The Management of the Amsterdam Municipal

1993 Orphanage." Presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference.

November "Childhood Mortality in the Amsterdam Orphanage: Some Eighteenth Century

1993 Evidence." Presented at the Social Science History Association.

March "Fertility, Household Structure and the Life Course: Demographic Processes

1993 among Immigrants to the Rural Middle West." Presented to the Harvard Economic History Workshop.

November "Employment Opportunities for Orphan Boys in Early Modern Amsterdam."

1992 Presented at the Social Science History Association.

September "Meeting Needs and Suppressing Desire: Civic Morality and Institutional Consump-

1992 tion in the Dutch Republic." Presented to the Economic History Association.

FIELDS OF RESEARCH INTEREST

Wealth and income inequality

Global trade networks and European consumerism

Women's work and access to credit

History of nutrition and social welfare

Migration and labor market participation

Historical demography

COURSES TAUGHT

The Medieval Economy in Comparative Perspective

Writing the History of Modern Europe

History of the Western World, 1400-1815

The Emergence of Europe, 500-1300

Seminar in the History of Western Thought, 500-1300

The Renaissance and Reformation

The Economic History of Work and the Family

Family Time -- Market Time: Seminar in Gender, Work and Leisure

Art and Society in the Dutch Golden Age